1 ADV ANTiLOBS OF THE GOVERNMENT. X77
2 hm nUM Ar gautal tod emdhl tiA,- ifmrnthe-^pncnmi bf adliMw
3 €Bee totlie.preaent .i7fleiii»' and by dbtaining die odntoii «f tlM'ttfr*
4 doiL Thus the Ehauiu would be MOt, m diej now are^ to-pcmde
5 Uieir triba to oontribnte to the general revenue. Tbay wmdili find
6 the p^ple*8 ignorance of the national exigencies, a bar to their
7 gmating any addition to the estabUflhed supplies 1 and it auieljr woidd
8 not be an unnatural expedient to preml on them to dapnto one or
9 two of the wisest of their Mulliks, to asceMlUn at the court the real
10 akate of the public aflbirs. An elective aasemhly would thus be
11 formed, of which every individual would be dosdy coimeoted with his
12 constituents, and would be r^arded by them as their natural and
13 hereditary head ; they would represent a people accustomed to re-
14 spect their chiefs, but as much accustomed to debate on, and to ap-
15 prove or rejert, the measures which those chiefs proposed. 'Vhe
16 militia of the tribes woukl ( oustitute an armv whi( li would be invin-
17 cible by a foreign in\ aik r, while the King would he without any
18 fore 0 Uiat could offer a moment's resistance to a general combina^n
19 of liis subjects.
20 The sUghtest alteration would Ibrm a combination between
21 the Jeergas and the Cauzees ajipoiutrtl by the King, which
22 would be admirably adapted to the administration of justice,
23 and a government would thus be established, as well suited as any
24 that can be imagined for promoting the gr^Uaiess and happiness of
25 the nation.
26 Such are the pkaai^g reveiiea to which we are led by a eonndanh
27 tkm of the mataSala cif which the A%haun goventment ia composed*
28 Init a veij Utile reflection muit convince ns, that tfacae ipecnUrtioBa
29 are never likely to be realtaed. Hie example of nei^bonrmg dea-
30 potimu^ and the notiona abeady imbibed by the court of CanbuU
31 predode the hope of our ever aeeing a Ku^ capable of fimning the
32 deoffki and thare ia leaaon to fear that the locietieB into wfaidi the
33 natioD b divided, poneia within thanuelvea aprincqpleof repulnon
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