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Rh the right-hand man of the Governor-General in the earlier days of the Sikh negotiations, and to him Lord Hardinge owed especial acknowledgments. It has been whispered that Broadfoot's instincts were too aggressive, but there is no evidence to show that this was the case. Had he developed any such tendency, it would assuredly have been detected. The Governor-General on all occasions confided in him, and both at home and in India Broadfoot received due acknowledgment for his unremitting zeal and constant exertions.

Henry Lawrence had been unknown to Lord Hardinge, except by reputation. It was not until he was hastily summoned from Nepál to the seat of war that his character and qualities shone forth. Charming and amiable, with strong religious feelings, he was conscientious to a degree in his views and principles. His resignation of his seat at the Lahore Board, when those principles seemed to be involved, and his withdrawal of his resignation from a sense of public duty, are matters of history. It has been truly said that to know Henry Lawrence was to love him. He accompanied Lord Hardinge to England, and constant intercourse during a long sea voyage served only to bring out those qualities which he had so often extolled. It is related that, when Henry Lawrence left Lahore to take up his new appointment in Rájputána, there was hardly a dry eye among the host of friends, European and native, who came to bid him farewell.

John Lawrence, the future 'Ruler of India,' was a