1003. Pol. Econ. (1836), p. 380 n. Sydney Smith wrote to Grey about him without success, in 1831 (Holland’s Life of Sydney Smith, vol, ii. p. 328).

1004. Richard, the brother of Wellington. See his Minute of 18th August, 1800, quoted by Malthus in his Statements.

1005. E. India Register and Directory (Hatchard), year 1807, pp. xxiv. seq. “Preliminary view of the establishment of the E. India College.” These two branches of the Haileybury programme correspond in their subjects to the Competitive and the Further examinations of candidates for the Civil Service of India as at present conducted. Malthus claims the credit of making the test in Oriental languages a necessary condition of final appointment (Statements, p. 100).

1006. Accordingly Malthus gets many of his illustrations from India, e. g. Pol. Ec. (2nd ed.), pp. 154–5.

1007. India Register, l. c. p. xxv.

1008. There must be some on the Pension List who still remember him.

1009. From the first there was a school, affiliated with the college though not confined to its future pupils. The present school is of later origin.

1010. Statements, p. 103, &c. This idea of the proper preparation for a civilian’s career in India chimes in with Malthus’ idea of the first requisite of good citizenship at home and everywhere.

1011. A hare-lip. Miss Martineau, who describes it, adds that “his vowels at least were sonorous, whatever might become of the consonants.” But she understood him without her ear trumpet. Autobiogr., i. 327–8. Cf. above, p. 58. Sydney Smith says, “I would almost consent to speak as inarticulately if I could think and act as wisely.” Life by Holland, vol. ii. p. 326. He attributes a similar physical defect to Talleyrand, with perhaps as much seriousness. Life by Holland, vol. ii. pp. 256–7.

1012. Letter to Lord Grenville (1813), p. 14. Cf. what he says of the importance of teaching Political Economy in elementary schools, &c. Essay, IV. ix. 438 n.

1013. Jeffrey, Life, vol. ii. pp. 339, 340. To Mrs. C. Innes, 9th May, 1841.

1014. Autobiogr., i. 327. Other visits of Malthus to her are recorded, iii. 83, i. 253. For her view of him and his work see especially i. 200, 209, 253, 331.

1015. Ib. I. pp. 328–9.

1016. Cf. 1st Essay, pp. 225–6, which shows him on the Hunting-Field.

1017. A slip of the pen for “Professor.” The Principal was J. H. Batten, F.R.S.

1018. Where the fear expressed in some quarters (see Statements, p. 87) that the place would become a barrack has been realized architecturally.

1019. Life by Holland, vol. ii. p. 73.

1020. l. c. vol. ii p. 150.

1021. Debate in House of Lords, April 9th, 1813, Hansard, pp. 750, 751.

1022. ‘Statements respecting the East India College, with an appeal to facts in refutation of the charges lately brought against it in the Court of Proprietors’ (1817). Cf. his ‘Letter to Lord Grenville, occasioned by some observations of his Lordship on the E. India Co.’s establishment for the education of their Civil servants’ (1813). Cf. Edin. Rev., Dec. 1816. The Letter to Lord Grenville (1813) states the case a little less fully; but both pamphlets contain substantially the same arguments.

1023. A property it often was, in the most literal sense, being bought and sold for cash. See Hist. of Peace, Introd. II. ii. 329–30.

1024. Statements, p. 103 n.

1025. Candidates were to be nominated in groups of four, the best of the four to have the appointment. Cf. Mill and Wilson’s Brit. India, Vol. IX. Book III. ch. ix. p. 381.

1026. The steps of the change may be followed in the fourth Report (1858) of the Civil Service Commissioners, pp. xix. seq. and 228 seq. Cf. also their first Report (1855).

1027. For proofs of their regard, see the letters quoted in the blue-book of 1876 on “the Selection and Training of candidates for the Civil Service of India,” passim, and Trevelyan’s “Competition Wallah” (1864), pp. 7, 8, 15, 16, but cf. 149.

1028. See Works, Review of Rennel, footnote.

1029. Memoirs, Vol. I. p. 436, &c.

1030. Quoted in Empson, Edin. Rev., Jan. 1837, p. 473. Sinclair’s ‘Correspondence’ (1831), amongst other curious matter, gives the autographs of the three great masters (I. 101).