ABSTRACT
The Government might select from the various young men, who should pass the final examination, the most distinguished and deserving, for filling up vacancies as sub-assistant surgeons. English is not more a general and anxious object of acquisition among the natives, is the degree of uncertainty under which they labour as to the ultimate intentions of Government, and whether it will ever lead them into paths of usefulness, profit, or honour; only let the intentions of Government be officially announced, and there will be a general movement among all the more respectable classes.” English enjoys an advantage that Latin did not at the epoch alluded to by Mr. Tytler. It is a living language; it is the language of a great people, many of whom, it may be expected, will settle in this country; it is also the language of the governing power.
