CHAPTER XXIV. 



ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN THE CITY AND DISTRICTS 



OF dhuboy; 



TRIAL BY PANCHAUT; EXTRAORDINARY ACCOUNT OF 



DEMONS AND NECROMANCY IN INDIA; 



ANECDOTES RELATING TO HIDDEN TREASURE, AND OTHER 



SINGULAR CUSTOMS. 



1781. 



------ if our virtues 



Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike 



As if we had them not. What's open made to Justice 



That Justice seizes." Shakespeare. 



" Let us reflect upon sixty millions of human beings, either absolutely subjects of the East 

 India Company, or under their influence; beings who for countless ages, certainly not less than 

 twenty centuries, have had their minds debased by the grossest and most disgusting superstitions, 

 and their feelings blunted and confused by a strange and inconsistent mixture of cruelty and 

 humanity ; of cruelty extending to the murder of parents and children, with stony-hearted 

 apathy; of humanity exaggerated in the preservation of noxious reptiles at the public expense; 

 with the most affected aversion to the taking away of life. These and greater abominations con- 

 stitute the picture which India offers to the British philanthropist, and call upon us emphatically 

 in the present extended state of our dominion, to consider the responsibility we have assumed." 



British Review. 



