THE

LIFE

OF

MAJOR-GENERAL

SIR THOMAS MUNRO, BART.

AND K.C.B.

LATE GOVERNOR OF MADRAS.

WITH EXTRACTS FROM HIS CORRESPONDENCE
AND PRIVATE PAPERS.

BY THE REV. G. R. GLEIG,

M.A. M.R.S.L. &c.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY,

8, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

CONTENTS

OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER I.

Returns to England. --Appointed Governor of Madras.--

Arrival at Fort St. George.-General principles of Govern-

ment.-General Correspondence.

CHAPTER II.

Mode of spending time.-Private Letters.

CHAPTER III.

Page 1-69

70-86

War with the Burmese.-Corre sondence with Lord Am-

herst.-Letters to the Duke of Wellington, Mr. Canning, &c.

87-172

CHAPTER IV.

Private Proceedings.-Illness of his Son.-Departure of

Lady Munro for England.-Letters to Lady Munro. 173-198

CHAPTER V.

Tour to the Ceded Districts.-Illness, Death, and Cha-

199-227

racter.

Notices on record of the value of Major Munro's services

as Collector

237

Anecdote of Colonel Munro, from Wilkes's Sketches of

the South of India

Letter from his Assistant, on presenting him with a piece

of plate

Letter from Lord William Bentinck to Colonel Munro, on
his giving up charge of the Ceded Districts.

Miscellaneous Memoranda by Colonel Munro

On the Benares House-Tax, by do.

Memoranda dated in 1812-13

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On the State of the Southern Mahratta Country, in a

Notes on Ricardo's Political Economy

Maxims, Suggestions, and General Principles collected

from the various writings of Sir Thomas Munro

Minute on the Conduct of European Functionaries towards

the Natives

Minute and opinion on supposed erroneous proceedings
and decision of the Supreme Court at Madras rela-
tive to a Jaghire

Minute on Monopoly of Timber in Malabar

Minute on the Study of Native Languages by Officers of

Minute on the impolicy of mixing European and Native

Troops, through distrust of the fidelity of the latter

Minute on Promotion of Natives

Minute on the mode of remunerating old and faithful

Native Servants

On the Abolition of Zillah Courts

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