Ah! raison, c’est bien dommage,
Que l’ennui suive tes pas.”
Nevertheless, we will return home as soon as we can.
Our friend Mr. C⸺ is going down to Bulloah, a savage spot, where he is to make salt; he takes down three couple of hounds to assist him in his labours.
Provided there is a good bulky dividend at the end of the year upon India Stock, the holders think the country flourishing in the greatest security. Every governor who is sent out is told that the principal thing to be considered is economy. Lord Moira, who had a becoming horror of such petitesses, and who saw the political danger of carrying the cutting system into practice, in several instances refused to adopt the measures he was intrusted to execute. Yet India was never in a more flourishing state; dividends on India Stock never looked up more cheerfully. Lord Amherst has applied the paring-knife, and much good it has done;—the military ran riot[22], the civilians were inclined to grow rusty, and India Bonds were very dismal and looking down.
A letter appeared in the Gazette the other day, in which the Harrow boys were spoken of in an irreverend manner, which elicited the following answer from the sāhib[23]:—
“To the Editor of the Government Gazette.
“June, 1825.
“Sir,