ESSAYS,

MILITARY AND POLITICAL,

WRITTEN IN INDIA.

BY THE LATE

SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY LAWRENCE, K.C.B.,

CHIEF COMMISIONER IN OUDE,

AND PROVISIONAL GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA.

LONDON:

W. H. ALLEN & CO., 7, LEADENHALL STREET.

1859.

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will be apparent after the perusal of a few pages, that there is much in them which, in one sense, may be described as "out of date."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