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An Answer to the Inquiry Into the State of the Nation; With Strictures on the Conduct of the Present Ministry - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1806 Excerpt: ... ties which subsist between the servants of Government and of the country in that quarter, and the still more dangerous jealousies which have for years continued to increase between the Directors and the Board of Controul; all require that the supreme government of India should be intrusted to a man of known prudence and exemplary moderation. The temptations which immense power and the opportunity of extending it still farther, afford to ambition, demand that the Governor General should be a man in whom the love of rule ever yields with facility to a sense of public duty, and who is too careless of personal aggrandizement to make the slightest sacrifice for its attainment. The embarrassment of the Company's finances, the exhausted state of its finest provinces, the ruin which must ensue from augmenting the expences and exactions of Government, by again plunging into war: all these circumstances require a Governor General who shall regard the waste of public money with a degree of horror, and be impressed with the conviction f. that rigid economy is indispensable, not only to the prosperity, but to the salvation of our Indian empire. But which of these qualities is found in Lord Lauderdale? For his moderation, let us look back to his public conduct when in Parliament, where, by the violence of his declamations, he obtained distinction even among the most violent. For the discretion that guides his ambition, let us appeal to the citizens of London, who saw him come down to the Common Hall, and condescend to solicit the Livery as a candidate for the office of Sheriff. For his sense of the indispensable necessity of public economy, we have not to refer to speeches which may have been ill-reported, or to actions which may have been misconstrued. We have his opini...
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