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the beaten track, and silence is the safest reply to those who pro- 

 pose a deviation from it, even for the sake of humanity. The outcry 

 raised in India against the suttee was long powerless, until it return- 

 ed rt verberated from the British shore ; and that against slavery 

 will continue disregarded, unless it receives support from all the 

 energy of the Home Government. 



I am unable to suggest any measures for the amelioration and 

 eventual abolition of slavery in India, less free from objection than 

 those above stated. Subsequent occurrences have since induced* 

 from the highest Court of Judicature, a proposal similar to the 

 first ; from Mr. Grseme, when a member of the Government at 

 Madras, a proposal similar to the eighth ; and from him and Mr. 

 Baber (than whom no one possesses a better knowledge of the 

 western coast) proposals similar to the latter part of the tenth of 

 my suggestions. Whilst Mr. Baber himself also advocates one si- 

 milar to the sixth rule proposed by me. The late Mr. Munro likewise 

 submitted a proposal similar to the fifth of my suggestions, which is 

 the only one of the whole against which I am aware of any objections 

 having been stated. The arguments against it will be found in 

 Mr. M'Leod's letter of the 13th January 1826; but they appear 

 inapplicable, inasmuch as " preventing parents or guardians from 

 assigning children in the customary modes," to be brought up as 

 dancing women, is quite distinct from ^' the purchase of children** 

 on that account. 



But setting the fifth suggestion aside, the absence of any objec- 

 tion against the other enactments proposed by me, and recom- 

 mended by the Board of Revenue at Madras for adoption by the 

 Government, confirmed as the expediency of several of them has 

 been, by the other authorities 1 have mentioned, will, I trust, under 

 the moderate caution and attention to vested rights which I hope 

 will be found to pervade the proposal of the whole, find, for some 

 of them at least, a more able and successful, though not a more 

 zealous advocate. 



III. — An Historical account of the Christians on the Malabar 

 Coast J by the Venerable Archdeacon Robinson, a. m. 

 Part 3d. 



( Continued from the lOAth page of our ^d Number.) 

 We have now arrived at the most memorable event in the history 

 of the Church of Malabar, the forcible intrusion of a foreign juris- 

 diction, and tlae bold and persevering measures employed by the 



