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ment, though there is not space to do more
than roughly sketch the chief of these.
We must, therefore, pass over his desire
for the exclusion of all Europeans from
Oudh other than the Company's servants;
his action regarding Private Trade & the
Company's monopoly; the steps which he
took to restrain sedition in the native
press; & the satisfactory state in which
he left the Company's finances - under
the guidance of M. Tucker - as compared
with its condition on his arrival in India.
His chief desire in connection with
the British military force in India - its
considerable increase - was fulfilled, &
his second aim - that the authority
over it should no longer remain divided
between the Company & the Crown - was
advanced halfway to fulfilment. It
is notable that he was always desirous
of giving religion a place in the public
life of the Company, more - perhaps - to
impress the natives than from a pure
sense of Christian duty, but at least
from a real desire to show Indians that
Englishmen did not neglect their creed.
He strictly insisted on the observance of
Sunday, & gave the first public thanksgiving
ever held for British national