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Not suffering governors to remain long in the same
district
The misdeeds against which this expedient arrangement is
calculated to operate as a preservative are 1. Rebellion
2 4 3. Hence [Breach and abuse of trust in the way of]
oppression:
A Governor when armed with extensive powers
may sit up for independency If finds parties
already subsisting at the time of his accession, the
longer he stays, the more likely he is to take part a side
on one side or the other. Hence comes the oppression
of the one and partiality shown in the
distribution of preferments to the other: If
If act, yet The longer he stays, the more likely he is to give rise
to parties, or to take a side with in such as be
may happen to have sprung up or to spring be a fool at the time of his accession
or to spring up afterwards. [Hence oppression on the exercised
one hand over the one side, partiality on the other shown to the other] Hence oppression
and partiality. Should there be no such thing as
party, hope, fear or gratitude whatever mismanagement
he may have been guilty of, hope fear or
gratitude may prevent another information. prevent any complaints from reaching the ear of the sovereign:
especially if the misdeeds he has been guilty of are of
such a nature as to redound to the prejudice not of
individuals but only of the sovereign or the state: for
instance
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