exist. We shall first advert to the result of the evidence upon this head: and then consider his case, as made by himself, to see how far he can be said to stand acquitted even upon his own showing.

In considering Bolingbroke's character, there is even less possibility than in ordinary cases of separating the politic from the natural capacity; less pretence for making the distinction, so often and so incorrectly made, between that which is becoming That some at least of the queen's tory ministers, or honest in political life, and that which is virtuous possibly the queen herself, were desirous of restoror pure in private. It is seldom, indeed, that the lax ing the exiled family, and setting aside the act of morality can be tolerated, or even understood, which settlement, extorted from the same party by King relieves the general reputation of a man from the William, there can be no doubt. Bolingbroke alcensure naturally descending upon it, by citing per- ways professed himself the fast friend of the Revosonal merit as a kind of set-off to political delin- lution, and cited his having helped to bring in the quency; seldom that there is any kind of sense in act of settlement in proof of it. But the coldness believing a man honest who has only betrayed his and the sluggishness of that proceeding, on the part colleague, because he never cheated his friend; or in of himself and the king's tory ministers, is well acquitting of knavery the statesman who has sacri-known; nor does any one now doubt that they enficed his principles for preferment, merely because deavoured to protract the bill in its progress, until he has never taken a bribe to break some private the decease of the king should interrupt or supersede trust, embezzled a ward's money, sold a daughter or a wife. Nothing can be more shadowy than such distinctions, nothing more arbitrary than such lines of demarcation. To say that a dishonest, or sordid, or treacherous politician may be a virtuous inan, because he has never exposed himself to prosecution for fraud, or forgery, or theft, is near akin to the fantastical morality which should acquit a common offender of horse-stealing because he had never been charged with burglary. It must, however, be confessed, that as there are some cases of political offences much worse than others, so in these the impossibility of making such distinctions becomes more apparent; and both the kind and the amount of the crimes charged upon Bolingbroke, seem to point out his as an instance in which all contrast between public and private character signally fails. If, then, we advert to his conduct under these two heads, it is only in order to treat of different kinds of delinquency in separation and in succession.

He came into parliament as a declared tory; the ancient families from which he sprung, the St. Johns and the Ports, had ever been of that faith. In the ministry which the queen formed during the latter few years of her reign from the members of that party, he held a conspicuous place; having been secretary of state and a leading supporter, first in the commons, then in the lords. He began under Harley, and to Harley he devoted himself; to Harley he seemed firmly attached. Soon there broke out symptoms of jealousy: these occurred on the promotion of his chief to an earldom, while he only was made a viscount himself; the want of a blue riband completed the philosopher's chagrin; the incapacity, real or fancied, of his former patron, called down the moralist's vengeance instead of exciting his compassion or claiming his help; and the latter part of his official life was passed in continually renewed and continually failing attempts to supplant and to ruin him. But we know the interior of the cabinet too little, are too superficially acquainted with personal details, to be prepared for pronouncing a safe judgment upon the degree of blame which he thus earned: possibly he only shares it with the other party; not impossibly the whole may be Harley's. Upon the schemes in which he was engaged for restoring the Stuarts, undoing the work of the Revolution, exposing the civil and religious liberties of the country to the most imminent peril, and effecting this change through the horrors of civil war, possibly aggravated by foreign invasion, there can no doubt whatever

the measure. But Bolingbroke's denial of any design favourable to the pretender, until after his attainder and during his exile, was constant and peremptory. Nor did any probabilities the other way suffice to convince men how false his assertions were, until the publication of Marshal Berwick's " Memoirs" at once disclosed the truth; and then we had a clear statement of his treason having commenced during the queen's lifetime a statement under the hand of the very person through whom he has himself said that his communications to and from the Pretender uniformly passed, at the period when he confesses himself to have been engaged in the Stuart councils. There is an end, therefore, of his defence against the main body of the accusation, and it is ended by a witness to whose testimony he has precluded himself from objecting. But this is not all. His own conduct bears testimony against him as loudly as his own witness. Upon the queen's demise, Harley, Ormond, and himself, being vehemently suspected of treasonable practices, were accused in parliament constitutionally, legally, regularly, formally. What was the course pursued by the three? Harley, conscious of innocence, like a guiltless man remained, awaited his impeachment, faced his accusers, met his trial, was unanimously acquitted. Nor does any one now believe, nor did any but they whom faction blinded then believe, that he had any share at all in the intrigue set on foot to restore the Stuarts. Ormond and Bolingbroke fled; they would not stand their trial. Now, the former never denied his accession to the treasonable plotnever having indeed professed any favourable disposition towards the revolution settlement; the latter, though he pretended to deny his guilt, yet gave none but the most frivolous reasons to explain his flight. He could only say, that so odious to him had his former friend, his original patron, become, that he could not think of submitting to be coupled or mixed up with him in any matter or in any manner. So that his hatred of another prevailed over his love of himself-his inveterate dislike of his neighbour over the natural desire of self-defence; his repugnance for an enemy made him reject life itself when the terms on which it was offered involved the act of taking the same precaution with his rival to secure his safety; and rather than defend his honour, clear his character from the worst of accusations, in the way common to all men, and which one whom he disliked, had, like all innocent men, pursued, he preferred wholly abandoning the defence of his repu

