5.  The inglorious second administration of Lord Cornwallis lasted only from 30th of July, 1805, the date on which he relieved the Marquis Wellesley, to the 5th of October of the same year, the date of his death at Ghazipur.  ’The Marquis Cornwallis arrived in India, prepared to abandon, as far as might be practicable, all the advantages gained for the British Government by the wisdom, energy, and perseverance of his predecessor; to relax the bands by which the Marquis Wellesley had connected the greater portion of the states of India with the British Government; and to reduce that Government from the position of arbiter of the destinies of India to the rank of one among many equals.’  His policy was zealously carried out by Sir George Barlow, who succeeded him, and held office till July, 1807.  That statesman was not ashamed to write that ’the British possessions in the Doab will derive additional security from the contests of the neighbouring states’. (Thornton, The History of the British Empire in India, chap. 21.) This fatuous policy produced twelve years of anarchy, which were terminated by the Marquis of Hastings’s great war with the Marathas and Pindharis in 1817, so often referred to in this book.  Lord Lake addressed the most earnest remonstrances to Sir George Barlow without avail.

6.  Amin-ud-din and Zia-ud-din’s mother was the Bhao Begam, or wife; Shams-ud-din’s the Bhao Khanum, or mistress. [W.  H. S.]

7.  Sir James Edward, third baronet, who died November 5, 1838.  He was paternal uncle of Henry Thomas Colebrooke, F.R.S., the greatest of Anglo-Indian Sanskritists.  The fifth baronet, Edward Arthur, was created Baron Colebrooke in 1906.

8.  Sir Charles Metcalfe was for a time Assistant Resident at Delhi, and was first appointed to the Residency at the extraordinarily early age of twenty-six.  He was then transferred to other posts.  In 1824 he returned to the Delhi Residency, superseding Sir David Ochterlony, whose measures had been disapproved by the Government of India.  He left the Residency in 1827.

9.  The editor once had occasion to deal with a similar case, which resulted in the loss by the offending Raja of his rank and title.  The orders were passed by the Government of Lord Dufferin.

10.  Colonel Skinner, who raised the famous troops known as Skinner’s Horse, died in 1841, and was buried in the church of St. James at Delhi which he had built.  The church still exists.  The Colonel erected opposite the church, as a memorial of his friend Fraser, a fine inlaid marble cross, which was destroyed in the Mutiny (General Hervey, Some Records of Crime, vol. i, p. 403).

11.  According to General Hervey, the provocation was that Mr. Fraser had inquired from the Nawab about his sister by name (op. cit., p. 279).

12.  I print this word ‘Bulvemar’s’ as it stands in the original edition, not knowing what it means.

13.  The habits of Europeans have now changed, and to most people escorts have become distasteful.  High officials now constantly go about unattended, and could be assassinated with little difficulty.  Happily crimes of the kind are rare, except on the Afghan frontier, where special precautions are taken.