The Mysore Reversion: "an Exceptional Case"

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Trübner and Company, 1866 - 292 pages
 

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Page 1 - East India Company are by us accepted, and will be scrupulously maintained, and we look for the like observance on their part.
Page 260 - The Crown of England stands forth the unquestioned ruler and paramount Power in all India, and is, for the first time, brought face to face with its feudatories. There is a reality in the suzerainty of the Sovereign of England which has never existed before, and which is not only felt but eagerly acknowledged by the chiefs.
Page 260 - Be assured that nothing shall disturb the engagement thus made to you, so long as your House is loyal to the Crown and faithful to the conditions of the Treaties, grants or engagements which record its obligations to the British Government.
Page 144 - ... that the King of Oudh will take into his immediate and earnest consideration, in concert with the British Resident, the best means of remedying the existing defects in the Police, and in the Judicial and Revenue Administrations of his dominions, and that if His Majesty should neglect to attend to the advice and counsel of the British Government or its...
Page 112 - Government shall occasionally judge it necessary to offer to him with a view to the economy of his finances, the better collection of his revenues, the administration of justice...
Page 264 - Government served as breakwaters to the storm which would otherwise have swept over us in one great wave.
Page 203 - The dog is turned to his vomit again ; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Page 21 - And whereas it is indispensably necessary, that effectual and lasting security should be provided against any failure in the funds destined to defray, either the expenses of the permanent military force in time of peace, or the extraordinary expenses described in the third article of the present treaty, it is hereby stipulated and agreed, "between the contracting parties, that whenever...
Page 209 - The friends and enemies of either of the contracting parties shall be considered as the friends and enemies of both.
Page 126 - The result of our deliberation is, that, concurring with you in opinion, we are fully satisfied that, by the general law and custom of India, a dependent principality, like that of Satara, cannot pass to an adopted heir without the consent of the Paramount Power; that we are under no pledge, direct or constructive, to give such consent; and that the general interests committed to our charge are best consulted by withholding it.

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