A LIFE OF THE EARL OF MAYO.

UNIV. OF
CALIFORNIA

A LIFE OF THE EARL OF MAYO,

FOURTH VICEROY OF INDIA.

BY W. W. HUNTER, B.A., LL.D.,

OF HER MAJESTY'S BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE;

ONE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY; HONORARY OR FOREIGN MEMBER OF THE
ROYAL INSTITUTE OF NETHERLANDS INDIA AT THE HAGUE, OF THE INSTITUTO VASCO
DA GAMA OF PORTUGUESE INDIA, OF THE DUTCH SOCIETY IN JAVA, AND OF

THE ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY, LONDON; HONORARY FELLOW OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA; ORDINARY FELLOW OF THE

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, ETC.

VOLUME I.

SMITH, ELDER, & CO., LONDON, 1875.

PREFACE.

I

BEG to acknowledge my obligations to Lieutenant-Colonel Owen Burne, C.S.I., for constant and valuable assistance in preparing these volumes. Colonel Burne, as Private Secretary to Lord Mayo in India, saw the whole area of the Viceroy's daily work, and has kindly drawn up for me a sketch of it in each department. These papers, with a more technical précis prepared in the several Secretariats, have guided me to the original documents which form the basis of the book. I only regret that the task of biographer was not undertaken by one who is in many respects better qualified to do it justice than I am.

To Mr. Robert Barclay Chapman, of the Bengal Civil Service, I owe most of the materials for the narrative of Lord Mayo's financial administration. Mr. Chapman, as Financial Secretary to the Government of India during the past seven years, enjoys the advantage of knowing the actual facts of Lord Mayo's reforms, both in their inception and in their results. Mr. Fitzjames Stephen, Q.C., the Legal

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