text:  The regency was left in pursuance of the last injunctions of Dowlut Rao in the hands of the Baiza Baee whose administration was marked by much prudence and ability; but the young Maharajah speedily became so impatient of the state of tutelage in which he found himself retained that Lord William Bentinck then governor-general found it expedient to visit Gwalior as a mediator in December 1832 in order to reconcile him to the control of his benefactress in whom the government for life was considered to have been vested by the will of her late husband