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tation, and passing with all for a false traitor. It is | who happen to guide her councils? Is it the part of not often that a guilty person can make an honest-public virtue-but is it the part of common honesty looking worthy defence; not seldom that the excuses to side with the enemy, and war with our own offered by suspected culprits work their conviction. country because she or her rulers have oppressed us? But never yet did any one, when charged with a Then, if all men are agreed that this affords no justicrime, draw the noose around his own neck more fication for such treason, how much worse is his fatally than Bolingbroke did, when he resorted to so crime who would plunge his country into civil war, wretched an explanation of the act, which, unex- to wreak his vengeance on the faction that has plained, was a confession-the flight from his accus-oppressed and banished him? The revolution setIf that act, standing alone, was fatal to the sup- tlement had obtained Bolingbroke's deliberate approposition of his innocence, the defence of it was, if bation: no man has spoken more strongly in its possible, more decisive to his condemnation. favour; it was the guarantee, according to him, of both civil and religious liberty. Yet against this settlement he declares war; to subvert it he exerts all his powers; because the whig party had maltreated himself, and created against him a prejudice he was afraid to face. Nay more-be the settlement the very best conceivable scheme of government or not-it was established, and could only be upset by civil commotion, and probably required the aid of foreign invasion to overthrow it. To darken the face of his native land with these greatest of all plagues, he willingly consented, that he might take his revenge on his enemies, and trample upon them, raised to power under the restored dynasty of the bigoted and tyrannical Stuarts! This is not the charge made against Bolingbroke by his adversaries; it is not the sentence pronounced upon him by an impartial public; it is the case made for himself by himself, and it is as complete a confession of enormous guilt as ever man made. It further betokens a mind callous to all right feelings; an understanding perverted by the sophistries of selfish ingenuity; a heart in which the honest, with the amiable sentiments of our nature, have been extinguished by the habitual contemplations familiar to sordid ambition.

But his subsequent proceedings, and his own general defence of his whole conduct, are still more destructive of his fame. As soon as he fled, his attainder passed, and passed, be it observed, without a dissenting voice through both houses-a circumstance demonstrative of the universal impression entertained of his guilt; and a thing which never could have happened to a man so lately minister, among his own supporters and his own party, upon any the lowest estimate of public virtue or polilical friendship, had any doubt existed regarding his conduct, or had he ventured even to deny the charges in private communications with his adherents. He arrived in France: without a day's delay he put himself in communication with the pretender and his agents; and he at once accepted under him the office of his secretary of state. Here then let us pause, and ask if this step was consistent with the charge against him being groundless. A statesman, professing inviolable attachment to the Revolution settlement, is accused of treasonable correspondence with the exiled family; he flies, and because he has been, as he alleges, falsely accused of that offence, he immediately proceeds to commit it. Suppose he made the only feasible excuse for running away from From a man who could thus act in joining the his accusers that the public prejudices against him pretender's fortunes, and could thus defend his conwere so strong as to deprive him of all chance of a duct, little honesty could be expected to the party fair trial-did he not know that all such preposses- with which he had now ranged himself. The charge sions are in their nature, in the nature of the people, of having neglected the interests of the pretender, in the nature of truth and justice, temporary, and pass and done less than he ought to further the attempt in away? Then would not innocence, if acting under 1715, made against him by the thoughtless zeal, the the guidance of common sense and an ordinary gross ignorance, the foolish presumption of the knowledge of mankind, have waited, more or less pa- Jacobites; and against which is almost entirely contient, more or less tranquil, for the season of returning fined his defence of himself, in his celebrated, and calm, when justice might be surely expected? But for composition justly celebrated, "letter to Sir could any thing be more inconsistent with all supposi- William Windham," was plainly groundless. It tion of innocence than instantly to commit the offence in question, because there was a delay of justice, through popular prejudice, prevailing? What would be said of any man's honesty who had fled from a charge of theft which he denied, and feared to meet because supported by perjured witnesses, if he instantly took to the highway for his support? If, indeed, he says that the attainder gave him a right to take part against the government, then it must be observed that some months were allowed him by the act to return and take his trial, and that he never even waited to see whether, before the given time expired, men's minds should become so calm as to let him encounter the charge. But another and a higher ground must be taken. Who can maintain that it is the part of an honest man, to say nothing of a patriotic statesman, to leave the party of his country, and go over to her enemies, the instant he has been maltreated, however grievously, however inexcusably by her—that is, by a part of his enemies

