g Substance of the Speech.,. in 
 | Support of the Amendment . . .on the 
 I Clause in the (vast-India Bill 
 
 By 
 Charles T-'arsh
 
 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 AT LOS ANGELES
 
 SUBSTANCE 
 
 OF 
 
 THE SPEECH - 
 
 OF 
 
 CHARLES MARSH, ESQ. 
 
 IN A COMMITTEE 
 
 OF 
 
 THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, 
 
 JULY the 1st, 1813, 
 
 IN SUPPORT OF 
 
 The AMENDMENT moved ly Sir THOMAS SUTTON, Bart. 
 
 Clause in the East- India Bill, 
 
 Enacting further Facilities to Persons to go out to India for 
 Religious Purposes." 
 
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 ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 IT has been lamented that such imperfect 
 reports of the following Speech, which 
 is said to have made great impression, 
 
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 c have hitherto appeared in the Public 
 Papers. It is for the purpose of pre- 
 serving its principal heads that I have 
 undertaken the task of editing it. My ma- 
 terials were derived from the collation of 
 
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 the different Newspaper Reports, and an 
 ample copy taken in short-hand of the 
 whole debate on this interesting question. 
 Mr. MARSH having kindly consented to 
 revise it, I now venture to offer it as a 
 faithful statement of his reasonings, if not 
 of the language in which they were con- 
 veyed. 
 
 THE EDITOR.
 
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 A'
 
 SPEECH, 
 
 Mr. MARSH spoke to the following effect : 
 
 Mr. Lushington, 
 
 I SHOULD have adhered to the prudent silence 
 on the subject of this clause, recommended to us 
 by the Noble Lord who has just sat down, had it 
 not been for the alarming exposition of it which has 
 been given by the Honourable Member* opposite. 
 He has fairly spoken out; and the natives of 
 India cannot mistake the meaning of the proposed 
 enactment. I am anxious, therefore, to offer my 
 feeble protest against it. It appears to me a 
 most portentous novelty in Indian legislation. In 
 all former modes of polity for the government 
 of India, the inviolability of the religious feelings 
 and customs of the natives was considered a sacred 
 and undisputed axiom. And although a resolution 
 
 * Mr. Wilberforce. 
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 was voted in 17Q3, that it was desirable to promote 
 their moral and religious improvement, it was a 
 mere abstract proposition, wholly inoperative, and 
 unembodied in any legislative shape ; and therefore 
 did not . disturb (as this enactment must do, if it 
 is not a mere dead letter) that wholesome policy, 
 which has hitherto preserved India to us, of ab- 
 staining from all interference with the religion of 
 its inhabitants. A departure from that policy will 
 shake our empire in that part of the world to its 
 centre. Not that there can be any danger of an 
 avowed or systematic departure from it; or that 
 on a sudden we should become so weak, or mad, 
 or fanatical, as to renounce all the wisdom which 
 history and experience and common sense have 
 imparted to us. But the real danger is this ; that 
 the actual attempt, by Parliamentary enactment, to 
 convert the natives of India ; and the mere suspicion 
 on their part, however wild and visionary, that 
 such schemes are in contemplation ; will -pro- 
 duce the same degree of mischief and disorder. 
 No man can dream, that such a project could 
 be soberly entertained, or deliberately discussed 
 in this H*>use. But it has unfortunately hap- 
 pened, that enough has been said to diffuse this 
 alarm in India: and the clause now inserted in
 
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 the Bill, combined with certain resolutions and 
 speeches at public meetings, and the petitions which 
 cover the tables of both Houses of Parliament 
 (all of which, without any squeamish or affected 
 delicacy, profess the conversion of the natives of 
 India to be their object), are but little calculated 
 to dissipate or appease it. Here is at once the text 
 and the commentary; the doctrine, and its ex- 
 position. 
 
 It is true, Sir, that all this may be said to 
 proceed from the over-heated speculations of a 
 certain class of persons, who have worked them- 
 selves up to a diseased degree of enthusiasm 
 upon this subject. But my apprehensions are, 
 that the natives of India, contemplating the 
 matter through optics peculiar to themselves, 
 will not distinguish between the projects of these 
 gentlemen, and plans countenanced by the 
 authority, and intended to be effectuated by the 
 power of the State. For they are not only most 
 tremblingly sensitive to alarm on the subject of 
 their religion; but they are so little schooled in 
 our political usages, and the genius and form of 
 polity under which they have been nurtured are so 
 dissonant from the genius and frame of ours, that 
 they will not readily separate the acts and opinions
 
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 of a large portion of the country acting permissivery 
 under the State from the authentic and solemn act 
 of the State itself. That which is permitted, they 
 will hastily infer to be sanctioned. The time, 
 the great legislative question now pending relative 
 to the renewal of the Company's Charter, will cor- 
 roborate this inference. What other conclusions 
 can they draw from the numerous meetings 
 convened for the avowed purpose of deliberating 
 about the means of converting and civilizing them ; 
 the petitions for the same objects from every 
 part of the country ; and, above all, the opinions 
 avowed by the Honourable Member, and urged 
 with all the ardour and zeal of his eloquence ; 
 opinions, of which it is the fundamental maxim, 
 that our subjects in the East are sunk in the grossest 
 ignorance and the lowest debasement of moral and 
 social character ? 
 
 In confirmation of the jealousy which must 
 be awakened amongst them by so extraordinary 
 a zeal for their conversion, comes this pre- 
 amble; evidently emanating from the petitions 
 on the table ; framed to promote the prayer, con- 
 ceived in the spirit, and almost expressed in the 
 language of those addresses. And although it is 
 followed by a proviso, " that the authorities of the
 
 " local Governments respecting the intercourse of 
 " Europeans with the interior, and the principles 
 " of the British Government, on which the natives 
 " of India have hitherto relied for the free exercise 
 " of their religion, shall be inviolably maintained," 
 it is plain, that such a proviso will be nugatory and 
 unavailing. The principle is violated, and then you 
 declare it inviolable. You determine that facilities 
 shall be afforded by law to the Missionaries who 
 are desirous of proceeding to India, with an affected 
 reservation of powers in the local Governments 
 to send them back ; without adverting to this 
 obvious consequence, that those powers, if not 
 wholly repealed, will be considerably impaired 
 by the licences granted them by law to go 
 out. For if the control, under which Missionaries 
 have-been heretofore permitted in India, was the 
 general power inherent in your Governments 
 abroad to send them home as unlicensed persons, is 
 it not pretty clear that such a control will be greatly 
 enfeebled by the licences antecedently granted them 
 at home ? Hitherto, if a Missionary misdemeaned 
 himself, the remedy was at hand. His commorancy 
 being under the connivance and permission of the 
 local Government, it was no longer connived at or 
 permitted. The nuisance was instantly abated.
 
 But now, he will be enabled to set up his licence at 
 home against the revocation of it abroad ; the 
 sanction of the British Government against the 
 jurisdiction of the Colonial Governor. To be sure, 
 the local Governor, if he is determined to execute 
 his duty, must prevail in the controversy, and the 
 Missionary will be sent to England. But is there no 
 risk incurred of giving offence to those through 
 whose patronage or recommendation the Missionary 
 was sent out? Is not the very circumstance of 
 sending him back an implied censure on the dis- 
 cernment, or good sense, or vigilance of those who 
 permitted him to go out? Besides, it is a discre- 
 tion which must be exercised by the local Governor 
 at the hazard of drawing down on himself, at home, 
 the clamours and resentments of a body of per- 
 sons, who are every day acquiring fresh accessions 
 of influence and numbers ; who are knit toge- 
 ther by the strongest sympathy which can unite, 
 and the closest confederacy that can bind a party of 
 men subsisting within the bosom of a community. 
 The slightest affront offered to any member of their 
 fraternity, vibrates as a blow to every one of them. 
 It demands no great effort of fancy to conceive the 
 spiritual denunciations with which every conventicle 
 will ring at the persecution of Brother Carey, or
 
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 Brother Ringletaube, should the jurisdiction, which 
 is still nominally left to the local Governments over 
 the Missionaries, happen to visit those pious gentle- 
 men. So that, in effect, though not in form, that 
 control will be removed, certainly impaired ; and 
 the Governments of India will be disarmed of 
 the means of coercing them, when their zeal 
 becomes licentious and dangerous. This, too, 
 in the veiy teeth of ample and unanswerable 
 documents now upon the table of this House, 
 which demonstrate that this control, even in 
 its fullest extent and vigour, was insuf- 
 ficient to repress the evil arising from the in- 
 creased number and unguarded conduct of 
 these persons. I refer to Lord Minto's Letter 
 from Calcutta, addressed to the Secret Com- 
 mittee of the Court of Directors, dated the 
 2d of November 1807- That letter states several 
 alarming instances of misguided and intemperate 
 zeal; and of low and scurrilous invective, 
 circulated in the native languages, against the 
 feelings, prejudices, and religions of the natives: 
 and it concludes with this impressive admoni- 
 tion : " On a view of all the circumstances 
 " stated in this despatch, your Committee will 
 te admit the expediency of adopting such measures
 
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 (t as your 'wisdom' will suggest, for (he purpose of 
 "discouraging any accession to the number of 
 " Missionaries actually employed under the pro- 
 " tection of the British Government, in . the work 
 " of conversion." I will not shock the ears of 
 the House by reading any extracts from these 
 publications. They must be offensive to the moral 
 taste of every cultivated mind : and to the people 
 of that country they exhibit a picture of Chris- 
 tianity, by no means clothed in those alluring 
 colours, which can alone win over their hearts or 
 understandings; but displaying a fearful and 
 disheartening system of terrors, from which the 
 affrighted reason of man would gladly fly to the 
 most barbarous of superstitions for refuge and 
 consolation. 
 
