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 We have already said, that Vidyasagar had opened many female schools in different parts of the districts under him, and that he had submitted bills for those schools, but that they were lying accumulated in the office of the Director of Public Instruction, pending the final orders of the Supreme Government. Vidyasagar, therefore, on receipt of the communication of the acceptance of his resignation by the Bengal Government, wrote to Young, asking permission to be allowed to continue in his post until the final decision of the Supreme Government came. But the haughty, young civilian, determined to crush his foe at the earliest convenience, denied him this indulgence as will appear from the two letters that passed between the superior and the subordinate, quoted below:—

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"I received your letter No. 2461 yesterday noon communicating the acceptance of my resignation. "I am already in a very disagreeable position for not having yet been able to pay the Pundits of the Female schools, and I am afraid that I will be more so, as soon as I leave my post. And though it is very desirable, in consideration of the present state of my health, that I should cease from work as soon as possible, yet I would wish on the above account to defer making over charge,