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Title: A memoir of India and Avghanistaun
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Harlan, Josiah, 1799-1871. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Björnsjerna, Magnus Fredrik Ferdinand, grefve, 1779-1847 Eastern question (Central Asia)
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. Dobson (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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of a British army has awa-kened an intense desire for information concerningthe people and the country which have been thecause and scene of that appalHng tragedy, and pro-duced in that feeling a result which the profoundestinterests of philanthropy and politics, of religionand government, have heretofore, inauspiciously andunsuccessfully, strove in vain to accomplish. From day to day our opinion is confirmed, anda long train of terrific disasters still mark themalignant track of that destructive meteor in thepolitical history of England, A Whig Ministry,as the frantic policy of British statesmen of thatdenomination in India astound the world with thedevelopements of their awful and bloody sequenceslong subsequent to the origin of their designs. Having been frequently interrogated concerningthe probable consequences of the later movementsin Avghanistaun, I think I shall not be intrusive bypublishing, during this moment of general excite-ment, the ensuing pages, which were written in 1
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PREFACE. January last, and are excerptions from my noteson The British Empire in India. In thus antici-pating myself I am guided by the wish to gratifypublic curiosity, and in the attempt to be exphcitand comprehensive I trust my labours may not befound deficient in utility. With the submissive resignation of a mind pre-pared to receive the decrees of incontestable destinyI recur to the maxim The calamities of Englandare blessings to America—and here let us deplorewith the sanctity of filial piety the afflictions of ourrace. We breathe the requiem of our affiliatedattachments, and say with the French, Le roi estmort, vive le roi; and as the Te Deum and gloria inexcelsis mournfully ascend to heaven, let the voicefloat softly over the ashes of ten thousand dead. Earl Auckland, Baron of Ghuznee,* and ye,innumerable host of subordinate moths whose fire- * Lord Auckland was created an Earl, and General Sir J.Keane was made Baron of Ghuznee; the first for planning thepolicy which, it was

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