166 TIIE JAVA SYSTEM. 



u au gouvernement. La Haute Cour se melait cle politique, refu- 

 " sait p. e. d'executer les lois sur 1' exportation du numeraire, et 

 l< servait de point d'appui aux fonctionnaires accuses de concussion. 

 "Un autre grand homme, Stamfoed Baffles, gouverneur de 

 " Java sous la domination anglaise, confirme le dire de Daexdels, 

 '•que l'acquittement des gens riches etait chose ordinaire" (p. 2-14). 



Much of the inconvenience and injustice inseparable from the 

 system of " indigenous " Courts arises out of the conflict between 

 that j udicial privilege so dear to native feeling and the judicial 

 equality, which European administrators not only hold right for 

 themselves, but feel bound to maintain in their Eastern dominions. 

 What Dr. Winckel has to say on this subject (p. 179-203) 

 cannot be referred to at length, but deserves much consideration 

 from any one who wishes to form a judgment upon k ' the Java 

 System" as a whole. 



A. M. S. 



