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thereby to incur the odium of both my country- 

 men and my Indian fellow-subjects." But I also 

 said to myself, " This Indian race seems just, it 

 appears to be sympathetic, and I believe that it 

 will realise that I mean well by them and by India. 

 I shall work for India according to the motto of 

 my family fortiter et fideliter." 



I have indeed reaped a full measure of the 

 harvest of reward. I have learnt to love India 

 whole-heartedly, and equally I love Indians, and 

 I should be guilty of base ingratitude were it 

 otherwise. 



When I look back on the state of the country 

 as it was when I first came to it, and look upon it 

 now when I am about to leave it, and when I 

 realise the changes which have operated, the 

 progress which has been made, and the marked 

 influence which has been impressed upon the 

 country by the reforms which came into being in 

 1909, I can hardly believe that the India which I 

 leave is the same India which I found. 



I do not propose to-night it would be quite 

 out of place for me to do so to deal with the 

 financial position of five years ago as compared 

 with the financial position of to-day. I can only in 

 passing express my thanks to Providence for some 

 good monsoons and consequent bounteous harvests 

 which have enabled me to provide for the expen- 

 diture needed for the good government and the 

 development of this country ; and I must add that 

 if any success has attended my efforts in dealing 

 with the finances entrusted to my care, it is largely 

 owing to the reasonable, the considerate, and the 

 absolutely fair treatment which I have received 

 at the hands of my Indian Colleagues in the 

 Legislative Council. 



Great indeed are the changes which have taken 

 place in that assembly since I first sat in it. Its 