was likely, indeed, to be groundless; for the interests of Bolingbroke, all the speculations of his ambition, all the revengeful passions of his nature, were enlisted to make him zealous in good earnest for the success of the rebellion; and to aid that enterprise, however much he might despair of it, he exerted his utmost resources of intrigue, of solicitation, of argument. But as soon as it had failed, the pretender probably yielded to the misrepresentations of Bolingbroke's enemies, possibly lent an ear to the vulgar herd of detractors, who could not believe a man was in earnest to serve the prince, because he refused, like them, to shut his eyes against the truth, and believe their affairs flourishing when they were almost desperate. The intrigues of Lord Mar worked upon a mind so prepared, and advantage being taken of a coarse, though strong expression of disrespect towards the prince, he was induced to dismiss by far his ablest supporter, and take that wily old Scotsman as his minister. There was the usual amount

of royal perfidy in the manner of his dismissal, and Bolingbroke's idea of a patriot king," certainly not much more. At night he squeezed his hand, and differed exceedingly from his idea of a patriot subexpressed his regard for the man whom in the morn-ject. The duty of the former, according to him, reing he dismissed by a civil message requiring the quired a constant sacrifice of his own interests to the seals of his office, and renewing his protestations of good of his country; the duty of the latter he congratitude for his services, and confidence in his sidered to be a constant sacrifice of his country to attachment. Bolingbroke appears to have felt this himself. The one was bound on no account ever to deeply. He instantly left the party, and for ever; regard either his feelings or his tastes, the interests but he affects to say that he had previously taken the of his family or the powers of his station; the other determination of retiring from all connection with the was justified in regarding his own gratification, service as soon as the attempt of 1715 should be whether of caprice, or revenge, or ambition, as the made and should fail. Assuming this to be true, only object of his life. Between the ruler and his which it probably was not, he admits that his course subjects there was in this view no kind of reciprocity; was to depend, not on any merits of the Stuart cause, for all the life of real sacrifice spent by the one, was not on any view of British interests, not on any vain, to be repaid by a life of undisturbed and undisguised childish, romantic notions of public duty and its self-seeking in the other. But if the guarantee dictates, but simply upon his own personal conve- which his system proposed to afford for the performnience, which was alone to be consulted, and which ance of the patriot king's duties, or for making was to exact his retirement unless the dynasty were patriots of kings, was somewhat scanty and precarestored-which was, of course, to sanction his con- rious, not to say fantastical, ample security was held tinuance in the service in the event of success out for the patriot citizen's part being well filled. crowning the prince, and enabling Bolingbroke to The monarch was enticed to a right and moderate be minister of England. But whatever might have use of power by clothing him with prerogative, and been his intentions in the event of the pretender re- trusting rather to that not being abused than to influtaining him as his secretary of state, his dismissal ence not being very extravagantly employed; the produced an instantaneous effect. All regard for the secret for moderating the love of dominion, was to cause which he had made his own, was lost in the bestow it without any restraint; the protection given revenge for his deprivation of place under its chief; to the people against the prerogative of the prince, and he lost not a zoment in reconciling himself with was to deliver them over into his hands; the method the party whom he had betrayed, and deserted, and proposed for putting the welf out of conceit with opposed. To obtain an amnesty for the present, and blood, was to throw the lamb to him bound. If this the possibility of promotion hereafter, no professions did not seem a very hopeful mode of attaining the of contrition were too humble, no promises of amend- object, a very likely way to realize the "idea of a ment too solemn, no display of zeal for the govern- patriot king," the plan for producing patriot citizens. ment which he had done his utmost to destroy, over-in unlimited supply was abundantly certain. Whatdone. To a certain extent he was believed, because ever defects might be shown in the one scheme of the pretender's cause was now considered desperate, knowledge of human nature, whatever ignorance of and Bolingbroke's interest coincided with the duty human frailty, none whatever could be charged upon of performing his promise. To a certain extent, the other; for it appealed to the whole selfish feeltherefore, his suit was successful, and he was suffered ings of the soul, made each man the judge of what to return to his country, to resume his property and was most virtuous for him to do, and to guide his his rank; but the doors of parliament and office were judgment, furnished him with a pleasing canon kept closed against