| Show PUBLIC HONESTY HO ESTY sw THE AND STABILITY LIT V IT INDUCES 1 that honesty is tho tho the best policy is a maxim which we al 11 aleve to be generally corie corle correct ct even with respect to the terest of individuals but hut with res pea to societies the rule is subject ta still fewer except exceptions dius djus and that nhat for this reason that tile tiie the thu lir ilfe of societies is longer than the tho ilme life of I 1 individuals luls iuis possible to men tion men who icho have owed great worldly pio plo prosperity to breaches of df private falth faith but we doubt whether it be possible 0 to o na a ute which chlus chius has on tile the whole been beem a gaiu gain galu gainer galner urby erbs erby los toy breach of public hath faith the entire history of hf india andia ix is an illustration of df ahe the legreat he greal great truth that mat nis WIs it is noil not brudent prudent PrU hru detitto to perfidy lo 10 1 dy and that the most enni effi efficient clent i weapon with which men can en counter 0 U n t e falsehood is truth during a long coure coute coune e or of years the english rulers of india byal lel lei leil l lies lie and enemies whom n engagement could collid bind have generally acted with sincerity and uprightness ness and the event has ha proved that sincerity and uprightness are wis dom engliski Engli sli sit flor fior bior vilor t lor and english intelligence have done less to bldr badr extend and pre pie preserve serve yb our original emm em pire than english Engli frh sih veracity verai ity aill aili that we could have gai gal gained tied by I 1 imi tating the i doubling R the evasions i the the per juries which have been employed against u urr is as nothing when compared with what wa we hilve have gained by being the power in india on whose word rel rei re rel i l liance can be placed no oath which superstition can de device vl 0 o no hostage however precious inspires a hundredth part of the confidence which is produced hy by the jea yea yea and nay nay may ofa orn ora of a british envoy no 20 fastness howe however vei strong by art or nature gives to its inmates a security like that eba enjoyed JOY by the chief who pa passing parsing ing through the territories of powerful and deadly enemies disarmed lal ial armed with the british guarantee the mightiest princes of the east can scarcely marcely by the ofner onner of enormous eno usury draw forth any portion of the wealth which is concealed u uder the it earths of their subjects the british government auers little more than four lour percent 4 1 and avarice a van ce hastens to bring for the tons tens of millions of rupees from its most frechet repositories A hostile monarch may promise mountains or of gold to our on that they will desert the standard of the eom bom pany party the thee company compans 0 mp any promises only a moderate pension after a long service but every h apoy knows that the promise of the wiil wili be kept he knows that if lie ilo hen hei lives a hundred yeam it his ti nice hice and salt are a secure hs as the salary the governor general and lie he k knows tto VA that there is not another state in india which would not hot lh ib spite spi teof of the most solemn vows leave him 10 die of hunger in a ditch as soon OR is he be had ceased to be useful lioe itle of clive |
