Year: 1869

the Duke of Grafton arrived at Madras, be
should be ayowedly in love.


Hastings love, however, while it was deep,
ardent, strong, was not impetuous. Intent now
on realizing, at whatever sacrifice, the fruition
of his desires, he set about maturing plan for
the accomplishment of this object with as cool
and calculating mind as he had previously done
for the redemption of his paternal estate. Nay,
as unscrupulous even now, and as resolute as
when, somewhat later, he administered on the
temporalities of the begums of Dude, and depop-
ulated whole regions of the British domain, he,
| in connection with his adored mistress, devised
and settled upon the following plan of opera
tions He would Immediately proceed to Ben
| gal, and establish himself there in business,
while she was to institute q suit for divorce in
| some of the courts of Franconia. While this
latter matter was pending, which in all proba-
bility would be four or five years, they should
abide apart but as soon as the marriage tie was
dissolved, he would make her his wife, and
adopt all the children she had borne to her
former husband.


Fired now with double ambition, he ad-
dressed himself to the great purpose of life with
greater zeal and earnestness than ever before.
His talents and knowledge of Indian affairs hav
ing brought him at once and prominently into
the service of the East India company, it was
not long before he was made second in the coun-
Gil of Madras, and three years later the highest
official of the company, the President of the Su-
preme Council of Bengal. Indeed, such was his
indoEitable energy and indefatigable devotion
to business such his matchess administrative
ability and unwearying constancy that after
having been advanced rapidly from one position
of honor and trust to another, he was appointed,
January 4, l774, Governor-General of British
India. Like Lord Byron, he suddenly awoke
and found himself famous.


Behold now. The millions of India have be-
come the subjects of this once humble company
clerk. A standing army is at his command,
ready to do his bidding even to letting itself for
hire and exterminating the innocent and defence
less Rohllas. The resources of vast and an
cient empire are subject to his control, and the
treasures of time me-honored and inotensive nabobs
gathered to swell his treasury and carry forward
his enterprises. His word becomes law in the
province, and his name at length terror to all
the tribes abroad. In word, in an almost in
credibly brief period of time, from the humble
capacity of posting books for the company, he is
advanced to the position of statesman, diplo
matist, monarch. His movements are attracting
the attention of the whole civilized world, and
for series of years afford fruitful topic of
comment and disquisition for the English press,
and of debate in the House of Commons. Aspir-
ing to- the position of dictator, he completely
outwits and discounts that distinguished states
man, and the alleged author of the papers of
Junius, Sir Phillip Francis, who, with one or





ernment to rule jointly with him, and to correct
some of the abuses of which the latter had been
unjustly charged as guilty. Yes, as effectually
as he destroys his Indian foes, he defeats oppos-
tion in his council and snaps his fingers alike at
the home administration and the board of direc-
tors And yet success follows him. With such
consummate skill and indopitable energy does
he carry forward his enterprise, he wins golden
opinions even from his enemies. So manifestly
is all India, under his administration, undergo
ing rapid and radical revolution, and the Eng
lsh government securing stronger hold upon
the country than ever before--for the vast terri
tory over which he rules is composed mostly of
new conquests-he is popular in court in spite
of his obstinacy and unparalleled excesses. So
astonishingly withal are the Golfers of the East
India company replenished by the rich harvest
of pagodas he is reaping, they resoutely shut
their eyes to the enormities he authorizes, and
resolve to sustain him at all hazards.


Will not this august potentate, flushed by his
unexampled tide of success, remembering that
it is gentle blood that flows in his veins, and
conscious that in the future be is to be the COM
panion of mobiles and princes, the titled and the
powerful-will not this young world-renowed
hero look with contempt upon, if not entirely
forget his love affair with the Dutch woman on
board the Duke of Grafton? Not so. Decidedly
and unqualifedly as we must condemn Hastings
deliberate plot to despoil another man of his
lawful wife, we cannot but admire the singular
fidelity with which, under such vastly changed
circumstances, he fulfilled, promptly and to the
letter, his former vows. About five years after
his second arrival in India, during all which
time he had neither seen nor heard anything of
his intended, news came that one Madame I'm
hoff had at length succeeded in obtaining di-
yorce from her husband in the Franconia courts.
Hastings hailed the intelligence with every de-
monstration of joy; took immediate measures to
have the lady brought to him caused the day
of his marriage to be announced as universal
holiday, and celebrated it with festivities of the
most magnificent description.


Hastings was some fifteen years Governor
General of India, and his wife always exerted
over him a marked and controlling influence.
And when at length he returned to England, she
who was born under the Arctic circle, and had
PLAYED the queen under the tropic of Cancer,
proved herself not unworthy to grace the court
of Queen Charlotte; acted a conspicuous part
during the famous and protracted trial of her
husband, whose alleged crimes are preserved in
the amber of the immortal eloquence of Sheridan
and Burke and subsequently, Hastings having
been enabled through the generosity of the East
India company, to redeem his ancestral home,
for which object he had lived and labored SO
long, and in which his almost interminable and
enormously expensive trial had well nigh de-
feated him, became extensively and very favor
ably known as the accomplished lady of Dayles-
ford.-Galary.


CRoup.-The season of the year has now COM
menced in which this infantile disease is most
prevalent, the following extract from the Medical
Gazette Of Paris, is published for the beneht OF