Clarence-it "was wont to hold him but while one could count twenty." Consolidation was the policy, territory the grand object.

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Si possis recte, si non, quocunque modo rem."

And a pursuance of these suicidal State-politics told more on the Indian nation than all the past just and benevolent actions of Government put together, and produced the most pernicious results. The confidence in the good faith and honesty of the British people, so wholesome to the prospects of both nations, was at once destroyed; the remaining Native princes took alarm for the safety of their territory; and the soldiery was roused by passion to make a bold stand against the ruin of their ancient dynasties: so that when this all-absorbing but neversatiated ambition lay its hand on Oude, where every family, as Sir James Outram said, had at least one representative in the Bengal army, Government laid the train to that extremity of indignation, which burst forth so terribly in the Rebellion of 1857. Then were committed those atrocities extreme passion and social risings are apt to perpetrate; which, though they have an excuse in history, so lenient in its judgment, shock humanity even at

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this distant hour, and which then blinded the judgment of that most patiently reasoning and practical nation of the British Isles, and shut up, by the enormity of their heinousness, every avenue of their mercy and humanity. Enraged and blinded, the English nation lost their wonted discernment, and confounding the small band of an infuriated soldiery with the mass of a nation, unjustly called aloud for immediate and indiscriminate vengeance against the entire population of India. Harris knew the hour was imperative; he took his stand-point as a fearless champion between the people and the shrieking portion of the English public; all that was noble and all that was little in him now subordinated itself to his grand object: he boldly denounced the annexation-policy, which alone had brought ruin and disaster to Government, set his face vehemently against the bullying opposition and vituperation of the Indian nation, and, exhorting his countrymen to rally round the British banner, triumphantly cried out for-Justice to India!

It was about this period that Mr. Norton, of Madras notoriety, wrote his "Rebellion in India," and exposed the vanity of the presumption, on the part of English statesmen

and English writers, of supposing the Natives of this country always view them and their measures with a child-like admiration. He startled England out of her torpor, to see now, with eyes wide open, that a change, past all remedy, had already come over her younger sons (could such a title be vouchsafed to us) of the East, through her unpremeditated, yet Heaven-directed policy; that education was spreading, judgment had been formed, and the standard erected whereby to judge of her course and measures, not with ignorance and fear, as of yore, but with knowledge and reflection. Those who sceptically doubted his revelation were pointed to the tone and dignity of the Hindoo Patriot, which he announced was "written by a Brahmin, with a spirit, a degree of reflection, and acuteness, which would do honour to any journalism in the world." Then came Russell, the special correspondent of the Leviathan Times, to see personally, and to describe graphically, the scenes of the Mutinies; and even he, coming in contact with Harris, was confounded, for a while, whether to applaud the spirit and intelligence of his mind, or the liberality and patriotism of his heart; and after some acquaintance, but much hesitation, vouchsafed to style

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him, in his graphic pages, "the Lucullus of India.” It is no small thing this! A beggarly Brahmin boy, leaving a charity-school at the early age of thirteen, friendless, beholden to others for even the bread of poverty, rising step after step, without recommendation, without education, through the sheer force of his own powerful intellect, to the highest post in a State office, -thus growing into a man, burdened with business of the greatest responsibility, engaged, on the one hand, with making up the deficiencies of an early education by intense self-labour and study, and satisfying, on the other, a share of the social cares and concerns of the complicated Hindoo Society, editing single-handed a paper in the English language, which influenced the Government in the dietates of their just course and policy, vindicated the right and honour of an entire nation, and excited admiration and called forth eulogy, not only in words of oral delivery, and pages of ephemeral production, but also in the writings of those English authors who are more likely to live than die even in the far West, where mind has attained to the latest feature of its development in the run of present civilisation!

After the suppression of the Mutinies, the

tone of the Patriot sobered down for a time into calm suggestions for reconstructing the disordered elements of government; but soon did it elevate itself again in emphatic and reiterated protest against the inhumanity and oppression of the Indigo Planter towards the ignorant and helpless Ryot. The latter, prostrated as he completely was, at the duplicity and addresse of the former, in managing his affairs of mean aggrandisement and chicanery, had no hope of relief, or even of succour, until he saw Baboo Harrischander willing to impart both with all his patriotism and humanity. He confided his cause to the voluntary advocate, with a reliance worthy of him who, in his turn, accepted the charge with a deep sense of its responsibility and sacredness; gave to it his time, his intellect, his heart; his days and nights, his enthusiasm and devotion; and discharged it with that faithfulness and zeal which Providence usually rewards, as He did most distinctly in this, with ultimate success.

At the same time, Harris allied himself with the British India Association, which, it is not too sanguine to say, promises at no distant date to be the glorious "House of Commons” in India. The history of this Association has been