ted to its rulers, and ready to serve them in any quarter of the
world.[21] I deprecate any innovation upon these principles in the
branches of the public service to which they have already been
applied with such eminent success; and I advocate their extension to
all other branches as the surest means of making them what they ought
and what we must all most fervently wish them to be.

The native officers of our judicial and revenue establishments, or of
our native army, are everywhere a bond of union between the governing
and the governed.[22] Discharging everywhere honestly and ably their
duties to their employers, they tend everywhere to secure to them the
respect and affection of the people. His Highness Muhammad S'aid
Khan, the reigning Nawab of Rampur, still talks with pride of the
days when he was one of our Deputy Collectors in the adjoining
district of Badaon, and of the useful knowledge he acquired in that
office.[23] He has still one brother a Sadr Amin in the district of
Mainpuri, and another a Deputy Collector in the Hamirpur District;
and neither would resign his situation under the Honourable Company
to take office in Rampur at three times the rate of salary, when
invited to do so on the accession of the eldest brother to the
'masnad'. What they now enjoy they owe to their own industry and
integrity; and they are proud to serve a government which supplies
them with so many motives for honest exertion, and leaves them
nothing to fear, as long as they exert themselves honestly. To be in
a situation which it is generally understood that none but honest and
able men can fill[24] is of itself a source of pride, and the sons of
native princes and men of rank, both Hindoo and Muhammadan,
everywhere prefer taking office in our judicial and revenue
establishments to serving under native rulers, where everything
depends entirely upon the favour or frown of men in power, and
ability, industry, and integrity can secure nothing.[25]

Notes:

1. This can no longer be safely assumed as true. Newspapers now
penetrate to almost every village.

2. Fyzabad (Faizabad) was the capital for a short time of the Nawab
Wazirs of Oudh. In 1775 Asaf-ud-daula moved his court to Lucknow. The
city of Ajodhya adjoining Fyzabad is of immense antiquity.

3. In. the south of Oudh. It is not now a military station.

4. Monghyr (Munger) is the chief town of the district of the same
name, which lies to the east of Patna.

5. August,