We cannot give adequate expression to the various ideas which are agitating our minds at this juncture, relating as they do to the past, present, and future, making us feel, at one and the same time, grateful, happy, and sorrowful.

The success which Your Excellency has achieved in Asia is such as makes India and England proud of it.

The history of the British Empire in India has not, at least for the last thirty years, produced a hero like Your Lordship, whose soldier-like qualities are fully known to the world.

The country which had been the cradle of Indian invasions came to realize the extent of your power and recognized your generalship.

The victories gained by Sale, Nott, and Pollock in the plains of Afghanistan have been shadowed by those gained by Your Excellency.