of those, opposed to the alteration of the Corn Laws written and published such a play as this Nil Durpan, charging on the manufacturers of England as body, and on their wives such crimes and such baseness as is here charged against Englishmen and Englishwomen in India; had it been established by undoubted evidence that such a drama had been printed under the superintendence of a clergyman and that by his orders 500 copies of the same had been sent to Downing street and had been circulated secretly by the Queen's Government—circulated in such a way that those attacked could only hear of it by accident, and after the effect desired by its circulators had been produced,—what would have been said and done by that Parliament and people of England in such a case?
What is there supposed as occurring in England has now occurred in India, and the Association confidently believe that the same measure of justice will be meted out to them, as their countrymen in England would have received.
By order of the Landholder's and Commercial Association of British India.
W. F. FERGUSSON.
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