LORD HEYTESBURY.
TnE Court of East India Directors, when the Whigs were in, passed a resolution to retain Sir CHARLES METCALFE asGovernor- General, and refused CHARLES Gaarcr's offers of personal service, as well as all offers coming from the Whig Ministry for the ap- pointment. It would almost seem that they were aware of the plot which was in preparation to turn out the Whigs. No sooner, however, is a Tory Cabinet formed, than METCALFE is forgotten, and an Ultra-Tory Governor-General, in the person of Lord HavrEsauev, regularly accepted by the Court. Lord HEYTES- WIURY is understood to go out to India pledged to the Court to put .down the freedom of the press ; to annul, as much as may be practicable, the appointments of natives of India as Justices of the Peace and to other civil offices; to oppose the extension of schools for teaching the English language; to discourage the liberal po- licy lately pursued in respect to Indo-Britons and Europeans not in the service of the Company. In short, he is pledged—and pledged in perfect accordance with his own feelings and prin- ciples—to overthrow as far as in him lies the liberal system of po- licy which Lord WILLIAst BENTINCK has pursued for the last Seven liearS. It is needless to add, that this Lord HEYTESIBURY is the same Sir WILLIAM AVOURT who cheered the death of fa0 many Liberal emeetitutiesis on the Continent of Europe; and was for so many
years the congenial favourite of the Russian Autocrat, who re- fused to receive as his substitute Sir STRATFORD CANNING. Here, then, we have on the part of the Tory Government, an overt act of treason to Liberal institutions, to be perpetrated in a distant coun- try, where it is thought that an exhibition of Toryism may be made snugly and safely. Precious hands are those of Lord HEYTES- BURY in which to intrust what O'CONNELL was pleased to call the India Act of 1832—" the Magna Charts of the people of India!"
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