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ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT,

&c. &c.

LONDON:

SPOTTISWOODES and SHAW, New-street-Square.

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT

ON

THE DUTIES OF GREAT BRITAIN

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INDIA,

IN RESPECT OF

THE EDUCATION OF THE NATIVES,

AND THEIR OFFICIAL EMPLOYMENT.

BY

CHARLES HAY CAMERON,

LATE FOURTH MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF INDIA,
PRESIDENT OF THE INDIAN LAW COMMISSION, AND PRESIDENT OF THE
COUNCIL OF EDUCATION FOR BENGAL.

Nihil separatum clausumve.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.
1853.

226. d.10.

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AN ADDRESS,

&c. &c.

AN address by a private citizen to the legislature of his country, requires for its justification that its author should be entitled, either by personal qualities or by the accident of position, to ask the attention of those whom he presumes to advise.

The pretensions of our great Milton, whose Areopagitica for the liberty of unlicensed printing is the conspicuous example in the history of this country, were of the loftier and intrinsic sort; — mine are of the humble and accidental. begin by showing in what they consist.

I will

In the year 1833, the government of our Indian empire was again entrusted to the East India Company for a period of twenty years; but some considerable changes were made in the organisation of the local government. A Council of India was created, with very ample powers of legislation for the whole Indian empire. A Law Commission was instituted, of which I shall have occasion to

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