text: " Such being the desponding views of the authorities stationed on the spot what must have been the anxiety of the new Governor-General on his arrival in India when this scene of disaster suddenly opened upon him with a succession of still further calamities in its train? We cannot better describe his position than in the words of Sir Robert Peel in his speech on the Whig motion for censure-- "The moment he set foot in Madras what intelligence met him!--the day he arrived at Benares what a succession of events took place calculated to disturb the firmest mind and to infuse apprehensions into the breast of the boldest man! It has been said the cry in England was 'What next?' That was a question which Lord Ellenborough had to put to himself for four or five days after his arrival