that could have weight, presup poses success. In success would lie our safety, not our danger. Our danger must lie in pursuing, from ungenerous ends, a course contracted and illiberal; but in following an opposite course, in communicating light, knowledge, and improvement, we shall obey the dictates of duty, of philanthropy, and of policy; we shall take the most rational means to remove inherent great disorders, to attach the Hindoo people to ourselves, to ensure the safety of our possessions, to enhance continually their value to us, to raise a fair and durable monument to the glory of this country, and to increase the happiness of the human race." On the 23rd July, 1813, the act of parliament, 53 Geo. III. c. 155, commonly called the Charter act, obtained the royal assent. It is well known that this statute, the fruit of much and laborious discussion, effected some considerable changes in the East India Company's commercial privileges, in which Mr. Grant could not concur; but, on the other hand, it contained three important modifications of the law, which were in perfect accordance with the sentiments and reasoning above detailed, and the attainment of which, there can be no doubt, ought in justice to be ascribed, in a considerable degree, to his zeal and exertions. The first of these was an augmentation of the ecclesiastical establishment of British India, and the institution of a Bishop's See at Calcutta; the second, the privilege granted to European, teachers of christian morals, or missionaries, of enjoying a regulated access to the natives of India; and the last, the annual appropriation of the sum of one lack of rupees for the general promotion of edu cation among them. These resul appear to have been the fruit ot a series of wise, persevering, and pious exertions, made by Mr. Charles Grant, with a view to promote and secure the highest honour and truest interests of Great Britain in India; viz. the consolidation of her empire there, by the improvement of the intellectual and moral character of her subjects. The only parliamentary measures of a date subsequent to the passing of the Charter-act to which we shall advert, in consequence of the part Mr. Grant took in them, are, the India circuitous trade bill, which passed in December 1813, and the proposal to lay open the China trade, in 1820, 1821. From the former a clause allowing the Canaries, the Cape de Verd Islands, and the Island of Madeira, to be used as ports of refreshment, was at his instance struck out, in order that those places might not be made dépôts of India goods, to the prejudice of the Company. And Mr. Grant's exertions, in 1820 and 1821, for the defence of the Company's interests in their China trade, were incessant, and their issue successful. He had retired from the House of Commons on account of his advancing age in 1819. He was nevertheless examined, at his own request, upon this subject, before the Lords' committees, on the 6th and 13th July, 1820, and 26th February and 5th March, 1821, and before a committee of the House of Com mons on the 16th and 17th April, 1821. The testimony which he gave upon these occasions was of considerable importance to the Company's interest; and it was supported by documents collected and prepared by himself, or under his immediate superintendance. So completely did Mr. Grant's evi dence, and that of the other members of the Court who were examined before the committee, rebut the allegations of the petitioners against the Company, that it is well known no report was made by the committee in the first session, and it is equally certain that to this moment the projected innovation on the China trade remains unaccomplished; while the historical narratives, and able calculations, which he presented to parliament, stand uncontradicted upon its records, for the future refutation of any erroneous allegations which may be made by parties opposed to the Company in this branch of their traffic. their own bye-laws, to enable him to retain a commercial establishment which he had formed in India. In April 1807 they placed him in the Direction by a very unusual majority of votes, Mr. Grant's name standing at the head of a list of 12 candidates, with 1,523 votes out of a proprietary of less than 1,900 persons: and since his decease, viz. on the 17th inst. they have resolved to commemorate his distinguished services by the erection of a monument at the Company's expense, in St. George's Church, Bloomsbury. The House of Commons, in which he sat for about 17 years, viz. from 1802 to 1819, (being two years for the town, and fifteen for the county of Inverness), repeatedly elected him on comittees, some of which were not connected with India affairs. He was appointed by act of parliament (37 Geo. 3, cap. 34, sect. 6.) one of the commissioners for the issue of Exchequer bills, and in 1818 was elected chairman of those com missioners. He was also included in the commission for the appro priation of the sum of £1,000,000 sterling, granted by parliament for the erection of new Churches. Mr. Grant's correspondence and intercourse were unusually extensive, and with persons of the first rank and consideration. Upon almost all occasions he received the fullest proofs of public as well as of private confidence, and upon