Will it be believed that these words of Lord Harris, the Governor of Madras, were quoted in England as written by 'Lord Dalhousie's own hand'? Or that the very clause in the treaty with the Nawáb of 1801, which declared the allowance to be 'appropriated for the maintenance of the said Nawáb,' is still quoted in history as showing that the allowance was 'for ever appropriated for the support of the dignity of the Nawábship'? I reproduce the italics as I find them! Two examples, like The Spoliation of the Nágpur Palace, and The Plunder of the Karnatic Family, will probably be now regarded as sufficient specimens of the misrepresentations, by which popular clamour embittered the last days of the great Pro-consul, who had given up his life to India.
The decision of the Government of India regarding the Karnatic family was thus summed up by Lord Dalhousie. 'I entirely agree with Lord Harris, and with the members of the Government of Fort St. George, in holding that the treaty of 1801 confers no right of hereditary succession. It is a purely personal treaty... There is no mention of heirs and successors in any part of the treaty, and no grant of anything is made by it to any one except to the Nawáb Azím-ul-Dowlah himself.' Elsewhere, 'As the treaty by which the Masnad of the Karnatic was conferred on His Highness's predecessors was exclusively a personal one; as the
