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proportion as our empire has been ex- 
tended, the soil has been found less fer- 
tile, and the inhabitants. legs opulent. 
After the first acquirers had carried off 
the fruits of their conquest, the Europe- 
ans who’ succeeded them, found little 
more than the gleanings of the harvest ; 
yet the wholé extent of country, produc- 
tive and unproductive, requires equally 
to be defended. I am aware that, as 
long as the government of India can find 
money to pay their sepoys, there is good 
reason to believe that these soldiers will 
be faithful; but perhaps the moment 
may arrive, when this money is not to 
be found. 
Whether the inhabitants under our 
dominion in India amount to sixty mil- 
lions, or eighty millions, I will not pre- 
tend to say ; but it is pretty well ascer- 
tained, that the revenue drawn from 
them does not exceed seventeen mil- 
lions. I believe the India Company de- 
rivés no profit from its commerce with 
Indostan: this commerce will probably 
be abandoned; for it affords the means 
of oppressing the English competitor, 
without being profitable to the Compa- 
ny: its commerce with China is per- 
fectly distinct, 
CONCLUSION. 
I will now close these Recollections 
apd Reflections. The sentiments which 
I have wished to impress are these :— 
First, that immoderate taxation is the 
grievance by which the country is op- 
pressed ;. that this immoderate taxation 
has been the result of the unnecessary 
wars in which the nation has been in- 
volved during the reign of George III. 
and has been carricd to such an excess, 
that it checks and impedes the creative 
industry of the people. Either the ex- 
penses of the government must be dimi- 
nished, or a portion of the dividends 
must be withheld from the public credi- 
tor. Secondly, that this retrenchment 
cannot be effected without a reform of 
the House of Commons; inasmuch as 
wasteful expenditure is necessary, to 
enable the minister to regulate and con- 
troul this most ‘expensive. machinery. 
The Stuarts were expelled, becatise they 
abused the power confided to them. The 
House of Commons will be reformed 
from a similar cause, viz, because it has 
abused that power of taxing which has 
been confided to it by the Constitution. 
One other sentiment Englishmen should 
keep in mind ; it is this,—that our’ go- 
vernment is, by the principles of our 
Constitution, a civil government; but 
that there are certain persons who, dur- 
O' Meara’s Voice from. St. Helena. 
ing the relgn of George IIT, have endea- 
voured to ehange it into a, mililary go- 
vernment. .'This system eannotbe per- 
severed in; a German military; aanited 
to English. profusion, is beyond what 
can be supported by the most active in- 
dustry of the people; and when English- 
men are deprived of the tee of 
those principles of civil liberty in which 
they have been accustomed,to delight, 
their energies will cease, 
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