many, expressions of unusual respect. The opinion of lord Cornwallis respecting him, at an early period of his public life, has been already adverted to. It is also generally understood that lord nies to his worth, it may be suffi Among many private testimo Melville, while president of the cient to refer to two, given by board of commissioners for affairs political opponents. The late str of India, not only recommended Philip Francis, at the close of a him to the choice of the proprietors debate on India affairs, in which of India stock, but afterwards in- he had been decidedly opposed to vited him to become a member of Mr. Grant, declared, that no ma the Bengal council, which he de- in England had a higher opinion clined, from motives the most of his moral character than he disinterested and patriotic. The had. Upon the facts in ques proprietors of India stock have tion," sir Philip added, "there themselves given him some tokens of their special favour. Very soon after they had placed him in the Direction, they suspended one of nent, Mr. Scott Waring, declared cannot be a more competent wit ness, nor any human evidence less to be suspected." Another that Mr. Grant was "incapable of asserting what he did not believe to be true, or of delivering his sentiments on a subject which he did not understand." Although Mr. Grant ever considered the affairs of India as his peculiar province, and as a sufficient occupation for his mind, he allow ed himself to have some other public engagements; but chiefly in connection with religious or bene volent objects. He was for many years a Director of the South Sea Company. He was a member of the Society in London for promot ing Christian Knowledge, as well as of another society of the same name connected exclusively with the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. He was elected a vicepresident of the British and Foreign Bible Society upon its institution, in 1804, and was at different subsequent periods chosen vice-president of the Bloomsbury and north-east London Auxiliary Societies. He was also connected with the Church Missionary Society. To many other associations, of a religious or charitable description, he afforded the sanction of his name and the aid of his contribution. He joined his friend Mr. Wilberforce, in 1807, as a member of the temporary committee of gentlemen then associated with a view to the establishment of the African Institution. To their labours and efficiency he essentially contributed and was afterwards chosen one of the Directors. As a public speaker Mr. Grant commanded attention in debate by an erect, majestic, and, in the latter years of his life, venerable figure, by a voice deep and sonorous, an enunciation clear and deliberate, and above all, by argus ments perspicuous and convincing. He accustomed himself to deliver his sentiments with _gravity, and appeared to expect the same temper in his auditory. His style in writing corresponded with that of his eloquence. Cautious and deliberative in the examination of his authorities, his references to written or printed documents were generally unanswerable. As a friend, he was ardent and constant. In no part of his conduct was the firmness of his mind more apparent than in the inviolability of his friendships. To the numer ous individuals who enjoyed his patronage, he was always accessi ble, and frank in his communications; and his kindness to them rarely terminated with a single instance. As a Philanthropist, and more especially as a Christian, Mr. Grant is entitled to the praise of eminent consistency and zeal. The decision of his character respecting religion enabled him often to surmount such opposition to his benevolent projects as would have overturned the purposes of many other men. But Mr. Grant, to the last moment of his life, retained, and illustrated in his conduct, the religious principles and philan thropical views which he had imbibed in India. The great subjects of Christian benevolence were ever present to his understanding, and near his heart, and appeared to have a powerful influence upon his ac tions, leading him, in the prosecution of his multifarious occupations, to travel in paths into which the ordinary details of business would never have led him. Under some aspect or other they were almost constantly before him, and are believed to have occupied his close attention within a few days, and probably within a few hours of his decease. He was a man of extraordinary endowments, employing his great powers to the best of purposes; a man of whom it may be truly said that while he was laborious in the affairs of this life, "all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven." BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR of CHARLES-FRANCIS-DUPERIER CHARLES François - Duperier Dumouriez, who died this year on the 14th of March at Turville-park, near Henley-upon-Thames, in his 85th year, was born Jan. 25, 1739, of parents not affluent, although noble. His father, the translator of " Richiardetto," bestowed on his son a very careful and extensive education. After his classical education, in which he had been very successful, he entered the army; where, at the age of 18, he became a soldier, and made his first campaign against the same duke of