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1820 Sept. 10

They would not Not to speak of Dumont, they would not ever by a good number, even
in this prejudice-ridden country be the first of my disciples. I will mention a few of them. As soon as the
state of your the book-buying part of your public affords sufficient
encouragement for such a work, no work in which combines the amusement
which that history is combined with political instruction
is can afford near so much information as "The History of
"British India, published about 3 years ago by James Mill Esqre: the sd edition is in 6 vols 8vo..
only compleat history of that extraordinary Of the consummately extraordinary and extensively interesting series of events in question, it is the only compleat
history that exists: and it may be correctly stated as by far the most instructive
history that has ever seen the light any where. Though it
on every occasion it express the misconduct of the English functio functionaries
in those regions with the utmost freedom, such was the
sensation it made that it procured for author almost immediately the place of
one of the four functionaries of East India Company stiled Examiners,
with a salary which, in the first instance was £800
a year, and in a regular course of encrease will run in a
few years to £2,000. The truth is that now with this humble
title of Examiners, it is by those men that the from 50 to 100 millions of men in Indostan are governed:
for the Ministerial Board of Controul, the institution of
which had nothing but emolument and corruptive influence for
its object, never without some special and comparatively private reason exercises
its negative: and, of the East India Company, 24 Directors no more
than one takes regular cognizance of business: and that one is,
by other occupation and want of capacity deficiency in intellectual aptitude
prevented from attend paying any other attention to it other
than what is necessary to keep excluded the such improvements,
such as are above his comprehension, and and as he with fortitude might give alarm to
be supportive. Not having been more than a few months about a year in your office, Mr Mill Government.⊞ ⊞ Scarcely had Mr Mill been seated in office when he began either to draw or to revise all the dispatches:
No sooner had Mr Mill already drawing or revising all the dispatches: the Dor
Scare a word since his entrance having ever been allowed has been allowed
insisted or struck out by any of the Directors: and when he came into office he found
those dispatches an arrear of more than a year's dispatches waiting
for answers, which arrear he has now nearly cleared off.

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Date_1	1820-09-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings
Folio number	225	Info in main headings field
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Category	jeremy bentham	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public	draft of letter 2689, vol. 10	ID Number	4674
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