 On what grounds, then, is it proposed to grant 
 these gentlemen the further facilities which are 
 claimed for them? Is it upon any recommendation 
 from those who are on the spot, in high stations 
 there ; and whose testimony ought to carry with it 
 no slight authority, not only as spectators of the 
 movements of the native mind, but personal wit- 
 nesses of the procedures and character of the 
 Missionaries ? Is any case of grievance, of hard- 
 ship, of persecution made out, which calls for any
 
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 new provisions in their favour ? Quite the con- 
 trary. The Governor-General sends home a strong 
 complaint of their misconduct, with a solemn warn- 
 ing against any augmentation of their numbers. 
 So far from having been visited with persecution, 
 the tolerance they have so long enjoyed is not 
 withdrawn from them, even on the strongest proof 
 of their delinquency. The offensive publications 
 are suppressed, but the authors and circulators of 
 them are still permitted to exercise their callings in 
 India. Nay, the very clause which is now under 
 discussion, gives the Court of Directors, subject to 
 the control of the Board of Commissioners, the 
 general discretionary powers of licensing all per- 
 sons whatsoever to go out to India. The words of 
 the preamble, therefore, which are exclusively 
 applicable to persons going out for religious pur- 
 poses, are superfluous, with this evil belonging to 
 them ; that they indicate a deliberate intention, on 
 the part of the British Government, to send out 
 persons for the express object of proselytism and 
 conversion. ^ . 
 
 The Noble Lord*, indeed, tells us not to be, 
 alarmed, either at the undue increase of Mis- 
 
 * Lord Castlereagh.
 
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 sionaries, or the kind and description of those, 
 who are likely to go out under the new provisions, 
 by reminding us of the salutary control, which the 
 Board of India Commissioners will have over their 
 appointment. I confess that my apprehensions 
 on this head would be put to rest, if the 
 Noble Earl * who now presides at that Board were 
 always to remain there, or if his successors were 
 necessarily to be influenced by his prudence and 
 good sense. No man is less infected than my 
 noble friend with the cant and fanaticism of the 
 day. No man is inspired with a more philosophi- 
 cal and dignified contempt of it. But here is the 
 inconvenience of making a law, which, to be bene- 
 ficial or noxious, depends on a personal discretion. 
 The law is permanent ; the discretion is transitory. 
 The Noble Earl's successor may have a different 
 set of opinions on this subject. He may be of the 
 new Evangelical school ; careless of the mischiefs 
 which may result from premature schemes of con- 
 verting the Hindoos ; or taught, by contemplating 
 only the end which is to be attained, to con- 
 sider those mischiefs as light and evanescent. 
 So far, therefore, from pursuing a cautious and 
 
 * Earl of Buckinghamshire.
 
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 restrictive policy with regard to the Missiona- 
 ries, he may be of the number of those, who think 
 that the fulness of time is arrived for Hindoo con- 
 version ; and that every inspired cobler, or fanatical 
 tailor, who feels an inward call, has a kind of 
 apostolic right to assist in the spiritual siege, which 
 has been already begun, against the idolatries 
 and superstitions of that degraded and barbarous 
 country. 
 
 What rnan, that has rendered himself by study 
 or observation competent to pronounce upon the 
 subject, will not deprecate a provision so well 
 calculated from the time at which it is introduced, 
 and the explanations with which it is ushered in to 
 accelerate the calamities, which folly and fanaticism 
 have been long preparing for us in that country, and 
 of which all that we have experienced in the horrors 
 of Vellore may be considered only as the type and 
 forerunner ? The Noble Lordt himself does not 
 appear quite at ease as to the harmless or 
 beneficial quality of the measure. He has re- 
 peatedly suggested to us, with somewhat indeed 
 of paradox, but with great earnestness, that it 
 was a subject too delicate for debate, and too 
 important for deliberation. Hitherto, indeed, 
 
 t Lord Castlereagh.
 
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 we had been in the habit of considering, that, in a 
 ratio to the delicacy or importance of a legislative 
 proposition, it became matter for grave delibe- 
 ration and anxious discussion. But with regard 
 to the policy of sending out an enactment which 
 may probably undermine an empire, the course is 
 to be inverted. We are required to enact a secret ; 
 to whisper a legislative provision ; and to convey 
 it clandestinely and without noise into the Statute 
 Book. This, I say, looks like somewhat of diffidence 
 in the Noble Lord as to the safety or propriety of the 
 measure. That which it is expedient to adopt, it 
 can never be unwise to discuss. But I know the em- 
 barrassments of the Noble Lord's situation. I know 
 that this measure must be considered to have been 
 rather wrung from his good-nature, than to be the 
 legitimate fruit of his understanding ; and that it 
 has been reluctantly conceded by way of compro- 
 mise, to brush off as it were the importunities 
 that have so long assailed him. However, as it will 
 be no easy matter to make a law affecting the 
 feelings, the rights, and the happiness of so many 
 millions of men, without letting them into the 
 secret ; I am disposed to suspect, that the enact- 
 ment, when it reaches India, will inspire the more 
 alarm, from the very mystery and concealment in
 
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 which the noble Lord has endeavoured to envelope 
 it. I cannot therefore shrink from the discussion. 
 
 Reasoning only a priori, and with the total oblivion ^ & 
 and disregard of all facts (if those facts could be 
 forgotten or overlooked), I should entertain strong 
 apprehensions of this clause, from what I myself 
 know concerning the irritable feelings both of the 
 Hindoos and Mussulmauns,upon the subject of their 
 religions. But all a priori reasonings would be ab- 
 surd, with the fatal occurrences of Vellore, in 1 806, 
 staring us in the face, and preaching volumes of ad- 
 monition against the folly or rather the madness of 
 reviving an alarm in India, of which those occurrences 
 have bequeathed us such mournful illustrations. 
 It is a transaction which has been much misunder- 
 stood. It was a religious mutiny, in the strictest 
 sense of the expression. It originated from a 
 belief artfully instilled by the emissaries of 
 the * Mussulmaun Princes into the minds of 
 the Seapoys, that the British Government in- 
 tended to convert them gradually to Christianity. 
 If any one affects to doubt concerning the origin to 
 which I have traced it, let him read Lord William 
 Bentinck's proclamation of the 3d of December 
 
 * They were confined in the fortress of Vellore.
 
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 following, nearly six months after the mutiny ; 
 an interval which had been employed in a minute 
 and accurate investigation into the causes which 
 led to it. The fact is distinctly stated in that 
 paper. It was issued by the Government of 
 Madras, to dispel the apprehensions which had 
 worked up the native mind to that dreadful carnage. 
 That proclamation is among the papers on your table. 
 There is also among the same papers, the recorded 
 opinion of Lord Minto, given nearly two years after- 
 wards, of the same tenor, and deduced from the 
 same materials. I know it has been the fashion 
 amongst some reasoners to narrow the causes of this 
 event to the injudicious orders, which had been issued 
 about that time, respecting the shape of the turban, 
 and prohibiting the distinctive marks of caste on 
 parade. But they confound what in human affairs are 
 so frequentlwunconnected and disjoined ; I mean, 
 the cause and the occasion. The cause ivas in the 
 inherent and fixed antipathy of the natives to any 
 change of their religion. The occasion was, the pro- 
 posed alteration in their dress, with the prohibitions 
 against wearing their marks of caste ; which unhappily 
 furnished a powerful topic to awaken and inflame 
 that antipathy, to those who, being implacably ad- 
 verse to the British authority, were naturally eager
 
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 to seize every opportunity of seducing the native 
 soldiery into their own schemes of alienation and 
 resistance. The orders, though highly obnoxious, 
 would under other circumstances have been sub- 
 mitted to. Similar orders had been cheerfully 
 obeyed, because they had been unconnected with 
 any religious purpose. In truth, much unmerited 
 obloquy has been thrown on a most gallant and 
 honourable officer, now holding a high colonial 
 station, (Sir John Cradock,) for having issued those 
 orders. But it is a justice due to my highly-valued 
 friend, to state, that he had satisfied himself, by the 
 reports of the most experienced official men, that 
 those orders were not at variance with the feelings 
 and prejudices of the natives ; and these reports 
 were confirmed by the testimony of some of 
 the oldest native officers, and the opinions of 
 Brahmin and Mahommedan doctors. We must 
 therefore look to the specific circumstances which 
 made the orders in question offensive. They were 
 these. The seapoys were taught to consider them 
 as exterior signs of that gradual conversion to 
 Christianity, which other circumstances had given 
 them reason to suspect was meditated by the 
 British Government. Unfortunately, those circum- 
 stances were of a kind most likely to strengthen this
 
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 misconception: for it did happen, that, for some time 
 before the massacre of Vellore, an unusual degree 
 of countenance had been shewn to the various Mis- 
 sionaries who had insinuated themselves into India. 
 They had been permitted to circulate, with extra- 
 ordinary industiy, in different parts of the Carnatic, 
 translations of the Scriptures into the native lan- 
 guages ; and had exerted much inconsiderate zeal in 
 the commentaries and expositions which accom- 
 panied them. The ecclesiastics, too, at the principal 
 Presidencies happened at this time to be of the Evan- 
 gelical school ; Mr. Buchanan at Calcutta, and 
 Doctor Kerr at Madras. These gentlemen were 
 zealous patrons of the Sectarian Missionaries. Of 
 course, these persons, thus patronised and caressed, 
 sent home . accounts of the flattering reception 
 they had met with. Those accounts induced the 
 Societies in Europe to send out fresh exportations. 
 The indiscreet activity of these persons, and their 
 increased numbers, confirmed the suspicions which 
 had been infused into the minds of the Seapoys con- 
 cerning the late innovations in their dress. The result 
 was, that dreadful massacre to which it is impossible 
 to look back without trembling. If it is imagined 
 that the plot, which broke out, indeed, only at Vel- 
 lore, was confined to that garrison, the matter
 
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 is much under-rated. It was to have been a gene* 
 ral rising on the same day at every principal station 
 in the Peninsula : Nundydroog, Cannanore, Quilon, 
 and even at Madras. And had it not been pre- 
 maturely executed about a week before the appointed 
 day (in consequence of information given by a na- 
 tive officer, which however was not regarded, but 
 the informer actually confined as a madman), the 
 British name would now have been a mere matter 
 of history in India. 
 
