226] ANNUAL REGISTER, 17092. 
the progress of our own admini- 
stration, and the lights of ingenious 
discovery. 
It is pleasing to observe, not 
only that arts and sciences were 
originally derived from Asia, but 
that lights are still discovered in 
the east, which are, or may be, 
eminently beneficial to the west. 
When we attend to the nature and 
effects of what is called “ Saukar 
Right*, or the inviolability of pub- 
lic credit,” we may perhaps indulge 
the hope, that means for composing 
the actual convulsions of Europe 
‘may be drawn from an attentive 
examination of the causes which 
prevent revolutionary volcanoes in 
India and China; for history and 
the present state of these noble 
countries, shew that opinions may 
be formed, and institutions esta- 
blished, capable of precluding many 
of the calamitous effects of war, by 
surviving the shipwreck of political 
revolutions, 
* Saukars are public bankers, \ 
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