The life of Major-General Sir Thomas Munro, bart. and K. C. B., late governor of Madras (Volume 3)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1830. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. Sir Thomas Munro as Governor of Madras.--Minute on Interfering with the Succession of Native Princes.--Minute on the State of the Country, and the Condition of the People.-- Minute on the Preservation of the Peace.--Minute on Sir John Malcolm's Code of Instructions.--Minute of a Tour through the Southern Provinces.--Letter to Mr. Canning. MINUTE BY SIR THOMAS MUNRO, ON THE SUBJECT OF INTERFERING WITH THE SUCCESSION OF NATIVE PRINCES. 27TH APRIL, 1821. 1. Mr. Campbell, the Collector of Bellary, has stated that the Nabob of Karnool is in such bad health, that his death may be looked for every day, and he has requested instructions as to the conduct he is to observe, should that event take place. He suggests the expediency of placing Muzaffer Khaun in confinement, and of compelling the Nabob to release Daood Khaun, whom the Supreme Government are disposed to regard as the person having the best claim to the succession, and who is now kept as a prisoner at Karnool. We have already, within these few years, engaged in two expensive military expeditions to Karnool, for the purpose of placing a Nabob on the Musuud, and the execution of the measures proposed by Mr. Campbell would oblige us to engage in a third. 2. The nature of the particular dependency of Karnool upon us, doe9 not seem to require that we should be forward in interfering with the succession, but rather that we should abstain from it whenever we can, without injury to ourselves. On the breaking-up of the Mogul empire, the Nabob of Karnool, like the Nabob of Cudapah, and many other chiefs, seized his own district, and became, in fact, the prince of it, acknowledging, however, the Soubah of the Deccan's claim to military service as his feudal lord, but maintaining his own exclusive ri...