text:  Again if seminaries had been founded on the principle of those built and endowed by the emperors they might have produced men eminent in various faculties: but though it is true that schools were built by the Company some fifteen years since in various parts of the empire in which some thousands of children both Hindoo and Moslem have received education they have never turned out a single man of superior attainments in any department of literature there taught:--and it is remarkable that not an instance exists as far as I am aware of a man thus educated in the Company's own schools having been selected for the high judicial offices of _Sadr-ameen_ and principal _Sadr-ameen_ (judges in the local courts;) but that these functionaries have invariably been chosen from those educated in the native method