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wah and the Nizam the Company had 
formed a triple alliance. The. Peishwah 
and the Nizam quarrel; Tippoo, the de- 
termined and subtle enemy of the Company, 
joins the Peishwah—any body to further 
his ulterior views against the Company ; 
Lord Teignmouth clings to the system of 
non-interference, and—as resolute not to 
make war, as Tippoo not to keep peace— 
refuses to aid the Nizam, though it was ma- 
nifest the Nizam must sink in the conflict, 
and Tippoo gain a dangerous accession of 
strength. The Company’s alliance was 
with both the Peishwah and the Nizam; 
and the pacific Governor will have nothing 
to.do with their quarrels with each other. 
The consequence was inevitable. The 
F rench assisted the Nizam; we made ene- 
mies of our friends; and Tippoo quickly 
grew formidable. 
Then came the Marquis of Wellesley, 
from 1798 to 1805. He promptly and ef- 
fectively resumed the course of the Marquis 
Cornwallis. War followed; Tippoo was 
defeated and slain ; the Mahometan goyern- 
Ment superseded; and a Hindoo prince 
placed on the throne, under the protection 
ofthe Company. The same active and re- 
solute course the Marquis of Wellesley 
found it wise to pursue in the north, against 
Scindia and Holkar, though he was not 
permitted to go through-stitch with the 
undertaking, The Company at home, 
alarmed at the expense which successive 
wars had entailed on them, and urged by 
the general cry of the country against what 
were styled their views of conquest, again 
despatched, in 1805, the Marquis Corn- 
wallis. His first efforts, in accordance with 
his orders, were directed to establish a 
peace with the northern powers ; the mea- 
sures of his predecessor were censured ; and 
a disposition too eagerly shewn to. make 
large concessions. Within four months of 
his arriyal at Calcutta, the Marquis died ; 
and was succeeded by Sir George Barlow, 
who adopted the same pacific policy, and 
with the same impotent results, as Lord 
Teignmouth had formerly experienced. In 
1807 Lord Minto took possession, and con- 
tinued in office till 1813. The same system 
was at first pursued by him as by Sir Geo. 
Barlow, and the Marquis Cornwallis in his 
second appointment : but he soon perceived 
its fatal tendency; and his whole adminis- 
tration shewed a cautious and gradual re- 
turn to the bolder and more active, but 
also safer system. He quitted India after 
his conquest of Java, and was succeeded by 
the Marquis of Hastings in 1813, who fol- 
lowed up with a wise activity the measures 
which Lord Minto had found it necessary 
to return to; -and, successively reducing 
the Nepaulese and Pindarees, he left the 
whole of India in 1823 apparently calm, 
and comparatively subdued, under the pro- 
tection of the British Government. 
Here General Malcolm’s review termi- 
nates. Of the present, administration he 
Monthly Review of Literature, 
; e 
Dec. 
says nothing. Of its “conduct” Telatiye. to. 
Bhurtpore he will, of course, approve. J vat 
conduct was imperatively dema led 5 it, 
was prompt, and in accordance. ‘with. the, 
principles which he adyocates, and. “which, 
seem now. to be generally, , thoug h reluc- 
tantly, admitted— anticipation. of Fischer 
—an active and timely recourse to force. 
With regard to the Burmese war,, the con- 
duct of the government may not be, on the. 
same grounds, so justifiable. Lord” Am- 
herst may have been misled by analogy. 
The principles of the system of actiyity, so 
indispensable in India, may not be so appli- 
cable to a power remotely situated, and 
slightly connected with the native princes of 
India. He has, howeyer, been perhaps 
hastily judged. From the outset, almost, 
of their career, the Company and their 
agents may say with Macbeth,— — a 
“Tam inblood; |, 991g 
Stept in so far, that should I wade no more, , 
Returning were as tedious as go o'er.” | 
Recollections of the Life o of John O° Kafe, 
written by himself; 2 vols. 8yo. 1826.— 
These Recollections of O‘Keefe’s haye been 
for some time announced with an air of 
so much importance, that our readers would . 
naturally conclude, if we took no notice 
of them, on their appearance, that we were 
treating them unfairly, and neglecting 
to give them information they were en- 
titled to receive respecting a work, which 
to them might seem an epoch in the li- 
terary history of the drama. Tt is’ solély, 
we assure them, to screen ourselves’ from 
the charge of betraying their interests—our 
own anticipations were never very san- 
guine—that we now sit down to give 
them some notion of their contents. 
We have been of late surfeited with 
the details of players and playwrights— 
threatened with more, too—with the story 
of dramas that have had their day, and now 
deservedly forgotten—subjects of —infe- 
rior interest and ephemeral duration, mag- 
nified into matters of national and literary 
concernment—dull anecdotes, that should 
never have quitted the precincts of the 
green-room—and jokes, that may have ex- 
cited the mirth of the moment, but re- 
tailed in print, and when the parties are 
forgotten, become perfectly intolerable— 
vapid, or revolting. Reynolds (the best of 
them), Michael Kelly, and Boaden’s Kem- 
ble, haye sickened us; and these Recollec- 
tions of O’Keefe’s are peremptorily ofno 
value whatever. Multitudes of names are 
paraded at the head of the chapters, and are 
strung together by the writer, higgledy- 
piggledy, for no purpose upon earth bat 
to occupy a certain number of pages, ey 
saw Geminiani; he was a little man, sallow 
complexion, black eye-brows, pleasing face ; 
his dress, blue velvet, richly embroidered 
with gold.—I heard Fisher play his rondo ; 
his execution on the hautboy ‘was's 
prising. —I remember Captein Debrisiy, 
