text:  The Khan's opinions on these subjects will doubtless be read with surprise by that numerous and respectable class of the community who hold as an article of faith (to use the words of our author ) that in Mohammedan countries "every prince is a tyrant; every court of justice full of corruption; and all the people sunk in depravity ignorance and misery:" and who cling to the comfortable delusion that we have succeeded by the equity of our civil government in attaching to our rule the population of India