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bered; that, though all Englishmen may be fully 

 satisfied, that if the British Government in India is 

 to be overturned^ it must be overturned by a Euro- 

 pean; and not by a Native power, a generation, at 

 leastj must pass away; before any confidence in the 

 stability of our rule will be established in the minds 

 of the natives. This fact, of itself, is quite sufficient 

 to indicate the measure of the success likely to attend 

 any present attempt at a redemption of the land 

 revenue; and; at the same time to show; what it 

 appears strange it should be necessary to reiterate 

 so soon after 1857 that though our Government 

 must; of necessity, be sustained in peace and order 

 by the good will of the people, it is maintained only, 

 as all Governments similarly circumstanced can be 

 maintained by the strong arm of power. Looking 

 to the character of the people, and estimating the 

 future by our knowledge of the past; I am of opinion 

 that things will go hard indeed with the English in 

 India; when the land revenue, if equitably assessed; 

 be it free, perpetually; decennially, or annually 

 settled; will have the weight of a grain of sand, in 

 turning the scale of their fortunes. Indeed there is 

 little need to argue this point. It is fully established. 

 The natives have been invited in parts of India to 

 purchase the fee simple of their holdings; but they 

 will not speculate on the security of British rule in 

 India; on any terms that are likely to be offered by Her 

 Majesty's or any other English Government, and 

 this sets the question; in its political bearing, at rest. 



