"took several turns in a covered walk which commands a prospect of "the country, the lake and the mountains. The air was temperate, "the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the 66 waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first "emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the estab"lishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober "melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken "an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that, "whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the "historian must be short and precarious.' * The numbers should be written in letters, not in figures. ORTHOGRAPHICAL EXERCISES. (Set only to Candidates for Clerkships, and similar positions.) No. 1. (Time allowed, 14 hours.) Copy the following passage clearly and legibly, correcting mistakes of spelling and grammar, but not otherwise altering either the words or their order. The grate leeding feeture of that sistem of internel adminestration which owes its orrigin to the Marques Cornwalis, consists in the totall seperation of the too dipartments of justice and revinue, by dipriving the collecter of all authorety as judge and majestrate, and vesting it in the hands of a destinct functionery. To this may be added the intire subversion of evry native instetution, the transfer of the propperty in the soile to a destinct class of pursons, dignefied with the apelation of Zemindars; tha ovarthrow of all hereddetary jurissdictions, the abbolition of all hereddetary ofices, and the remooval as much as posible out of the hands of the natives of evry species of powar and influance. Acording to the anchient custems of this country, as they prevaled under the rule of the Mogul dynasty, the oficer to whom was commited the charge of adminestering the revinue in evry distrect, was (by whatever title recognised) vested with extencive juidicial authorety It was his business, in an espescial maner, to hear and to ditermine all desputes arrising out of the colection of the land-tax: to defend the rayets or cultevaters against the tyrany of his own oficers, and to cause restetution to be made whenevar he saw reeson to bilieve that more than the estabblished ammount had been exacted from them. Both the titles of these functioneries, and the extent of there jurisdiction, necessarilly varied in diffirent parts of India; but there powar, whether it extended over a provvince, a portion of provvince, or a singal vilage, was evry were in effect the same. But the most remarkeble of all the native instetutions was perhapps the Punchayet. This was an asembly of a certain number of the inhabbitents, bifore whom parties maintaining a despute with one another pleeded there own cause, and who, like an English juery, herd both sides paciently, and then gave a dicision acording to there own views of the case. (N.B.-The words printed in Italics do not require correction.) No. 2. (Time allowed, 14 hours.) Copy the following passage clearly and legibly, correcting mistakes of spelling and grammar, but not otherwise altering either the words or their order. Yet The fact that the sum razed in Ingland by taxsation has, in a peariod not exceding two long lives, been multeplyed therty fold, is stranje, and may at first site seam appaling. But those who are allarmed by the increese of the pubblic burdens, may perhaps be reashurred when they have considderd the increese of the pubblic ressorces. In the yeare sixten hunderd and eigty five, the valew of the prodduce of the soyle far exceded the valew of all the othar frutes of uman industry. aggreculture was in what would now be considderd a verry rood and impurfect stait. The arrable land and passture land were not suposed by the best polliticle arithmatecians of that age to ammount to much more than half the aria of the kingdom: the rimainder was bileived to consest of moore, forrest, and fenn. These compewtasions are strongly confermed by the rodebooks and mapps of the sevententh centuary: from wich it is clere that meny roots which now pass threw an endless succession of orcherds, heyfeilds, and beenfeilds, then rann threw nothink but heeth, swomp, and warren. In some drawings of Inglish Landscaps made at that peariod for a forein nobelman, scarsely a hedjerow is to be sean, numarous trackts, now ryche with cultevation, appeare as bare as Saulsbery Plane. Hardly out of site of the smoake of the capitol, was a rejion of five and twenty miles in sercumfarence, wich contaned onley three howses and scarsely enny inclosed fealds. Dear, as free as in an Amerricen forrest, wandered their by thousends. The last wild bores, indeed, which had been priserved for the royel divversion, had been slautered by the exasparated russtics dureing the licence of the civvil war. The last woulf that has romed our island had been slane in Scotland a