The native officers of our judicial and revenue establishments, or of our native army, are everywhere a bond of union between the governing and the governed.[22] Discharging everywhere honestly and ably their duties to their employers, they tend everywhere to secure to them the respect and affection of the people.  His Highness Muhammad S’aid Khan, the reigning Nawab of Rampur, still talks with pride of the days when he was one of our Deputy Collectors in the adjoining district of Badaon, and of the useful knowledge he acquired in that office.[23] He has still one brother a Sadr Amin in the district of Mainpuri, and another a Deputy Collector in the Hamirpur District; and neither would resign his situation under the Honourable Company to take office in Rampur at three times the rate of salary, when invited to do so on the accession of the eldest brother to the ‘masnad’.  What they now enjoy they owe to their own industry and integrity; and they are proud to serve a government which supplies them with so many motives for honest exertion, and leaves them nothing to fear, as long as they exert themselves honestly.  To be in a situation which it is generally understood that none but honest and able men can fill[24] is of itself a source of pride, and the sons of native princes and men of rank, both Hindoo and Muhammadan, everywhere prefer taking office in our judicial and revenue establishments to serving under native rulers, where everything depends entirely upon the favour or frown of men in power, and ability, industry, and integrity can secure nothing.[25]

Notes: 

1.  This can no longer be safely assumed as true.  Newspapers now penetrate to almost every village.

2.  Fyzabad (Faizabad) was the capital for a short time of the Nawab Wazirs of Oudh.  In 1775 Asaf-ud-daula moved his court to Lucknow.  The city of Ajodhya adjoining Fyzabad is of immense antiquity.

3.  In. the south of Oudh.  It is not now a military station.

4.  Monghyr (Munger) is the chief town of the district of the same name, which lies to the east of Patna.

5.  August, 1811.

6.  Such a spectacle is no longer to be seen in India.  Four or five inconspicuous railway carriages or motor-cars now take the place of the ‘magnificent fleet’.

7.  The percentage is 29 1/2.

8.  All these arrangements have been changed.  Military pensioners are now paid through the civil authorities of each district.

9.  Wages are now generally higher.

10.  This sentence might misled readers unacquainted with the details of Indian administration.  Every official who satisfies the formal rules of the Accounts department gets his pension, as a matter of course, in accordance with those rules, whether his service has been able and faithful or not.  The pension list is often the last refuge of incompetent and dishonest officials, to which they are gladly consigned by code-bound superiors, who cannot otherwise get rid of them.  Nor am I certain that British rule ’grows more and more upon the affections’ of those subject to it.