borne a commission in the British Service, were anxious to bestow appropriate honours on their brother in arms. "As the funeral approached Lourmarin, it was met by a considerable body of townsmen, including the Mayor, the Pastor, and the Members of the Bible Society. At eleven o'clock on the first Wednesday of May, the day allotted to the Anniversary Meeting of the Society-at the very instant, as it proved, at which Lord Teignmouth appeared in his accustomed place, amidst the acclamations of the Members, and the important Resolutions, already noticed, were propounded-by a coincidence wholly unforeseen, the coffin containing his son's remains was received by the appointed bearers at the gate of Lourmarin. Military honours, though declined, were not withheld. The pall was borne by Officers of the French army: and, as the procession passed through the streets, which were densely crowded-as a holiday had been granted to the people of the neighbourhood, whether Protestants or Roman Catholics-its progress was indicated by volleys from the carbines of the gens d'armerie, and the same martial tribute was bestowed at the grave. The Pastor, who had performed the Funeral Service, preached an impressive sermon; in which he not only dwelt on the mournful events which had assembled the concourse he beheld, but took a rapid survey of the operations of the Society, with which the name and family of the deceased were, in the minds of many whom he was addressing, inseparably associated. "It may be inferred, from the Letters preceding this narrative, that Lord Teignmouth and his family, in their present affliction, "sorrowed not without hope." During some weeks previous to his death, and indeed from the period of his receiving the Sacrament in compliance with his father's recommendation, preceded as it had been by earnest and anxious meditation and prayer, Captain Shore's mind had been wholly freed from the sceptical suggestions which had harrassed it during the earlier part of his illness; and exhibited, in entire dependence on his Saviour's merits, uninterrupted serenity, and joyful anticipation of his approaching change." Another loss, which fell upon Lord Teignmouth in his old age, afflicted him with almost equal severity. This was the death of his son-in-law, Sir Noel Hill, who at that time was commanding the cavalry at Maidstone. This was a heavy blow; but it was the last. The life of this venerable man was now drawing to a close. His years had out-numbered four-score; and he was ready to put on immortality. His infirmities assumed no distressing form; and his intellectual activity was little impaired; but death was stealing upon him with silent, though sure, foot-steps. The summer of 1833 saw him a tenant of the sick chamber; and from the malady which had then seized him he never altogether recovered. A temporary renovation of health and strength was succeeded by a relapse. In the month of September, he returned to London, after a brief sojourn at Hampstead, in better health and spirits; but on Christmas day his malady returned upon him with renewed force. During the interval between his last attacks, the activity of his mind was remarkable. His reading was varied and extensive. His conversation was full of vivacity; and his recollections more than usually clear. He discoursed, as he read, upon all subjects-but the goodness of God was his favorite theme. He was ready and equipped for his last journey. His much-loved friend Wilberforce had "gone before;" and he was prepared to follow. The new year found him on the bed of death-thankful, hopeful, resigned; and on the 14th of February, the anniversary of his marriage, this good man fell asleep in Jesus. It is impossible too highly to estimate the character of such a man as Lord Teignmouth. Characters of this stamp are so rare in their growth, that they should be appreciated for their very rarity. But the world is scantily endowed with this faculty of rightful appreciation. The outer show of meretricious, delusive ornament attracts and dazzles the vulgar eye. Tinsel is not difficult to comprehend; it is intelligible to the scrubbiest boy in the shilling gallery. The stunning noise of drums and of cymbals demands no greater effort of the understanding-no greater nicety of perception. The more common qualities of our nature, the vain, the showy, the superficial, are those which are necessarily best appreciated by a vain, a showy, a superficial world. A battle, a proclamation, a noisy speech-these are things, which, in the vulgar mind, make men great and admirable. Conventional greatness, like stage kings, must wear a glittering crown and be arrayed in sumptuous apparel. Simple, inornate beauty the multitude has not an eye to see, nor faculties to comprehend. The Ethiopians of old chose their kings from the men of the grandest stature; he who loomed the largest, Herodotus tells us, was made Basileus without more trouble. The hero-worship of the multitude is regulated by an equally intelligible standard. Let there be only noise enough and parade enough; let something be done to startle and surprisc-be it right or be it wrong, no matter-let some great change be effected for better or for worse, with a loud explosion -and the world have a hero to applaud. For the man, who exerts himself quietly and unostentatiously, to preserve peace and to promote a people's prosperity by acts of noiseless benevolence, whilst in his own person he sets an example of welldoing, more glorious than the planting of the ensign in the deadly breach, there is no hope-not the skeleton of a hope; he must content himself with being thought a man; he will never be promoted to a hero. Lord Teignmouth, in the eyes of the world, was no hero. Even grave historians, making a sort of dim show of philosophy, have set him down in the chronicle as a very poor creature-a mere thing of mediocrity, common-place to very mawkishness. But how stands the case in the plain, simple, garb of truth? The qualities which Sir John Shore exhibited as a Statesman, were the very antipodes of essen common-place. As Governor-General he possessed vast power, which he never once abused. He never, on one solitary occasion, turned his thoughts towards self-aggrandisement; nor suffered any vain or selfish motive to influence his public acts. He was as little ambitious as he was corrupt; but his moderation is no more to be attributed to any want of ability to pursue more" vigorous measures," than his integrity to any freedom from the influence of besetting temptations. Few men lack the ability to do mischief. Sir John Shore certainly did not. It would have been easy to have followed the course—an tially common-place course as it was-the course that had been followed to such an exorbitant extent, that it was necessary to limit it by an Act of Parliament;-nothing easier than to meddle and interfere, to pick quarrels, and to order great battles to be fought. There is a natural propensity in human naturein statesman-nature more especially-to meddle with other people's affairs, and to quarrel for the mere love of strife. The veriest