On his removal from India, just previous to the occurrence of those difficulties in which the Administration of his successor was involved, Lord Teignmouth perceived — and some years afterwards, in the concluding sentences of the Selections from his Journal, expressly acknowledged — the merciful direction of Divine Providence. Twice had he thus been rescued from the necessity of exertions beyond the strength of a constitution debilitated by unremitting labour and ill-health, and from which a sense of VOL. II. personal honour and patriotic considerations would have prohibited him from withdrawing: and in each crisis, he had the satisfaction of reflecting that the abilities and energy of those to whose hands he had consigned the helm of affairs were commensurate with the emergency.