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to the World, that he succeeded only in makinj 

 Irish ones. It is asserted, however, that the in- 

 terests of the cultivators were sacrified to those of 

 the landlords &c., and that other errors were com- 

 mitted in the manner of carrying out this measure 

 that fully account for its failure. With the light of 

 present experience such errors, it is stated, would 

 not be permitted to take place, and it is confidently 

 believed that by their avoidancein future all objections 

 to a similar attempt being now made would be remov- 

 ed. It is further advanced, that notwithstanding the 

 notoriously depressed condition of the cultivators, a 

 creation of wealth has taken place in Bengal, that, 

 contrasting it with other parts of India, is truly 

 remarkable. I fully admit the increase of wealth ; 

 but to what, I would ask, is it due ? It is due, not to 

 the activity, energy, and enterprise of an intelligent 

 landed proprietory ; but to the extraordinary fertility 

 of the Gangetic Delta, its freedom from famines, 

 arid to those gains arising from an increase in the 

 area of cultivation, to which the landlords of Bengal 

 had no right or title, and which, however upright 

 the intentions of the framers of the law of 1793, can 

 be viewed in no other light than the illigitimate 

 and unjust alienation of the property of the whole 

 community for the benefit of a favored class. In 

 the year 1793, 30,000,000 acres of land were un- 

 der cultivation in Bengal, and in the year follow* 

 ing, the land revenue was 3,235,259. In the 



