Speeches of Lord Hardinge

Justice Ridley the Head Master of Harrow and Lord Ronaldshay M. P. Lord Hardnge of Penshurst who was rceived with cheers said]:— During the 30 years that I have spent in diplomacy I have endeavoured to act up to the best traditions of the Service and to hold my tongue which is one of the first maxims impressed upon the young men who enter the portals of the Foreign Office for the first ti [...] father for I am told that in the Cathedral of your city there is a monument which according to the inscription it bears was erected by the public spirit of Bombay to consecrate the memory of Captain George Nicholas Hardinge of the Royal Navy who fell for British India in the moment of victory after a three days' combat and the capture.off the coast of Ceylon of a large French frigate which [...] May it please God to continue this mercy to your city and to deliver India from so great a tribulation ! I have already said elsewhere that I intend to maintain the policy of Lord Minto's Goverment and I anticipate with confidence that the enlargement of the Councils and the increase of their powers will give a clearer voice and greater weight to the views of the various comunities of this [...] The extesion of the elective system the increase of the number of bur Members and the enlargement of our powers lend weight and interest to our deliberations upon the results of which depend the welfare and happiness of so many millions of our fellow-subjects. [...] I do not want to discuss the origin of the Act of 1907 except to express my absolute conviction that the Government of India would not have passed a measure of that kind without having duly weighed the heavy responsibility that they incurred and without the knowledge that the provisions of the ordnary Law were inadequate to meet the very grave and serious situation that had developed in certa