. Oriental memoirs : selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India : including observations on parts of Africa and South America, and a narrative of occurrences in four India voyages : illustrated by engravings from original drawings. /.iMichari BmtUjI #.. \i» HuHsnntfn Si ?. I , \<Q EJL a-ttJ- CHAPTER XXIV. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN THE CITY AND DISTRICTS OF dhuboy; TRIAL BY PANCHAUT; EXTRAORDINARY ACCOUNT OF DEMONS AND NECROMANCY IN INDIA; ANECDOTES RELATING TO HIDDEN TREASURE, AND OTHER SINGULAR CUSTOMS. 1781. ----
. Oriental memoirs : selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India : including observations on parts of Africa and South America, and a narrative of occurrences in four India voyages : illustrated by engravings from original drawings. /.iMichari BmtUjI #.. \i» HuHsnntfn Si ?. I , \<Q EJL a-ttJ- CHAPTER XXIV. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN THE CITY AND DISTRICTS OF dhuboy; TRIAL BY PANCHAUT; EXTRAORDINARY ACCOUNT OF DEMONS AND NECROMANCY IN INDIA; ANECDOTES RELATING TO HIDDEN TREASURE, AND OTHER SINGULAR CUSTOMS. 1781. ------ if our virtues Did not go forth of us, twere all alike As if we had them not. Whats open made to Justice That Justice seizes. Shakespeare. Let us reflect upon sixty millions of human beings, either absolutely subjects of the EastIndia Company, or under their influence; beings who for countless ages, certainly not less thantwenty centuries, have had their minds debased by the grossest and most disgusting superstitions,and their feelings blunted and confused by a strange and inconsistent mixture of cruelty andhumanity; of cruelty extending to the murder of parents and children, with stony-heartedapathy; of humanity exaggerated in the preservation of noxious reptiles at the public expense;with the most affected aversion to the taking a
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