The business of the latter is so great, that he cannot himself attend to the details, and generally he is the only European in office, the remaining officials consisting of Hindoos and Mahomedans, whose character--a lamentable fact--is always worse the more they come in contact with Europeans.

If, therefore, the peasant comes to the court without bringing a present, he is generally turned away, his petition or complaint is not accepted or listened to; and how is he to bring a present after being deprived of everything by the landlord?
The peasant knows this, and therefore seldom makes a complaint.
An Englishman (unfortunately I have forgotten his name) who travelled in India for scientific purposes, proves that the peasants have now to suffer more than formerly under their native princes.
In India, under the so-called "free English government," I found a sad proof that the position of the slaves in Brazil is better than that of the free peasants here.

The slave there has not to provide for any of his wants, and he is never burdened with too much work, as the interest of his master would then suffer; for a slave costs seven or eight hundred gulders (70 or 80 pounds), and it is to the interest of his owner that he should be well treated, that he may be longer of service.

It cannot be denied that there are cases in which the slaves are tyrannically treated, but this is extremely rare.
Several German and English missionaries reside in the neighbourhood of Benares, and go constantly to the town to preach.

At one of these missionary establishments is a Christian village, which contains more than twenty Hindoo families.