tive country. On the renewal of the Company's | than whom England never produced a more accharter, he was, for many days consecutively, ex-complished statesman, nor India, fertile as it is in amined before a committee of the House of Com- heroes, a more skilful soldier. This gentleman, mons. In 1813 he attained the full rank of colo- whose occupations for some time past have been nel, and in 1814 he married Jane, daughter of rather of a civil and administrative than of a milRichard Campbell, Esq. of Craigie, Ayrshire, by itary nature, was called, early in the war, to exwhom he had two sons, Thomas and Campbell. ercise abilities which, though dormant, had not In the latter year he returned to Madras, at the rusted from disuse. He went into the field with head of a commission of inquiry into the judicial not more than 500 or 600 men, of whom a very administration of our Eastern dominions, for which small proportion were Europeans, and marched his vigorous and comprehensive understanding, into the Mahratta territories, to take possession his long and extensive experience, and his habits of the country which had been ceded to us by the of laborious research rendered him peculiarly qua- treaty of Poona. The population which he sublified. dued by arms, he managed with such address, equity, and wisdom, that he established an em

were surrendered to him, or taken by assault on his way; and at the end of a silent and scarcely observed progress, he emerged from a territory heretofore hostile to the British interest, with an accession instead of a diminution of force, leaving everything secure and tranquil behind him."

In the war with the Pindarries and Mahrattas in 1817 and the following year, he greatly distin-pire over their hearts and feelings. Nine forts guished himself. Being in the neighbourhood of Soondoor, where he had been sent as commissioner to take charge of the districts ceded to the Company by the Peishwa, he was appointed by Lieutenant-general Sir Thomas Hislop to undertake the reduction of the rebellious feudatory of Soondoor, and shortly after he was vested with a separate command of the reserve, with the rank of brigadier-general, under orders from the marquis of Hastings. With a very inadequate force he immediately entered upon active measures, and fortress after fortress was surrendered at his approach. Mr. Canning, in moving, March 4, 1819, the thanks of the House of Commons to the marquis of Hastings and the army in India for their splendid services in the war of 1817 and 1818, thus describes the conduct of Munro on the occasion:-"To give some notion of the extent of country over which these actions were distributed, the distance between the most northern and most southern of the captured fortresses is not less than 700 miles. At the southern extremity of this long line of operations, and in a part of the campaign carried on in a district far from public gaze, and without opportunities of early and special notice, was employed a man whose name I should have been sorry to have passed over in silence. I allude to Colonel Thomas Munro, a gentleman of whose rare qualifications the late House of Commons had opportunities of judging when he was examined at their bar, on the renewal of the East India Company's charter, and

At the conclusion of the war, Colonel Munro resigned his military command, and, accompanied by his family, again visited England, where he arrived in 1819. In November of that year he was invested with the insignia of a knight companion of the Bath. In 1820, with the rank of major-general, he returned to Madras as governor of that presidency; and, as a farther reward of his distinguished services, he was created a baronet of the United Kingdom, June 30, 1825. The Burmese war prevented him from retiring from India so early as he wished; and, sacrificing his personal wishes and convenience to the public service, he retained his office till its conclusion. At length, in 1827, he made every arrangement for returning to enjoy his well-earned honours in his native land, and before his departure proceeded to pay a farewell visit to the people of the Ceded Districts, for whom he had continued to feel a strong interest, but was attacked on July 5 with cholera, then prevalent in the country, and expired on the 6th at Putteecondah, near Gooty, where he lies interred. "There was something exceedingly solemn and touching in the funeral," says a gentleman who was present on the occasion. "The situation of the churchyard; the mel