 Is it possible, that this House will go off into c 
 such a fit of absurdity and fanaticism, or be visited 
 with so fatal a fatuity, as not to keep so awful ai; 
 event before them, in the grave discussion of mat- 
 ters . affecting the religion of that country ? That 
 event has interposed the warning of sobriety and 
 wisdom to this headlong, precipitate, busy, med- 
 dling, gossipping, officious, interference with mat- 
 ters, which the laws of God and Nature have placed 
 beyond our jurisdiction. What is the lesson it 
 has left . us ? Why, that our subjects in India, im- 
 moveably passive under our political domination, 
 are wakefully sensitive to all attempts at a religious 
 one ; that while they are upholding our empire by 
 the steady and willing services of a patient and 
 unwearied attachment, there are still limits to their
 
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 allegiance, however firm and enduring, in those 
 unconquerable feelings, and unbending habits, which 
 bind them, as by links of adamant, to the religion 
 and laws of their country. Surely, Sir, we need 
 not the acting over again of that dreadful drama, 
 to be taught, that all attempts on their religion, 
 however cautiously and covertly made, must not 
 only be unavailing, but calamitous; and if the 
 change in the shape of a turban, or the temporary 
 disuse of the marks on their forehead, drove that 
 most passive and obedient soldiery into the bloody 
 revolt of Vellore, what may we not dread from 
 grave discussions at meetings convened for the 
 avowed purposes of converting them ; those purposes 
 avowed in petitions from every town in England, and 
 countenanced by a large portion of the Legislature 
 of Great Britain, while the great question relative 
 to the civil and political administration of. that 
 country is still under its deliberation ? If the 
 atrocities of Vellore were prompted by unfounded 
 suspicions, or causeless jealousies, I fear, should 
 that dreadful scene be again acted, we shall be 
 deprived even of that consolation: for we are 
 now administering to their religious fears, some- 
 thing more than mere pretexts to feed on. I feel, 
 therefore, most unaffected apprehensions on this
 
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 subject; so much, that if my Honourable friend 
 (Sir Thomas Sutton) had not moved his amend- 
 ment, I should have proposed a clause of a very 
 opposite character from the Noble Lord's ; prohi- 
 bitory, instead of permissive, of the ingress of 
 Missionaries into India; and accompanied with 
 a solemn declaration, that the inviolability of the 
 religion of the natives ought to be the basis of 
 whatever political system it may be expedient to 
 provide for them. 
 
 It is by this policy that India has hitherto been 
 governed. The Court of Directors, I trust, are not 
 unmindful, that it is the only policy, which can keep 
 the native mind tranquil. Were they not so, with 
 the ample communications they have had from 
 India on this most delicate subject, they would 
 exhibit a memorable proof of their unfitness for 
 any share in its government. It would be their 
 own attestation to their own incompetency. But 
 is there not already a most fatal oblivion of that 
 policy ? The opinions of more than one member 
 of that Board who scarcely lag behind the wildest 
 enthusiasts in the great work of conversion, have 
 filled me with apprehension. They are omens 
 of the most alarming kind. They convince me, 
 that the powers granted by this clause will be most 
 
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 unsparingly exercised. But should that not be 
 the consequence, those opinions will corroborate 
 the fears already prevalent amongst the natives, 
 who have so long and habitually contemplated the 
 Court of Directors as the chief depositary of their 
 interests, and the organ in which the political 
 power of Great Britain in India chiefly resides. 
 Mr. Cowper, in his evidence, furnished us with 
 a most important aphorism, when he told us, that 
 " an expression of the most distant recom- 
 " mendation on the part of persons in power, is 
 te received by the Hindoos and Mussulmans as a 
 " kind of order." 
 
 When I see, therefore, that this spirit of religious 
 enthusiasm, which has so long been at work amongst 
 ourselves, is likely to be let loose on a people not 
 more disjoined from us by their customs and pre- 
 judices, than by the ocean that divides us ; and that 
 ultimate success is problematical, while intermediate 
 mischief is inevitable ; it can be no difficult matter 
 to find out the genuine deductions of duty and 
 reason and common sense. And are these deduc- 
 tions overturned by setting up * the general, vague, 
 indefinite duty of imparting the Christian religion 
 to every country and people, whom the mysterious 
 
 * Mr. W. Smith. 
 
 /
 
 ordinances of Heaven have hitherto deprived of 
 it? For, as all human duties lie within certain 
 lines of expediency and practicability, it is plain, that 
 the alleged duty is destroyed and negatived by the 
 inexpediency and danger of bringing it into action. 
 In these cases, then, it is our business first to 
 inquire, Whether morality and right reason pre- 
 scribe any, and what mode of action ; or (which is 
 a still more important question) impose on us the 
 obligation of acting at all? Whether, to put it 
 into a form more developed and precise, the alleged 
 duty of acting is not overpowered by the opposite 
 and antagonist duty of not acting at all ? For it 
 would be absurd, in any problem of civil or moral 
 duty, to shut from our contemplation the proba- 
 bilities of success or failure. It would be worse 
 than absurd to overlook the dangers of the ex- 
 periment; and of an experiment, which, in this 
 instance, is to be tried on a machine so delicate, 
 so complex, and so easily deranged as our empire 
 in India. This appears to me the point we are to 
 decide ; remembering at the same time, that the 
 Hindoo religion is not only to be overthrown, but 
 the Christian planted: and taking care to discover, 
 whether we may not eradicate the religion of India 
 without advancing at all nearer to the establishment 
 of our own : and in so doing, get rid of a system
 
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 which is beneficial to a certain extent, without 
 being able at last to replace it with a better. The 
 faintest probability of our stopping short of the full 
 accomplishment of our project, of preaching down 
 the Hindoo religion (the first step only in the 
 process), and getting no further, ought of itself 
 to make us wary and cautious in undertaking 
 it. Neither reason nor history tells us, that the 
 adoption of a new religion is a necessary consequence 
 of the abdication of the old. It is one thing to 
 dispel the charm that binds mankind to established 
 habits and antient obligations ; and another, to 
 win them over to the discipline of new institutions,, 
 and the authority of new doctrines. In that dread- 
 ful interval, that dreary void, where the mind is 
 left to wander and grope its way without the props 
 that have hitherto supported, or the lights that 
 hitherto guided it, what are the chances, that they 
 will discern the beauties, or submit to the restraints 
 of the religion, you propose to give them? What then 
 will have been done ? You will have extinguished 
 a system, which, with all its demerits, has been the 
 very foundation of your empire in India. You will 
 have destroyed that peculiarity of national character, 
 that singular contexture of moral properties, which 
 has given you an immense territory, an immense 
 revenue, and sixty millions of subjects ; while you
 
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 will have done nothing more towards the realization 
 of your own schemes, than the destruction of 
 those institutions, that have for ages kept^the vices 
 and passions which overrun the Western world from 
 that favoured country. Such may be one result of 
 our experiment. The Missionaries, it seems, from 
 the papers on the table, have begun at this end of the 
 project. Their efforts have been directed to the pious 
 object of disgusting the natives with their religion, 
 their laws, their customs, and every thing that is 
 venerable and authoritative amongst them. 
 
 There is no controversy about ends. No man 
 can be more unaffectedly solicitous than myself for 
 the diffusion of Christianity. I should be undeserv- 
 ing of an audience in a Christian assembly, were I 
 cold or indifferent to its blessings. But there are 
 questions, desirable as it may be to infuse Chris- 
 tianity into India, which will give pause to delibe- 
 rate minds in attempting it. Have I the means of 
 accomplishing my purpose ? If I have not, will not 
 the mere attempt be attended with calamities, that 
 constitute an opposite duty to abstain from it ? Not 
 that this is the sort of reasoning which will go down 
 with those who are so hotly engaged in the work 
 of conversion ; and who (such is the nature and 
 character of all religious enthusiasm) are little likely
 
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 to be startled or appalled by the difficulties they 
 will have to encounter, or the miseries they may 
 produce, in the glorious object of making sixty 
 millions of men Baptists or Anabaptists. But, 
 seeing the dangers, and difficulties, and suffering, 
 that must result from the experiment, the conversion 
 of that immense population seems, for the pre- 
 sent at least, out of the course of things. It is only 
 through the circumstances that surround him, that 
 Providence deigns to confer with man- For as 
 Providence condescends to act by human instru- 
 ments and human agencies, it can be no impiety in 
 us, who can calculate only on the efficacy of human 
 means as applied to human objects, to pronounce 
 a purpose discountenanced by so many impe- 
 diments, and exposed to so many evils, to be 
 out of his destinations. The power of working 
 miracles is not assumed. The conversion of In- 
 dostan by an instantaneous effusion of grace is not 
 expected. Force is disclaimed. Not that there is 
 any great magnanimity in disclaiming force ; 
 since no force could be effectually applied to an 
 object so incommensurate with all physical means 
 of obtaining it. If, therefore, it is probable that 
 the mere attempt, though unaccompanied with 
 force, will be both abortive and mischievous, I
 
 25 
 
 confess that my understanding is driven into this 
 inference (no doubt a gloomy one), that the mere 
 attempt ought to be discountenanced. 
 
