text:  No former governor-general of India entered on his office--at all times the most arduous under the British crown--under such unfavourable auspices and with such a complicated accumulation of difficulties to combat as Lord Ellenborough; few if any of his predecessors have had their actions their motives and even their words exposed to such an unsparing measure of malicious animadversion and wilful misconstruction; yet none have passed so triumphantly through the ordeal of experience