Rulers of India. Lord William Bentinck

The acceptance of the Government of India by the East India Company in 1 833 in the most formal manner as the delegate of the British Crown and Parliament and the recognition of its responsibility for the charge to the House of Commons Lad publics opinion was a grave and momentous stop as dap Company did not possess the machinery necessary to12 LORD WILLIAM BENTINCIC discharge its trust with ef [...] Suwarrolr withdrew from Switzerland he remained in the same capacity with the Austrian army's in the north of Italy until the end of i So 1. He was present at the decisive battle of Marengo which established the reputation of Napoleon as one of the greatest military geniuses that the world had over seen and throughout the whole of the Italian campaign of i 800-1 he was always to be found whereve [...] More important economies remained to be °Seeded than the clipping of military pay and by reductions in the administration of the land revalue the Provincial Courts and the costly settlements in the Straits' of Malacca he proceeded to carry out the principal portion of the mission with which he had been charged and to restore an equilibrium to the &anal But these measures of detail would have [...] in the middle of the seventeenth century mentions the stranglers of the highway as one of the dangers of travel in the dominions of the Great Hord. [...] The strictness of the dicipline was softened by the ties of family and the secrets of the brotherhood were preserved by the ivocation of religion as much as by the tenor of the severe punishment meted out to treachery.