 It seems no easy matter, however, to persuade 
 Gentlemen of the impracticability of their project; 
 and having, by some rapid process of reasoning, 
 made up their minds to its practicability, they seem 
 to laugh at its dangers. But they are ignorant of 
 the very elements of their experiment; of the raw 
 material they have to work upon ; in one word, of 
 the Hindoo mind and character. They appear 
 never to have reflected, that this artificial being, 
 moulded and fashioned, I had almost said created, 
 by his religious institutions, (and all his institutions 
 are religious ones,) is distinguished by properties, 
 that give him no affinity to the proselytes who 
 crowd their tabernacles and conventicles. They 
 apply to this most singular people the same 
 reasonings that are applicable to mankind in 
 general ; wholly unmindful of that deep colour 
 of character which has divided them, almost since 
 the foundation of the earth, from the common 
 family of the world. For the same peculiarity 
 which the philosophical Historian attributed to the 
 antient Germans, might with equal truth be attri- 
 buted to the Hindoos : " Propriam atque synceram,
 
 26 
 
 et tantum sui similem gentem" Rendering there- 
 fore full homage, as I am disposed to do, to the 
 purity and benevolence of the motives which actuate 
 the advocates for conversion, I am convinced, that 
 had they been sufficiently skilled in the genius and 
 moral constitution of the Hindoos to appretiate 
 the temporal misery which every Hindoo convert 
 must suffer, their humanity would long ago have 
 taken the alarm, and probably dissuaded them from 
 the further prosecution of their scheme. Can it be 
 necessary then to remind them of the stupendous 
 moral effects produced in that countiy by the divi- 
 sion of castes ? The loss of caste is the immediate 
 consequence of conversion ; and it is the most 
 dreadful ill with which an Hindoo can be visited. 
 It throws upon him every variety of wretchedness. 
 It extinguishes all the wholesome charities and 
 kindly affections. His very kindred desert him. 
 It becomes an abomination to eat with him, or even 
 to speak to him. The hand is accursed that 
 ministers to him. All mankind fly from him, as 
 from an infection. His only refuge from this 
 overwhelming force of misery is death ; a solitary, 
 friendless, uncomforted death, amid the scoffs, and 
 scorn, and revilings of his species. I am drawing 
 no 'fancied picture. The reports of the Missiona-
 
 27 
 
 ries themselves have given more than one instance 
 of it. The very few converts, whom they have 
 made among those who are entitled to the privilege 
 of caste, have endured all this : a circumstance that 
 will account satisfactorily, I should think, for this 
 most curious and important fact ; that amongst 
 persons of caste, that is, amongst those who essen- 
 tially are and alone ought to be denominated Hin- 
 doos, they have hardly made any converts at all. 
 The great mass of their proselytes, scarcely exceed- 
 ing eighty in seven years, are drawn from the 
 Chandalahs, or Pariars, or out-casts ; a portion -of 
 the population who are shut out from the Hindoo 
 religion, and who, being condemned to the lowest 
 poverty and the most sordid occupations, are glad 
 to procure, by what the Missionaries call conversion, 
 whatever pittance they are enabled to dole out for 
 their subsistence. As to the Church of Syrian 
 Christians, which has so long subsisted in the pro- 
 vince of Travancore, let us be on our guard against 
 the ingenuity with which it is made to form a part of 
 the argument. They are not descendants from the 
 original inhabitants of Hindostan ; of course, there- 
 fore, they can never be said, in fairness, to have been 
 converted from the Hindoo religion to Christianity. 
 They are the remnant of a Church planted there
 
 28 
 
 in the early ages of Christianity ; where they have 
 remained, without any material increase of numbers, 
 from their primitive institution ; tolerated and de- 
 spised by the successive Rajahs. They are an inde- 
 pendent community amongst themselves ; and are 
 not only too narrowly watched to make converts ; 
 but, I believe, from the influence of mutual habi- 
 tudes and intercourses between them and the 
 community in the bosom of which they are per- 
 mitted to reside, wholly indisposed to molest them 
 by any unseasonable or indiscreet attack on their 
 feelings or prejudices. 
 
 This division of caste has always erected an in- 
 vincible barrier to the proselytism of the Hindoos. 
 A Gentoo considers the privileges of his caste as 
 exclusive and incommunicable. It is this that im- 
 parts to him the highest prerogatives of his nature. 
 Man is not separated by a wider discrimination from 
 the inferior world, than that which the pride and 
 dignity of caste have interposed in that country be- 
 tween the several orders of mankind. He acquires 
 a class of emotions incident to the character that 
 elevates him. He breathes, as it were, a more 
 etherial element. Taught to revere himself by the 
 same standard which secures to him the esteem 
 and reverence of others, he considers the loss, or
 
 29 
 
 even the pollution and degradation of his caste, as 
 evils worse than death. The same feelings descend 
 through each successive gradation ; each caste cul- 
 tivating the same spirit of an exclusive character : 
 all of them united in one common sentiment of 
 contempt of the Pariars, or out-casts, amongst whom 
 they class the Christian Missionary and his convert ; 
 the Pastor and his disciple. Some new power, 
 therefore, hitherto undiscovered in the moral world, 
 and equivalent to that which the old philosopher 
 required in the physical, will be requisite to pull 
 down this consolidated fabric of pride and super- 
 stition, which has stood, unmoved and undecaying, 
 the sudden shock of so many revolutions, and the 
 silent lapse of so many ages. If you begin with 
 one caste, you have to fight in another against the 
 same host of feelings, motives, and affections, which 
 render place and homage and distinction despotic 
 over the heart of man. Your struggles are only be- 
 gun when you have converted one caste. They are 
 perpetually to be renewed. Never, never, will the 
 scheme of Hindoo conversion be realized, till you 
 persuade an immense population to suffer, by whole 
 tribes, the severest martyrdoms that have yet been 
 sustained for the sake of religion; to tear them- 
 selves from every habit that sways in the human
 
 30 
 
 bosom ; from the sweets of social communion; the 
 ties of friendship; the charities of -kindred ; from 
 all that life contains to support or adorn it; and all 
 this to embrace a new religion proffered them by 
 polluted hands ; a religion on the threshold and in the 
 very vestibule of which are planted all the appalling 
 forms of penury, contempt, scorn, and despair: 
 
 Vestibulum ante ipsura 
 
 Luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia corse, 
 
 JEt raetus et male-suada fames, et turpis egestas. 
 
 And are the Missionaries, whom this Bill is to let 
 loose upon India, fit engines to accomplish the 
 greatest revolution that has yet taken place in the 
 history of the world? With what weapons will 
 they descend into the contest with the acute, intel- 
 ligent Hindoo, prepared to defend his religion by 
 reasonings drawn from the resources of a keen 
 and enlightened casuistry, and wielded with all the 
 vigour of a sharp and exercised intellect ? Will 
 these people, crawling from the holes and caverns 
 of their original destinations, apostates from the 
 loom and the anvil, and renegades from the lowest 
 handicraft employments, be a match for the cool 
 and sedate controversies they will have to encounter, 
 should the Brahmins condescend to enter into the 
 arena against the maimed and crippled gladiators
 
 31 
 
 that presume to grapple with their faith ? What 
 can be apprehended but the disgrace and discom- 
 fiture of whole hosts of tub-preachers in the 
 conflict ? And will this advance us one inch nearer 
 our object? ^ \ 
 
 In whatever aspect I view the question, the 
 impracticability of converting India by such means 
 to Christianity looks me in the face. The advo- 
 cates for the scheme have scarcely favoured us 
 with one argument, that shews it to be practi- 
 cable. In some of the papers, however, published 
 by the Baptists, there appears a faint historical 
 analogy, from which they infer the probability of 
 success ; and a learned and Honourable Gentleman 
 near me* put it in the shape of an interrogatory 
 to one of the witnesses at the bar. He asked 
 Mr. Graham, " Whether the natives of India were 
 more attached to their superstition, or more under 
 the influence of the Brahmins, than our ancestors in 
 this island were to their superstitions under the influ- 
 ence of the Druids ? " The witness, it may be recol- 
 lected, very modestly declined speaking of the Druids 
 from his own personal knowledge; but expressed 
 himself pretty strongly as to the folly and danger 
 
 Mr. Stephen.
 
