Your Excellency is not only adorned with heroic qualifications, but the love and affection with which the people of India regard Your Lordship show what admirable qualities are exhibited in the person of Your Excellency.

Terrible in war and merciful in peace, Your Excellency's name has become a dread to the enemies of England and lovely to your friends.

The interest which Your Lordship has always taken in the welfare of those with whom you have worked in India is well known to everybody.

The Sikhs in particular are, more than any other community in India, indebted to Your Lordship.

We find in Your Excellency a true friend of the Sikh community--a community which is always devoted heart and soul to the service of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Empress of India.