280 BETWEEN HASTINGS AND CORNWALLIS

and last of the Company's Governors-General, had been the scapegoat of an awkward and unmanageable gov- erning apparatus, hampered by divided authority, and distracted by party feuds in Calcutta and in London. The position and powers of the chief executive author- ity in India were henceforward very differently con- stituted, and the increased force of the new machinery very soon became visible in the results.