in the City of Benares.

Paper, ink, pens, inkstands, Slates, with books, for every department, at the lowest calculation

Repairs of the premises, with other contingent expenses, to be provided for, at the lowest calculation

20 0

40 0

377 12

75 0

452 12

By allowance from Jay Narain, 200 0

Mr. Adlington's First Report
To the Reverend DANIEL CORRIE.
My Dear Sir-

With pleasure I transmit you my First Report of the Benares Charity School, for the information of the Corresponding Committee of the Church Missionary Society.

The number of Scholars in daily attendance, upon an average, is about 121: of these, 63 are acquiring the English, 82 the Persian, 11 the Hinduee and Sanscrit, and 15 the Bengalee. The English Scholars are divided into Five Classes. The First of these, consisting of 12 Boys, read the New Testament, write, and spell, in the morning; and read the Testament, and write on the slate, in the afternoon, The Second Class read the Gospel of St. John, write on the slate, and spell. The Third and Fourth Classes consist of Boys reading monosyllable lessons; and the Fifth, of Children at the sandtable. To each of these Classes there is a Monitor appointed; two of whom are Christian Orphan Boys residing in the School,

At the same time, the benefits of the Institution might be extended to any limits, for which funds should be supplied.

of the Benares Charity School.

The generality of the Scholars, in each of the different departments, receive a small daily allowance from the funds of the School; which, together with the salary of the Assistant Master, the Moonshees, &c, and maintenance of seven Christian Boys, makes the expense, on an average, 250 rupees per month.

Many of the Boys, if not entirely destitute of friends, yet are nevertheless so poor as renders it difficult to support themselves without the aid of the School. The great majority of the Native Youth are brought up in ignorance-the grand source of idolatry and superstition: hence the possession of an English Education, while it tends to inform their minds,weakens their prejudices, and leads them to at least a knowledge of the Truth. Several of the Boys attending the School are Brahmins, who usually obtain a subsistence by receiving alms: the enlargement of their minds by religious knowledge must ultimately produce beneficial effects as it respects society.

nently stationed at Secrole at present, and no European Troops (artillery); but as an increase of troops, both European and Native, is daily expected, I trust more will attend upon

the Means of Grace.

Your's very sincerely,

J. ADLINGTON.

CHUNAR.

Rev. W. Greenwood, Missionary.

Ir. William Bowley, Catechist. Nicholas Joachim, Native Assistant Catechist.

to be laid before this Meeting; and a Report prepared for the information. of the Calcutta Committee, who will direct such plans as are brought before them to be carried into effect accord.

manut Messeeh, Native ditto. For the better conducting of the afairs of the Mission in this district, the ev. W. Greenwood, Mr. Bowley, and r. Adlington, agree to meet, either at hunar or Benares, as may be preously appointed, at least once a arter, viz. the Second Tuesday in intrary, the Second Tuesday in April, e Second Tuesday in July, and the econd Tuesday in October; for the rpose of consulting on the affairs of e Mission in this district: each ember considering himself obliged attend, without a reasonable cause the contrary, to be signified to the Leeting in writing.

At this Meeting, Mr. Greenwood to eside; and all affairs relating to the -tablishment of New Schools, the nstruction of buildings, with the count of disbursements, which may ave been previously authorised, &c.

may be able to afford.

It is agreed also to meet, on the Second Tuesday in every month, for social converse on the affairs of their respective Charges, and for prayer for the Divine Blessing on the affairs of the Mission; when the Monthly Journal, prepared for the Calcutta Committee, shall be submitted to one another's perusal, with a view to mutual benefit. and encouragement.

It is also agreed, that the subject of Missions shall be made an especial matter of prayer in each family, on one evening in every week; and, if possible, on Saturday Evenings, when our friends in England are engaged in the same exercise; and to engage such friends ateach Station as take an in

terest in the subject, to join in those

occasions.

Gervas Robinson, Esq. having kindly engaged to act as Treasurer to the Church Missionary Society in. this. district, all subscriptions and donations procured for the Society to be accounted for to him, and all Bills on the Calcutta Committee to be drawn through him.

The Church Missionary Society, of which a brief account is annexed, purposes, besides its peculiar object, to supply the Ordinances of Religion, wherever any body of Christians is found destitute of them.

