ABSTRACT
from IOR, Home Miscellaneous, vol. 504, pp. 39–44. Castlereagh’s letter to his predecessor as President of the Board of Control, the former Henry Dundas, and Melville’s answer are a clear statement of what ministers believed to be their role under the 1784 Act. The actual issue in dispute concerned the college which Wellesley founded at Calcutta for junior Company servants. The Board of Control insisted that this was a subject on which the Company must accept their directions. The Directors retorted that the college was a matter outside the powers of the Board as defined by Pitt’s Act.
