text:  The triumphs which have again crowned our arms have not tempted our rulers to resume the perfidious policy which their predecessors in the teeth of their own original declarations have now openly avowed by "retaining military possession of the countries west of the Indus;" and the candid acknowledgement of the error committed in the first instance affords security against the repetition of such acts of wanton aggression and for adherence to the pacific policy now laid down