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LATEPRTURE AND .POLITIES-. •
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Esq.; A.tt We have been' favoured with; the perusal of .ft forth-
coining production, •by S. BANNISTER, late,
trriley-Genertilln Nev South Wales, being ". An •inquiry
as to the hest means of preventing the 'destruction of the
mitialty incident•upon settling new Colonies."
Oa this eery important question the old Dutch lavois set
• Wore us, dated A. 1). 1636, which is referred to .by
Voev.•lib. I. tit. 5. De statu honzinum, S. 3. " The
Aborigines shall. -be undisturbed,in their liberty, ,and
nevr enslaved,; .they shall be governed politically, and
civilly, a. oithselyes ; and enjoy the sauce measure of
:tstit e. .:Gehl rules shall be made fer teaching them,
espe' cially their children, the truths of religion, and
the, usages of civilized life. And care shall be taken to
withdrawAllem from heathenish mustoins ; and from in-
.. dolence,Ahe mother of want, to the. Cultivation of the
soil ; andspeugheocinllabits as their condition and ca-
-I)ll*YiallkYtheot4' This is 'the true policy in all affairs
relosisfttism;., and. Mi.*l3.t wlvisr it appears to us to
• • have gmuttip improved upon it. The work is dedicated
..• le the thenthem of the African institution—the object of
it resembling that in suhitanee to which the care of that
ThitauthroPie hpdy has long been partially devoted, and
;_..with the view qfinduCing them, SS well as the public
generally, to extend their solicitude to the helpless Abo-
rigines ofig/ OUT colonies. We agree with Mr. BAN-
N ISty,e, when, he fayfrit down " that it is ittposeible to
justify our present course of destroying every where,
thole whale,. only crime is, that they precede us in the
poasessionof lands, which we desire to enjoy to their ex-,
cluaion." This, indeed, is a cruel and most unjust po-
licy: 1111 his introductory chapter, the Author speaks
thus.
Our position in regard to our widely 'read colonies is sta-
. cloudy important to reader a decidedly progressive reform of the
old evils most desirable. Nor can the present state of things in
. this respect be said to be new. In several great points the colonies
hold the same political and territorial relations to numerous uncle!.
Hied tribes. in which the Roman empire stood in regard to the
barbariani around it; and there seems no reason to doubt that the
union of our neighbours with us now may be made as conducive
to general improvement as happened in their case. The northern
Perekralthough conquerors, submitted to many examples in the
manners of Rome, and with reasonable speed adopted her new
wiWogly, after the influence of her arms ceased. It was
~.:probably the rise of Mahomee, not inferior genius in the Asiatics
and Africans, that stopped the steady progress of Christianity
begun to be introduced equally well with them as in the ruder
north. Unquestionably, after such its introduction among Asiatics
and Africans, a decline succeeded,—which has usually been attri-
buted to their physical inferiority. But other causes are net un-
known, why Christian civilisation was received permanently by
some nations when others lost it, although at the first cultivated
by them with success. It assuredly therefore deserves inquiry'
• how far Great Britain is in a condition, in the colonies composed
chiefly of Mahometan and Pagan people, to act upon what was
.. clearly successful in early times; and also, how far she may now
avoid so much of the past policy as has been found to be injurious.
If Rome in decay could scatter the seeds of improvement over a
. large part of the earth, to become in after ages a more effectual
basis of her fame than her conquests were when she was, most
powerful, we may reasonably hope to acquire greater renown, if
principles equally useful to mankind are adopted by us when we
possess power to ensure their more extensive progress. A. fair
examination of facts will probably show that our conduct, Dot any
thing peculiar in the character of the barbarians with whom we an
now communicating, must determine the result of that communi-
cation. A minute corvarhon of their condition with that of the
Gotha, and Vandals, and Huns, would illustrate the subject with
great advantage. •
Northern nations of Europe received Christianity, but it was
after more than a hundred years' teaching, and with a gradual in-
crease of knowledge and power soloed to their chiefs, and numerous
benefits conferred upon the people. In modern times, however,
with little advantage of tuition of any kind, all the uncivilised races
have met with Insult and injury at the bands of the professors of
the new religion. They listen willingly to the missionaries, who
reetommend the truth of their lessons by the secular benefits con-
ferred on their hearers. But they have found the large majority
of the white men their unvarying oppresses% and even hostile to
the missionaries, so generally their only Meads.
