. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce. ption whichmust have been painful to many present,notwithstanding that, in every other re-spect, the rubrics and calendars were re-ligiously observed.** Had the sun stood as having been decidedly evangelical. Thoughdeeply respected, he is said not to have beenpopular; but popularity was little courted by a niHnwlio stood up in the pulpit in B
. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce. ption whichmust have been painful to many present,notwithstanding that, in every other re-spect, the rubrics and calendars were re-ligiously observed.** Had the sun stood as having been decidedly evangelical. Thoughdeeply respected, he is said not to have beenpopular; but popularity was little courted by a niHnwlio stood up in the pulpit in Burmah, and roundlytaxed the Europeans with their concubinage; andnever hesitated one moment to reprehend any one,wliatever his official or sociul rank.—See Letter ofCalcutta correspondent; Ttwes, February loth, pecuniary matters he was liberal to the last blameless purity of his life, his great learningand fearless character, probably gave rise to thecomplaint, that his keen intellect was sometimes alittle sardonic, and drew criticism on minor eccen-tricities which would else have passed in death as in life, lie left his splendidlibrary, by will, to the Calcutta public.•• itottons Sieye of Delhi, p. ?:)^ (D^r. MRS. HODSON^S VISIT TO THE ROYAL FAMILY. 453 still in its course for General Wilson as forJoshua, a more specific acknowledgmentcould hardly have been offered, than tliatirt which a body of protestants (professedlyfallible, whether clergy or laity) presumedto recognise, in the unusually healthyseason, a miraculous interposition on theirbehalf, and to thaiik the jNIost High forthe regulation of that season in such extra-ordinary manner as to favour Thy servantscomposing tlie army, which stood for somany months before Delhi; also forevery triumph upon every occasion, and inevery engagement, against the mutineerssince we took the field/* Apart from these extraordinary interpola-tions, there must have been something de-cidedly
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