The Sun.
London, England, 1807-09-04 00:00:00

UisapprOuatiuu ut tuZ policy uy
povessions have lately been governed, and to
recommend the propagation of the established
reli-
gion of. be Church of England amongst the Hindus,
" under the.power and influence cal Go.remittent,'
as the best Means of conciliating their alktions..--
and the. introdiatEtioii.. of English colonisti amongst
them, to share in the property and cultivation Zif
their native soil, at a sure way to•teach thetn'to ad-
',mire, and in tithe to imitate, the superior jnstice•and
moral feeling of the English
In the
,spirit of..this most just, generous, and
enlightened poliev,asp Writer-of this last artiole, has,
iii tlaktsth titnikr of)ti4 Jonrnal, again intrOduced
,altii",iliSoni.sion,,ot *lndian of ifs, in a, manner still
more :strikingly : , than that w hick he. had
before
,adoptcd., 'PA, re4publication of .A.lr. Ortne's
filtitOriCiirEr4gpliip US of xho Mogul Enipire,
.duhttg
a iparettif the.,reign 01,Attrungzebe, together witha
'posthuntons traajm f4ss origin of the English*ade
,at Surat andillaroach, istisented to the ingenious
• mind of tht; R6viOwer another " most livotirable
eceitsiotinot.only.fOr re,utging his favourite selierne
for meliorating the condition bf.the natives of India,
by converting them from their religion t, and by
dispossysing the.n of their property, , .but also tot
making. 1 (401 attack,. both on the .general policy
of Lord Wellesley's administration inits foreign'te-
lotions, and on/ the partictdar
,niezivre;rit' Ots as-
stiniptioti of the'Carnatic. Vet a writer.
..i#••
acuteness might have discovered, that the infernia,
-tkin"containe4 in Mr. Orme'sbook was little' 0,40-
lated to recommend that icheine ; and a Writer; less !
Skilled in the stratagems of literary Warfare, would
have thought the publicatien of a bOoki; cobta,in:
ins the reasons and arguments far the adoption of:
that. policy, afforded at levit as" favourable," and'
quite as fair, an " occasion" fOr Commenting..9oo
it, as the review 'of a few ;fragments tst luclias» his,
tory, during the 'reign Aitrungzebe; Or' etii'cif
-the events of the Company's*.factortes at Surat and
Barua:h, during the first years of their establish- ,
meat.
" But, though a review of thepu bljcation alluded
to would have beenas fair, it would not'have been ,
so convenient a mode of attack on Lord Wellesley's I
Administration, as the One which has been adopted. •
In reviewing that publication, he must have noticed
those, details, into. which he declares " he cannot
enter ;" and of the
..fads of which, though 'adapt-
ed, as he says, to enforce and elucidate his argu-
ments, he studiously forbears to avail himself. This •
magnaninvin, forbearance leadi hiM chiefly to con-
vey his nnimativeli,:ionsin th.dse Loose Coni enient rge.
neralities, which at once free his genius from die
minute restraions of truth, and best persuade that
Lige proportion of his readers, who have either ito
time, Or no kapacify for inoniry, and who, tlft.liefoOe,
readily rely on his judgment, and' adopt..his.

