The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-07-16 00:00:00

BATT INDIIS.

Extract of. letter Does a Field Officer in lodia
so Officer in Engisod, dated Janu►y 12, Unlit:—
" A ship is *bast to sail for England ; I Nut &hi
opportunity I* seed yes a few linos.
" Brigish India enjoys impose. the Rajab of Bs-
rat, with a few followers, is indeed trivia; about the
hilly forests ;.bat this is oothiog is Indian coosteoc.
lion.

" The Marquis of Hastings has, as yee have reed,'
greatly emended ter domiciles. He hes dose so
seminally ; its reality he has only sabenteted a good
for a sic ens Geveresseet. Do yde ask eh what bests.
It has resulted from Lord Hastings's Governess!?
My eetwer is, that be has thee est wroeg, and that he
hes done mooch good. He has imenased the security
•er empire by crashing its swemies, and hy pee.
rally improving the system of Govremest, espe-
cially ever the congested coalmines; he has (she* et
the Censorship of the Press, cad has salecked the
public mind; he ►as checked the Slave Trade in the
Nepali, formerly the grist mart of this Ishmael
trade ; he bas established Semisaries for Edecatiee,
sod *ilk Hospitals; sad he has treated he
Priem is alliance with es with complaisance aid
junco. Ha ►es, besides, improved the trooditios of
oar Military Establishmest. The Staff Deparimest
has bees re-ergssised. Interpreters had bees added
to the Native Corps, end the proceedings of Coeds
Martial have hers strictly scratielted sad p•blidy
commented on. The trade here has wooderfially ie.
crossed eines the mesepely system has been broken
in upon. There has been, in fact, an elm-trading ;
bet this will give people a taste for oar massfac.
tares, end eventually hereon the trade. The seq•
My with w►ich merebesdise may traverse the wee.
try is another circumstance ►ighly advantage**. to
the interest of commerce. Still there chit the

most dreadfel drawbacks ea it. The principal el
these are the remains of the monopoly; the great
difficulty of driving an Unload commerce, owing to
the high duties, and the restrictions pet on people
;vine op the coootry, or holdiug istmcourse with the
natives, and pursing their own interests in their own
way; and, finally. the heavy pressure of taxation,
which checks the accumulation of espital, sad the is-
, preeminent of agriculture and commerce. If ever
loosed government shell be established in Fedi., the
wealth of the casette will be (mite incalcolable. At
ofpresent vest tract, it ate wholly essitisted, sod
then shit are wider culture 'Peelle irons of the Irene.
Its of scientific hosbaodry. The maanfacturing in-
terests have been equally neglected.
" A proof of it it. that cut i..n is sent hose, worked
up, sod toe., brought beet to India. where, .sdcr
all the drawbacks upon teed., it even stood the com-
petition of the market. A ilisegresable Lifellollllllitee,
b., lately taken place in the 7th Native Cavalry. Oa
the regiment being ordered to advance, they began to
murmur. They complained that they had bees ',even
years in the field; t, at during air period they had
never seen their ftailies : that Cone of their hose.
hold ceiew-iiirs WO or colloid take plan; that now
that their families had quitted their horses. and when
they were ,host toi•in them, they were deprived of
the hope of seeing them ; that deriog their ri,•;:iewsie
twoolisids of thew hail perished hs •••10te70,16,_e
sword, sod the Ftllleilt4ft lire. reedy t;,Perpc l
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