We hear much about public opinion, the love of liberty, the influence of the Press.

But we must remember that public opinion means the opinion of five hundred persons who have no interest, feeling, or taste in common with the fifty millions among whom they live; that the love of liberty means the strong objection which the five hundred feel to every measure which can prevent them from acting as they choose towards the fifty millions, that the Press is altogether supported by the five hundred, and has no motive to plead the cause of the fifty millions.
"We know that India cannot have a free Government.

But she may have the next best thing--a firm and impartial despotism.

The worst state in which she can possibly be placed is that in which the memorialists would place her.

They call on us to recognise them as a privileged order of freemen in the midst of slaves.