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THE CASE OF PALMER AND CO.
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no small importance to the Company's welfare and of the greatest consequence to the natives subjected to British rule[1].

  1. Wilson, viii. 486, &c, from which this account has been mainly taken; Auber, ii. 559; Marshman, ii. 368. Prinsep attributes some of the difficulties that occurred in Haidarábád to the fact that an irresponsible minister, even with the assistance of an able British Resident, is unable to supervise the affairs of so large a principality as that belonging to the Nizam. Prinsep, ii. 414.