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vassal and a useful ally was at once secured to the 
Company. Mr. Hastings considered it prudent to 
establish a distinct and independent magistracy in 
the city of Benares, the reasons of which are stated 
by him at length in a letter to the board at Cal- 
cutta respecting “ the better protection of the city and 
district of Benares.” 
“ Whereas the town of Benares is and has been 
for many years past totally deficient in every essential 
regulation usually established in all populous places 
for the maintenance of peace and the security of the 
persons and property of the inhabitants : and whereas 
the said place is the fixed residence and occasional 
resort of persons of all religions from every part of 
Hindostan and the Deccan, and in effect rather the 
capital seat of the religion of the Hindoos than of the 
territory to which it immediately appertains, and 
from that consideration demands a more immediate 
protection and attention from the powers of Govern- 
ment — for these reasons Mr. Hastings judged it 
necessary to establish a new police and courts of jus- 
tice, all admirably constituted, and exhibiting most 
triumphantly his profound sagacity as a legislator. 
These wise regulations, which he considered it expe- 
dient to adopt, and which, as the result has suffi- 
ciently shown, have rendered Benares the best regu- 
lated and most orderly city in Hindostan, are detailed 
in the letter already referred to. 
After the capture of Pateeta and Lutteefpoor, Ma- 
jor Popham lost not a moment in pursuing to Bidzee 
Gur the fugitive Rajah, who had by this time aban- 
doned all thoughts of safety in the vicinity of an 