Brunswick, whom, in 1792, he drove from the territory of France. He distinguished himself in several attacks, and was at last taken prisoner; but not till he was covered with wounds, and had lost his horse. In 1770, the duke de Choiseul appointed him minister to the confederates of Poland; and he com manded a body of men in that country during two campaigns, and conducted several very import ant negotiations with various suc cess. As the measures of the confederates were ill-concerted, their revolution was unfortunate and ended in the partition of Poland. of a In 1772, the marquis of Montey nard, minister of war, employed him to correct and revise the mili tary code of laws: at the end of the same year this minister, by the express order of Louis 15th, entrusted him with the management secret negotiation relative to the revolution of Sweden; but having received his instructions on this affair immediately from the king kimself, and unknown to the duke D'Aiguillon, minister of foreign affairs, who had succeeded the duke de Choiseul, at the change of minis try, he was arrested at Hamburgh in 1773, and conducted to the bas tille by the orders of that minister. At the age of twenty-two he had advanced to the rank of captain; possessed the cross of St. Louis, and had received twenty-two wounds. On peace being made in 1763, he began his travels, to study the languages and manners of different nations. He travelled in The irresolute Louis 15th yielding Italy, Belgium, Spain, and Por- to the importunities of madame du tugal; and published a work, in- Barry, his mistress, and the duke tituled, " Essay on Portugal," after D'Aiguillon, disgraced Monter which he returned to Paris 1767; nard, forbore to inform the duke where he was named aide maréchal- of the authority he had given him general of the army destined to in- to negociate, and suffered him to vade Corsica. Having served with bear the weight of a criminal prose reputation in the two campaigns of cution, which the duke D'Aiguillon, 1768, and 1769, he was raised to suspecting the truth, feared to carry to extremity. He rejected the rank of colonel. offers of friendship and protection made him by this despotic minister, and after lying six months in the Bastille, he was banished to the Castle of Caen for three months. Louis 15th died soon after; and D'Aiguillon was disgraced. General Dumouriez had no inclination to take advantage of the expiration of the lettre de cachet, for the purpose of regaining his liberty; he was anxious to be completely justified, and therefore petitioned Louis 16th to order a revision of his trial. The king having commanded M. du Muy, M. de Vergennes, and M. de Sartine to revise the trial, those three ministers signed a declaration that he had been unjustly prosecuted. Immediately afterwards he was sent to Lisle, in his rank of colonel, to make a report respecting the new military manœuvres which the baron de Pirsch had brought from Prussia. He had also a commission to examine a plan for improving the navigation of the river Lys, and another plan of forming a harbour in the channel at Ambleteuse. These employments occupied the latter end of the year 1774, and the whole of 1775. In 1776, he was joined in a commission with the chevalier D'Oisy, captain of a man of war, and colonel la Rozière, one of the ablest engineers in Europe, to determine on a proper place in the channel for the construction of a naval port. He passed the year 1777, in the country twenty leagues from Paris. At the end of that year he was invited to Paris by M. de Montbarey, minister of war, on account of the rupture between England and her colonies, which he had long predicted. In 1778, he procured the office of commandant of Cherbourg to be revived and given to him. Being persuaded that Cherbourg was better calculated than any other place in the channel for a national harbour, and being aided by the zeal, activity, and influence of the duke d'Harcourt, governor of the province; he obtained a decision, in favour of Cherbourg, of a question that had been agitated during a hundred years, concerning the preference to be given to Cherbourg or La Hogue, for the site of a naval port. From that time till 1789, he was occupied in superintending the works of Cherbourg; and, during that period, he was but three times at Paris. When he first arrived at Cherbourg, it contained no more than seven thousand three hundred inhabitants, and when he quitted it, they amounted to nearly twenty thou sand. At the commencement of the revolution he stayed much evil, in the place where he commanded. At Cherbourg the excesses of the populace were punished by him with death; but still he could not be accused of being inimical to the liberty of the people. The military governments of towns in France being suppressed, he went to Paris, where, during two years, he studied the influence and character of the Revolution. In 1791, he was appointed to the command of the country from Nantes to Bourdeaux. At that period a religious war raged in La Vendée, and the people laid waste the castles and lands of the nobility. He had the good fortune to calm the minds of the people, and to preserve tranquillity in that country till the month of February 1792, when he was recalled to Paris, was raised to the rank of |