text:  Still whilst seeing the necessity of extending the Indian network of tranquillization to the most turbulent and vigorous of neighbouring powers the reader will feel a jealousy as we do with respect to the time chosen for this measure:--why _then_ in particular? After which comes a far more serious question why by that violent machinery that system of deposing and substituting which Lord Auckland chose to adopt? As to the question of time it is too clear from the several correspondences however garbled which have been laid before Parliament that Herat was a considerable element in the councils at Calcutta