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through
the
long
Governor-
India,
for
nowhere
prevaihng
sound
one
of
Indian
society.
recent
liistory
upon
so.
Pertinently,
therefore,
Company's
than almost
administration,
office,
and
that
even
as
a
commercial
power,
series
of
sketches,
in
which
the
writer
has
of
main
to
the
in the
the
state
of
things
that
the
Enghsh
found
existing
in
India,
to
be
Calcutta,
his
devastating
expeditions.
It
may
be
before,
but
a
condition
of
anarchy
seems
to
have
the
face
of
the
civihzed
world
if
solemnly inaugurated.
headings
in
large
type,
'
two
see
the
Christianity,
the
natives
It
original
strength,
and
the
British,
which
ended
in
the
hierarchy.
And
so
the
them whether the causes
Sepoys,
caused
by
a
have
been
unsatisfactory
to
the
majority
of
Enghshmen
notliing
had been
hero,
'
benign
auspices,
has
different
methods
of
manifesting
itself.
The
former
of
the
two
have
aspirations
longer
a
jealousy
of
had
never
mind in all
better mind to
remained
unreahzed.
He
experi-
enced
this
courtesy
from
the
French,
when
one occasion
into
the
Supreme
Power
IN
India
him
on
family
Earl. He
:
'
times,
mainly
relating
to
the
maintenance
of
forest-rights,
had
long
since
duty
and
self-
sacrifice.'
'
the
confidence
cither
of
the
Eang
adds,
a
very
scientific
ship-
builder,
but
she
by
law
in
the
seriously
proposed
by
a
recent
more accurate
prochvities
are
pertinent
of
justice,
and
generally
with
the
complete unanimity
generous
Land
Revenue
in
revenue
temporary
contrivances
for
Putting
aside
the
question
showTi
it
undoubtedly
had.
During
the
his
hand
to
complete.
There
is
and
for
of
1793,
which
has
always
been
regarded
era. This
He stiU
continued to
record
the
same
Shore,
who
merit
your
approbation.'
appointed
to
relations,
during
the
great
Ghazipur,
a
place
in
the
had been
EngHsh
advanced an
of
Queensland,
the
post
of
Viceroy
of
accepted
the
offer,
after
short
period
of
dehberation :
embarrassing
sons,
for
fallen,
favourite,
arbitrary
Peers,
WiUiam'
slavery
throughout
the
British
common
between
expel
the
Enghsh
from
India'.
His
biographer
has
estabhshed
principal
States
of
India,
on
principles
which
render
it
the
interest
of
every
State
doubtful friend
into a
Treaty
made
all Frenchmen in liis service Mere to be dismissed. The
disbandment
of
the
most formidable
long
as
they
were
prepared
in
securing,
in
suflficiently
conciliatory
terms.
conclusion
the real attitude
his
Indies.
The
campaign
over,
Wellesley
proceeded
labours
of
this
commission
1792.
They
had
the
complete
civil
and
mihtary
administration
for his educa-
important
State
that
Wellesley
alternatives,
as
The
in
charge,
but
Wellesley
was
able
to
report
thus
of
his
subject.
This
to his
with the
clearly
natik
controlling
power
of
a
vast
dominion,
directly
ruling
enveloping
them
its
sovereignty.
The
only
Indian
Realm,
it
being
literature
made
special
provision
for
the
appointment
Persia,
with
the
special
the first
signed
in
1802,
he
prescience
was
justified
His
measures
for
strength
was
prevailed
Corn-
in
July,
1805,
and
Wellesley
finally
been
summarized
by
the
historian
Empire. They
they
were
directed,
years
the same
of
anarchy
as
the
down
as
the
unwillingness
of
the
Court
of
last,
however,
the
operations
of
the
Pindaris
and
of
great
Pathan
leader.
Amir
Khan,
to
keep
the
peace
He calculated
of
tionally. Appa
five
under
to
amehorate
the
condition
of
the
people
over
which
I
also
voted
a
Grand
Commandership
of
the
Bath.
This
Order,
soldier,
Ochterlony,
with
the
:
'
the British
the sketch
relegate
the
old
of a Native
bad,
of Civil
Presidency.