 32 
 
 of interfering with the religion of India. Does 
 the learned and Honourable Gentleman think that 
 there is the slightest analogy between the two 
 religions ? The religion of the Druids was extir- 
 pated from this island by the antient Romans, 
 because its institutions were too intractable and 
 unyielding, to give them quiet possession of their 
 conquest. But it was not extirpated till their 
 priests were slaughtered, their sacred groves and 
 temples destroyed, and their population ravaged, 
 with every species of bloody and ferocious violence. 
 I advert to the finishing stroke given to that reli- 
 gion in Britain, under Suetonius Paulinus. To 
 make the analogy, however, at all an approximation 
 to an argument, the Honourable Member is bound 
 also to contend, that the Roman procedure towards 
 the Druids is to be followed as a precedent by us 
 with regard to the Hindoos. The Honourable 
 Member's humanity starts at the suggestion. Why, 
 then, fhe argument drawn from the analogy is 
 destroyed. But whatever points of resemblance 
 there may be between the two religions, they will 
 be found to furnish an argument against our inter- 
 ference with that of the Hindoos. Those points 
 of resemblance are these : the exclusive character 
 common to both; the domination of the priest-
 
 33 
 
 hood ; the indissoluble and adamantine strength 
 with which the soul and all its faculties were 
 bound to the Druidical, as they are now to the 
 Brahminical system ; the jealousy, with which the 
 Druids once preserved, and the Hindoos still pre- 
 serve, the inviolability of their faith. Why then, if 
 the civilized conquerors of antient Europe, deeming 
 it expedient to get rid of the Druidical superstition, 
 and not, as it may be presumed, ignorant of the 
 most efficacious means of effecting it, found that 
 there was no other mode but extirpation, the 
 matter is settled. The means of extirpating the 
 Hindoo religion are not in our hands ; extirpation 
 is out of the question ; and we must endure the 
 evil. But here the resemblance stops. The points 
 in which these religions differ, will supply much 
 stronger illustrations (if they were wanted) of the 
 danger and folly of interfering with that of the 
 Hindoos. The superstition of the Druids inspired 
 a spirit of resistance to the civil and military yoke 
 of their conquerors. That of the Hindoos makes 
 them the passive, unresisting subjects of theirs. It 
 is of the very essence and nature of the Hindoo 
 religion to extinguish and subdue the spirit of civil 
 resistance. Accordingly, the natives of Hindostan 
 have borne with the most unrepijiing acquiescence 
 
 B
 
 34 
 
 from their Patan, Tartar, and Mahommedan invaders, 
 every shape and mode and alternation of oppression, 
 But neither the Tartar nor the Mahommedan sword 
 ^ could subdue their religion. 
 
 Well then, let us survey the ground we occupy, 
 before we advance further. We have a mighty 
 empire in India, from which a great revenue has 
 hitherto been derived, and an exuberant tide of 
 wealth may hereafter flow in upon us ; a civil and 
 a military government cheerfully and quietly obeyed 
 by many millions of its inhabitants, disciplined and 
 nurtured to that obedience by the peculiar genius 
 and character of the religion we are anxious to 
 destroy. It is required of us, in defiance of all 
 that experience and reason have taught us, that we 
 should throw away what we have acquired, or at 
 least incur the hazard of losing it, in order to erect 
 a spiritual ascendancy on the ruins of our political 
 dominion. Such, also, are the inconsistencies and 
 contradictions that beset us in this extraordinary 
 discussion, that the very Gentlemen*, who are the 
 mo,st eager for this Evangelical project, alarmed at 
 the perils that threaten their exclusive privileges, 
 and in defence of those privileges imploring us 
 
 * Mr. Grant, and Mr. Thornton.
 
 35 
 
 jealously to shut the door of India, even on those 
 who, being invited thither by commercial enterprize, 
 must have an obvious interest in carrying on a 
 quiet, prudent, and conciliatory intercourse with the 
 natives feel no scruple to tell us, that there is 
 no danger in opening every port to swarms of 
 Missionaries, and hosts of fanatics ; men, whose 
 nature and character it is, to consider them- 
 selves absolved from, all human restraints, and 
 free from all human motives, in effecting the 
 objects of their calling. Nay, the same rea- 
 soners, while they would convince us that so 
 fixed and immutable are the prejudices and cus- 
 toms of our subjects in the East, that it is absurd 
 to expect that they will consume our woollen 
 cloths and hard-ware manufactures, have no com- 
 punction, in the same breath, to contend that those 
 prejudices and customs, fixed and immutable as 
 they are, would by no means impede the reception 
 of the coarsest texture of theology, that can be 
 dealt out from the shops of the Anabaptists, or 
 woven in the loom of their fevered and fanatic 
 fancies. It is in vain to tell them, that every 
 European throat will be cut, if the Missio- 
 naries are encouraged, and the attempt at conver- 
 sion persisted in. The answer is These are
 
 36 
 
 ridiculous fears ; bugbears (to use the * Honourable 
 Member's pbrase) tbat haunt the imaginations of 
 that part of the House, who, having been in India, 
 are the least competent to pronounce on the sub- 
 ject. It savours indeed somewhat of paradox, 
 that we should be disqualified from bearing testi- 
 mony by the only circumstance that can entitle us 
 to credence. It is our fate, however, to hear things 
 pushed still nearer to the brink of absurdity. For 
 the Honourable Gentleman, to shew that no danger 
 is to be apprehended from Missionaries, assures us 
 that they have carried their zeal so far, as to pub- 
 lish and circulate the most indecent attacks upon 
 the customs and opinions of the natives, and that 
 no commotion has yet followed: a fact which 
 suggests a strong argument for recalling those who 
 are now in India, or preventing any more from 
 going out ; but which is not quite so clear in favour 
 of granting them fresh facilities. The fact itself, how- 
 ever, is questionable. The conduct of the Missio- 
 naries has already excited much disquietude amongst 
 the natives. The papers on the table, particularly the 
 letters from the Bengal Government, shew it. But 
 had they been wholly passive and silent, whilst these 
 
 * Mr. Wilberforce.
 
 37 
 
 persons were reviling their institutions, would it be 
 good reasoning to suppose, that there was no point 
 of endurance beyond which they would cease to be 
 the contemptuous witnessess only of the folly and 
 phrenzy of the Missionaries ? It is comparatively 
 but yesterday that we became the dominant power 
 in that country. When we had no political ascen- 
 dancy there, they were not alarmed at the pro- 
 spect of a religious one. It is not so, now. Every 
 other power in India has been gradually absorbed 
 into our own. They can bear that. They are 
 unmoved spectators of your rapid strides to terri- 
 torial conquest and political power. But when, 
 with all this territorial influence and political power, 
 you begin to make laws, and preach parliamentary 
 sermons about their religion, they will begin to 
 connect your politics and your religion together, 
 and endeavour to shake off the one, to secure them- 
 selves from the other. * s 
 
 What matters all this to a finished and graduated 
 doctor in the new Evangelical academies ? He is not 
 disturbed by the prospect of a little mischief. The 
 end sanctifies the means. The people of India are 
 sunk into such gross heathenism ; their superstitions 
 are so brutal ; their national character is such a cdm*- 
 found of fraud, falsehood, perjury, cunning, arid I
 
 38 
 
 know not what vices, that the duty of converting them 
 takes the lead of every other in importance, and is in- 
 fluenced neither by those times, seasons, or opportu- 
 nities which regulate and controul the other duties of 
 life. Such is the senseless cant of the day. I have no 
 scruple in saying, that this cant is founded on the 
 falsest assumptions . I say nothing of the total want of 
 philosophical precision in comprehending the mixed 
 character of an immense population covering an 
 immense territory within the terms of one general 
 national description. But this I will say ; that if 
 such is our opinion of our fellow subjects in India, 
 we are unfit to govern them. It is a mischievous 
 hypothesis, corrupting the very fountains of pure 
 and beneficent administration. Hatred and con- 
 tempt for those whom you govern, must, in the very 
 nature of things, convert your government into a 
 stern and savage oppression. On the other hand, 
 a favourable estimate of the character of this very 
 people (it is a striking passage in their history) 
 softened even the rugged features of a Mahommedan 
 government into a paternal and protecting policy. 
 The Emperor Akber, a name dear to Oriental stu- 
 dents, under the influence of an enlightened vizier 
 (Abulfazel) who had learned to form a correct 
 estimate of the Hindoo virtues, governed them, as
 
 39 
 
 we are told, with such equity and moderation as to 
 deserve and obtain the title, which has alone trans- 
 mitted his memory to posterity, of "guardian of 
 mankind." ^ - 
 
 I hope therefore that I heard not aright, when an 
 Honourable Member* discoursed of the Hindoos as 
 a people destitute of civilization, and degraded in the 
 scale of human intellect. Is it possible that such 
 things can be imagined ? Whence has the Honourable 
 Member, whose learning in their customs and history 
 I am bound by the courtesy of the House not to call 
 in question, whence has he derived this theory of their 
 moral and intellectual inferiority ? Is it in the re- 
 mains to be traced through that vast continent, of 
 a system of law and polity, which shews them to 
 have been a people abounding in all the arts which 
 embellish life, and all the institutions which up- 
 hold it, from an sera long before the dawn of our 
 most venerable establishments, and before the pri- 
 maeval silence of our forests had been broken by the 
 voice of man ; professing also the great principles of 
 natural theology, the providence of God, and the 
 future rewards of virtue, before our ancestors had 
 arrived at the rudest elements of a religion ? Is it, 
 
 * Mr. W. Smith.
 
 40 
 
 in that habitual government of the passions, that 
 absolute subjugation of the will to the reason, which 
 would shame the Stoic doctrine, and falls little 
 short of that purity and perfection of the Christian 
 discipline which the best of us rather hopes, than ex- 
 pects to attain ? Indeed, when I turn my eyes either 
 to the present condition or antient grandeur of 
 that country; when I contemplate the magnifi- 
 cence of her structures ; her spacious reservoirs 
 constructed at an immense expence, pouring 
 fertility and plenty over the land, the monu- 
 ments of a benevolence expanding its cares over 
 remote ages ; when I survey the solid and em- 
 bellished architecture of her temples ; the elaborate 
 and exquisite skill of her manufactures and fabrics ; 
 her literature, sacred and profane; her gaudy and 
 enamelled poetry, on which a wild and prodigal fancy 
 has lavished all its opulence : when I turn to her phi- 
 losophers, lawyers, and moralists, who have left the 
 oracles of political and ethical wisdom, to restrain the 
 passions and to awe the vices which disturb the com- 
 monwealth ; when I look at the peaceful and harmo- 
 nious alliances of families, guarded and secured by 
 the household virtues ; when I see amongst a cheer- 
 ful and well-ordered society the benignant and soften- 
 ing influences of religion and morality ; a system of
 
 41 
 
 manners, founded on a mild and polished obeisance, 
 and preserving the surface of social life smooth 
 and unruffled; I cannot hear without surprise, 
 mingled with horror, of sending out Baptists and \ 
 Anabaptists to civilize or convert such a people, at 
 the hazard of disturbing or deforming institutions, 
 which appear to have hitherto been the means 
 ordained by Providence of making them virtuous 
 and happy. 
 
