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about theso things, be acted upon if the Local Govern- 

 ments of India be allowed to do just as they please, and 

 to decline to take that small amount of trouble which is 

 necessary, and which Colonial and other Governments 

 deem it their duty, and find it their interest to take, then 

 Indian developers will continue to make an outcry 

 against foreigners, taking away that which they want, 

 and, in my humble judgment, they have reason and right 

 on their side." 



W. N. L. 



The following letter reached me too late to make any 

 use of its contents. Indeed my review had been sent to 

 England about a month or six weeks before I received it. 

 As the Rev. J. Long, however, is more intimately ac- 

 quainted with the condition of the peasantry of Bengal, 

 than perhaps any European in it ; as he has ever shown a 

 deep and sincere interest in their welfare ; and as he has 

 before now suffered imprisonment in their cause, I append 

 his remarks in extenso. The Rev. Gentleman has lately 

 made a tour in Russia, where he had an opportunity of 

 acquainting himself with the results of the emancipation of 

 the serfs ; and his opinions, though many may differ 

 from them as widely as they will from my own, as those of 

 an honest, an earnest, and sincere Christian Missionary, 

 who has spent the better part of a long life in good works 

 amongst the poor of Bengal, are worthy of every respect. 



To Major Lees, LL.D. 



My dear Major Lees, As I hear that you are sending 

 for republication in England, an extract from your valu- 

 able work, relating chiefly to the important question of 



