Te viu i could not have o Face that this support The sudering of the many Tre o de jove rapacity of sims had so long been མ་ནས་ས་དས་་་ LAST upon their An older secretly ens vid amaardly they Metcalfe saw strated his energies Srbe. The success A As severingly and me descent, is a great -Vi syner bad Governst be adat of these meaCommenced the good es of the people, evices, and fixed lensals in them, than the e emparative tranquillity. dreaping & return pro velaceses, and industry took the wh" In het, the work of reThere was hope still PROGRESS OF REFORM. 37 superintendence. The superintendents did not interfere in the executive details, but exercised a presiding influence over the general administration both of Revenue and Justice. Under this system, those village settlements which Metcalfe had found so beneficial to the people in the Delhi territories, were introduced, and with excellent results. That during the period of Metcalfe's residence in the Deccan the inhabitants of the Hyderabad provinces were rescued from much oppression that the rights of the agriculturists were more clearly defined-that extortion was checked—and Justice rendered something better than a mockery is not to be denied. He did not labor in vain. His best reward was in the increased happiness of the people-but the commendations of the Government, ever so dear to him, were not withheld. It was said afterwards, when there was an object in the distortion of the truth, that Metcalfe had been guilty of improper interference in the internal affairs of the Nizam's Government. But the system was not his system. He found it in operation. He only gave it greater and more beneficial effect. But there were those whose interest it was to misrepresent, if they could not nullify his measures. And he had need of all his resolution. It was with a clear insight into the difficulties which beset Metcalfe's ameliorative progress that his old friend and * Lord Hastings wrote to him in April, 1821: "Let me take the opportunity, my dear sir, of saying to you how gratifying the prospects are which you hold forth respecting the improvements in cultivation and com fort of the Nizam's territories. I feel tion of t succeeded But i was or had be the M. glutted greed deavor were plainl and r of the consis fact n ment, sures his time Devement: 2cation of the Tave objects as ra renment as darke uloved to speak and manage is ong the circumstances real our firmness, recollect at ur aurten and prudence, and, ence. These qualities I ordinary degree alone at stake. fended gentle have a more mo the good figh an eetings such a cause as that artful and social feed men can support. mate triumph, though and annovince.” work thous the e coun Men porti place gene for 1 T look expl syst Finances of the Nizam-Residency Expenses-William Palmer and Co.The Sixty-lakh Loan-Influence of the House-Sir William RumboldMetcalfe's Friendship for the Partners-Proposed Financial Arrangement -Correspondence with Lord Hastings - Intrigues of the House - The Governor-General and Mr. Adam-Further Revelations-Reconciliation with the Governor-General-Discussions in England. WHILST, under Metcalfe's instructions and superintendence, the subordinate officers upon whom he relied were pushing forward, with good success, these ameliorative measures, the Resident himself was diligently inquiring into the financial circumstances of the Nizam, and tracing the causes of that chronic state of embarrassment which had so grievous an effect on the prosperity of the country. It had been his first care, on entering upon his new duties, to see that the Residency itself was entirely free from the reproach of increasing the unprofitable expenditure of the Nizam; and at one of his first interviews with Chundoo-Lall he had "urged the Minister to discontinue on his own part, and to procure the discontinuance on the part of Mooneer-ool-Moolk, of all clandestine allowances to servants, &c., at the — mei lim Chundoo-Lall) sud ver saylov naves in any comAND IN VIA ne Nizam's Government—that miters you be fiscussed by notes-and moranes diner personally or through one He saw clearly the importance week at once upon every description of At Lum, nu preventing the Nizam or wing fewed by the fathomless e underings of the Residency. v v my ừ those convenient arsking the expenses of ment to the trea Can timed our own burdens at her he scented a job |