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out promises of still greater advantages than those 

 which the people enjoy under British rule, if so 

 unjust, would be so intensely stupid as to inaugurate 

 its advance, by confiscating the the people's rights 

 in the soil. On the other hand, it must be remem- 

 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 

 European, and not by a Native pcwer, a generation, 

 at least, 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 reitirate so soon after 3857 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 equitable, be it free, 

 perpetually, decennially, or annually fixed, will have 

 the weight of a grain of sand, in turning the scale 

 of their fortunes. Indeed there is little need to 



