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2 north west frontier appeared to open a field wherein
3 he might be usefully employed.
4 He was now brought from his seclusion, and the
5 whole management of the confiscated Sikh states
6 on the left bank of the Sutlej entrusted to him.
7 That he was well adapted for this important office
8 no one can doubt; but we suspect had his own
9 wishes been consulted, he would have preferred the
10 management of affairs with the Sikhs.
11 Of the officers appointed as assistants to Majors
12 Lawrence,and Mackeson, several are in every way
13 fitted for the charge; we need only mention the
14 name of Major Macgregor, whose conduct, both in
15 a political and military capacity at Jellalabad,
16 during the trying period of its defence, elicited
17 the warmest thanks of General Sale. Major
18 Macgregor’s, as well as Major Mackeson’s merits
19 were somehow overlooked by Lord Ellenborough,
20 but this did not prevent the gallant Sale from
21 acknowledging them publicly at Feerozpore in
22 1842, when proposing the health of the former
23 officer at the Governor-general’s own table! Cap-
24 tains Mills and Cunningham, with Lieutenant Other political
25 Edwardes, Messrs. Vansittart, Agnew, and Cust, canauanese
26 now complete the corps diplomatique for the manage- pre err
27 ment of the north west frontier of India, while Mr.
28 John Lawrence has been appointed a commissioner
29 in the newly acquired Doab of the Jalindhur. A Their effier-
30 more efficient body of men could not have been
31 selected. Their appointment reflects the highest
32 credit on the discrimination and judgment of the