Sketches of Rulers of India, Vol. 3: The Governors-General and Dupleix (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Calcutta towards the end of Warren Hastings's period Of ofi'ice, and they had actually already sent him a dispatch designating him governor-general, but sudden illness necessitated his return to England. Sir John Kaye has given the cause Of that illness, which is worth quoting here. The Company had been recently promulgating certain sumptuary regulations for the guidance Of their young civil servants. Amongst these was one directed against the practice, common among them, Of carrying umbrellas. With that strict scrupulosity that characterized Lord Macartney, he had been carrying out this regulation in his own person by way Of setting a good example the result was that he got a touch Of the sun while walking about Calcutta without an umbrella, and had to be in valided home in consequence.

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