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I may say, without the danger of contradiction, that few and poor as these men have been, without authority or power to support them, a greater and more extended tion of heart-felt respect for the European character has been diffused by their means throughout this country than by all the other Europeans put together. We have, in my humble opinion, my Lord, kept ourselves too far from the natives; we have despised their ignorance, without attempting to remove it-and we have considered their timidity, (the natural result of their being trampled upon by one race of conquerors after another,) also as an object for our contempt; at the same time, that we have viewed the cunning of their character, (which is ever the natural resource of ignorance and weakness,) as the completion of all that is vile and deceitful. Thus have we continued a system of neglect towards the interest of our native subjects, in points the most essential to their every happiness, throughout the whole of our governments in their country. Fain, my Lord, would I see a change in this particular; and I seize the opportunity which the present moment affords, to press the justice and the policy of the measure on the attention of your Lordship's gov

ernment.

Having the honor to remain, with the highest respect, my Lord, your Lordship's faithful and obedient hum

ble servant.
(Signed)

R. H. KERR. Senior chaplain of Fort St. George.

"Madras, Nov. 3, 1806."

FINIS.

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