[1019]. Life by Holland, vol. ii. p. 73.
[1020]. l. c. vol. ii p. 150.
[1021]. Debate in House of Lords, April 9th, 1813, Hansard, pp. 750, 751.
[1022]. ‘Statements respecting the East India College, with an appeal to facts in refutation of the charges lately brought against it in the Court of Proprietors’ (1817). Cf. his ‘Letter to Lord Grenville, occasioned by some observations of his Lordship on the E. India Co.’s establishment for the education of their Civil servants’ (1813). Cf. Edin. Rev., Dec. 1816. The Letter to Lord Grenville (1813) states the case a little less fully; but both pamphlets contain substantially the same arguments.
[1023]. A property it often was, in the most literal sense, being bought and sold for cash. See Hist. of Peace, Introd. II. ii. 329–30.
[1024]. Statements, p. 103 n.
[1025]. Candidates were to be nominated in groups of four, the best of the four to have the appointment. Cf. Mill and Wilson’s Brit. India, Vol. IX. Book III. ch. ix. p. 381.
[1026]. The steps of the change may be followed in the fourth Report (1858) of the Civil Service Commissioners, pp. xix. seq. and 228 seq. Cf. also their first Report (1855).
[1027]. For proofs of their regard, see the letters quoted in the blue-book of 1876 on “the Selection and Training of candidates for the Civil Service of India,” passim, and Trevelyan’s “Competition Wallah” (1864), pp. 7, 8, 15, 16, but cf. 149.
[1028]. See Works, Review of Rennel, footnote.