text:  Many of his measures may now be judged of by their fruits; and those of the Calcutta press who were loudest in their cavils compelled to admit the success which has attended them are reduced to aim their censures at the alleged magniloquence of the governor-general's proclamations; which it should always be remembered in England are addressed to a population accustomed to consider the bombast of a Persian secretary as the _ne plus ultra_ of human composition and which are not therefore to be judged by the European standard of taste