EASTWICK, William Joseph.

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Speeches of Captain Eastwick on the Sinde Question, the India Bill of 1858, etc. First edition, rare, almost certainly printed in a small run at Eastwick's expense. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on a preliminary blank, "Herbert Eastwick Compton, from his affectionate uncle, Wm. J. Eastwick, 10 January 1870"; and with Compton's book label on the front pastedown. We trace copies at just eight institutional libraries, the British Library not among them.Eastwick (1808-1889) joined the Bombay Army as an ensign in 1826 before transferring to the political department and becoming acting resident at Hyderabad. During the First Anglo-Afghan War he was responsible for forwarding supplies to General Nott's beleaguered force bottled up in Kandahar. In 1846 he was elected a director of the HEIC, in 1858 made deputy chairman, and for a decade from that year was a member of the Council of India. He was also a member of the free trade Cobden Club. His nephew, Herbert Eatswick Compton (1853-1906), son of a colonel in the HEIC, spent over two decades in India. He was a novelist, biographer, and writer on Georgian and Indian subjects, and a supporter of the Tariff Reform League. The reference on the title page to this being "revised and corrected" is because one of the speeches, the "Ameers of Sinde", had been published in 1844 (going through three editions in that year). Aside from that speech, the volume comprises speeches, mostly delivered before the Court of the HEIC, on "The

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