Bn) GROWTH OF THE MILITARY SPIRIT. 579
5%8 from Rangoon. Nobody inquires why we killed 300
Burmese, The papers applaud the deed without asking for
® Justification, This makes about 5400 persons killed by
our ships in the Hast during the last five years, without
Our having Jost one man by the butcheries! Now give me
Free Trade as the recognized policy of all parties in this
Sonntry, and I will find the best possible argument against
these maranding atrocities. I will then demonstrate to all
by their own admission that they cannot profit by such pro-Peedings,
 To take away the motive of self-interest is, after
ll, the nearest way to influence the cou luct of wicked
human nature, Therefore, as the moral of this, I exhort
You to give the finishing-stroke to Free Trade as the best
"eens of advancing your peace principles.”
“ March 20. (To J. Sturge.)—As you will have seen by
Lorg Derby’s speech in the Lords, the presew! Yovernment
wil carry a Militia Bill if they can. It isthe question upon
Which they will try to raise a discussion in i" e House with a
Yiew to gain time. And Lord John Russell and his party
“9 80 hampered with pledges upon the subiest, that they
®8unot offer any opposition to at least an intrc du tion of the
Measure, Therefore you must not relax in your efforts to
Prevent the scheme from being carried out. The invasion
Panic seems pretty nearly forgotten.”
“ London, March 20. (To George Wilson.)— . . . The
Derby. Disraelites sre not going to give up their berths in
® hurry, and they would be fools if they did so, for they are
%PPozed to an Opposition whose leaders have not the pluck
(ang Dizzy’s insolence shows that he knows it) to stop the sup-Plies,
 Y have been in constant communication with Lord
John and Graham, but they are not the men to strike the

1853.
Xr. 48.

4p.
- i was the beginning of the Second Burmese War, which Qobden dealt
Soa ™ the following year in bis pamphlet, How Wars are got up in India.
Oollaotsd Writings, vol. ii.