With this view, the Calcutta Committee of the above Society, have, for these three years past, maintained Mr. W. Bowley, as Catechist or Teacher at Chunar; where the number of Native Christians, chiefly wives and descendants of European Invalids, is very considerable.

A room, of large dimensions, was erected in 1815, for a School; and about thirty-four Children, chiefly of Christian Descent, receive Christian Education. About eighty Adults, besides the Free-School Scholars, have become regular attendants on Divine Service in Hindoostanee, of whom upwards of thirty have learned to read the Scriptures in their native tongue. Their general habits are correspondingly improved.

During the late campaign, the families also of several non-commissioned Officers of Native Corps, in the neighbourhood, resorted to Chunar; where they became among the most exemplary attendants on Public Worship: and it may be easily understood, how much it must contribute to the comfort of well-disposed persons of the above class, to be able to leave their families when necessary, under such circumstances, rather than exposed to the temptations of a situation devoid of Christian Ordinances of Worship.

The increasing numbers, desirous of benefitting by the instruction afforded them, render the School Room, in which they have hitherto assembled, inconveniently small; and a larger, as well as more appropriate Place of Worship, is become necessary.

The Rev. Mr. Corrie, having personally ascertained the above facts, represented them to the Calcutta Committee

of the Church Missionary Society;

who have requested him to adopt measures toward erecting a Church or Chapel at Chunar, for the accommodation of the Native Christians.

It is proposed, that the intended building shall be large enough to contain the European Congregation also, (above two hundred); who even when an opportunity of Public Worship offers, are for the most part unable to benefit by it, for want of a convenient place to assemble in. It is therefore desirable, that the New Place of Worship be appropriated, once a day, to the performance of Divine Service in English; at any hour which the Commanding Officer may be pleased to appoint: and the Rev. Mr. Corrie purposes to attend frequently at Chunar on that account, until a regular Clergyman, either on the part of Government or of the Church Missionary Society, be sent to that Station. In the mean time, Mr. Bowley reads, also in the School Room, the Church-of-England Service on Sunday Afternoons, with a Homily, or Sermon from some approved author; and a considerable number of the European Invalids are in the habit of attending.

While, therefore, the many benevolent Contributors to the Church Missionary Society in Britain are thus conferring the most substantial benefits on the Native Christians at Chunar, and, through them, on many aged and infirm of our own countrymen at that place, the strongest grounds of appeal present themselves to the feelings of Britains in India, to afford their aid in a work, which, at the same time that it will be a lasting monument of their concern for the honour of Christianity, will contribute so much to raise the British Name among all classes where it shall be accomplished.

It is estimated that a plain substantial building for the purpose intended, would cost about 6 or 8000 Rupees.

Sir

It is with unfeigned diffidence, that I take the liberty of requesting you will be pleased to submit the accompanying statement to the notice of His Excellency the Most Noble the Governor General.

His Lordship's well-known regard for the moral and mental improvement, as well as for the temporal welfare, of the subjects under his government, leads me to hope that he will pardon the intrusion, even should he not afford his patronage to the object of this application.

The Native Christians throughout the country have, on the lowest assumption, an equal claim with

other classes of Natives on the liberality of their superiors; and, from my own knowledge of their readiness to avail themselves of opportunities of moral improvement, I confess myself more sanguine of benefitting them, than any other class.

The only systematic attempt at instructing Native Christians in their own language, in this Presidency, has been at Chunar; and it is impossible for any one, who has not known their previous degradation and present comparative improvement, to appreciate aright the benefits resulting to them. The comfort arising to the European Invalids, from the instruction of their wives, will, I am persuaded, have due weight on his Lordship's mind and I may be allowed to state, that any Chaplain who should perform Christian Offices only in the English Language, would not meet their wants; while many of the Invalids themselves derive the most important advantages from the Missionary Establishment at Chunar, and thus the deficiency in

our Clerical Establishment is in a good measure made up to them.

It is with the utmost respect that I take the liberty of adding farther, that should His Lordship be pleased to favour the present undertaking, and the consequent support which would follow His Lordship's high patronage be obtained, other Stations, especially Buxar and Monghyr, might ere long be supplied with the means of Public Worship, both in English and Hindoostanee, according to the mode established by Government; and thus the Native Christians be brought at those Stations also, as at Chunar, to look to one channel for both temporal and spiritual blessings.

Benares, May 1819.

DANIEL CORRIE.