Those engagements must be fulfilled, and those conditions must be carried into execution.
As to Kars, Austria, France, and Great Britain have undertaken to maintain the integrity of the Turkish Empire, and that integrity must be maintained.
Russia received no equivalent for giving up the principalities which she had occupied as a material pledge. She can receive none for giving up Kars.
If Russia determines to carry on the war, rather than give up Kars, things must take their course.
The Marquis of Dalhousie to Queen Victoria.
TRANQUILLITY OF INDIA
Government House, 29th February 1856.
Lord Dalhousie presents his most humble duty to your Majesty.
The guns are announcing from the ramparts of Fort William that Lord Canning has arrived. In an hour's time he will have assumed the Government of India. Lord Dalhousie will transfer it to him in a state of perfect tranquillity. There is peace, within and without. And although no prudent man will ever venture to predict the certainty of continued peace in India, yet Lord Dalhousie is able to declare, within reservation, that he knows of no quarter in which it is probable that trouble will arise.16
Lord Dalhousie desires that his very last act, as Governor-General, should be to submit to your Majesty a respectful expression of the deep sense he entertains of your Majesty's constant approbation of his public conduct while he has held the office of Governor-General of India; together with a humble assurance of the heartfelt gratitude with which he shall ever remember your Majesty's gracious favour towards him through the eight long years during which he has borne the ponderous burden he lays down to-day.