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 while helping him with whalesoms and vigorous counsel, may work in obedience to and conformity with his directions. No position is more invidious and galling than that of a master with intractable servants and subordinates who can walk over his head, and the Maharaja can never hope to gain his object as long as he does not receive the warmest support and is not invested with adequate authority to enforce discipline and maintain order.

Thus expediency and justice both demand that the Maharaja should be rescued from his present predicament, and policy, I submit, also dictates the same course. At this moment, when the Russians are causing consternation from their fastnesses in Central Asia, the goodwill and attachment of our Princes and Chiefs, one of the 'best mainstays,' as Lord Canning called them, for the defence of the Empire, should be thoroughly conciliated ; and nothing can so well further the attainment of this object as the rendition of Cashmere to its rightful ruler.