50410 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. Chichar See. $'s 442-187 his remarks in the compatibility of beety, it of domene affection with the character of the soldier P. 47. His hugh estimate of Washington Ugan pp. 384.447. 26. 474-475 Six Commendation of Hedley Vicars our Country, Lawrence. looked forward to the growth of our America, as ending her to claim I wild, one day, in flance in the East of 4877-478. Highlanders in Predin brazing Freading Beth in the jungle Op. 472. his Condemnation of Hastings, I though -reversing the personal characha of Dr John Thore. Afterwards Lord "lign mouth, by no means admins his official Course in India. Laurene was oppered to the "Annexation Policy" of Inlay in India ford Hardinge is earnest table. Macters 14 "Maitland Orise Esay "The Chrulear Statesmen and Cambridge 1859 speaks (p. 72.) at most Englishmen our " amate but for a livelihood. But in distraction from these to meet this many like Sir Henry Laurence → kuve come to regard the land wilt her fechings than as a strange country, thave identified themselves with its prosperity he remarks: "Nothing, 39 And. again at paze 139, Nothing more signally marked the late Su Henry Laurance truly notle man than the entire absence of all contempt of the nations, of all senworthy hauteur in his dealings wish them " as a in own amore the "In se note, Raikes as slating that, "The Henry Laurence was forever lathing views, & influencing them to love The new officers into his people; to to as many cases under the trees, and as few under the Punkab, • pobible; to rede about then districts, and see and hear for themselves, in stead of through the police : and his cheery, earnest way of doing this, his dat praise of any rough and ready fficer, and his indignant contempt for call skulks, idlers, and nimmukurâm, drew model's in young men's bunds, which they went forth and copied ΤΟ SIR GEORGE RUSSELL CLERK, K.C.B., UNDER WHOM THE WRITER OF THESE ESSAYS. GRADUATED IN THE BEST SCHOOL OF INDIAN STATESMANSHIP, THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED. ADVERTISEMENT. THE Essays comprising this volume were contributed by Sir Henry Lawrence to the Calcutta Review. They are printed now with scarcely any alteration, beyond the correction of typographical or clerical errors, and an occasional excision or adaptation of those allusions to existing times and local circumstances, which are generally scattered, more or less, over our periodical literature, but which the lapse of years renders, if not unintelligible, unappreciable by the reader of to-day. It is not to be understood by this that there has been any attempt to adapt these Essays to the circumstances of the present times. It will be apparent after the perusal of a few pages, that there is much in them which, in one sense, may be described as "out of date." But to have expunged all references to a bygone state of things, and all recommendations of reforms which have been carried out, would have been but scant justice either to reader or to writer. For it would have diminished the historical interest of the volume, and would have obscured the services rendered by Sir Henry Lawrence to the cause of Military Reform. That many of his suggestions were acted upon, we know; that others were not, we can only deplore. That he saw clearly the rocks on which the vessel of the State was drifting, is to be gathered from many passages in this volume. The warning voice was lifted up in vain; but much still remains from which instruction may be gathered, very serviceable at the present time. The lessons which these Essays teach us are not all too late for profitable study. We have still an Indian army composed of all arms and of all classes. Upon the constitution of this army now turns, as on a pivot, the whole question of Indian government. We must keep up an efficient army, at a certain cost not to be exceeded, or we must cease to retain our hold of the country. Now, the great object of Sir Henry Lawrence, in his Military Essays, is to demonstrate that what India requires is an army deriving its strength, not from its numbers, but from its efficiency. And this is the great matter which it behoves us to ponder at the present time. What we want is, not men, not money-but mind. A hundred men may be made to do the work of a thousand; a hundred pounds, wisely spent, may contribute more to the strength of our empire than a thousand. Doubtless, the cost of an efficient army might be brought within the amount which the revenues of India can bear without exhaustion, and the State can furnish without bankruptcy. But to do this, we must look very gravely at the matter, and heed the pregnant utterances of such experienced, honest, plain-spoken instructors as Sir Henry Lawrence. Of the Political Essays much need not be said in this place. One observation, indeed, will suffice. The reader will perceive how consistently opposed was Sir |