The Private Journal of the Marquess of Hastings (K. G.),...Saunders and Otley, 1858 - India |
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afternoon Agha Meer Ameer anchored appeared artillery attempt attendants bank Bareilly Barrackpore battalion Begum Benares Berhampore boats Brahmins breakfast British brother brought building Calcutta camp Captain Gilbert Captain Macleod cavalry Cawnpore command Company's compliment corps court Delhi dined dinner distance divine service durbar elephant encamped Excellency favourable February Ganges gentlemen ghaut Government ground handsome hill Hindoo horse howdah India infantry Jumna Khan l'Etaing Lady Loudoun latter Lord Lord Minto Lucknow magnificence Major Baillie ment miles Mirza Monghyr Moradabad morning musnud natives nautch girls Nawab Vizeer night notion November nuzzur occasion October officers palace palankeens passed persons present princes principal proceeded prodigious rain Rajah reached received regiment render Resident respecting Ricketts river rode Rohillas Saadut sent sepoys September Sikhs Sing soon splendid station stream tent thence tiger tion told town trees troops vakeel vessels villages wind
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Page 48 - In our treaties with them we recognise them as independent sovereigns. Then we send a resident to their courts. Instead of acting in the character of ambassador he assumes the functions of a dietator ; interferes in all their private concerns ; countenances refractory subjects against them ; and makes the most ostentatious exhibition of this exercise of authority.
Page 31 - The Hindoo appears a being nearly limited to mere animal functions, and even in them indifferent. Their proficiency and skill in the several lines of occupation to which they are restricted, are little more than the dexterity which any animal with similar conformation, but with no higher intellect than a dog, an elephant, or a monkey, might be supposed capable of attaining. It is enough to see this in order to have full conviction that such a people can at no period have been more advanced in civil...
Page 197 - ... opportunities, and to make many advantageous speculations, so that he gathered extraordinary wealth. He expended some of it in erecting this house, on a plan entirely his own. The idea of it was probably taken from those castles of pastry, which used to adorn desserts in former days. The mansion consisted of three stories, gradually diminishing in the size of the square, so as to leave to the two upper stories a broad space between the apartments and the parapet which covered the wall of the...
Page 48 - Government, he urges some interests which, under the colour thrown upon it by him, is strenuously taken up by our Council; and the Government identifies itself with the Resident not only on the single point but on the whole tenor of his conduct. In nothing do we violate the feelings of the native princes so much as in the decisions which we claim the privilege of pronouncing with regard to the 'succession to the musnud (throne).
Page 54 - ... to perform the two great feudatory duties of supporting our rule with all their forces, and submitting their mutual differences to our arbitration.
Page 294 - I wished to give a public mark of my estimation of his character. I, therefore, requested he would assume the honorary title of Lieutenant-Colonel ; and I apprized him of my intention to propose to Government that such a rank in the Irregulars should entitle the officer holding it to rank as youngest field-officer of the line, and to command accordingly all captains and subalterns. I explained that as battalions were often commanded by captains, it would be easy to compose such a corps for an irregular...
Page 300 - Shah Khan, and the Pindaris, have assailed me with repeated petitions to take them under protection as feudatories to the British Government. The inexplicable treaty by which Sir G. Barlow, without receiving any consideration for the pledge, bound this Government in an engagement with Sindhia and Holkar not to interfere in any way with the Rajput states, would render it a direct breach of public faith were we to take a step equally counselled by a generous humanity and by an unquestionable interest.
Page xi - THIS Journal is undertaken for the sake of the Dear Little Companions of my Expedition. It will be both gratifying and useful to them in a future day to have their recollection of circumstances revived, and to have many matters explained which they will be likely to have comprehended but imperfectly.
Page 39 - LORD HASTINGS on arrival had found the Bengal Government in one of its periodic states ' of great pecuniary embarrassment. The Directors were so urgent with me to send home treasure that I overcame the reluctance of my colleagues, and we remitted gold pagodas to the amount estimated by ordinary exchange of £300,000. Should the price of gold in England be still what it was when I left Europe, this bullion will be sold by the Directors for not less than £450,000. We have, however, in consequence...
Page 45 - Such a juncture might be the signal of general effort against us without any apparently adequate cause of war. We have not simply to look to the irritation of those whom we have actually scourged with nettles. Each sovereign must have brought the case home to himself, and must have secretly sympathized with the durbars which he -saw insulted and humiliated.