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State has admitted that the whole of this amount 

 cannot be laid out, because labour is not forth- 

 coming- for the purpose, the present would not seem 

 to be the most favourable time for initiating a change 

 of this policy. Those, therefore, who have the 

 interest of India at heart, cannot but observe with 

 deep concern the recurrence of treaties with foreign 

 powers entered into by Her Majesty's Government, 

 to deprive India of that which she cannot spare of 

 that the want of which, it is now admitted, retards 

 her own progress. The philanthropic policy of the 

 British Government in regard to the Slave Trade, 

 in the steady pursuance of which England still 

 spends millions of money^ must be the admiration of 

 the World, for all ages to come. But it is question- 

 able how far it will be considered admissible, 

 or how far it is the intention of Her Majesty's 

 Ministers to sacrifice the best interests of India to 

 a question of British policy, after it has been 

 acknowledged that the labouring population is below 

 the wants of the Country itself. 



It is argued by some persons in this Country, 

 that any interference with these treaties would be 

 objectionable as opposed to the full freedom which 

 ought to be given to every man living* under 

 British Rule, to carry his labour to the best market. 

 But this idea seems to have originated rather in 

 a misconception of the true principle involved, and 

 a fear of being wrecked among the rocks and shal- 

 lows of protection, than from any desire to support 



