[21] I deprecate any innovation upon these principles in the
branches of the public service to which they have already been
applied with such eminent success; and I advocate their extension to
all other branches as the surest means of making them what they ought
and what we must all most fervently wish them to be.
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'.
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