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Strength at Cayenne, they would, from this cause, perhaps be 

 able to render the sway of Bonaparte acceptable to certain 

 descriptions of men in the contiguous colonies. 



The oriental historian Hossein Khan, who had witnessed, 

 in a very different quarter of the world, the needless and 

 grievous evils of superstitious partiality, thus recommends 

 equal indulgence: "After all it must be remembered that, 

 as princes and kings are reputed the shadows of God, they 

 ought, in humble imitation of his divine attributes, to ac- 

 commodate themselves to the dispositions and minds of their 

 subjects, so as to carry an equal hand over them, without ex- 

 ception, without predilection, and without shewing a dislike, 

 or hatred, to any species of men. Such impartiality is incum- 

 bent upon princes, if they intend to be the fathers and che- 

 rishers of the people intrusted to their care ; and if they really 

 wish that every man should look up to the monarch, as to his 

 benevolent, forgiving father. This is a duty incumbent on 

 them, if they wish that every one should think himself happy 

 under their government ; for the subject must be cherished 

 in the very palm of the monarch's hand, if the monarch really 

 intends to discharge his duty, and to let the world see that he 

 feels all the meaning of these verses of Saadi : 



" That beneficent Bqing, which, from its invisible treasury, 

 Feeds with an equal hand, the beUever, 



