186 NUMEROUS EXCEPTIONS. 



lowers the tone of public and private morality and 

 self-respect. 



That these baneful influences should, in many- 

 cases, produce their natural results, is but to be ex- 

 pected ; at the same time I must say that, without 

 being informed of their existence, I should not have 

 been aware of them, and that all the Government 

 officers with whom we came in personal contact, had 

 every mark of being honourable and gentlemanly 

 men ; nor did we ever hear a whisper to their dis- 

 paragement. It is probably in the more remote 

 and isolated districts that the system produces its 

 full effects. 



As I have before said, the raising a revenue seems 

 to be the principal object of the Dutch government 

 of Java. This revenue now amounts to the large total 

 sum of fifty-five millions of guilders (4,750,000/.), of 

 which, after deducting the whole of the expenses, 

 there remains a clear surplus revenue of twenty-five 

 millions of guilders, or about 2,084,000/., which is 

 yearly transmitted to the credit of the Home Go- 

 vernment. 



They seem latterly to have become aware that it 

 is cheaper to raise a revenue by a certain amount of 

 good government than by military force, and they 

 have therefore attended in a greater degree than for- 

 merly to the dispensation of justice among the people, 

 and to their physical well doing. They abstain from 

 pushing their exactions to an intolerable degree, they 

 forbearobtruding themselves on the people personally, 



