text:  Under these circumstances the acquiescence of the cabinet of Calcutta in a second adoption of a child to fill the throne of a kingdom already brought to the verge of ruin by the vices and incapacity of the former occupant can be regarded in no other light than as an injudicious stretch of forbearance injurious to our own interests and uncalled for by those of the state thus subjected to a continuance of misrule; and it is to be regretted that our late victories have not been followed up by the formal occupation of the country and the establishment of the order and strong government to which it has long been a stranger