They had been sent to the palace as emergent many months before, but never shown to the King.

Such official notes from the Resident are hardly every shown to the King, nor is he consulted about the orders to be passed upon them.] They share largely in all that he gets; and take a great deal, for which they render him no account.

Knowing all that he takes, and _ought not to take_, he dares not punish them for their transgressions; and knowing this, sufferers are afraid to complain against them.

In ordinary times, or under ordinary sovereigns, the sums paid by revenue authorities in _nazuranas_, or gratuities, before they were permitted to enter on their charges, amounted to, perhaps, ten or fifteen per cent.: under the present sovereign they amount, I believe, to more than twenty-five per cent.

upon the revenue they are to collect.