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Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

CHAPTER VI
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We found it all snow-white and pea-green; and we rejoice to think that we shall not again be under the necessity of quitting it, till we quit it for a ship bound on a voyage to London.
We have been for some months in the middle of what the people here think a political storm.

To a person accustomed to the hurricanes of English faction this sort of tempest in a horsepond is merely ridiculous.
We have put the English settlers up the country under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Company's Courts in civil actions in which they are concerned with natives.

The English settlers are perfectly contented; but the lawyers of the Supreme Court have set up a yelp which they think terrible, and which has infinitely diverted me.

They have selected me as the object of their invectives, and I am generally the theme of five or six columns of prose and verse daily.

I have not patience to read a tenth part of what they put forth.


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