§ MR. O'DONNELLI beg to give Notice, as an Amendment to Mr. Hanbury's Motion, to move—
That, having heard the extract from the 'Nineteenth Century' on the subject of extraordinary military burthens upon India, and in view of the often-condemned but unreformed abuses of Government and Administration in India; the imposition of unjust and inquisitorial taxation upon the industrious poor; the violation of the perpetual laud settlement in Bengal by arbitrary cesses; the coercion of Native opinion and the discouragement of Native literature by gagging Acts of the most despotic description; the unrepresented condition of the Indian people both in their own land and in the Imperial Parliament; the habitual waste of the revenues levied upon those un represented masses; the recurring famines, largely occa- 1165 sioned by the neglect of the public works of the former rulers of India, and aggravated by the reckless and ignorant application of the means of relief and by the practical immunity from accountability enjoyed by the higher officials; the liability of the processes of Law to the interference of the Executive power; as well as considering an immense list of individual grievances and wrongs, this House is of opinion, that no service could be performed towards the Crown more valuable or more opportune than to point out the impolicy and danger of imposing on the people of India extraordinary military burthens in support of the Foreign policy of an Empire from whose free Constitution they are excluded and in whose essential benefits they are denied a share.