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 THE AVOWED POLICY OF WELLESLEY 315 tection of their respective rights." In plain words, Lord Wellesley, to whom restless ambition was a thing THE ATAL TOWER AT AMRITSAR. intolerable in Asiatics, had already resolved to extend the British Protectorate over all the rulerships with which the English government then had any connection, by insisting that each ruler should reduce his army, and