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Indeed it is manifest that the police and progress of the French in the Camboja peninsula comprising Cochin, Cambodia, and Cambodia, are analogous, in many respects, to the police and progress of the English in the latter part of the 18th Century, in the Indian Peninsula. Some twenty years ago, the French began by making themselves Masters of Cochin-China, just as, about a century previously, the English had made themselves Masters of Bengal; and have quite gradually been excluding their dominion over the neighbouring countries by reducing them to the position of "Protected States," with French Residents and garrisons in their chief cities.
Again, as England had to reckon with the opposition of the Mogul Emperor, who claimed a general suzerainty over India, so France has now to reckon with the opposition of the Chinese Emperor, who claims a general suzerainty over Indo-China, Tongking, and the neighbouring Countries. One conspicuous difference between the two cases is that, whereas the Mogul Emperor when he came