The Pamphleteer

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A SECOND LETTER SIR CHARLES FORBES, BART., M.P., THE SUPPRESSION PUBLIC DISCUSSION IN INDIA, THE BANISHMENT, WITHOUT TRIAL, TWO BRITISH EDITORS '. . .: . FROM THAT COUNTRY; . v THE ACTING GOVERNOR-GENERAL, MR. ADAM. ' BY A PROPRIETOR OF INDIA-STOCK. LONDON: ?1824. VOL. XXV. Paw. NO. XLIX. C SECOND LETTER,...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A SECOND LETTER SIR CHARLES FORBES, BART., M.P., THE SUPPRESSION PUBLIC DISCUSSION IN INDIA, THE BANISHMENT, WITHOUT TRIAL, TWO BRITISH EDITORS '. . .: . FROM THAT COUNTRY; . v THE ACTING GOVERNOR-GENERAL, MR. ADAM. ' BY A PROPRIETOR OF INDIA-STOCK. LONDON: ?1824. VOL. XXV. Paw. NO. XLIX. C SECOND LETTER, As I perceive by the papers that the subject of the Press in India is to undergo another discussion at the India-House at an early day, I arn desirous of following up, without loss of time, the observations I had the honor to address to you in my former letter, by making the application of the arguments therein stated, and offering some illustrations on the great value of a Free Press, as it regards the good government and happiness of the natives of India. SECTION III.? Safely of the Press in India, as it regards the permanence of our empire. 53. The conclusion being obtained that the exercise of scrutiny and indirect control over the Indian governments by the press and public of England only would be without Efficacy, although Safe for a time, till misrule should ripen, and the proscribed races feel their growing strength, -.?let us proceed to inquire whether free discussion through the press In India would be Safe and Effi-. CACioys for the desired purpose of influencing the government to pursue good and avoid evil. 54. The ablest philosophers, and best writers on legislation and historical politics, are agreed that there is never any strong tendency among the governed of mankind to rise against their governors; but, on the contrary, a disposition to bear misrule long beyond the point when resistance to oppression would be justifiable in the eyes of God and man, a.t Least, of all men, except those concerned in the opp...