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from speculative principles, and directed to visionary objects or 

 impracticable perfection; but the solid work of plain, deliberate, 

 practicable benevolence; the legitimate offspring of genuine wis- 

 dom and pure virtue. The excellence of the genuine spirit of 

 these laws is attested by the noblest proof of a just, wise, and 

 honest government; by the restoration of happiness, tranquillity, 

 and security, to an oppressed, and suffering people, and by the 

 revival of agriculture, commerce, manufacture, and general opu- 

 lence, in a declining and impoverished country. 



" Contemplating these benevolent views, and animated by the 

 prospect of the great and exalted duty to which you are called, 

 I trust that you will derive from this institution the most effectual 

 means of preserving and securing to the inhabitants of these pros- 

 perous regions, that primary object of all good government, the 

 greatest blessing attainable by any people, an impartial admini- 

 stration of just laws." 



Thus the luminous administration of a Hastings; the wise and 

 virtuous governments of a Teignmouth and Cornwallis; the exten- 

 sive policy, promptitude, and decision of a Wellesley, united with 

 the military talent and enterprise of a Wellington, have placed 

 those distinguished characters on a glorious eminence. How 

 highly exalted do they appear when opposed to D'Acughna and 

 the unworthy successors of Gama and Albuquerque, the Portu- 

 guese conquerors of India! Those monsters of iniquity, by their 

 rapacity, oppression, and cruelty, brought disgrace and ruin on 

 that once celebrated nation; the patriotic and benevolent virtues 

 of the delegated administrators of British sovereignty, will endear 

 their names to the latest posterity ! 



