Excerpt from Memoir of General John Briggs, of the Madras Army: With Comments on Some of His Words and Work MY acknowledgments are due to Mrs. De Morgan for the letters from General Briggs to her late distinguished husband, and to the Right Honble. M. E. Grant Duff, for his sanction to my publishing his father's letters. To all the surviving members of General Briggs's family I owe some words of regret and apology for the long delay that has attended the publication of this work, arising chiefly, I must explain, - While I am not free from self-reproach, - to the embarrassment of an over-supply of materials. The autobiographical papers alone, if printed as they stood, would have made at least six volumes such as this is. Whatever 'force and value there may be in Chapter VII, which expresses my firm convictions, and for which I am fully responsible, must be attributed to my friend Colonel R. D. Osborn, who has made the condition of the Indian peasantry, as affected by British administration of the Land Revenue, a Special study. To him my warmest thanks are due for allowing me to present that Chapter almost entirely. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.