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LONDON:

PRINIED BY S. AND R. BENTLEY,

Dorset-street, Fleet street.

ON

THE PRESENT STATE

OF

BRITISH INDIA.

"Ad illa mihi pro se quisque acriter intendat animum, quæ vitæ, qui mores fuerunt—
per quos viros, quibusque artibus, domi militiæque, et partum et auctum imperium
sit."
LIV. Præf.

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"Primò pecuniæ, dein imperii cupido crevit, et quasi materies omnium malorum
fuere. Namque avaritia fidem, probitatem, ceterasque artes bonas subvertit; pro his
superbiam, crudelitatem, Deos negligere, omnia venalia habere, edocuit; ambitio
multos mortales falsos fieri subegit; aliud clausum in pectore, aliud promptum in
linguâ habere; amicitias inimicitiasque non ex re, sed ex commodo, æstumare; ma-
gisque vultum quam ingenium, bonum habere."
SALL.

"Cum per se res mutentur in deterius si consilio in melius non mutentur, quis finis
erit mali?"
LORD BACON.

LONDON:

HURST, CHANCE, AND CO., ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

1829.
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ΤΟ

W. WHITMORE, Esq. M.P.

IN TOKEN OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT

OF HIS ABLE AND DISINTERESTED EFFORTS

IN FAVOUR OF

THE FREE TRADE OF INDIA,

AND IN THE HOPE OF FURTHER ANIMATING

AND EXPANDING HIS EXERTIONS

IN A CAUSE

WHICH IS NO LESS WORTHY OF THE STATESMAN,

THAN OF THE PHILANTHROPIST,

THESE PAGES ARE

RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.

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