property, will at once vanish. Nothing could be then expected but
scenes of rapine, plunder, bloodshed, and violence, till its
inhabitants were sealed over to irremediable wretchedness, without
the most distant ray of hope respecting the future. And were it
severed from Britain in any other way, the reverse felt in India
would be unspeakably great. At present all the learning, the
intelligence, the probity, the philanthropy, the weight of character
existing in Britain, are brought to bear on India. There is
scarcely an individual sustaining a part in the administration of
affairs who does not feel the weight of that tribunal formed by the
suffrages of the wise and the good in Britain, though he be
stationed in the remotest parts of India. Through the medium of a
free press the wisdom, probity, and philanthropy which pervade
Britain exercise an almost unbounded sway over every part of India,
to the incalculable advantage of its inhabitants; constituting a
triumph of virtue and wisdom thus unknown to the ancients, and which
will increase in its effects in exact proportion to the increase in
Britain of justice, generosity, and love to mankind. Let India,
however, be severed from Britain, and the weight of these is felt no
more...

"It is a fact that in case of outrage or injury it is in most cases
easier for a native to obtain justice against a European, than for a
European to obtain redress if insulted or wronged by a native. This
circumstance, attended as it may be with some inconvenience,
reflects the highest honour on the British name; it is a fact of
which India affords almost the first instance on record in the
annals of history. Britain is nearly the first nation in whose
foreign Courts of Justice a tenderness for the native inhabitants
habitually prevails over all the partialities arising from country