100 HYDERABAD, 25th April, 1891. "Those that have eyes to see with and brains to understand, are fully convinced that the policy of the present administration, which is based on the wise and far-seeing principles of justice, economy and impartiality is bound to prevail in the end." So writes a correspondent from Hyderabad to one of your Calcutta contemporaries. And I hope you will allow me to say a few words about the principles of justice, economy and impartia- lity" that, the above-quoted writer thinks, underlie Sir Asman- ja's administration. If by principles I understand consistent rules of conduct, I find little evidence of justice, economy and impartiality guiding the present administration. Wherever convenient, whenever the interests of those in power did not suffer or there was little chance of their being thwarted in their plans for self-aggrandisement, justice was done, I admit, eco- nomy was enforced and impartiality shown. But when opponents were concerned, where were justice, economy and impartiality? The records of the recent doings of the present Government do not point to one single instance in which an official or an individual obnoxious to the powers-that-be had justice for the asking. Was it justice that prevailed with Sir Asmanja's "tried and trusted adviser. Vicar-ul-Mulk." when he got the peisheush on the principality of Anagondi raised from Rs.10,000 to Rs. 18,000 in the face of the testimony of two of the Government depates to the effect that the samastan was not in a condition to pay any peishoush? Was it justice which in- duced the unhappy state of things in Gurganta? Was it justice that enabled an overpaid creditor to take forcible pessession of a Raja's villages and direct the Raja to go to a Civil Court to establishi his right to the villages and get them restored to him? Was it impartiality that demanded a bail of 2 lakhs of Rupees from the city Sowear charged with forgery, and a bail of Rs. 10,000 from Abdul Wahil charged with murder-that tried Jaya Rao and others by a Magistrate and appointsd a commission to inquire into the charges against the Nawab Hussan Bin Abdulla and the Raja Srinivas Rao, that enabled the Nawab
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