short time before the close of the rein of Charles the Second. But menny breedes, now exstint or raire, both of quodruppeds and berds, were still commun. No. 3. (Time allowed, 14 hours.) Copy the following passage clearly and legibly, correcting mistakes of spelling and grammar, but not otherwise altering either the words or their order. The revolushun, by alterring the relletive posishun of the prinse and the parliamant, had alterred allso the relletive posishon of the armey and the nation. The king and the comuns was now at unety and both were menassed by the greatest millitarey power which had exsisted in Eurup sinse the dounfall of the Romen empire. In a few weaks thirty thousend vetterens, acostomed to conquor, and lead by able and expeereensed captins, might cross from the portes of France to our shores. It was nesesarey then that their should be reglar soljers and if so it was indespensable, both to there efisiensey, and to the securety of evry othar class, that they should be kepped under a strikt desciplin. An ill desceplined armey has ever been a more costley and a more : lisencious millitia, impotant against a forrin ennimy, and formedable honley to the countrey which it is payed to diffend. A strong line of destinction must theirfor be drawne between the soljers and the rest of the comunety. For the sake of publik fredum they must, in the midste of fredum, be plased under a dispottik rool. They must be subjikt to a sharper peenel coad, and to a more strinjant coad of procedur, then are admenesterd by the hordinerey tribunels. Sum acts wich in the citisan is inosant must in the soljer be crimes; and sum acts wich in the citisan are punneshed with fein or emprisonment must in the soljer be punnished with deth. The masheenary by which coorts of law assertane the guilte or innosense of an acusid citisan are two slow and two entrecate to be applyed to an acusid soljer. For of hall the malledies insidant to the body politic, millitarey hinsubbordinashun is that wich requires the most prompte and the most serching remmidies. If the evel be not stopt has soon has it appears, it is certaine to spred : and it cannot spred far without danjer to the verry vitels of the comunwelth. No. 4. (Time allowed, 14 hours.) Copy the following passage clearly and legibly, correcting mistakes of spelling and grammar, but not otherwise altering either the words or their order. All these dificultys was increesed by the condukte of Shrewsberry. The charaktar of this man is a cureus studdey. He seemed to be the petted favorit bothe of natur and of fortun. İlustrous berth, exhalted ranke, hampel possessions, fein parts, extencif acquirmants, an aggreable person, manars singlarley graseful and engajeing, cumbined to make him a hobjict of addmeiration and henvy. But with hall these addvantajies, he had sum morrel and intelectuel pecularetys wich made him a tormant to hisself an to all conectid with him. Is condukt at the time of the Revolushun had gave the worlde an high hoppiniun, not mearley of his pattriatisme, but of his curraje, ennergey and discision. It would seam, howivar, that yoothful enthooseasme, and the exillarashun proddused by publik simpethey and aplaus, had on that ocasiun raased him above hisself. Scarseley any othar parte of his life was of a peace with that splended comensement. He had hardley becum Secratery of Stait when it apcard that his nurves were two week for such a poste. The dayley toile, the hevvey responsabilletey, the faylyours, the mortefecations, the obliquey, which are insepereble from power, had broke his sperrit, sowrd his tempar, and impared his helth. To such naturs has his the sustaning power of high rellijius princepals seem to be pecularley necesarey and unfortunatley Shrewsberry had, in the act of shakeing of the yolk of that superstition in wich he had been eddukated, libberated himselfe allso from more salutory bandes wich might peraps have braiced his two delikatly constetuted minde into steddfestnes and upritenes. Destetut of such suporte, he was, with great abeletys, a week man, and though indowed with maney aimiable and atraktif qualletys, could not be calld a honist man. For his own apiness, he should either have bin much bettar or much worser. No. 5. (Time allowed, 14 hours.) Copy the following passage clearly and legibly, correcting mistakes of spelling and grammar, but not otherwise altering either the words or their order. The innequalety of proparty and condishion which sum silley or bad peopel are so fonde of declaming aginst existed in the verry infency of the wurld, and must, from the natur of things, exist to the end of it. Supose a shippe to be recked on an uninhabbited iland, and that all the oficers pereshed, but that the comon men and their wifes were saved; there, if enywhere, we shuld exspect to meat with libberty, equallety, and the rites of