Litchfield enquirer., 1852-10-07
RoRERT CLIYE AND JAAlEs WOLF,
The Deerees of RONe and ths Degrees
 of Hnd.

ROBERT CLIVE AND JAMES WOLF. The Deerees of ROme, and tks Deerees
 of' God.
 i've find the following adm rable artiele fir. m the len of tIe Rev. James KlibOurp. in late number of The Independeni l
 A hundred years ago. the Qaeen Of the Seven Hills was sayirg in Ter heart. My dominion shall encircle the globe. Asia. that world Of the hoary past America, that world of lhe brilliant Fu- ture, shall meet at my footstool. My throne shalf overlop the Rlcky Noun. tains and the Himalayas. The Missouri and the Ganges 'hall float nay revenues. The waves of every ocean shall wait the gold and homage of tue gorgeous East and the mighty West 10 thls Eternal City. Beyond where Alexander trod-beyond wLe,e foa;ed Cesar's ensigns. shall stand the pillars of my dominion--to winch all heathens and he'etics shall submit or perish dominion oyer 'all the klng> aoms of the world and the glory of them, and whose glory shall never faid." Thus Rome decreed,
 l And why not
 At the middle uf the last century, the peninsular of India, containing about one-sixth of the human race, seemed about lo pass from the dominien n of the Great Mognl to that of "his most Chris, 'ian Ma jesty" of France, ''lhe eldest son uf the chu.ch." France had establish. cd her empire oyer thirty millions of p.o- pie in Southern India, while yet England had only a few trading agents at Calcut- la, Madras and Bombay, and these des- pissed and insulted both by French and natives. The idea of an Indo-British empire had oceu'red to no human mind. The exlstance of England's commercial factories. even, was in peril. But the idea of an 1ndo EreneA empife-to be goyerped non.inalIy by native rulers, and supported by naive armies uuder Euro pean discipline and command-had oc cu'.ed 10 the sagacious and aspiring Du- kIcIx. French governor uf Pondicllerry and he was marching triumphant and almost n,Iresisted to it's fulfiilment. The throne of Delhi trembled before this son of the Church. And what a prize stir. red bis ambition! The realms of the Great Mogul, stretching from the peer. less heights of the Hlmalaya to Cape Comorin-surpassing in ext4n, the twen- ty.6ye American states east of the Mss. llssippi with revenues more ample. and subjects more numerous than belonged to any European state-India, the goal of the merchant and the conqueror for thousands of years-lndia shall be a province of France, and the jewels of Golconda and the gold of Delhi shall enhance the magnlfi :ence and the power oi the Holy Calholc Church. We'll might France and Rome exqlt. The one should see her power forever exalted ; above that of hel Saxon rival. The oth. 5 CT might install her priests and saints in every Hindoo temple, transfer the fune. ral pile from the widow to the heretic ] and compel hundred millions of peo- pie to be baptized and saved at once
 But India is the heart and CT. wn of Asia
 and they who rule in India rule sooner or later from Egypt to the Yellow Sea. A hundred years ago, Rome might think sine almost saw her cruci6xes erected by the valor of loyal Flenchmen upon all the mosques and pagodas of Asia,ic in. fidelity, from Mecca to the Chinese Wall.
 But God said 10 Rome, "Thy counsels shall not stand. India and Asia are not thine"
 Sitting by writer's desk, in an Eng fish commercial house in the city of Mad ras. was q young man twenty five years of age. who knew not God. Desperation showed through his sullen face. A dark soul looked out from under his black heavy brow. His temper is, fierce. He cannot bear restraint. He knows no fea. of God or man. He loathes his daily Eluties. His pay is small. No joys of ifriendsh'p cheer his weary life. His health fails. Of either pleasure, wealth or distinction. he has no prospect. He vows. Il will not live, My pistol shall yield my quick relief" He load, well the deadly thing. Win desperate heart he holds it to his head. It snaps :! But the instrument g.ll not do he su.l,y dee.i. He loads and snaps again. but still in vain.
 The name of this young man was Ro- bert Give. ordained of God (whom he neither loved nor feared) to annihilate the French empire in India, and blast the purposes of Rome. circumstances compelled him to lay down the pen and .al,, ,,~ si,., eyvard V,;. .ova.lod h; ti.lcnt and his mission. By sustaining the siege of Arcol fifty days and then lepulsing the besiegers wish almost in credible skill and va1or, hs struck the death blow of French and Papd power in that quarler.of the wo,ld. and the In. do European empire which DupEeix had projected for Pspal France. was turned over to her great Protestant rival.--s Again the rising empire which Give