If these principles prove at the same time conducive to our in.
• terns' strength, we shall obtain the ordinary reward of true phi-
Rathrophy, by finding obedience to its dictates the best security
for our own welfare ; and in the following papers ft is endeavoured
to be shown that the King's colonies may be so administered as to
praduch both results. They relate chiefly to settlements which
seem-to be the most favourably circumstanced for the views'
which they advocate, and where the author bad means of seeing
many of his principles tried practically. Aware of the Influence
which strong preconceptions against the common course might
have upon his views, he- endeavoured . to detect errors in them
• by carefully examining the counter-arguments produced by self-
. 'interest en the spot. The result is, an increased conviction of the
. ..tdensadness of the principles relied upon, and of the great extent to
which they ere neglected.

•: .., • ••• •
. . Mr: Richards in evidence before the last Committ,
antis, subject of the East India trade, stated, as a remarkable fact,
. Out," the tea imported into Russia through Tertary is far superior
is quality to any imported by the East India Company into
•Etigland." He added, that the Rumianslove an academy at Pekin
• eitabilshed as far back as Alexis' reign, pursuant to treaty, where
~ Russian youths are educated, and afterwards employed at Kiakta
as Interpreters and agents; and further remarked that this gave
great facility to trade; and those jealousies and quarrels so common
• at Cameo ire nottnown at Klakta.
' -'• illse Caen of Bath 'King of Arms, which has been
• • ,:saps time "want by the decease of Jobt Palmer Cullum, Esq.
who held the situation for a treat number of years,has been con-
ferred
on Algernon Greville, Eaq. Private Secretary to the Duke
... et, Weilinguon : ... ... • .
. •• • •ftttfact of o. letter from an Ensign of the Honourable
• -Company's 13th Regiment of Native Infantry, to his father, dated
. Poonab,.Juit 43 :--•• It is' nonsense people saying that their psy :I
will not keep them; Iliad, to my great joy, that it will not only
' keep Me •441, but I cis stns •about fifty rupees a mouth. What
;idiot's* eitsithe tis main debt when. one can easily do without
. . amilive. went I,haves. heard some who are in debt say. • I don't
cue - I shall poi trouble myself about paying my debts; let them
Ids tor it; but with this I can perceive they are very uncom-
fortable, and I do tint wonder at it, because they cannot leave
' • Mk until they do pay their. debts, and these debts are getting
Met etery day, and so they haste no hope of saving India."
....• MEDITATIois Alettli 0 THE To is isti ...The boundary
•ifeti St the, burial vomit of Holborn, in Sbemlatte, hai been re.
eatavdd, that a new ens may be balk. Windex its accustomed
-=n Isrympation of the Smashes fallen with it: and althea
what mil'bo ealkd a theatrical View of the resting-place
. •
:if tbeased,, Thlcith has been raised many feet above the level
it* ffmts aid a mbar of cans may be. seen, some entire,
almisparßy open,' varions•dlwances from the wall and Pram *silt
'., , , wig* skulls,abd . Ohm bones, ''escaped from those which
s, . wholly decayed, 'give ii Wean finish to the interesting
"rhisinOy— xidattve ttV the death '.of Mrs. Phillips has,
r.
ildrapatioa of her 'husband. Sir R.
andLlik., flails ad . Tuesday that the evidence laid
ibilis l'Oeites lie deithof SIM. Phillips, of Fincidey, fer..
. no Mimods NA disturbing the verdict of the.Cpre.,
tier'is hey. litieie di& - emoted ' that other documents .o(isse,
layMnie mu* be,fernished which might ad'eet thedicidon. 'Mee.
,y as SW; lout 11. wad sawasitst4 ea Wednesday, by Mr. fialls,•
* • illist , ' MAUI, may the dihetkOttwaftwimitlie view miebaM/e,
islikh•
. , thulium. •The statement e 0
f Mks Mips-be 00 a
trip
• •..appit • vire of evidence ; std', CsinoldrAuttir=.•ft
;'44iVaidwietseritedielle thought tae ' haat of ' se
wrifeed in a reMatieble manner titlisughwitse wliiiiit Ili roast.
bo, which bad led to ti is resak.—Atedny revr