1800'S BOMBAY NEWS (6 TH POST)
<1804 map of india " The Fighting Doctor." Artillery Mess, Madras. — During dinner, a note is handed to Dr. Wyllie, who rises abruptly, begging to be excused. Commanding officer to tlie Doctor, in a low voice, as he is taking his departure : " I hope, Doctor, there is nothing M'rong ? " " Naething pertikler. Mrs. Smith has a wee touch of coalara morehus. We'll gae her a peel, and she'll sure be a' richt the morn." This, no doubt, to put the party off the scent, as it was announced next morning that Mrs. S. had been safely delivered of a son I Next evening, as the dinner party were unfolding their table napkins, the Colonel, with a twinkle in his eye and full of humour, reconnoitred the sapient son of Esculapius thus, in the Doctor's accent: "Any more cases of coalara morehus, Dr. Wyll Education. The following advertisement, dated February 18th, 1811, and signed John Forbes, we give, because it illustrates three things : (1st) that Bombay did not confine its benefactions to local schemes (the subscriptions to this one already amounted to Rs. 7,224) ; (2nd) that the Forbeses had already produced a strong Aberdonian feeling of clanship in the island ; (3rd) that the schoolmaster was abroad : — "Aberdeen Society, for the benefit of children of deceased clergymen of the professors in the University of Scotland." Some of the confusion here may be owing to the printer's devil. Charles Forbes's speeches in the India House, and his Bombay letters, are models of perspicuous English, Manockjee Cursetjee, who must have been at school about this time, had a fair education, which enabled him to hold forth to kings, and even to the Pope. I asked him about his teacher. His reply that he was a Mr. Mackay in Mr. Joliffe's school, near St. Thomas's Church, though of date 1822, shows that there was good education in Bombay about this period.
<1804 map of india " The Fighting Doctor." Artillery Mess, Madras. — During dinner, a note is handed to Dr. Wyllie, who rises abruptly, begging to be excused. Commanding officer to tlie Doctor, in a low voice, as he is taking his departure : " I hope, Doctor, there is nothing M'rong ? " " Naething pertikler. Mrs. Smith has a wee touch of coalara morehus. We'll gae her a peel, and she'll sure be a' richt the morn." This, no doubt, to put the party off the scent, as it was announced next morning that Mrs. S. had been safely delivered of a son I Next evening, as the dinner party were unfolding their table napkins, the Colonel, with a twinkle in his eye and full of humour, reconnoitred the sapient son of Esculapius thus, in the Doctor's accent: "Any more cases of coalara morehus, Dr. Wyll Education. The following advertisement, dated February 18th, 1811, and signed John Forbes, we give, because it illustrates three things : (1st) that Bombay did not confine its benefactions to local schemes (the subscriptions to this one already amounted to Rs. 7,224) ; (2nd) that the Forbeses had already produced a strong Aberdonian feeling of clanship in the island ; (3rd) that the schoolmaster was abroad : — "Aberdeen Society, for the benefit of children of deceased clergymen of the professors in the University of Scotland." Some of the confusion here may be owing to the printer's devil. Charles Forbes's speeches in the India House, and his Bombay letters, are models of perspicuous English, Manockjee Cursetjee, who must have been at school about this time, had a fair education, which enabled him to hold forth to kings, and even to the Pope. I asked him about his teacher. His reply that he was a Mr. Mackay in Mr. Joliffe's school, near St. Thomas's Church, though of date 1822, shows that there was good education in Bombay about this period.
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