man. But what wuld, in reallity, be the consiquance? A staite of equallety, and with it of annerchy, might parhaps subsiste for a dey; but wizdum, couriage, indestry, econnemy, would presantly introduice a supeariority of sum ovar others. In order that each man might priserve for himself the cabbin wich he had bilt, the grownd wich he had tilled, or the fishe wich he had took, all wuld aggree in the proppriety of apointing sum one among the number, or more than one, to derect, govvern, and protect the whoale by the comon strenth. Thus the ristriction of liberty and the distruction of equallety, and all the surcumstences wich shalow reesoners reprisent as greivances in sociaty, wuld of nicessety be introduiced. No one wuld be left at libbarty to invaide his nabor's proparty. Sum, by skil and activety, wuld bicome riche, and thay wuld be alowed to biqueath at there deth there wealth to there childern; othars by idelness and diborchery wuld rimain poor, and have nuthing to leave to there famelies. There childern, when growne up, wuld therefor be under the nicessity of maintaining theirselves by wurking for their nabors, till, by prudance and thrifft, they acquired anough too perchase proparty of there own, on wich thay might imploy there laybour. It is a geniral law throghout the wirld that riches and rispect shuld atend uppon prudance and diligense. No. 6. (Time allowed, 14 hours.) Copy the following passage clearly and legibly, correcting mistakes of spelling and grammar, but not otherwise altering either the words or their order. In vallor and abilleties Luxemburg was not infeeriur to any of his ilustrous race. But highly discended and higly giffted as he was, he had with diffecultey sirmountid the obstikles which impeedid him in the road to faim. If he owd much to the bowntey of natur and fortun, he had sufferd stil more from there speite. His feeturs was fritefully harshe; his statshur was dimmenutive; an huge and pointed hump had rose on his back. His constetution was feable an sicley. Crual imputations had been throne on his morrels. He had bin accusid of traffiking with sorsorers and with vendurs of poisson; had langwished long in a dunjohn, and had at lenth reganed his libbertey without entirly recuvvering his honnor. He had allways bin disagreable both to the minester and the King. Yet the war against the Europein coallishun had continnued but a verry short time when both the minester and the King perceevd that the gennerel who was personely odeus to them was necesary for the stait. Condé and Turenne was no more; and Luxemburg was without despute the furst soljer that France stil posessed. In vijilense, dillegence, and purseverence he was diffisient. He semed to reserve his grate qualleties for grate immergensys. It was on a pittchd field of battel that he was all hisself. His glanse was rapped and unnerrin. His judgemant was cleerest and surist when risposabilletey prest hevviest on him. To his skill, ennergey, and pressense of meind his country owd sum glorius days. But tho emminantley succesfull in battels, he was not emminantley succesfull in campanes. He ganed immence renoun at William's expense; and yet their was, as rispected the hobjicts of the war, little to choose betwen the too comandurs. Luxemburg was repeetidley victoreus; but he had not the hart of improveing a victory. Willium was repeetidly defeetid; but of all gennerels he was the best quallefyed to repare a defect. (The spelling of the words printed in Italics need not be altered.) PRÉCIS OF CORRESPONDENCE. The following "Instructions are placed in the hands of the Candidates, along with the Correspondence of which a Précis is required : (Time allowed * hours.) Having read the accompanying Correspondence 1. Make a short Abstract, Schedule, or Docket of the several letters. 2. Draw up a short Memorandum or Précis, stating briefly and distinctly what passed, in the form of a narrative. DIRECTIONS. (1) The object of the Abstract, Schedule, or Docket, is to serve as an Index to be referred to when required. It should contain the date of each letter; the names of the persons by whom and to whom it is written; and, in as few words as possible, the main substance of it. The merits of such an Abstract are—(1) to give the really important point or points of each letter, omitting everything else; (2) to do this briefly; (3) distinctly; and (4) in such a form as readily to catch the eye. (2) The object of the Memorandum, or Précis, is that any one who had not time to read the original letters might, by reading the Précis, be put in possession of all the leading features of what passed. The merits of such a Précis are (1) to contain a concise history of the correspondence, including all that is important in its substance, and nothing that is unimportant; (2) * The time allowed varies according to the length of the correspondence. |