Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 26.1.2

26.1.2

very different in that from their native Princes, who left all those livelihoods to the subjects — Fifty thousand Cavalry, and ninety thousand Infantry kept up in only these three provinces — The seventh cause is, in the exorbitant powers left to Zemindars, a race deemed incorrigible in all ages — Eighth reason, the slowness of proceedings in the Council of Calcutta, and in the subordinate Councils — The ninth is, that wrong custom of giving employments and offices by seniority of rank — Tenth, partiality of the English to their own countrymen — Eleventh, establishment of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Calcutta — Twelfth, the English decide in their closets, what ought not to be decided only in public. Nothing is clearer in itself, or better understood by men of intelligence and penetration, than that the gradation of climates is such, that every tract of land has properties of its own, which have been denied to others. In other words, that in consequence of some hidden causes, in a certain tract of land, the diversity of the soil produces immancably a diversity in the genius of the inhabitants, and that this diversity is so self-evident, that the man of perspicuity needs no discourse or argument to be convinced of it ;