in the disorders and was deported
to Burmah. Fitzjames was greatly impressed by the analogy between
English rulers in India and Roman governors in Syria some eighteen
centuries ago, when religious sects were suspected of political designs.
To this I shall refer presently.

Fitzjames attended the Legislative Council for the last time on April
17, 1872. He left Calcutta the next day on his return to England. He had
thus been in office for only half the usual period of five years. His
reasons for thus cutting short his time were simple. He felt very
strongly that he was exacting a sacrifice on the part of his wife and
his family which could only be justified by a very distinct advantage.
The expenses were more than he had anticipated, and he saw at an early
period that he would be in any case compelled to return to his
profession. Gaps at the bar are soon filled up. The more prolonged his
absence, the greater would be the difficulty of regaining the position
which he had slowly reached. I have some reason to think that the
authorities at the India Office were not altogether pleased at what they
considered to be a premature relinquishment of his post. He could,
however, reply that if he had been only half the usual time in India, he
had done fully twice the average amount of work. He left India without
regrets for the country itself; for to him the climate and surroundings
of English life seemed to be perfection. But he left with a profound
impression of the greatness of the work done by Englishmen in India; and
with a warm admiration for the system of government, which he was eager
to impart to his countrymen at home. How he endeavoured to utter himself
upon that and kindred subjects shall be told in the next chapter.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 102: His first letter to Miss Thackeray, I notice, is written
upon the back of a quaint broadsheet, bought at Boulogne. On the other
side is a woodcut of the gallant 'Tulipe' parting from his mistress, and
beneath them is the song 'Tiens, voici ma pipe, voila mon briquet!'
which Montcontour used to sing at the 'Haunt' to the admiration of
Pendennis and Warrington. See the _Newcomes_, vol. i. chap. xxxvi.]

[Footnote 103: I depend chiefly upon the official reports of the debates
in the Legislative Council; my brother's own summary of Indian
legislation in a chapter contributed to Sir W. W. Hunter's _Life of the
Earl of Mayo_ (1875), ii. pp. 143-226; and a full account of Indian
crim