To The Proprietors Of Eas...
Pall.mall East, 2, March 25, 1824. Ladies and Gentlemen,l-Having been instrumental in procuring for you zn opportunity of expressing your opinion upon the import- ant question to be submitted to the ballot on the 31st instant, I take leave to remind you of the claim it has upon your attention. and up- on vour attendance on that day. rt will be for you theni to decLare, whether you are of opinion that Great Britain affords not the means of giving such an accomplislhed European education, together with a competent knowledge of East- crn languages, as shall enable a young man, under nineteen years, to pass whatever examination may be established, without co'mpel. ling him to spend the two last years of his life at the Hsileybury It will be for you to give your opinion, whether such an education will not be far imiore likely to be attained at that very institution, after it shall have been freed fronm the constantly impending risk of ruin for life being the consequence of a boyish indiscretion. It is for you to decilde, whether you wish to see the present college converted from an instrument of terror and alarm, into an object of confidence and affectionate regard-to make it, what it was alone meant to be, a facility instead of ass impedihent, in the was of pro- curing for your service ranidldates with the highest possi 4iental anti moral qualifications. You are asked, by supporting the proposition, to give encourage. ment to education wherever it is to be found, and more especially to this college andl its professors, by securing for it and for them the benefit of free competition, and an appeal to a comparison with eda. cation attained elsewhere, the only security for its well-being and imnrovement, and the only just appeal for a decision on its merits atl its claimw to public approval. I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, your very obedient servant, (Signed) DOUGLAS KINNAIRD. TO TIlE PROPRIETORS OP AST IArDIA STOCK.