He,
therefore,
sought
for
a
remedy
in
the
improvement
of
the
pay
and
status
of
Native
judges
to
the
people
and
of
the
Panchayats
in
other
Provinces,
and
the
proposals
of
the
Court
;
the
Church
in
India
has
been
directed
by
its
long
years
England
his seat
the
first
time
since
his
elevation
to
a
Marquisate.
He
then
result
of
a
Pitt's
men,
without
Amherst's
steady
purpose
and
unflinching
deter-
further
of
Java,
which,
at
the
voyage
the
if
perform
his
nine
obeisances.
Tliis
apparently
imagine
envoy's
refusal
to
go
upset
their
calculations,
they
Marquess
of
Hastings.
for
the
time,
good
deal
of
fcehng
among
the
Anglo-Indian
community
of
of that
mihtary despotism
India,
and
the
Burmese
barrier
or
quick-set
hedge
against
intruders
upon
their
frontier
King
of
Burmah,
Theebaw.
the
: if
you
choose
to
slaughter
us
here,
Court of
fully
for
map
was
found
very
useful
during
The
operations
that
brought
about
the
capture
of
Prome
during
the
next
phase
of
the
campaign,
resulted
counter
was
removed
over
by
the
conciliatory
methods
adopted
by
restrictions,
of
voice,
teUing
the
British
that
their
played
a
conspicuous
part,
unrest that
Hindu
Avatars,
Ochterlony
country
beyond
bureaucracy,
but
with
no
sympathy
the
was
employment
a
lower
order
of
Indians
in
that much was
Canal
added
by
the
Emperor
Shah
Jahan.
largely
Spanish
Revolution.'
Thus
early
among
their
own
ranks,
than
by
external
pressure
from
without,
for
only
grand
Upper
Provinces.
Similarly,
the
cholera,
although
their
Bishop
Scindia
or
entered his
to
heat,
they
had
to
contend
with
the walls
in
the
case
of
March,
advanced
age
of
eighty-four
in
1857.
Lord
Amherst
may
not
have
India amidst heartfelt
ensign
in
1791.
He
served
quarters
of
the
Army
of
Marshal
Suwaroff
Italy
accepted
the
to
1807.
The
words
he
WTote
Land
Question,
but
in
between
the
family
orders about
dress were
greater
him which
William
Bentinck's
subsequent
India,
in
1815,
just
before
peace
was
restored
to
Europe
by
the
great
victory
of
most
unjust.
When
Marquess
of
Hastings
returned
every
one
else
thought
so
too,
no
chance.
Bentinck
liad
always
the
reputation
of
being
a
salvation
on
dis-
for
view
to
a
union
the
people
of
proper
foundation
in
the
recognition
to Bentinck's
for
discussion
was
as
having
been
equally
opium-
producing
rights
of
The
great
exactly
of
Garrotter
in
the
True,
he
apphes
the
expression,
and
safety
Bombay.
of
Sati,
juris-
diction,
and
religion
or
safeguard.'
to
argue
India,
the
Marquess
of
upon
Twenty
years
had
passed
since,
culture
among
the
upper
view to their
language.
It
is
at
Sagar
to
admitted
thankful for.
only
advantage
that
Indians
have
acquired
it the
England
the
almost
exclusive
position
Whatever
may
Century,
already
referred
to,
has
said :
yet
the
analogy
many
generations
throughout
India,
for
the
Bengali
in
treating
of
this
subject.
From
among
see
that,
this. He
Native
The Nizam
results of
Thakurs,
or
Barons,
of
Jaipur.
Sir
effect
a
reconciliation
pathetic
as
Presi-
dent
of
the
Board
of
law,
had
pointed
overflowing
with
human
kindness,
and
with
the
deepest
feeUngs
of
affection,
charity
what
was
right.
Lord
Auckland
stimulate
the
new
enterprise
mahgn
influence
of
men
young
Ruler
to
poison
Dalhousie's
subsequent
pohcy
operations
in
terms
of
congratulation
on
were
reviving
of the
dispatched
dentist.'
our
Western
in
Afghanistan,
which
imperiously
in
1837.
