...I quote at length the further words of Lord Dalhousie : ' I take,' he said, ' this fitting occasion of recording my strong and deliberate opinion that,...the British Government is bound not to put aside or to neglect such rightful opportunities of acquiring territory or revenue as may from time to time present...

...government, recorded his entire concurrence in the views of his predecessors, and said that we were bound not to put aside or neglect such rightful opportunities...territory or revenue as may from time to time present themselves, by the failure of all heirs of every description whatever, or from the failure of heirs...

...strong political reason may render it expedient to depart from this general rule." He recorded his " strong and deliberate opinion that, in the exercise...the British Government is bound not to put aside or to neglect such rightful opportunities of acquiring territory or revenue as may from time to time present...

...promulgated it by stating his "strong and deliberate opinion that in the exercise of a sound and wise policy the British Government is bound not to put...territory or revenue as may from time to time present themselves." to the Crown ; because there was no lawful claimant to the direct succession, and the...

...promulgated it by stating his "strong and deliberate opinion that in the exercise of a sound and wise policy the British Government is bound not to put...territory or revenue as may from time to time present themselves." to the Crown ; because there was no lawful claimant to the direct succession, and the...

...adoption of heirs in cases of default of natural successors. In pursuance of his declared policy ' not to put aside or neglect such rightful opportunities...territory or revenue as may from time to time present themselves,' he had taken to opposing the exercise of the practice of adopting heirs, so that, on the...

...taken from Lord Dalhousie's minute dated the 30th of August, 1848 : — I take this fitting occasion of recording my strong and deliberate opinion, that...territory or revenue as may from time to time present themselves, whether they arise from the lapse of subordinate states by the failure of all heirs of...

...eve of the whirlwind he himself had sown, his continuous policy was, in his own words, to seize all " rightful opportunities of acquiring territory or revenue as may from time to time present themselves." Not unwilling to create such a "rightful opportunity," he had encouraged John to treat...

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...Peel Letttrs, ii. 274. 1 Early in his administration Dalhonsie wrote as follows : " I take occasion of recording my strong and deliberate opinion, that,...the British Government is bound not to put aside or to neglect such rightful opportunities of acquiring territory or revenue as may from time to time present...