him, and the rest of his life was encugh-he had only to follow his own inclinations spent in unavailing regrets that he had ever left his whithersoever they might lead. Such was the system country, and as unavailing rancour against the great of Bolingbroke upon the relative duties of sovereigns and honest minister, who had shown him mercy and subjects-a system somewhat more symmetriwithout being his dupe-who had allowed him to cally unfolded as regards the former; but, touching make his country a dwelling-place once more, with- the latter, fully exemplified by his practice, and also out letting him make it once more the sport of his plainly sketched by his writings composed in his unprincipled ambition. own defence. For it must never be forgotten, that Here, again, regarding his final abandonment of he is not like most men who have gone astray, by the pretender, we have his own account, and on that refusing to practise what they preach, or proving alone we are condemning him. Because the par- unequal to square their own conduct by the rules liament of the Brunswicks attainted him when he which in general they confess to be just. His conconfessed his guilt by his flight, he joined the stand-duct has been openly and deliberately vindicated by ard of the Stuarts. It was covered with irremediable himself, upon the ground, that all he did, at least ali defeat, and he resolved to quit it. But meanwhile he admitted himself to have done, he was justified in the master into whose service he came as a volunteer, chose to take another minister; therefore Bolingbroke deserted him, and deserted him when his misfortunes were much more unquestionable than his ingratitude. The pivot of all his actions, by all that he urges in his own behalf, was his individual, private, personal interest. To this consideration all sense of principle was sacrificed, all obligation of duty subjected; whatever his revenge prompted, whatever his ambition recommended, that he deemed himself justified in doing, if not called upon to do,

doing; and he has admitted himself to have acted in every particular with an undeviating regard to the pursuit of his own interests, and the gratification of his own passions.

Of Bolingbroke's private life and personal qualities, as apart from his public and political, little needs be added. He who bore the part in affairs which we have been contemplating, could not easily have been a man of strict integrity or of high principle in any relation of life. There may have been nothing mean or sordid in his nature-an honesty seldom tried in

persons of his station, may have been proof against So great an orator, so noble a person in figure and in the common temptations to which it. was exposed-demeanour-one so little under the dominion of the the honour which worldly men make their god, may principle which makes men harsh, and the restraints have found in him a submissive worshipper; but the which tend to render their manners formal-was sure more exalted and the nobler qualities of the soul to captivate all superficial observers, and even to were not likely to be displayed by one whose selfish win the more valuable applause of superior minds. propensities were gratified in public life, at the cost To do that which he did so well, naturally pleased of all that statesmen most regard in public character; him; to give delight was itself delightful; and he and little reliance can be placed either on the hu- indulged in the more harmless relaxations of society, manity, or the self-control, or the self-respect of one long after he had ceased to be a partaker in the less whose passions are his masters, and hurry him on to reputable pleasures of polished life. He probably gratification at all the hazards that virtue can en- left as high a reputation behind him among the concounter. Accordingly, his youth was a course of temporaries of his maturer years for his social qualiunrestrained and habitual indulgence. In a libertine ties, which remained by him to the last, as he had age he was marked as among the most licentious. gained with those who remembered the eloquence Even his professed panegyrist, Dean Swift, makes that in his earlier days had shook the senate, or the no defence for this part of his life, and only ventures policy and intrigues that had also shaken the to suggest that he had lived long enough to regret monarchy itself. The dreadful malady under which and repent of it. Sir William Windham, too, fell he long lingered and at length sunk a cancer in the into such courses, carried away by his example, and face-he bore with exemplary fortitude, a fortitude seduced by the charms of his society; and they who drawn from the natural resources of his vigorous have written of him, ascribe his early dissipation to mind, and unhappily not aided by the consolations the ascendant of such a Mentor. That he survived of any religion; for having early cast off the belief this tempest of the passions many years, and became in revelation, he had substituted in its stead a dark more quiet in his demeanour during the calmness of and gloomy naturalism, which did not even admit of his blood, is perhaps more the result of physical those glimmerings of hope as to futurity, not untasted causes than any great eulogy of his returning virtue, by the wiser of the heathens, or any manifestation of his penitence.