A
young
British
officer,
Eldred
Pottinger,
happened
envoy
sent
'
same
place.
The
old
Maharaja
was
passionately
royal
salute.
Two
independent
States
lay
the historian
has shown :
in
Afghanistan
a
perennial
military
promenade^.
Auckland
was
procession
But the
that
diffi-
Mahomed
was
close
at
hand.
the
people
with
subjects.
Moreover,
he
was
the
military
early
in
March,
1841,
Afghan
chiefs
a
military
character
or
purely
political.
supreme
quarter
of
a
November,
1841.
The
Afghan
a
Higher
the
enemy.
:
'
had
left
it
whenever
it
officers
were
into
the
charge
Akbar
Khan,
who,
one
interests
of
the
British
different
calibre
from
his
predecessor.
In
their
study
of
the
?
that,
General
Nott
to
had
received
in
April
wars,
one
of
which
the
40,000
men
-with
100
guns.
the
magni-
loquent
inscription
engraved
on
it,
Afghan-
of
knighthood
French.
His
greatest
acliieve-
by
Parliament
His
school
Secretary
for
War,
both
High Wycombe.
it
is :
I
mand,
Greneral
Beresford,
by
the
the
First
Sikh
War,
Hardinge,
who
modelling
of
the
Army.
At
discipUne,
and
strongly
supported
the
maintenance
of
corporal
punishment
in
the
Army
as
necessary
for
its
discipline.
been
warned
that
it
might
be
a
hazardous
undertaking,
been
known
as
ugly
moment
before
us,
but
over-addicted
to
manual
purposes
of
the
railway,
to
the
practice
of
offering
up
human
victims,
with
in
Queen-Mother,
Ranjit
Singh's
widow,
in
the
Councils
of
Sutlej.
The
mihtary
leaders.
made to the Rani :
lead
on
a
wing
of
small tent
conffict,
ended
in
a
complete
victory
for
first
experience
quahty
enemy
not
to
be
despised.
The
bravery
of
the
Sikh
gunners
was
especially
marked :
followed
three
days
later
by
the
battle
of
ments
come
up
he
did
so,
the
historian
of
the
balance
during
that
eventful
night.'
was
wearing
and
sending
it
the
EngUsh
^Vrmy
'
the wait
they
wath
A
portrait
by
State
tent
for
the
purpose
of
sented to
Anth
British
troops
brought
under
British
influence,
and
which,
if
once
the
Sovereignty
of
England
were
removed,
would
figure
in
London.
Jung
again
he
had
espoused
Jung
Bahadur
minister,
if
any
attempt
be
spared,
that
they
had
EUenborough,
who
was
the
immediate
predecessor
of that man
internal
development
construction
of
the
great
Ganges
Canal
moreover
to
1854,
were no
great
works
entirely
from
local
resources,
and
young
civil
officer
who
has
since
risen
the river. Lord
Central
India
ranks
of
Hardinge
erected
on
the
great
Calcutta
Maidan.
Lord
Hardinge
remained
conquer,
nearly
1,800
years,
before
any
fresh
intercourse
took
place
between
by
the
irony
of
by way
been
the central
Meanwhile the
of the
French East
and the
of
their
Government.
This
system
of
Enghsh
aggrandizement
in
the
East,
had
been
daring,
much
pohtical
genius
in
the
idea,
having
shown
England
the
way.
Be
destined
to
remain
with
them
for
the
EngUsh
the ruin
;
that
period
from
the
imputation
of
having
sacrificed
an
Empire
had been
this
admiration
of
the
bull-dog
tenacity
given
in
a
significant
remark
made
by
the
historian,
friendly
port
or
roadstead,
no
base
of
supphes
or
repair
Boigne,
who,
Boigne
is
he
that
brought
the
Mahratta
to
have
placed
among
the
glories
of
Enghsh
military
achieve-
ment
in
India,
of
Napoleon,
did
Lyall
French
Government
of
Bastille,
only,
however,
after
an
imprisonment
of
three
years
denied
that
French
this that has
Western Powers is
'
the
final
departure
from
the
shores
people
harmless
a
nature,
and
this
was
his
love
of
deahng
with
Orientals
after