Excerpt from Here and There: Memories Indian and OtherCases of actual corruption and embezzlement were not indeed of frequent occurrence, though it is related that when Lord William Bentinck was on a tour of inspection and asked a certain Collector what he made by his post, he was met with the startling answer from the irritated Official, Every damned pice I can.Instances of the most remarkable eccentricity were not rare. Thus, a District Officer in the Upper Provinces, the bearer of two names illustrious in jurisprudence and philosophy, was in the habit of holding office at midnight, sitting with his face to the wall and his back turned to the parties and spectators. A lieut.-governor of those days was a mild gentleman, extremely averse to friction and scandal, but the ¿ood of petitions from the district of this Officer pouring continuously into the Government House at Agra led to inquiries, which resulted in the deputation of another officer to relieve Mr. M On arrival at the station the new Collector proceeded to M 's house, where he was received in a singular and most unsatisfactory manner necessarily be had to carry out his instructions, and in the course of the day Mr. M mounted a swift camel and made tracks for Bombay, where he took ship for Europe, and India saw him no more.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.