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1821. June 2

Liberty of the Press - Hindostan. J. B. to Sir J. C. Malcolm

But with regard to a free Press in India, my opinion
has been from the first moment the question was agitated
the same as it is at present. I never cd could understand
that the respectable English inhabitants of India composed
as they are of the civil and military Servants of the
Government, and of persons residing under a licence that can
be withdrawn at any period could form what an Englishman
would designate a public, to whose independent sentiments
a free Press like that which happily exists in
our native country, could address itself.

Far less could I think, that so powerful an instrument
for good or evil could in their present stage of Society
be intrusted to our Indian Subjects.

We should I am satisfied, by such a premature effort
for their advancement in knowledge, incur the most imminent
hazard, of frustrating all those more rational
plans that have been formed and are in progress, for their
prosperity and improvement

I have

Identifier: | JB/010/159/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.
Date_1	1824-06-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings	liberty of the press
Folio number	159	Info in main headings field	liberty of the press hindostan jb to sir j. malcolm
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	richard doane	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	3595
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