The claims of the Governed on the Governing-How they have been discharged
-England's Opportunities in India-Impediments to Domestic Improvement
-Administrave Difficulties in England and India-Crime and Poverty in the
two Countries-Encouragements to Exertion.
WHEN Mr. Barlow, then Secretary to the Indian Go-
vernment, drew up the elaborate minute, on which
the Bengal Regulations of 1793 were based, Sir Wil-
liam Jones, to whom this important document was
submitted, struck his pen across the three first words.
The correction which he made was a significant one.
Barlow had written: "The two principal objects
which the Government ought to have in view in all
its arrangements, are to insure its political safety, and
to render the possession of the country as advanta-
geous as possible to the East India Company and the
British Nation." Sir William Jones, I have said,
erased the three first words. Instead of "the two
principal objects," he wrote: "two of the primary
objects;" and then he appended this marginal note:
"I have presumed to alter the first words. Surely
the principal object of every Government is the hap-