Medal Lord William Bentinck

Commemorative issue

Lord William Bentinck

Obverse

Bust left

Script: Latin

Lettering: LORD WILLIAM BENTINCK

Engraver: Charles Frederick Carter

Reverse

Legend

Script: Latin

Lettering:
COPY OF AN INSCRIPTION
ON THE PEDESTAL
OF A BRONZE STATUE BY
WESTMACOTT, AT CALCUTTA.
TO
WILLIAM CAVENDISH BENTINCK WHO DURING SEVEN YEARS RULED INDIA WITH EMINENT PRUDENCE, INTEGRITY, AND BENEVOLENCE; WHO PLACED AT THE HEAD OF A GREAT EMPIRE. NEVER LAID ASIDE THE SIMPLICITY AND MODERATION OF A PRIVATE CITIZEN WHO INFUSED INTO ORIENTAL DESPOTISM THE SPIRIT OF BRITISH FREEDOM; WHO NEVER FORGOT THAT THE END OF GOVERNMENT IS THE HAPPINESS OF THE GOVERNED; WHO ABOLISHED CRUEL RITES; WHO EFFACED HUMILIATING DISTINCTIONS WHO GAVE LIBERTY TO THE EXPRESSION OF PUBLIC OPINION: WHOSE CONSTANT STUDY IT WAS TO ELEVATE THE INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL CHARACTER OF THE NATION COMMITTED
TO HIS CHARGE:
THIS MONUMENT
WAS ERECTED BY MEN WHO,
DIFFERING IN RACE, IN MANNERS, IN
LANGUAGE, AND IN RELIGION, CHERISH
WITH EQUAL VENERATION AND
GRATITUDE THE MEMORY OF
HIS WISE, UPRIGHT, AND PATERNAL
ADMINISTRATION.

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