Excerpt from The Conquest of Scinde: With Some Introductory Passages in the Life of Major-General Sir Charles James Napier, Dedicated to the British People

But while the Lord High Commissioner, Adam, could only see in the military Resident of Cepha lonia a person to be crushed by the leaden weight of power without equity, there was another observer in that island, who appreciated, and manfully pro claimed the great qualities of the future conqueror of Scinde. This man, himself a butt for the ran cour of envious dulness, was one whose youthful genius pervaded the world while he lived, and covered it with a pall when he died. To him, mountain and plain, torrent and lake, the seas, the skies, the earth, light and darkness and even the depths of the human heart, gave up their poetic secrets: and he told them again with such barmo nions melody, that listening nations marvelled at the sound, and when it ceased they sorrowed. Lord Byron noted, and generously proclaimed the merits which Sir Frederick Adam marked as de feets. Writing from Cephalonia in 1823, he thus expressed his opinion.

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