" He
.informs us himself, that the bulk of his
readers "' consider India as. something very.large,
very ‘tritius, and very distant ;" and hence proceeds
hiS anxiety to'gise them a distinct idea of its Present
state, by at-Omitting them, " that. the system 'of fo-
reign 'policy, pursued by the British Government,
bears, in its brtxtd out-line, no slight similarity to the
plin of universal as,Cendai:ey acted tipott by the Cele:
brared oppressor Aurungiehe." Here again he. de-
dares, ' he cannot enter into minute details ;" and
the bulk of his :waders are therektre left to' conclude,
that, iii addition to. India being " very large, Very
curious, and very., distant," the British Government
there resembles that,of Anriigzebe,•• the Great D4o-
-1 of.whose nante,;at least; they niay before have
heard and which, perhaps, contributed to give theta
that, notiou of India being so' " curious," which he
.
114 so happily correaed.
." Yet, however highly he niay estimate this ad-
ditional infOrtnitionrespetiting India with which he.
has supplied his readers, a few " of the. Minute de.
,tails,", to:Whit:li, 'Out of pore kindness towards 'our
.Goverimient., he declined even to, adveri,,
least !Alt should seem iovidious," would have con
'vin* those readers, that, bet%yeen the Policy of
our Government, 'and the system of Aurungzebe,
there is not any one point'of resemblance, either in
t heir principles, or in their objects ; and that in their.
broad out-line" no other sort of Sitnilarity-is
coverable, but that the scene of their operation
laid in the saute coin) try, and "was nearly of thesarde.
ogrit_tjahicol
" The external policy of Anriingzebe was Mg/
as the Revie werasserts, " a sYm gte of ascendancy' .7--
that is, of predominating intltience, throughout tile-,
States of Ilintinstan:—.but is fixed plan of tinivcrsal,
absolute, and taticonditional subjugation. Attibitiun,
avarice, and au mewled fanaticism, were its ruling
prineiples : the, attainment air undivided despotic
doininion over the whole.extent of the Indian Con-
tinent, t ticqnisition of personal riches, acrd the-
conversion of the Hindus to the Mohatninedan faith,

.• , This last. disertatlon must have been :perused -eith
mingled bentiinents ot aversion and regret, by every reader Of
the Revievv, Wilo is COstversafit with the peculiar
system of manners, and the Internal polity of our .itidialt
fellow.subjeas ; and who, in the first two numbest as that
work, had oriciiril publications reviewed by a writer,
thoroughly aqu;intekt with 1110!1" Manners and that polity,
as well as ncesily vrned .111, the 'languages, literature, and
hktory of Asia. An unfortunate absoni.t: from his sliuntryk
for a long time deprived the public of the lueubrations ot
this teamed awl judicious w titer 4' hut he has now resumed
his tabours . its the F.dilibitigh It view .and no. man, I tun
persuaded, deprecates more strongly 1411 he does, these
speculatimis on thc'state oh. •India, in which his triric.:l Lida:
league was pleased to indulge.- it, indeLsti: 1 could hoirsteiw
tettained any donut as 40 his sentiments on this puiqi
review ot Mr. Colehtuok.s bow( (,)r...ifie Husbandry anti in-
terns) Commerce 'of *finial 'would' have removed..ir:s
Meier will And that 11.1.1 ft-ding piece of eriticiulii m the .gib
numberof rue Edinbargh kevtew, which has just been nub.
.lashed ; and it nartveulaily claiinS his attentive consideration,
both trout the sound prim:4 pies it contains, and trout the
striking_ contrast it exhibits* to the eilillaerigilijilleGLlfilllolls
10 whiut I have Antic:id.
$ " TOC estrttipnt of the established church, supported
by. the power dad' influence of Government, would be able
to Maltz a rapid progress in t2ls t.otivorsioo atxt convanicsiz
moral improvement of. tho.tiindlis." • ",
bdittbumb Iteviow, Vol. p. 3 if.
.
../ " The ;nest allittinal way to preserve England . and
lonia together lue the widest tenon ut time, end ter them
Mutual tivaniage„ 14 to pcnnit .rite ooloujjoijou of fast
country." htliiiburgh Review, Vol._ IV. p: ads,
No competent judge. locally Ji:rjuitiiited With Italia, will
**ital.: to say. that to pvinut tile colonisatioh 01 that
country," would be, in adect, to dispossess the native; of
their pro arty. the soil ot that property which. by thc
wisdom,iistke. and sound policy of Urn lkitisla l'ariteuent,'
is bccilf 10 then') in pespeturty.

se, notes tristlve ro she peace concluded bower) this
.Britibh filbfernrarnisturthe Marmara Clairtt.iihs, agar ti the
various questions arising out or the 'trait of *he traciri‘4iott,
Priiite44 tot Stockik.ne,