Life of Sir Henry Lawrence, Volume 2Smith, Elder, 1872 - Colonial administrators |
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Page 310 - ... we are notorious imbeciles, of all authority and all emolument. These sentiments of mine, freely expressed during the last fifteen years, have done me injury, but I am not the less convinced of their soundness ; and that until we treat natives, and especially native soldiers, as having much the same feelirgs, the same ambition, the same perception of ability and imbecility, as ourselves, we shall never be safe.
Page 131 - I take this fitting occasion of recording my strong and deliberate opinion, that, in the exercise of a wise and sound policy, the British Government is bound not to put aside or to neglect such rightful opportunities of acquiring territory or revenue as may from time to time present themselves...
Page 92 - If ever there was a device for ensuring mal-government, it is that of a Native ruler and minister both relying on foreign bayonets, and directed by a British Resident ; even if all three were able, virtuous, and considerate, still the wheels of government could hardly move smoothly.
Page 101 - ... Treaty of Lahore, March, 1846, the Punjab never was intended to be an independent State. By the clause, I added, the Chief of the State can neither make war nor peace, nor exchange nor sell an acre of territory, nor admit an Europear officer, nor refuse us a thoroughfare through his territories, nor.
Page 378 - July, when he expired, and the Government was thereby deprived, if I may venture to say so, of the services of a distinguished statesman and a most gallant soldier.
Page 60 - Singh, and the heirs male of his body, all the hilly or mountainous country, with its dependencies, situated to the eastward of the river Indus, and westward of the river Ravi...
Page 100 - In all our measures', wrote Hardinge to Henry Lawrence on 23 October 1847, 'taken during the minority, we must bear in mind that by the Treaty of Lahore, March, 1846, the Punjab never was intended to be an independent state. By the clause, I added, the chief of the state can neither make war nor peace, nor exchange nor sell an acre of territory, nor admit...
Page 359 - ... deserted. The enemy have followed us up, and we have now been besieged for four hours, and shall probably to-night be surrounded. The enemy are very bold, and our Europeans very low. I look on our position now as ten times as bad as it was yesterday — indeed, it is very critical ; we shall be obliged to concentrate, if we are able ; we shall have to abandon much supplies, and to blow up much powder. Unless we are relieved quickly, say in fifteen or twenty days, we shall hardly be able to maintain...
Page 137 - ... administration has fulfilled the wishes of the Government; whether the country is richer; whether the people are happier and better. A great revolution cannot happen, without injuring some classes. When a State falls, its nobility and its supporters must to some extent suffer with it: A dominant sect and party, ever moved by Political ambition and religious enthusiasm, cannot return to the ordinary level of Society, and the common occupations of life, without feeling some discontent and some...
Page 177 - ... Government is always to effect a settlement of the land revenue ; that is, to determine the amount of that relatively large share of the produce of the soil, or of its value, which is demanded by the sovereign in all Oriental states, and out of which all the main expenses of government are defrayed. Among the many questions upon which a decision must be had, the one of most practical importance is, ' Who shall be settled with ?' With whom shall the settlement be made ? What persons, what bodies,...