Glory is not the lot of subordinated merit,--and all the subordinate parts of the gradation are officers who, in comparison with the offices and duties intrusted to them, are miserably provided for; whereas the chief of each great Presidency has emoluments securing him against every mode of temptation.

But if this has not secured the head, we may easily judge how the members are to be coerced.

Mr.Hastings, at the head of the service, with high legal emoluments, has fouled his hands and sullied his government with bribes.
He has substituted oppression and tyranny in the place of legal government.

With all that unbounded, licentious power which he has assumed over the public revenues, instead of endeavoring to find a series of gradual, progressive, honorable, and adequate rewards for the persons who serve the public in the subordinate, but powerful situations, he has left them to prey upon the people without the smallest degree of control.

In default of honest emolument, there is the unbounded license of power; and, as one of the honestest and ablest servants of the Company said to me in conversation, the civil service of the Company resembled the military service of the Mahrattas,--little pay, but unbounded license to plunder.