text:  In July 1842 we ventured to pronounce that "on the course of Lord Ellenborough's government will mainly depend the question of the future stability or gradual decline of our Anglo-Indian empire; and if at the conclusion of his viceroyalty he has only so far succeeded as to restore our foreign and domestic relations to the same state in which they stood ten years since he will merit to be handed down to posterity by the side of Clive and Hastings