. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. Metcalf, who distinguished himself by abolishing thestrict censorship to which the press had till then been subjected. LORD A U C K L A X D. HrxDosTAX had never been in a more tranquil state than at the timewhen Lord Auckland arrived at Calcutta, in 1836, invested with the highfunctions of governor-general of the British eastern empire. All thenappeared to promise a continuance of peace, and the uninterrupted progressof those improvements so steadily and effectually pursued by his prede-c
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. Metcalf, who distinguished himself by abolishing thestrict censorship to which the press had till then been subjected. LORD A U C K L A X D. HrxDosTAX had never been in a more tranquil state than at the timewhen Lord Auckland arrived at Calcutta, in 1836, invested with the highfunctions of governor-general of the British eastern empire. All thenappeared to promise a continuance of peace, and the uninterrupted progressof those improvements so steadily and effectually pursued by his prede-cessor; but the calm was not of long duration, and the attention of thegovernment was soon engrossed by the affairs of Cabul, which led theBritish armies for the first time across the Indus, and replaced on thethrone the long-exiled monarch of that kingdom. Before the commencement of that war, a revolution had occurred in thekingdom of Oude, a considerable state, dependent on the government ofBengal, but ruled by its own sovereign, whose court is the only one now 538 INDIA, HISTORICAL AND existing in Hindostan, that retains any of the splendor formerly exhibitedby the Indian princes. It may b ? remembered, that after the conquest of Bengal, Sujah Dowlah,the nabob-vizier of Oude, surrendered himself to the English on certainterms, and was restored to his former dignity on condition that heshould enter into a lasting alliance with the British government. The territory of Oude, under the able management of thatprince, formed one of the most important states into which theMogul empire had been divided ; but the successors of Sujahgoverned with less ability, and in 1798 a disputed suc-cession called for the interference of the British author-ities, who placed on the throne Saadat AJi, one of theclaimants, who, in return for this service, agreed todisband the greater part of his army, and em-ploy British troops for the protection of hisdominions. By a subsequent treaty,
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