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slones; as a fair olive-tree, budding forth fruit, and as a cypress 

 which groweth up to the clouds !" 



Such is the voice of a grateful people to a wise and beneficent 

 prince; the Asiatics still know how to estimate such a character, 

 and use the same language: the names of Hastings, Cornwallis, and 

 other eminent Englishmen, are dear to their hearts; and, however 

 gradual the progress, the good effect of British legislation, blended 

 with a due regard to ancient manners and customs, will in time 

 be fully appreciated in our extensive empire. The exertions of 

 government for the happiness of millions are already felt and 

 acknowledged throughout the fertile provinces of Bengal, notwith- 

 standing the most deeply-rooted prejudices and attachment to 

 caste: if peace continues to extend her olive over British India, we 

 shall see commerce, agriculture, art, and science, once more adorn 

 and enrich those realms, from whence they emigrated to the 

 western world, through the channels of Egypt, Phenicia, and 

 Greece. 



At present, in the courts of the nabobs, petty rajahs, and other 

 independent despots of India, there is so little sense of moral ob- 

 ligation, that no stigma attaches to the man who plots the most 

 base and villainous means for attaining the ends of venality and 

 corruption; the odium is incurred for not being properly executed. 

 Perhaps this censure should be limited to the verge of the durbars, 

 courts of justice, and revenue departments of these princes; we 

 will hope that the moral sense operates in general amongst the na- 

 tives of India, as in those of other countries, although often vitiated 

 by the relaxed state of government and society. 