 Where is the evidence to support the bill of >U$ 
 indictment which the Honourable Member has 
 drawn up against the natives of India ? Here we 
 are, as usual, treated with general and unmeaning 
 invective. But it seems, that the Hindoos are 
 addicted to perjury ; and Sir James Mackintosh is 
 cited as an authority, because he lamented, in pretty 
 strong language, the prevalence of judicial perjury, 
 from the numerous instances of it which fell under 
 his own observation, as Judge of the Recorder's Court 
 at Bombay, a jurisdiction, by the bye, scarcely 
 exceeding five miles. And what judge in this country 
 has not made the same complaint ? But is this a 
 fair sample of the national character of Hindostan ? 
 Is it a rational ground upon which criminal judg- 
 ment ought to be pronounced on the aggregate 
 population of that vast territory ? What would be
 
 42 
 
 thought of that reasoner on the manners and moral 
 qualities of the people of Great Britain, who, hap- 
 pening to be present at the trial of a horse-cause 
 at Nisi Prius, and hearing twenty witnesses swear- 
 ing flatly to the soundness and perfection of the 
 animal when he was sold, and as many on the other 
 side swearing that he was spavined or wind-galled 
 and a mass of defects, should jump into the con- 
 clusion, that perjury was the general characteristic 
 of her enlightened and cultivated inhabitants ? Is it 
 candid, or just, or correct, to dip your hands into 
 the feculence and pollution of a great empire for a 
 specimen of its general character ? The Hindoos, 
 like every mixed portion of mankind, are infected 
 with the great and lesser vices, which disfi- 
 gure human society: fraud, theft, perjury, and 
 the other offences, which it is the province of 
 law and police to keep down. But is that enough 
 for the Honourable Gentlemen, who are so intent 
 on the conversion of the Hindoos ? Will that 
 chequered state of virtue and crime, which with 
 different modifications is the moral condition of 
 every civilized nation, authorise a wild and visionary 
 attempt to pull down antient establishments which 
 have struck their root deep into the hearts and affec- 
 tions of a people ? At any rate, these revolutionary
 
 projectors have a tremendous burden of proof 
 thrown upon them. They are bound to prove that 
 the people, whose habits, laws, and religion they 
 are about to break up, is so far depressed beneath 
 our own level in morals and civilization ; so bru- 
 talized by their superstitions ; so regardless of that 
 universal law of nature which holds together the 
 common confederation of man ; so loose from the 
 yoke of manners, and the restraints of moral disci- 
 pline, and, by consequence, incapable of holding 
 those relations which pre-suppose and require some 
 progress in culture and refinement ; in one word, 
 is in so helpless and savage a condition, as to con- 
 stitute it a duty on our part to give them a religion, 
 in order to raise them to an equality with the species 
 to which they nominally belong. 
 
 But these are reasonings, which however ap- ' \ 
 plicable to the savages that roam along the 
 river Niger, or the Caffres and Hottentots who 
 people the south of that continent, are not 
 quite so applicable to the natives of India. 
 They, Sir, are under the guidance of a religious 
 system, favourable in the main to morality and 
 right conduct ; mixed indeed with superstitions 
 which dishonour, and absurdities which deform it ; 
 but many of which are already worn out ; and many
 
 44 
 
 will hereafter give way to more enlightened habits 
 of thinking in the progress of that gradual march 
 of human societies, which reason and philosophy 
 
 !tell us is never stationary or retrograde in the affairs 
 of mankind. As to their civilization (it is almost 
 J ridiculous gravely to argue the question), let it not 
 be forgotten what Colonel Munro, not the least 
 intelligent of the witnesses who have been exami- 
 ned upon the state of India, told us with so much 
 emphasis : that, " if civilization was to become an 
 " article of trade between the two countries, he was 
 " convinced that this country would gain by the 
 " import cargo." The same witness has distinctly 
 pointed out to us in the Hindoos one of the most in- 
 fallible indications of refinement which can charac~ 
 terize a cultured people. It is a maxim which history 
 and philosophy have established, that no nation can 
 be barbarous or uncivilized, where the female con- 
 dition is respectable and happy. That gentleman, 
 among the most striking of the Hindoo cha- 
 racteristics, has enumerated the deference and 
 respect which is paid to the women ; the obeisance 
 which usuriously pays back what it receives in 
 the grace and splendour which it throws over 
 social life, and which, producing and reproduced, 
 is at once the parent and the fruit of good insti-
 
 45 
 
 tutions. The Honourable Member for Nor- 
 wich, however, not unmindful of the obvious 
 effect of that testimony, triumphantly quotes 
 from the Institutes of Menu, the great lawgiver 
 of India, a passage in which I think six cardinal 
 vices are attributed to women : and then he asks 
 us, whether the influence of that religion can be 
 beneficial, when it appears, from such high authority, 
 that the female condition is so despicable and de^ 
 graded ? Those vices were, an inordinate love of 
 finery, immoderate lust, anger, and other propen- 
 sities, which I will not enumerate. Now, the 
 Honourable Member appears to me strangely 
 inconclusive in his argument. The lawgiver, 
 like other moral teachers, denounces the frail- 
 ties and infirmities to which the heart is in- 
 clined. Looking into the female bosom, he found 
 what the female bosom, in every state of society, 
 would furnish ; a fluttering, busy group of vanities, 
 of desires, of passions ; the theme of satirists and 
 moral writers in all ages and countries. Pope said, 
 that " Every woman is at heart a rake." Would it not 
 be more than nonsense to adopt it as the criterion of 
 the manners or morals of our countrywomen ? But 
 the denunciation of failings to which we are prone by 
 the very law and condition of our existence^ is ne
 
 46 
 
 proof of their undue or excessive prevalence. It 
 is legitimate reasoning to infer the defective mo- 
 rality of a country, from its immoral practices ; but 
 not to prove its immoral practices by the moral 
 admonitions against them. It is unfair to infer a 
 debauched and vicious state of female manners, 
 from the precepts of moralists, or the denunciation 
 of lawgivers against female vice and debauchery, 
 or to deduce the existence of the offence from the 
 existence of the propensity. Religion, law, and 
 morality are barriers between propensities and 
 vices. To say that women are by nature subject 
 to the impulses of lust, is to say nothing more, than 
 that they are subject, by the laws of Nature, to an 
 instinct which she ordained for the conservation of 
 the species ; an instinct, which, 
 
 " Through some certain strainers well refined, 
 
 Is gentle love ; 
 
 and against the unhallowed or unlawful indulgence 
 of which the warning of morality and wisdom is 
 wisely interposed. The inference deducible from 
 the passage is not that the morals of the women are 
 defective, but that the system of moral precept is 
 perfect. It shews a pure and finished moral law, 
 which, winding itself into all the labyrinths and 
 recesses of the heart, anxiously shuts up every crevice
 
 47 
 
 and avenue through which vice or passion may pol- 
 lute it. The same observations will apply to the 
 rest of the catalogue. If Menu said that the women 
 of India were prone to anger, does it prove that 
 every woman in India is a scold ? But I will dwell 
 no longer on an argument which carries with it its 
 own refutation. 
 
 The natives of India are a sober, quiet, inoffen- 
 sive, industrious race; passive, courteous, faithful. 
 I fear, were we to descend for an illustration of their 
 national character to the lowest classes of their popu- 
 lation, that an equal portion of our own countrymen, 
 taken from the same condition of life, would cut 
 but a despicable figure in the comparison. To be 
 sure, we have heard much declamation on the im- 
 moral exhibitions of the dancing girls; a class 
 of women dedicated most undeniably to pro- 
 stitution, but, at the same time, not to shameless 
 open prostitution, and by no means obtruding 
 themselves upon public observation. Yet, in 
 striking the balance of national character, it would 
 be rather unjust to overlook the disgusting spec- 
 tacles of vice and brutality exhibited in the streets 
 of the metropolis of this country, from which we 
 are to send out Missionaries to reform the dancing 
 girls of Hindostan ; spectacles; which choke the public 
 way, and shock the public eye with all that vice
 
 48 
 
 has in it of the loathsome, polluted, or deformed. 
 Is it uncandid to observe, that these victims of de- 
 pravity afford at home, at our own doors, and under 
 our own eyes, a much more ample harvest for the 
 spiritual labours of our Evangelical reformers, than 
 that which they are seeking abroad ? With what 
 colour of reason, or good sense, or consistency, can 
 we send out crusades against the same vices in 
 distant countries, with which our own is overrun ? 
 With what face can we impute those vices to their 
 defective morality or pernicious superstitions, 
 while, in the very bosom of Christendom, among 
 the most polished states and the most enlightened 
 communities, they are shooting up with still ranker 
 luxuriance ? There is however one relation of life, 
 on which all its comfort and most of its security 
 depends, and in this the Hindoos are punctiliously 
 faithful ; I mean that of servants. I cannot help 
 demanding the testimony of those who have resided 
 in India, to this fact ; a fact, which pleads for them, 
 I should hope, with the more efficacy, from the 
 dreadful occurrences which have of late destroyed 
 the confidence, and impaired the safety of that 
 most important of the social connexions in this 
 country. You entrust your servants in India, with- 
 out apprehension, with money, jewels, plate. You 
 sleep amongst them with open doors. You travel
 
 49 
 
 through remote and unfrequented countries, and 
 your life and property are safe under their protec- 
 tion. Can all this be the fruit of a superstition, 
 which morality and right reason require us to ex- 
 tirpate, as a nuisance and an abomination ? I know 
 not, whether the Hindoo virtues are the offspring 
 of their religion, or their nature. Those virtues 
 have been remarked by all who have resided there. 
 They will not be denied, but tfy those, in whom a 
 selfish and fanatical pride has extinguished eveiy 
 spark of charity or candour'. But their religion, im- 
 perfect as it is when compared with the purer 
 morality and more efficient sanctions of our own, 
 must not be excluded from the influences which 
 have moulded the Hindoo character. Their sacred 
 books unquestionably contain the leading principles 
 of morality imparted in all the varied modes of 
 fable, apophthegm, and allegory, and clothed, in 
 the characteristic graces of Oriental diction. The 
 duties of conjugal life, temperance, parental af- 
 fection, filial piety, truth, justice, mercy, reverence 
 for the aged, respect for the young, hospitality even 
 to enemies, with the whole class and category of minor 
 offices; these are not only strongly enforced, but 
 beautifully inculcated in their Vedas and Purahnas.
 
