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tlieir own country, tlie hope of such advancement 

 will bring to light talents of no common order. 

 The natives of India possess plenty of ambi- 

 tion, naturally, though the last sixty years of 

 our depressing rule has tended much to ex- 

 tinguish hope in their bosoms ; but the policy 

 which the Grreeks and Romans practised with 

 success — as did, at a later period, the great 

 Eastern conqueror, Tymour Limg, or Tamer- 

 lane, namely, that of admitting the natives of 

 conquered provinces to the free and full par- 

 ticipation of the rights and privileges of the 

 conquerors— may be expected to work equally 

 w^ell in the present day with the natives of 

 India. In Sindh, Sir Charles Napier practised 

 the like policy, '' for while the regeneration of 

 the poorer classes was urged forward, the just 

 claims of the high-born people of the land were 

 not overlooked as though a conquered race," Sir 

 Charles "regarded them only as British sub- 

 jects, and resolved to open for all places of 

 trust and dignity, without objection to colour 

 or religion, demanding only qualification." 

 Mahomed Toorab, one of the greatest Surdars 

 who fought at Meeanee, was made a magis- 

 trate at his own request, the appointment being 



