misgoverned with unheard-of tyranny, combined with the most flagitious injustice and neglect !

To this day Burke's sarcastic remark is still fully applicable: "That if the English were driven from India, they would leave behind them no memorial worthy of a great and enlightened nation; no monument of art, science, or beneficence; no vestige of their having occupied and ruled over the country; except such traces as the vulture and the tiger leave behind!

"The instructions," says Shore, "by the Court of Directors to their servants, have been a continued theme to make large remittances home; and so long as these instructions were fulfilled, little inquiry was instituted as to the means by which they were obtained."

"To the praise of good intentions they are entitled, but the execution of these, was never to interfere with the realisation of the largest possible revenue.

Like a certain unmentionable place, the dominion of "John Company" was, therefore, always" paved with good intentions," but his

instructions to his subordinates remind one, of those of a worldly parent to a hopeful son:Jack, my lad, make money honestly if you can, but make money at any rate!

In the present enlightened age, such a state of things cannot and will not last, and may we yet live to see the day, when oppressed India shall be released from the thumb-screws and shackles of her tyrants, and enjoy the protection and advantages of direct and legitimate British rule!

*

Even at this moment-whilst these pages are going through the press-notice has been given of inquiries to take place before the House of Commons, of malversation on the part of the "Honourable" Company of Merchant-Traders in the East. It is to be hoped that Lord Albemarle's notice on the TORTURE system, as practised to extort taxes within the Company's territories, will be sifted and exposed.*

* Since this was written, Lord Albemarle-and humanity owes him in consequence a heavy debt-has fully established the fact, not only of the existence of the use of torture in India, but of a most tyrannical

No further exposure is needed relative to the "sick man" of Oude,-a British Menschikoff, has summarily settled that. The Nizam's turn will probably soon come next!

system of taxation and extortion, as likewise of compulsory labour imposed on the unfortunate Ryots. "Without stopping," says his Lordship, "to contrast the innocent surprise expressed by the home authorities at the prevalence of torture over a territory inhabited by 22,000,000 of inhabitants, with the fact that there existed documents written between the years 1806 and 1852, which proved the infliction of such torture, he would proceed at once to the question of the torture itself." This is now fully established, to the eternal disgrace, of those, who have permitted the occurrence of such deeds of darkness, during the enlightened era of the ninteenth century! Is any other argument requisite to enforce the abolition of the "Charter," and the better government of a country which has been so long tyrannised over and abused?

"This is the man should do the bloody deed;
The image of a wicked, heinous fault
Lives in his eye; that close aspect of his
Does show the mood of a much-troubled breast."
King John.

WE proved unsuccessful in apprehending the perpetrators of the murder which had taken place at Jaulnah. Captain Bertram resumed his usual avocation, of acting as a sort of guardian of the peace, in the wild and unruly districts about the Nerbuddah, and for the same purpose I was despatched with my party to the north of that river, to a much more open, salubrious, and pleasant district, on the confines of the Mahratta territories.

It was certainly a solitary sort of life that which I then led; but the activity of my du

ties prevented me from giving way to depression of spirits, or to any feeling of ennui which I might otherwise, probably have experienced.

Sometimes in hot pursuit of a band of refractory or predatory Bheels, I had to hound on my followers in the arduous chase; at others my tent would for whole days together remain pitched under the spreading branches of some huge banyan, or the refreshing shade of an extensive mangoe "tope."

When thus stationary, there were ample opportunities of following uninterruptedly many favourite occupations. My books,-portfolio, gun, greyhounds, and hog-spear,-would then be in request; in short, I made it a rule never to let time hang heavy upon my hands.

I was often, in this part of the country, able likewise to indulge in the exciting pursuit of the nobler animals of the chase; and then found a ready and able coadjutor in old Seyud Ishmael, my second in command.

A keen sportsman, and unrivalled in the use of the spear, old Ishmael was on such occasions my usual companion; and when the ground admitted of riding, we would often make sad havoc among the tusked and bristly