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London, England, 1825-03-17 00:00:00

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THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH

sent hum-drum occasional Courts got up by only some half
dozen Proprietors, whose zeal in the service of the general body
throws too much responsibility and labour on the shoulders of
a select few : it is really unkind in the 'great mays of the Pro-
prietors thus to keep aloof and cruelly thrust forward the will-
ing but overworked few.
In questions of direct oriental policy great good must result
to the community by the united services of half a hundred in-
stead of only half a dozen Proprietors. True it is that many
of the Directors are Anglo-Indians, and have been some few
years or months in India, but, still they are Directors, and that
word in our Dictionary signifies corruption and incapacity.—
However I am disposed„.notwitlistanding the sneers of my com-
patriots who accuse me ofbeing a luke-warm Reformer toallow
some little share of probity, talent and knowledge to those Di.:
rectors who have served in India, far instance Mr. Bibb, formerly
of Bengal ; Mr. Thornhill, do. do.-; %'lr. Edmonstone, do. do. ;
CoL Bailie, do. do. ; Mr. Ravenshaw, forinerlyof Madras ; Mr.
Plowden, do. clo.; Mr. Money, formerly of Bombay ; Mr.
Morris, du. do. ; Mr. Soone, do. do.; Mr. Majoribanks; Mr.
Clarke; Hon. H. Lindsay; Mr. Loch; Mr. Prescott; the
.last five Gentlemen having visited and resided in various parts
as Commanders of the Conipaoy's regular Indiamen, I would
wish to allew some credit atheie 'Gentlemen, but my coadja-
tori 'object to it, for they say " be they what they may, they
are still East India Directors,*and that is enough for us."
My friends of the intended Debating Society, cavil at the
term Radical, I have given them the authority of Shakspeare
who, I believe, says. " Diseases desperate grown by desperate'
medicines are cured," why not then, in acknowledged Radical
defects, have Radicals to remedy them ?
I have now done my duty, and have recommended a certain
cure for all the evils under which unhappy and oppressed Hin-
dostan groans ; and, whether they originate at Chawringee, in
Cannon-row, or Leadenhall-street, our specific shall reach
them all, and millions yet unborn, black and white, shell reve-
rence and glory in the Oriental Radical Debating Society.
The present generation will hail it as the Salvation of India. •
One obsetration more and I have done. We are told by the
Ancients that statues were erected not more in honour of the
dead than as incentive to the living. I observed the other day a
spare, niche or two in our debating room ; now, as statues are
stimulants to noble actions, and the cruel practice of hanging
people by the neck until they are dead, opposite Newgate, is
nothing more than an example or warning to others, I propose
that the celebrated blue book, that little mountain of a volume,
the Hydrabad Reminiscences, be placed in one of the niches,
and underneath be written—" By me warning take," a friendly
hint to future public servants not to allow their friends and de-
pendants to dabble in illegal money transactions with unprin-
cipled Ministers, dissipated Princes, or needy and intriguing
Courtiers.

Now, my friends, Proprietors of Stock, male and female,
or, in modern parlance, ladies and gentlemen, give an honest
vote when . you come to the ballot ; allow not a fraction
of weight to what has been said about Chundoo Loll ; for, be-
lieve me, there is not a Native' Minister in India • whom.
an European Agent could not, by a bribe of two lakbs of
rupees, prevail on to do and say any think. Ask yourselves-
why the Loan to the Nizam was not brought openly into the
Money Market at Calcutta; and I will tell you that the
cash might have been procured at U. per cent., put it to your
hearts whether the firm anti conscientious opposition mani-
fested by Mr. Adam and Mr. Stuart to the transaction does
not deserve your warm approbation'? •, Enquire among your-
selves whether there was not solid grounds for the opposition of
these old and eminent servants of the State ? Enquire among
yourselves whether Sir C. Metcalfe has not most honourably
and zealously done his duty in suppressing the evil, and expos-
ing the movements by "which it was. Conducted ?
Put yourself in the situation of Governor-General, and would
you think it proper to allow your relative possessing your con-
fidence, and by the natives supposed to possess a part of your
power and influence, to proceed to a corrupt Native Court to
enter into loan jobbing, at the sametime forbidding and pre
cluding competition with any other ImritcanaprßeAnTi..o44
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done all in his power to crush them ?
Ask, if Messrs. Palmer at this very period were not lending
money to individuals at 9 per cent
Ask yourselves these questions, and if you have had the
temerity to undertake the perusal of the flail Blue Book, many
others, and your voice must be raised against the proceedings
at Hydrabad, you must support the amendment, if you du not,
you abandon India. •
I am, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant, _

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