 The immolation of widows, however, on the 
 funeral pile of their deceased husbands, and the 
 dreadful custom of infanticide are made the prin- 
 cipal charges in the Honourable Member's bill of 
 indictment against the Hindoos. As to the former 
 practice, it is right to observe, that it is enjoined 
 by no positive precept of the Hindoo religion. 
 On the contrary, one of the most authoritative 
 of their sacred texts declares, " that a wife, 
 " whether she ascends the funeral pile of her 
 " lord, or survives for his benefit (that is, to perform 
 certain expiatory ceremonies in his behalf), " is still 
 " a faithful wife." I cite from the text of Mr. Cole- 
 brooke's Digest of the Hindoo law. It is, in truth, a 
 species of voluntary martyrdom, meritorious, but 
 by no means obligatory. Shocking as it is to the 
 moral taste, I know not, whether it is strictly 
 chargeable on the Hindoo religion. It is a species 
 of overstrained interpretation of its duties; and 
 the offspring of that fanaticism which will inevitably 
 grow up, and has more or less grown up, under every 
 system of religion. But let us not look at the 
 frequency of the sacrifice abstractedly from the im- 
 mense population of India. For it is not a correct 
 mode of making the estimate, to take the number
 
 51 
 
 of these immolations in one particular province, 
 and then multiply them by the whole extent of 
 India ; a criterion, by which Mr. Chambers has 
 unfairly computed their prevalence. In many 
 provinces instances of this superstition have 
 never, in others very rarely, happened. But it 
 may safely be affirmed, that the custom itself is 
 wearing away even in the northern provinces. 
 Yet conceding, to their fullest extent, the state- 
 ments of those Gentlemen who have given us 
 such warm pictures of the horrors of this dreadful 
 rite, the evil could not, with any precision, 
 be attributed to the Hindoo religion. It may be j 
 
 an erroneous interpretation of its ordinances, 
 
 / 
 
 an aberration from its principles, but by no means 
 a necessary consequence from its precepts. What 
 would be said of the candour and fairness of' that 
 enemy of the Christian faith, who should array 
 against Christianity all the absurdities, nay, the 
 cruelties practised by persons calling themselves 
 Christians, in obedience, as they imagine, to its ordi- 
 nances ? With what affecting pictures might he not 
 embellish the controversy? What dark and gloomy 
 shades might he not throw over that pure and per- 
 fect dispensation of happiness to man! Might he 
 not, for instance^ describe the horrid sacrifice, still
 
 52 
 
 practised in the greater part of Christendom, which 
 dooms youth and beauty to the walls of a Convent ? 
 With what nice strokes of art might he not 
 describe the lingering torments of that living death, 
 compared to which the flames which consume the 
 Hindoo widow, are almost mercy and benevolence 
 itself? How might he not dilate upon the suffer- 
 ings of the victim, as all the scenes of youth and 
 the visions of hope first recede from her eyes ; 
 when the feverish devotion, which lifted her for a 
 while above the world, begins to subside, and all its 
 beloved scenes of friendship, of paternal endear- 
 ment, its loves, its gaieties, throng again upon her 
 remembrance ? I know the argument, with which 
 a Protestant reasoner would defend his faith. We 
 have reformed all this. We have brought Chris- 
 tianity back to its original purity. And is the 
 Hindoo, in whose religious code the self-devotion 
 of the widow is no more to be found, than the 
 dedication of nuns to celibacy and confinement is 
 to be found in the gospel is he to be denied the 
 benefit of the same argument ? The same kind of 
 reasoning is applicable to the other crime, that of 
 infanticide, on which the Honourable Member* 
 
 . . - -. ..i j 
 
 * Mr. W. Smith.
 
 53 
 
 also enlarged. So far from its being an injunction 
 of the Hindoo religion, it is strongly inhibited by 
 their law. Nay, the horror of this practice seems 
 to have been so present to the mind of the law- 
 giver, that it is the standard both of the guilt and 
 punishment of acts, which have the remotest 
 tendency to prevent the birth of the offspring. For 
 it is declared by Menu, that a woman who bathes 
 immediately after conception, commits a crime 
 equal to infanticide. Infanticide did indeed pre- 
 vail in one or two provinces, and superstition and 
 ignorance clothed it in the garb of a religious 
 duty. But by what legitimate reasoning can 
 a practice be charged on their religion, which 
 that religion has not only not enjoined, but 
 absolutely inhibited; and which so far from being 
 prevalent through Hindostan, (as it has been most 
 unfairly stated,) has scarcely been heard of, but 
 amongst the inhabitants of a very few provinces, 
 bearing scarce any proportion to the general 
 population of the country? Granting, however, 
 the existence of the evil, are there no means of 
 subduing it, or of bringing a people back to the 
 instincts of nature and of affection, but by letting 
 loose amongst them a description of reformers, 
 who will iu all probability drive them into a more
 
 54 
 
 obstinate adherence to the very crimes, and errors 
 they pretend to correct ? The evil, however, has 
 been extirpated, and without the aid of Mission- 
 aries, by Mr. Duncan, the late governor of 
 Bombay, in one of the countries under his govern- 
 ment ; and Lord Wellesley, in the same manner, 
 abolished the unnatural custom of exposing children 
 at the Island of Sauger. How did they proceed ? 
 They proclaimed to the natives, upon the authority 
 of their own Pundits and Brahmins, that the prac- 
 tice was unlawful, and as much at variance with the 
 injunctions of the Hindoo religion as with uni- 
 versal law and natural reason ; at the same time 
 denouncing the punishment of murder on those 
 who should hereafter commit the offence. Here 
 then is an instance in which that religion inhibits 
 and corrects the very evil of which it is supposed 
 to have been the parent. 
 
 So much then for the vices of the Hindoo cha- 
 racter, and the brutal superstitions (such is the 
 polished eloquence of the London Tavern) of the 
 Hindoo religion. But, Sir, it is a singular symptom 
 of this epidemic enthusiasm for the conversion of the 
 Hindoos, that Missionaries are to be sent out of 
 all sects and persuasions and opinions, however 
 diversified and contradictory. No matter^ what
 
 55 
 
 X 
 
 sort of Christianity is imparted, so that it goes 
 by that name : Calvinists, Unitarians, Methodists, 
 Moravians. Provided India is supplied with a plen- 
 tiful assortment of sects, no one seems to feel the 
 least solicitude whether the Christianity that is 
 to be taught there, be the genuine language of its 
 author, or the dream of mysticism and folly. I 
 own, that to me it does not appear quite a matter 
 of indifference, if Missionaries must be sent out, 
 what the doctrines are, that they are to teach. 
 I am disposed to think, that Christianity may be 
 imparted in such forms as to render it something 
 more than problematic, whether it would be an 
 improvement on the religion it supplanted ; that 
 it may be so denied and adulterated in the vessels 
 from which it is administered, as to lose all its re- 
 storing and healthful virtues. Are there not nominal 
 systems of Christianity, which are at an equal 
 distance from its primitive perfection with the very 
 superstition which we are striving to abolish ? It 
 might, therefore, become an important investiga- 
 tion, whether the blessings of a corrupted Chris- 
 tianity so far outweigh the evils of a tolerably 
 enlightened heathenism, as to make it worth 
 while to exchange that which is appropriately 
 Hindoo, for that which, after all, is not Christian.
 
 56 
 
 For instance, if a Christianity is sent out to them, 
 attributing to the beneficent Author of nature the 
 same morose, capricious, revengeful passions which 
 agitate the human tyrant, but with infinity to his 
 power, and endless duration to his inflictions ; if 
 it was the primary tenet of that doctrine that the 
 same Being had made a fanciful and arbitrary des- 
 tination of a large portion of his creatures, without 
 blame or delinquency, nay, before their birth, to 
 everlasting misery; and to have as fancifully and 
 capriciously destined the rest to an eternal happi- 
 ness, unearned by one real merit, or one virtuous 
 aspiration ; and if, in this gloomy creed, an assent 
 to mystical propositions was the chief claim to 
 salvation, while it pronounced the purest and most 
 exalted morals to be equivalent to the most 
 abandoned wickedness*;; reason and common sense 
 might be allowed to throw out a few scruples 
 against the subversion of the established morals or 
 theology of India, 'however absurd or supersti- 
 tious, if such was the system by which they were to 
 be superseded. Suppose, then, that the Mis- 
 sionaries of this persuasion were to establish their 
 
 * These consequences have been unanswerably traced to 
 the Calvinistic scheme by the Bishop of Lincoln, in his learned 
 Refutation of Calvinism, p. 258.
 
