text:  Will they pretend that it was really designed and necessarily so solely for the purpose of defeating subtle and dangerous intrigues on the part of Russia and Persia? Listen to the language of one of the responsible authors of the policy since followed by such fearful consequences Sir John Hobhouse--who on the 11th July 1840 on the occasion of a dinner given to their richly and prematurely rewarded hero Lord Keane thus poured forth his insane exulting avowal of the real object they had had in view:-- "The gallant officer had alluded to the late addition made to the vast territory of the East India Company