Such was Bolingbroke; and as such he must be That his feelings, however, when left to their regarded by impartial posterity, after the virulence of natural course, unperverted by evil associates, nor party has long subsided, and the view is no more hurried by evil propensities, were kind and generous, intercepted either by the rancour of political enmity, there is sufficient proof. The marriage which in or by the partiality of adherents, or by the fondness early youth he first contracted, was one of accident of friendship. Such, too, is Bolingbroke, when the and of family arrangement: like all such unions, it gloss of trivial accomplishments is worn off by time, was attended with little happiness. The second and the lustre of genius itself has faded beside the wife was one of his choice; to her his demeanour simple and transcendant light of virtue. The conwas blameless, and he enjoyed much comfort in her templation is not without its uses. The glare of society. His attachment to his friends was warm talents and success is apt to obscure defects which and zealous; and they cultivated and looked up to are incomparably more mischievous than any intelhim with a fervour which can ill be expressed by lectual powers can be either useful or admirable. such ordinary words as esteem, or respect, or even Nor can a lasting renown-a renown that alone deadmiration. Yet even in this relation, the most at- serves the aspirations of a rational being-ever be tractive in which he appears to us, his proud temper built upon any foundations save those which are laid got the better of his kinder nature; and he persecuted in an honest heart and a firm purpose, both conspirthe memory of Pope, whom living he had loved soing to work out the good of mankind. That renown well, with a rancour hardly to be palliated, certainly will be as imperishable as it is pure.

not to be vindicated by the paltry trick to which that great poet and little man had lent himself, in an underhand publication of the manuscripts confided to his care.

His spirit was high and manly; his courage, personal and political, was without a stain. He had no sordid propensities; his faults were not mean or paltry; they were, both in his private life and his public, on a large scale, creating, for the most part, wonder or terror more than scorn or contempt though his conduct towards the pretender approached near an exception to this remark; and the restless impatience with which he bore his long exclusion from the great stage of public affairs, and the relentless vengeance with which he, in consequence of this exclusion, pursued Walpole as its cause, betokened any thing rather than greatness of soul.

That the genius which he displayed in the senate, his wisdom, his address, and his resources in council, should, when joined to fascinating manners and literary accomplishments, have made him shine in society without a rival, can easily be comprehended. MUSEUM.-MAY & JUNE, 1840.

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possessions; and the importance of whose alliance | many Do you like riding on horseback? What has been fully evinced by the service which he ren- country horses do you prefer? Are you in the army? dered us in our recent enterprise beyond the Indus. Which do you like best, cavalry or infantry? Does Lord Although his death has deprived the narrative of Auckland drink wine? How many glasses? Does he some of the attraction which it would otherwise have drink it in the morning? What is the strength of the possessed, it is not without interest as the latest ac- Company's army? Are they well disciplined? &c." count of a remarkable man, whose monarchy will probably soon be crumbled to pieces, while its name will only remain in history as identified with his

own.

Victor Jacquemont, who seems to have attained to a greater degree of intimacy with this singular despot than any other European traveller, says, that his conversation was like a nightmare. But this childish inquisitiveness was no doubt in part assumed from policy, or had become a part of his habitual lesson. It is the common artifice of barbarous chieftains in their intercourse with those more civilized, as a mode of avoiding dangerous topics.

