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ARBUTHNOT MEMOIR. 
mander-in-Chief in Bombay, February 1886 to December, 1886; 
Commander-in-Chief in Madras, December, 1886 to February, 1891. 
As Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army he was sent for a 
short time to Burma, 1886-8, when Sir F. Roberts returned from this 
country to India. The war was virtually over when he arrived there, 
but a vast amount of troublesome (and occassionally delicate) work 
remained to be done in sending out columns against the more out¬ 
rageous rebels and in pacifying the others. “ The winding up of the 
cold weather operations", however, was “ successfully carried into 
effect by Sir Charles Arbuthnot to the entire satisfaction of the Com- 
mander-in-Chief in India ” (Despatch, A.G. in India to Indian Gov¬ 
ernment, Simla, 17th May, 1887). On the 16th June, 1887, H.E. the 
Governor General expressed “ his thorough appreciation of the valu¬ 
able services rendered by Lieut.-General Sir Charles Arbuthnot ” 
{London Gazette, 2nd September, 1887). Sir Charles received the 
Medal with clasp, and was made G.C.B. in 1894. 
When he vacated the command of the Madras Army he was regret¬ 
ted, for he had gained what he had never sought for,—general and 
genuine esteem. He won confidence by his firmness and military 
knowledge ; he won good-will by his unswerving justice. Conscious¬ 
ly or unconsciously, he shaped his course by Sir Charles Napier’s rule 
of ‘ strict justice ’. He was thus quite free from the suspicions to 
which misplaced lenity is always open; on the one hand, that it 
springs from moral weakness, and, on the other, that it is a covert 
canvass for popularity. Under his command there was but one 
road to success—the road to merit. From a stern sense of duty he 
blamed, without hesitation, those he thought deserving of blame. His 
praise, therefore, was all the more welcome and was highly valued; 
for those on whom it was bestowed knew well that it was sincere. 
He was fearless, firm and true. 
H.W.L.H. 
