cannot be provided for in some manner serviceable to the state. Their numbers are considerable, especially of females, who are allowed to remain with the orphan institution, often to a very mature age : some are, to be sure, disposed of in services, where they become attendants, or ladies' maids, in respectable families ; but, for the most part, no certain provision is made for them. Probably it is owing to reflection, as much as to their arriving at puberty, that so many of these unfortunate girls become insane. This does not occur among the boys ; who are either apprenticed to some good business, if of the upper school, (in which only the children of officers are admitted,) or, if of the

lower school, (wherein the children of the noncommissioned and privates are brought up,) are draughted, at a proper age, to the several regi-ments, both native and European, there to serve as drummers and fifers. While upon the subject, I shall offer to my readers the outline of the Orphan Institution, now so intimately-blended with the military establishments throughout India, that the Company make it a partof their regulations ,for all persons admitted into their military service; to become, ipso factot subscribers to the orphan fund.

This charitable institution, which does singu- lar honor to the Company's army' owes its origin to the assiduity of a few officers, who, in 1789,