At Adeenanuggur, Captain Osborne became acquainted with many of Runjeet's principal people; for although politically hating the English, they seem to be frank, familiar, and approachable beyond most Orientals. The chief among them were Kurruck Sing, his legitimate son, who has since succeeded him, but has inherited none of his ability; Sher Sing, his adopted son, the bravest of the Sihks, whose rivalry with Kurruck was then the object of much apprehension among all well-wishers to the stability of the dynasty; Dheean Sing, the minister, a fine specimen of the nation, but a determined antiAnglican; Heera Sing, his son, the first favourite, whose relations with the sovereign are left to be conjectured by those who are familiar with Oriental courts:

Mr. Macnaghten, the political secretary to the government, was at the head of the mission on which Captain Osborne travelled. It was sent when the menacing advance of the Persians on Herat rendered the alliance of Runjeet a matter of immediate and pressing interest. The party crossed the Sutlege, the north-western boundary of our empire, on the 20th May, 1838; and proceeded acrosst he plains of the Punjab towards Adeenanuggur, where the Sihk chieftain was then holding his court. The travellers do not seem to have found much to admire in the natural beauty of this region, which has sometimes been represented in very flattering colours. Captain Burnes travelled over it in the brief spring of that climate, when the plains are covered with a carpet of short close sward, and the atmosphere cool and refreshing; but a few weeks of summer turn the whole into a wide and dusty expanse, with here and there a grove of trees, and irrigated fields along the banks of the five classical rivers which traverse it. The heat is tremendous, and far beyond the ordinary temperature even of the hottest months of eastern and maritime India. At Adeenanuggur, in June, the thermometor ranged from 100° in the day to 90° in the night; on the 9th it was at 112° in the tents all day. At Lahore, on the 17th, matters were little better; but the captain hit upon an expedient, in the quarters allotted to the mission in the Shalimar Gar-gold, and a deep fringe of chain mail, of the same madens, which seems to have succeeded to admiration. This was

"Pitching a tent about twelve feet square, made entirely of the fresh cuscus grass, and lined with yellow muslin, very thin, to prevent the water from the outside wetting the furniture, and yet sufficiently fine to allow of a free current of air. This I have pitched in the middle of the large marble hall in the centre of the gardens, the roof of which prevents the sun from striking down; and, all four sides being open, the hot wind is able to blow freely through it, which, by keeping the tent constantly wet on the outside, is converted from something resembling the blast from a furnace into a cool and refreshing, thou h damp, breeze, and the thermometer brought down to 84°."

In the end of June, the temperature is abated by the

arrival of the violent summer rains.

The mission was introduced to Runjeet at Adeenanuggur:

"Soocket Sing, Dheean's brother, is one of the handsomest of the Sihk chiefs, who are all eminently goodlooking. He is high in Runjeet's favour, as well as much respected and adinired by all the Sibks, and about twenty eight years of age. His dress was magnificent. A helmet or scullcap, of bright polished steel inlaid with

terial, reaching to his shoulders; three plumes of black heron's feathers waving on his crest, and three shawls of lilac, white, and scarlet, twisted very round and tight, interlaced with one another, and gathered round the edge of the helmet; a chelenk of rubies and diamonds on his forehead. Back, breastplates, and gauntlets of steel, richly embossed with gold and precious stones, worn over a rich, thick quilted jacket of bright yellow silk, with magnificent armlets of rubies and diamonds on each arm; a shield of the polished hide of the rhi noceros, embossed and ornamented with gold; a jewelled sabre and matchlock; with his long and glossy black beard and mustachoes-he looked the very beau idéal of a Sihk chief."

The military power of Runjeet was of course ostentatiously displayed before his European visiters; but, on the whole, the impression of it which we derive from Captain Osborne's pages is not so favourable as that which it appears to have made on some former observers; especially on Sir Alexander "As this was merely an audience of introduction, the Burnes, who visited that sovereign before the romance object of the mission was not touched upon, and our time of his greatness had been a little dissipated by closer was principally occupied in answering Runjeet's innuThe captain was most struck with merable questions, but without the slightest chance of acquaintance. being able to satisfy his insatiable curiosity. It is hardly the proficiency of the artillery; an arm in which possible to give an idea of the ceaseless rapidity with Asiatic armies have seldom excelled, and which it which his questions flow, or the infinite variety of sub-is creditable to Runjeet to have kept on so superior jects they embrace. Do you drink wine? How much? a footing; inasmuch as the expenses attending it Did you taste the wine which I sent you yesterday? How must have tried his parsimonious disposition more much of it did you drink? What artillery have you than those of any other branch of his service. The brought with you? Have they got any shells? How regular infantry form a fine looking body; composed,