 57 
 
 creed amongst the natives of Hindostan. It is 
 obvious that they will have lost all the excellencies i 
 of the Hindoo system ; but who will say that they ? 
 will have got the advantages of the Christian : 
 Compute their gains. Amongst other prominent 
 peculiarities of their religion, its severe and invio- 
 lable prohibitions against the use of intoxicating 
 liquors will have been overthrown. It is scarcely 
 possible to estimate the complete revolution, which 
 this single circumstance will produce in their 
 manners and morals. It will destroy every shade 
 and tint of their national character. It will over- 
 turn the mounds, by which they have been secured 
 from the whole rabble of vices, which scourge the 
 Western world ; vices, of which drunkenness is the 
 prolific parent, and which render the mass of the 
 population of our own countiy the most profligate 
 and abandoned in Europe. It is not that other 
 religions do not prohibit this species of intem- 
 perance ; but the Oriental are the only ones that 
 render it impossible. I really believe, that if the 
 foundations of your power in India were accurately 
 explored, you would find that it was to this national 
 peculiarity (which must be destroyed, if you disturb 
 the sanctions of their law and their religion) you 
 chiefly owed the discipline of your native army,
 
 58 
 
 and the obedience of your native subjects. In 
 exchange for this, they will have been initiated into 
 the mysteries of election and reprobation. I leave 
 it to those who are versed in moral calculations, 
 to decide, what will have been gained to ourselves 
 by giving them Calvinism and fermented liquors ; 
 and whether predestination and gin will be a com- 
 pensation to the natives of India, for the changes, 
 which will overwhelm their habits, and morals, and 
 religion ? 
 
 Can we overlook, also, the difficulties which will 
 be interposed to the progress of conversion by the 
 jarring and contradictory doctrines of the Missio- 
 naries themselves ? For there seems to be no kind 
 of anxiety to introduce into India that unity of 
 faith, on which the mind of man may find settle- 
 ment and repose. The Church of England is to 
 send out no Missionaries at all. She is provided 
 indeed with her Bishop and her Archdeacons ; 
 and is to loll, in dignified ease, upon her epis- 
 copal cushions. But the supporters of the Clause 
 have reserved all their zeal for the Secta- 
 rians. The whole task of conversion is aban- 
 doned to them ; and the Parliament of Great 
 Britain is called upon to grant new facilities to the 
 diffusion of dissent and schism from every doctrine
 
 59 
 
 which the Law and the Civil Magistrate have 
 sanctioned. It is a most ingenious scheme for the 
 dissemination, on the widest scale, of every opinion 
 and dogma that is at variance with the National 
 Church. But is it the best way of communicating 
 Christianity to a people hitherto estranged from its 
 blessings, to start among them so many sects and 
 doctrines ? You will have Calvinists, Independents, 
 Presbyterians, Moravians, Swedenborgians, Uni- 
 tarians, and other tribes and denominations. It is 
 not, of course, proposed to give them an Eclectic 
 Christianity composed of a little of each ; or a 
 piebald, incongruous, patchwork Christianity, that 
 is to combine all the varieties into which the Chris- 
 tian world is divided. Has it, however, never oc- 
 curred to these Gentlemen, that although schisms 
 and sects may, and in the nature of things must, 
 arise subsequently to the establishment of a new 
 religion, it is in vain to think of beginning a religion 
 with these contrarieties and divisions ? The Hindoo 
 may fairly enough be permitted to ask : " Gentlemen, 
 " which- is the Christianity 1 am to embrace ? You 
 " are proposing to us a religion which is to sup- \ 
 " plant the rites, the doctrines, the laws, the man- 
 lt ners of our fathers ; and you yourselves are not ; 
 " agreed what that religion is. You require us to
 
 
 60 
 
 " assent to certain mysteries, of an incarnation, a 
 " miraculous conception, and to other tenets, which 
 " some of you hold to be of the vital essence of your 
 " creed. But others amongst you deride these 
 " mysteries : and the very passages in your Shasters, 
 " to which you refer for the testimony of your doc- 
 *' trines, they tell us are forged and interpolated." 
 Surely such perplexities as these must create doubts 
 and distractions, which will frustrate the whole 
 scheme of conversion. 
 
 It will be perceived, that I have chiefly confined 
 my remarks to the Hindoos, who, in all questions 
 relative to India, must occupy the principal share 
 of the discussion. They will of course apply with 
 equal force to the Mahommedans. Bernier, 
 who travelled into India during the Moguf govern- 
 ment, who has been cited as an authority in this 
 debate, and whose writings -were admitted by the 
 House of Lords, on the trial of Mr. Hastings, as 
 good evidence of Oriental customs, and who, be- 
 sides, evinces no inconsiderable portion of zeal for 
 the introduction of Christianity into the East, 
 having witnessed the efforts of the Capuchin and 
 Jesuit Missionaries at the courts of Delhi and Agra, 
 ispeaks most despairingly as to the practicability 
 fcf converting the Mussulmaun population. He
 
 61 
 
 cautions his readers against the stories that other 
 travellers had spread of the progress of Christianity 
 in the Mogul states, and against too easy a credulity 
 in the facility of diffusing it. The sect, he says, (I 
 quote from memory) is too libertine and attractive to 
 be abandoned. It is the necessary tendency of doc- 
 trines which have been propagated originally by the 
 sword, afterwards to spread of themselves ; nor do I 
 see, he adds, that they can be overthrown or extirpated, 
 but by the means by which they have been propagated 
 unless by one of those extraordinary interpositions 
 of Heaven, which we may occasionally look for, and 
 of which striking appearances have been exhibited 
 in China and Japan. Now, Sir, need I refer the 
 House to the result of the attempt in China and 
 Japan, which M. Bernier did not live to witness? 
 
 But I am aware, that these reasonings would be 
 entitled to little weight, if there were not absolute 
 peril in the attempt. Perhaps any kind of Chris* 
 tianity, even the gloom of Calvinism, or th 
 impoverished and scanty creed of the Unitarian, j 
 would be an improvement on the ancient religion \ 
 of India. That, unfortunately, is not now the 
 question. It is one of the necessities of human 
 affairs, that the choice of man is for the most 
 part placed betwixt evils. The preservation of an
 
 62 
 
 empire is delegated to us. No matter how it was 
 obtained. It is in our hands. Of all tenures, it 
 is the most delicate. The threads and ligaments 
 which hold it together are so fine and gossamery, 
 that one incautious movement may snap it asunder. 
 It is a chain which no artificer can repair. But 
 we hold it on this simple condition abstinence 
 from all aggression on the religions of the 
 country. If the existence of those religions 
 be an evil, it is one which we must endure. The 
 alternative is the loss of our empire. It is 
 idle casuistry to set ourselves about gravely ba- 
 lancing and computing these evils, as if they 
 were arithmetical quantities. It is, in truth, 
 only with the political question, that the House 
 ought to concern itself. Political considerations 
 in this place have an acknowledged ascendancy. 
 All the dignity of our character, and the efficiency 
 of our function, would be destroyed, if our theology 
 was admitted into a partnership with our policy; 
 and religious enthusiasm, the most intractable of 
 all passions, should disturb us in our legislative 
 duties. In this view of the subject, it is 
 enough for us, that the religious revolution 
 which is proposed, involves in it political 
 changes which must destroy our Eastern establish-
 
 63 
 
 merits. Without tracing all its consequences, it is 
 sufficient to keep before our eyes, this direct and 
 primary one ; the abolition of castes, that astonish- 
 ing and singular institution, which, compressing 
 the restlessness of ambition and the impatience of 
 subjection by the united weight of an irreversible 
 law and an inveterate habit, gives you sixty millions 
 of passive, obedient, industrious citizens, of whom 
 the great mass are by that very institution, which 
 you propose to abolish, irrevocably disarmed, and 
 destined to the pursuits and arts of peace. It is 
 enough for that practical, sober wisdom, which 
 has hitherto presided over our councils, that the 
 overthrow of such an institution would let loose all 
 the elements of strife, and discontent, of active and 
 robust rebellion, before which your dreams of em- 
 pire, of commerce, of revenue, would be scattered 
 as vapour by the blast. I ask you, then, whether it 
 is worth while to make an attempt, which must be 
 subversive of our existence in India ? The moral 
 obligation to diffuse Christianity, binding and autho- 
 ritative as it is, vanishes, when it is placed against the 
 ills and mischiefs of the experiment. There, never 
 was a moral obligation to produce woe, and blood- 
 shed, and civil disorder. Such an obligation would 
 not exist, were the wildest barbarians the subjects of
 
 64 
 
 the experiment. But, when, in addition to these 
 considerations, which are sanctioned by justice, and 
 policy, and virtue, it is remembered, that the people 
 we are so anxious to convert, are, in the main, a 
 moral and virtuous people ; not undisciplined to 
 civil arts, nor uninfluenced by those principles of 
 religion which give security to life, and impart 
 consolation in death ; the obligation assumes a con- 
 trary character ; and common sense, reason, and 
 even religion itself, cry out aloud against our inter- 
 ference. I shall therefore vote for the amendment. 
 I am sensible, Sir, that the matter is not ex- 
 hausted. But I feel too deeply the indulgence of 
 the House, to abuse it with any farther observa- 
 tions on a subject, which unfolds itself as I ad- 
 vance, and to which I feel, the more I think of it, 
 my own incompetence to render even imperfect 
 justice. 
 
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