Excerpt from The Place and Duty of England in Europe: A Lecture Delivered at the Third Conversazione of the Friends of Italy, on Wednesday Evening, April 28th, 1852 You will imagine I mean India. Not India in particular. And of indie, who shall speak shortly? The problem is immense; the moral embarrassment: solvers. We have done many things eminently well. The tribunals and the press are free, arbitrary arrests and spies unknown, race has no distinctions, the ordinary armies are native. But bureaucracy is absolute, malversations obscure, the delays of the law distressing, wars frequent and on the greatest scale, taxation Oppressive, the ingenious people poorer than ever (at least through vast regions), a political career impossible to natives, and discontent certain to increase with every increase of knowledge. If we sincerely desire good government, if we condemn oflicial irresponsibility, we shall shortly be able to erect an Indian representative Assembly in England, authorized to demand pub licity, to debate, and to address the Executive. This one splendid but cheap act of justice to India would produce great moral effect on europe, and ultimately on Asia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.