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ml people, the last hour I saw them, when they could not expect 

 another benefit from my hands. I insert it also with peculiar 

 pleasure, because it so strongly militates against those unfounded 

 prejudices and illiberal sentiments once entertained against the 

 British character in India. It likewise affords an additional evi- 

 dence of honourable feeling and attachment, opposed to many 

 instances of ingratitude, oppression, and cruelty, by the zemindars 

 and higher powers in Hindostan, inserted in preceding chapters. 



Translation of the Persian Address from the Inhabitants of Dhuboy, 

 to the English Collector, on the morning of his final departure. 



ALL A ! 



"Tuou conferrcst power and greatness on the sons of men, ac- 

 cording to thy pleasure : by Thee the nations of the earth are 

 created ; their kings and rulers are ordained by Thee! 



" Dhuboy, famed among the cities of the cast, was happy when 

 this English sirdar presided in her durbar ; his disposition towards 

 the inhabitants was with the best consideration. He afforded 

 shelter to all, whether the}" were rich or poor; he delivered them 

 from trouble and restored them to comfort. All castes who looked 

 up to him obtained redress, without distinction and without price. 

 When he took the poor by the hand he made him rich : under 

 his protection the people were happy, and reposed on the bed of 

 ease. When he superintended the garden, each gardener per- 

 formed his duty ; rills of water flowed to every flower, and all the 

 trees in the garden flourished. So equal was his justice, that the 

 tiger and the kid might drink at the same fountain ; and often 



