Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-07-30

the natives, and by an attention to the Improvement
vi Their social and political condition, that they
coud nope TO advance the interests OF The Europe
ans or to secure the prosperity of their empire in In
dia.
Mr.. Hume expressed his surprise to hear so much
good srnsc from the Noble Lord Ia laugh.1 or any
member of his Mujcsty's Government, particularly
after they had been tod repeatedly that tho peo
pie OF India not III to receive the benefits ol
t,1se institutions which now about to be con.
icrrcd ou them. Ii was only, indeed, by improve
incnts in the condition of the natives by amnigan,
ting them with the Europeans, by subjectnr them 10
the came laws ana encouraging industry and nlora-
~. that the government of England could homo IN
maintain It's supremacy in Inda. As to the moral,;
OF the natives, he must say, however, that IN all ho
transactions he had with them and they wet. ,re,,
numerous: he found that morality 10 &c greater or as
great as they could lind ainong the sauic classes IN
England "
air fe'S1'on bore Testimony to the Responsibility
OF The Pe.ition Which incr led among il ; signatures
al OF wealth, talent liberality which the city of
Ca'eu''a contained The petitioners complained thut
thcy were not permitted To sit Grand Juries nor
"n Pctiy jufies where the life Liberty OF Il Euro
Pcan was at stakes and they prayed an alteration of
t'c law. Now 1t was not little remarkable, that i'm
Tie reign of George the Firs., all natives wcre clUi
Ole TO sit OH both lures and it not Till the wear
1874 that the exclusion took place. The natives
therefore, did hot III reality pray new right, but
'tte restitution Of their ancient privileges. Of which
ihey had been deprived. The honorable member
aiter expressing himself warmly in favor of the pc
tl'ioners, aud oil committee To inquire into the gen
III.
observing, that the morality of the natives of India
was greater than that of England; al that any man
VINO witnessed their conduct Oh arbit-ations, must
be satisfied OF their ability and acutcmess
Sir c. Forbes wished to give the natives of India
participation IN all Me civil rights enjoyed by tho
European subjects of his Majesty in that country.
soon after his arrival in India, he had repeatcdiv
served IN petty jures with the natives and bsd an
those occasions frequently experienced much ,rrct
or satisfaction than when those urics were comoo,cd
entirely OF his coun,rymcn He had frequently re
GREETED that the natives OF India AS eligible
to serve on grand jurics Much must be done be-
tore the natives OF India were placed ON the
fooing on which. III hs oplnlon they ought TO stand
Among other things, he especially ruprnbatcd tin,
different treatment experienced by nntive and nv
Enropean pecuiaiors the former were advertised in
all the newspapers anl in the various dialec;s of
india So that They became utterly degraded and cx-
leiied from society, but no such practice was resor-
TED 10 with respect To the European peculators He
cordially cuncurrCd i'll the pra yer Of the petition
SIR lanes M'rintoSh Expressed his pleasure at the
sprh winch had bFcathcd throughout this conyersa-
tIon on the rights of between eighty sod hundred
millions oil people, who. although ruled by an Eur
ish company OF Merchants, were still his Maisst,Is
SUBJECTS, and IN whose welfare he Sir james IIucin-
tosh must ever feel the vclicst interest. He must
say that there never i'll the history of the world ,os
an instance OF an absolute and distant Govefnrnent
having been so we'll administered as the Government
Vi ihuia. IL was an stahce winch cOnradic;ed The
axiom oil great political apostle, tlat the distant
appropriateness Oh Tree states were necessarily much
worse governed than tho distant dependcnccs ot an
soute states" This he attributed in = ,rrrot me-
sure TO the power ofpublc opinion, power which
lie was convinced among it's other benefits WIS n ma
teFiai security Tor the continuance OF good govern
mont IN lndia. Still, however, there were m that
Government two great defects; the one ,v,, cnnr
NOUS taxation the other the exclusion uf the natives
al indla rom Ill Offices, except those of low rs
criptlon In the latter respect however a very sat
iSiactory progress was making. This was IN "rcat
measure attributable 10 that excellent person. the
late Mr. Elphinstone who, during the time TINT bc
m Unu ,,ici,,
iae way fo' the admission OF the natives TO arn,
share III lhe internal administration of India AS ov
PERSON IN his situation could with prudence acn,pi
The education Of the natives in tie Presidency of
bombay had also been materially. attended m. and
there was no man better qualified to carry what had
been begun on this subject far as was practica
pc to carry It, Than the present Governor, Sir John
Malcolm. He reloced at the general testimony to
the character of the natives which had been born.
during the present discussion.
Dr: PhA'more also bore testimony 20 the charac-
Ter OF the natives of India.
Mr. WopJrton was not quito so 81 siioJ with tho
character OF the natives some of the honorable
gentlemen who had spoken this question; and adj
vetlcd III support oil his doubts the subject TO the
opinion otSir Edward Strachey.
Sir Z. ForGeS III explanation, observed that the
opinion Ut uir individual ought not wcIgh arainst
what was unqucstunabiy general feeling.
Mr. Ste'caH was perfectly persuaded that the ma
tves OF India were quite tit 20 serve both ON .rud
aud petty jurles.
Mr. Hymn made a short reply. Although he was
most favourable to the object OF the petitioners he
did not regret that The privilege in question was no,
granted untit had been asked, 1t could not be be-
fore known whether it would be considc red as boon
burden.
After few words from Mr. Stcoa,I. the petition
was brought up, read, .nd ordered to b. printed
CANADA.
Mr.. LTbouchere: In rising at that late hour in
the then state of the House, did not mean To enter
into the important question Of Canada: but he could
not allow the SESSION to pass away, after report had
been made on the CansIas Which showed that Col
tny to be in situation such no British Colony ev-
er before was in, without calling the RI. hon.
gentleman to state what line OF policy lac meant To-
adopt with regard to the Canadas. The right ho-
nunrablc gentlemen had hccn twice asked, in the
Course ofthe session, what he meant to do; aud he
had stated that he hoped, before the end of the
sion to bring in some measures that would satisfy
the colonies, but hat he delayed II till he had pro-
cured more accurate information He had the great
est confidence in that right honorable gentleman and
us he could not conceive that the Governors of the
Colonies were 50 much to blame for many Of the vex-
atious differences which existed between them and
the inhabitants the Colonial Office at home SO Inc
looked to the Colonial Office for the mprO, cmunts