dolt can order a battle to be fought ;-merit is there none in ordering it. Our Governors have shown, in later days, how very little capacity it requires to bring about a vast effusion of blood. This blood-shedding is, of all attributes, the most common-place. It may be vanity, or it may be intemperance, or it may be ignorance, or it may be indolence; but to one or other of these by no means uncommon qualities, or, perchance, to a hideous combination of all, is to be assigned the paternity of well nigh every war, with its human sacrifices steaming up to Heaven. We should shout with very joy at the discoverya discovery reserved for some remote Millennian age, when meekness shall be the characteristic of the tiger and abstinence of the wolf,-that moderation in Statesmen is a common-place virtue. Sir John Shore was not a common-place Statesman, because he was a moderate one. It has been said, that though an excellent man, he was out of his place at the head of the Government of India. If it be necessary for an Indian Statesman, in order to show that he is in his place, to emulate the heartless rapacity of other GovernorsGeneral-if it be necessary, in order to show that he is in his place, to juggle and defraud-to outrage and to tyranniseto trample beneath his feet every consideration of virtue and of honor;-if it be necessary, in order to show that he is in his place, to exhibit, on every occasion, a reckless courage, that dares do more than becomes a man-a disregard of human suffering a contempt of human laws-a fearlessness of responsibility to God and man ;-if it be necessary to do these things, in order to show that he is in his place, then must we admit, that Sir John Shore was not in his place as Governor-General. Still, whilst we acknowledge that he was weak enough to be virtuous, a virtuous Governor-General now and then is not wholly without his uses. The life of Lord Teignmouth may be read with profit, not to be gleaned from histories of Clive and Hastings, by men who speak scorn of him, and say, that he was a poor creature. It will there be seen by these scorners how a man, with nothing to recommend him but his undeviating virtue, attained an eminence in the political world, which was vainly aspired after by many of the most brilliant men of a peculiarly brilliant age. The lesson, perhaps, is rendered all the more instructive by the denial of Shore's abilities as a StatesIf he possessed no abilities as a Statesman, the triumph of virtue is the more conspicuous. Shore had no family connexions; no political interest; he paid no court to men in authority; he sought neither place nor power. When the GovernorGeneralship was offered to him by a Ministry certainly not wanting in ability, nor wont to do foolish things, it was most reluctantly accepted. The greatness was thrust upon him, and why? Because, in the opinions of Pitt and Dundas, he was the fittest man in the kingdom to exercise the vast powers of the Governor-Generalship of India. man. Of his administration, it ought to be sufficient to assert, that it was approved by the Company, the ministry and the People. A Governor-General is not sent out to India to follow the guidance of his own lusts; to play the autocrat without regard to the principles of those from whom he derives his mission. Sir John Shore was appointed Governor-General under a new Charter, which was framed in accordance with the spirit of the times and the wishes of the people. He came to India, believing that the Act of the Legislature was intended to be observed and not to be disregarded by him; that as representative of the British interests in the East, it was his duty not to violate the Acts of the British Parliament, or to set at nought the desires of the British people. If the system of non-interference with independent states, pursued during Sir John Shore's administration, had a tendency to weaken our hold of India, by giving strength to our enemies, by enabling them to increase their resources and to concentrate their energies to an extent injurious to our security, the fault must be laid at the door of the Parliament, and, therefore, of the people of Great Britain, from whom that system emanated. A Governor-General is no more chargeable with the errors of the Legislature, than a Judge with the defects of the laws which he administers. By virtue of the Act of the Legislature, he holds his authority; and to the provisions of that Act he is bound to adhere. It is no part of our business to enquire how far the Act was a wise or an unwise one; our opinions on the subject may, perhaps, be derived from the general tenour of this article; but so long as that Act existed, the Governor-General was bound to take it as his rule of conduct -bound not to suffer any motives of personal ambition, or any feeling of arrogance and impatience, to mislead him from the plain path of duty, as marked out by the Legislature of Great Britain. If there were nothing else to be alleged in favour of Sir John Shore's moderation, it would be sufficient to declare, that this moderation was prescribed by the Parliament of the country; that the Charter-Act, from which he derived his authority, expressly inculcated a close adherence to the system of non-interference, which he made the rule of his political con duct. Of his character as a man, but one opinion can be entertained. At a time, when to be corrupt was only to be like one's neighbours, he preserved, in poverty and privation, the most inflexible integrity. Ere religion had touched his heart, he was an upright and a virtuous man; but it was beneath the warm sunlight of Christianity that his character expanded into the fulness of life and beauty. His patience, his humility, his dependence upon God, are beyond such praise as we are capable of bestowing. His talents, which were of a high order, he rendered subservient to his Christian principles; he had no ambition to shine; his sole desire was to be useful; and he turned aside from every temptation to distinguish himself at the cost of one conscientious scruple. There are men who make themselves up to dazzle, as there are women who make themselves up to charm-men who would rather tell a lie, than spoil a sentence; rather violate a principle, than miss a point; rather destroy the happiness of thousands, than lose an opportunity of doing a brilliant thing. Lord Teignmouth was not one of these. At the summons of his country, he conceived that he was bound to do his duty in the state of life into which God had called him, at the sacrifice of his own personal happiness. But though he could bring himself to sacrifice his ease and comfort, to abandon the joys of home and the pleasure of domestic life, he could, on no account, sacrifice one tittle of those high principles, which glowed in his breast, and rendered him a Christian ruler not merely in name. When his work was done, though scarcely advanced in his pilgrimage more than mid-way between the threshold and the bourne, he retired into private life, as a man who deemed it a higher privilege to walk humbly with his God, than to sway the poli |