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national codes into one , which sfoall be suitable to any 6 ne people ; we might almost say , which shall decide justly any one case . What shall be done then , in such an affair , by youths who go out before they are of age , for the ostensible purpose of administering justice discreetly and faithfully , where not only all discretion is baffled and set at nought , but where faithfulness is a more difficult
virtue still ? The most patient , conscientious , mature lawyer might almost be excused for growing careless and credulous , irt despair of discharging his duty effectually . What then is to be expected of young men who are sent out with their imaginations possessed with ideas of wealth and power , placed immediately in a rank far above that which they occupied at home , separated
from all to whom they have been accustomed to look up for guid ^ ance , and surrounded by those whose policy it is to excite their passions , and flatter them into a state of credulity ? The little that the people may gain by their young rulers being more ready than older men in the acquisition of the native and Persian languages , is much more than counterbalanced by the evils of youthful con- * duct in circumstances of peculiar difficulty .
Here are impediments enough , it would appear , to the due administration of justice among the helpless people who are in no condition to remedy their own grievances ; but there is another , —a crowning abuse , recurred to after a long period of suspension . In Lord Cornwallis ' s time , young civilians made their choice be ^ tween the judicial and revenue lines of service , and adhered to the one or the other . Now they may change and change about , and what is worse , unite the offices of each . A man may now
be a Revenue Commissioner and Judge of Circuit ; that is , he has * power over the worldly effects of those whom he ought to know in no other character than that of claimants of justice ; he has dealings out of court with the very parties whom he holds in his power as a judge . Whether this is the way to have either taxation or law properly administered , it needs but a glance to see * So much for the law-system . The Rajah ' s other subject , —the Revenue system , —involves some curious facts .
The middle-man system of letting land is found to be almost equally bad wherever tried , —whether in Ireland , Italy , or India . If worse in one place than another , it is in India , because the wants of the people are fewer than any where else , and the tenants can be ground down lower . The poorest Irish only occasionally undergo what is very common among the ryots , or
cultivators , of the Madras presidency . In some provinces , there is a perpetual struggle between the government , the zamindars , or land-proprietors , and the various gradations of tenants , which shall extort the most from the unhappy person immediately below him . The government assesses the estates of the zamindars , raising the assessment from time to time when there is any appearance of an improvement in the land ; the zamindars encou *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1832, page 612, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1820/page/36/
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