The Hall of Audience, once considered the finest in India, still retains some very faint traces of its old magnificence.

It is supported on a great number of light and lofty wooden pillars, resting on pedestals of black granite.
These pillars were formerly covered with gilding, and here and there the glitter may still be perceived.

In a few more years not the smallest trace of this superb chamber will remain.

I am surprised that more care was not taken by the English to preserve so splendid a memorial of the greatness of him whom they had conquered.

It was not like Lord Wellesley's general mode of proceeding; and I soon saw a proof of his taste and liberality.