an earl by the title of 'Earl Amherst of Arakan in the East Indies and Viscount Holmesdale in Kent.' All things went well with the man whom the king delighted to honour.
The Directors and the Court of Proprietors also voted thanks to Lord Amherst ' for his forbearance in not resorting to measures of coercion against the usurper of Bhartpur as long as hopes could reasonably be entertained of accomplishing by means of negotiation the restoration to power of the legitimate Rájá, and for his decision in the failure of negotiation to effect the reduction of that important fortress by force.'
There were only six dissentient voices to the vote of thanks in the Court of Proprietors—consisting of Mr. Hume and his friends. Mr. Hume made every opposition he could devise.
Virtue has triumphed; and the diary returns to