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AN

ESSAY

ON

THE BEST MEANS OF CIVILISING THE SUBJECTS

OF THE

BRITISH EMPIRE IN INDIA,

AND OF DIFFUSING

THE LIGHT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION

THROUGHOUT THE EASTERN WORLD;

TO WHICH THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW ADJUDGED

DR BUCHANAN'S PRIZE.

BY

JOHN MITCHELL, A.M.

MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL, ANDERSTON.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by James Ballantyne,

FOR WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, SOUTH BRIDGE-STREET; AND

T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, STRAND, LONDON.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE Reverend CLAUDIUS BUCHANAN, D. D. Vice-Provost of the College of Fort-William, in Bengal, gave to the University of Glasgow, in 1804, the Sum of TWO HUNDRED and TEN POUNDS; desiring that it might be divided into the under-mentioned Prizes:

I.

ONE HUNDRED POUNDS for an ENGLISH PROSE DISSERTATION, · "On the best Means of civilising the Subjects of the British Empire in India; and of diffusing the Light of the Christian Religion throughout the Eastern World."

II.

SIXTY POUNDS for an ENGLISH POEM,

"On the Restoration of Learning in the East."

III.

TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS for a LATIN POEM on the following subject:
"Collegium Bengalense."

IV.

TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS for a GREEK ODE on the following subject:

« ΓΕΝΕΣΘΩ ΦΩΣ.”