On this page

• Text (2)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    Untitled Article

  • 

    Untitled Article

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Untitled Article

    my native < 4 awn /'< ( X ^ laseoMr is * wit , ) " one lot Ri £ > nratiexcui'sioni would fc ? i » Woadside ito&vnntidvwn Jauk # aiL '» mxitk streamJf Un : the saose lettery he irifo * niB bis uiati ^ r that he l « ii treated htmartf with * zoviq Mail state * . ^' They / iyerc |» rftctly rottad aud smooth , and abet * the size , of wmttli pistol bails 4 1 e wallowed a great tmmber qf thetn to thfc memory of

    faruitr day «/ ' ( VoU Li pi . IT 4 L ) M After the overthrow of Tipp © a Captain Mufiro was appointed to snperinteiid * he pro * vincfe of Cauara , for the purpose /* says his biographer ^ ' * of introducing intu it * as he had . been largely , ioatnimeu tal in introducing into Batamahl , the authority of the East India a / Company * ' * I u this part of the work and what follows the

    question will sometimes obtrude ; "What should an hooesf mac do i& roy closet ? 'f ( in otker words * M in , the administration © f India ? " } -r-a question which can never be satisfactorily answered . It would be unreasonable to expect , however , of a soldier of fortune , who had risen from a cadet , that he should have apy scruples w to tbe authority of the Honourable

    Company and its . beneficial tendency ; and granting for a moment ( what should never be granted again ) , that one hundred and thirty millions in Asia are to be governed for the advantage of the East India Company , ( not for their own , ) and that the problem is , this being the object , to effect it with the least vexation

    and bloodshed *—give him this position to start from , and Sir Thomas Munro'a operations will be fonnd to do him infinite ^ credit . Notuitig more liberal and enlightened than hi « policy , nothing more just and humane than his conduct in office . The condition of the inhabitants of Canara when he arrived in , the

    pcovuace was truly deplorable ; wherever he moved - ; he was ( beset by troops , of hufihandiuan city ing duty * We hare uo eoriL , » uo cattk r no , naooey ! How are we to pay our rettta J" If he looked at a flock of »» hfep ^ thoowuer took fr ight . If hft asked * childoi eight years of age a question ^ ! the answer was , *^ Th « rc Is uotpiog > in 4 > ujp houae to cat f" && >; &c 44 It 1 is ¦ » ot tiiat they Are addicted to

    lying , " aaya the new Su ^ ierintmdent , " but it is heciuHieiHa oppressive and iuquUitoriml government ^ Always prying into ^ theur ? affairs im order to lay ? new burdens ! toponutbem ^ forces tbem ta deny what-tb « y iiaveyji&sntpe oiiiy « iean * iof saving ; theini ptoport ^ . fllie habit of concealmeajt ; 4 nd Evasive aimwters grows up with thciw ftod their infancy . " Vol . h p , 280 j -: >>[>; 1 . ^ - , :

    Untitled Article

    F * om day-bceak till eleveo or twelve at flight , Capt . Munro laboured amongst tfeeie . unhappy people . ^ M I am never alone / ' says be , ¦ . « « jEceptat msalsv and ibeaejtftegether do oot ; take ap an hour . \ am pressed o » one : hand , by the settle * menij » of the revenue , and'do the other by ^ the investigation of m « rders , rob * berieiu . and all , the evils which have

    arisen from a loug course of profligate and tyrannical governmentu LrWiug in a teut , there is no escaping for a few hours from the crowd ; there Is no locking oMe ' s- « elf up on preteuce of more important basinesa , as a man might do in a house , particularly an upstairs one . I

    have do refuge but in going to bed , and that is generally so late , that the sleep I have is scarcely sufficient to refresh me . I am still , however , of Sancho ' s opinion , that if a gorerjjor is only weiifed , he may govern any island , however large . " ( Vol . 1 . p . 274 . )

    The esteem in which he was held by the natives is beautifully exemplified by an anecdote iu Wilkes' Sketches of the South of India . A violent dispute arose one day amongst the natives on the boundaries of Mysore and Ganara , in the presence of a government officer , and the party aggrieved immediately threatened to go to Anamtpore " to complain to theto father : * The officer surprised , iuquired what warn meant , and waa informed . that Colonel Muoro was

    knawn by that name throughout the district . The education of the natives , and their gradual admission to posts of trust , partkutarly to m share in the * dministration ¦ of justice * were i&vovrhe

    objects wilh Sir Thomas Mnoro , ! as may be $ eeu by hia memorials to goverb * ment , as , weil a » \ by hia prrvaue letters . It is needkae to i say thai ^ he wotk abo uqdja vyith ( tnfcirmai ^ ti 1 on the > state of India , and details of tftemttitafyiftpe * ratioua in which- £ ir Thomas was from

    tirnQ ^ o time repg ^ e ^ i . fyh& ^ fen ^ ien to the public - as wft are lnformed ^ m the preface ;/ or tW % a ^ n ^ Si the subject of the meitioir ^ hotfta not be forgoUtfm ^ beqause ift is t * i > e hopecTVthat tile Wajsk jmajy pnpnodsqfot ^ ttrtd because JKwUd be found to iie amusingwfcuijai w ^ ahi rbas ^ n » we ^ aoe boi&ntt !• wjo ^ h mc » ditltoi < M ^ ryreaders « o .. iiiuij . / int , 1 i I 5 , rtrr .: M ! Ji ¦ ' iK-ii-i -H : i .. - <^ : i ! li ,. ) ' > biW

    Untitled Article

    CriUoal Notices . —Mucetiuneou * . 259

    Untitled Article

    It i wottld » fbe riiorally tttfyMUMM 1 to wad ' this 1 Work t ** mifrA > ' toat » ptn it

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1830, page 259, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2583/page/43/