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188 the country. But the amounts to be received had been settled with justice, and they were fixed. It was this that caused the collections to be realised with greater regularity and with less difficulty than is the case generally in India. He had two offices of account, the one serving to control the other. In one, the accounts were kept in French; in the other all the entries were written in Persian. At the end of each month the statement of receipts and expenditures was transmitted to the Government.

"It was inevitable that so many details, so multiplied and so varied, should occupy all the time of the general; but the importance of his mission, and the desire by which he was actuated to carry it to a successful end, inspired him with an activity which sufficed for everything. He used personally to inspect the works going on in the arsenal; to visit the parade ground daily, for some hours, there to make the troops manœuvre and to pass them in review. From the parade ground he used to return to his office, there to attend to administrative matters.

"As the army never ceased to be the particular object of his attention, his troops became formidable alike for their numbers and for their perfect discipline. On this subject we quote the honourable testimony of an English writer. 'It was not the least of the advantages arising from General de Boigne's merit,' writes the Bengal Journal of the 18th September, 1790, 'that, in his military capacity, he should have