[Footnote 208: It is painful to perceive that a writer so intelligent, so industrious, and so anxious to be impartial, as Mr. Mill, should have conceived what, in several instances, seem to be unjust prejudices against Lord Clive. Thus, he blames him for superseding the Council by the Select Committee. But it is clear that if Lord Clive had allowed his acts to be controlled by the Council, as it was constituted, "the sixteen Governors," he could have effected nothing. All that he did was in spite of them. The majority seem to have been thoroughly corrupt. It was only by means of the Select Committee, which he animated with his own spirit, that any redress of grievances was possible. Lord Clive always saw and wrote that these unwieldy Councils were totally unfit for the government of the country; and every successive legislature has sanctioned his opinion, by reducing their numbers more and more. A large executive council and a large representative body, nobody knows better than Mr. M., are totally different things. If the one is a blessing, the other is a nuisance.] [Footnote 209: Political India, vol. ii. p. 29-32.] [Footnote 210: Seir Mutaqherin, vol. iii. p. 150. _Note._] [Footnote 211: Biog. Britannica, 2d edit., _art._ Clive.] [Footnote 212: Biog. Brit., ut supra.] [Footnote 213: Historical Views, &c. p. 57.] [Footnote 214: Historical View of Plans, &c. p. 62.] APPENDIX. AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE EAST INDIA COMPANY AND THE RIGHT HON. LORD CLIVE, RESPECTING THE FUND ESTABLISHED FOR RELIEF OF THE HONOURABLE COMPANY'S MILITARY, _Dated April 6. 1770_: TOGETHER WITH GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR TRANSACTING THE BUSINESS OF THE SAID FUND, AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PENSIONERS. [NOTES TO AGREEMENT see TN at end of book] [Sidenote A: The eight lacks to bear 8 per cent. interest.] [Sidenote B: Interest to be paid in London.] [Sidenote C: Court of Directors and their successors to be perpetual trustees.] [Sidenote D: The trust to commence from the 29th of September, 1769.] [Sidenote E: To be for relief and maintenance of European officers and soldiers, invalids or superannuated, their widows, or widows of officers and soldiers dying in the service.] [Sidenote F: Commissioned, staff, or warrant officers, to have half the ordinary stated pay they were entitled to whilst in service.] [Sidenote G: Serjeants, corporals, and private men, the like pay as the Chelsea pensioners of the same degrees.] [Sidenote H: Widows of officers and soldiers, one fourth of the ordinary stated pay their husbands enjoyed whilst in service.] [Sidenote I: To be paid yearly and every year during their natural lives.] [Sidenote J: Widows to be admitted on such testimonials only as the Court of Directors shall approve.] [Sidenote K: To continue during widowhood, and no longer.]