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Appendix C.

the Lacedemonians rather than bear the triump of their adversaries at home, the aristocratical party in England held secret communications with the French sovereign with the hope of depressing their political rivals in their own country. But in 1793 the state of parties in the two countries was entirely changed. The English party which advocated the popular cause found that the mass of the French nation was inclined to their side; they they therefore very consistently supported the French war in 1703 as they deprecated it in the present case.

Answer 14th.-The first great qualification in an historian is an earnest craving after truth and utter impatience not of falsehood merely but of error. Our author very justly observes that truth when sought cau always be found; an well intentioned man, who is a sincere votary of truth and who not only hates falsehood but is utterly impatient in detecting the tricks which falsehood garbled in the shape of truth generally plays with mankind is a person whose credibility is indisputable. Many of the modern historians being deceived by one of the usual flourishes of Barrere have furnished us with a very false account of the striking of the French ship La Vengur. Even Mr. Carlisle in the first edition of his celebrated work adopted this erroneous account of the valour of the French crew in that ship. But his strong and vigourous mind which was quite impatient of all errors, being led to enquire further into this matter, he found from sources of great credibility that the case was actually the reverse. The detection by the celebrated Mr. Waddington of that celebrated misquotation by Mosheim, Robertson and other writers of great note sufficiently illustrates the necessity in an historian of an earnest craving after truth and utter impatience not of falsehood merely but of error. Had not the enquiring and speculative mind of Mr. Waddington been led to this discovery, the world would have been perhaps still imposed upon by a strange misunderstanding of the state of men's mind with respect to religion at the beginning and end of the 7th century. A passage of D'Acheri one of the Benidictine writers would have been falsely attributed to the Bishop of Elloy, so important therefore is this qualification in an historian that this ought to stand in the first and most prominent place.

DWARKANAUTH MITTRE, Hooghly College,

First Class, College Department.

APPENDIX D.

LIST OF SPECIAL REPORTS made to the Government of INDIA by the LAW COMMISSION, during the First Three Years of its Existence.

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Property of Parsees.

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Government Securities.

1837 Judicial System, Madras; and Futwahs of Mahomedan Law Officers.

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Appendix D.

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