250 DEWAN OF TRAVANCORE. 



gentleman of the covenanted service. So long 

 as Mr Sullivan remained in the comitry, the 

 result fulfilled his expectations ; but no sooner 

 had he quitted the shores of India than in- 

 triofues w^ere set at work to ruin the native 

 officer, and, I was told, with fatal effect. As 

 to the qualifications of natives to fill such ap- 

 pointments, I laugh at the notion that they are 

 unequal to so responsible a charge, for who 

 really are the actual collectors of districts? 

 The European officials go out on jumma hmiclee^ 

 attended by a posse of belted peons, writers, 

 and other small fry; but the higher native 

 officials are the people who actually do the out- 

 door work ; as the managers of their offices, not 

 the European collectors themselves, very ge- 

 nerally conduct the Cutchery business within 

 doors ! Such men as the late Eammohun Roy 

 and Dwarkanauth Tagore, both of whom were 

 well known in England, are specimens of what 

 India can produce, even under our depressing 

 policy. In fact, I believe that few countries 

 have ever produced two more talented men 

 than these ; and the young dewan to the Rajah 

 of Travancore, who was distinguished in the 

 Madras University as the first mathematician 



