was various, extenfive, and correct; and no man perhaps ever more thoroughly ftudied, or more properly appreciated, the Indian character at large. In his manners he was gentle and inoffenfive, and poffeffed a natural polite-. nefs, and evinced a difpofition to please fuperior to most men. He was, as we have already feen, equally a loyal fubject to his king, as a real and fincere well wifher to the profperity and permanence of the British empire in the caft. He was open, generous, charitable, and humane; and his behaviour towards the families of those perfons who fell in his fervice, evinces a benevolence of heart, and a philanthropy of spirit, highly honourable to his character.

But with these good qualities, the impartiality of history demands that we should state his errors, and endeavour to difcover fome fhades in a character otherwife fplendid. A quickness of temper, liable to frequent agitations, and the ebullitions of hafty wrath, not unfrequently rendered his appearance ferocious; yet this only occurred in inftances where

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the conviviality of his temper obscured his reafon; and for this, on conviction, no man was ever readier to make every acknowledgment and reparation in his power.

Perfect correctnefs of conduct cannot be expected from a character like the one now under confideration, as a feclufion from civilized life, and long abfence from the exercife of those duties which conftitute the chief enjoyment of social happiness, must neceffarily have tinctured the manners of the man with fome portion of the fpirit of the barbarians with whom he was so long an inmate.

Upon the whole, however, we may be jus tified in remarking, that on a review of the life and actions of this very extraordinary man, it is difficult which most to admire, whether the intrepidity of spirit by which he was incited to the performance of actions which, by their effect, raifed him from the condition of a private subject to rank and distinction among princes; or the wonderful and uncommon attachment generally exhibited towards his per

fon and interests, by natives of every defcription, who fought and conquered with him in his long and arduous career, and whofe affiftance exalted him for a time to a height of re fpectability and confequence that seldom falls to the lot of an individual.

FINIS.

CONTENTS OF THE APPENDIX.

1. Of the trade in general carried on in the countries north-west of Delhi.

2. Prospectus.

3. Statement of the forces of several of the native princes in the western parts of the peninsula.

4. General abstract of the countries to the north-west of Delhi, with their relative distances from that city in British miles.