A false statement is being attributed to Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay claiming that he had asked to replace the Indian education system to be able to conquer the country in February 1835.

I should have had but little to comment upon--in the absence of all reliable information as to the probability of the meeting of Congress--but for the startling and sudden death of Lord MACAULAY ...

It belongs to an occasional correspondence, of some years' standing, between Lord MACAULAY and Hon. HENRY S. RANDALL, of New-York, author of the Life of Jefferson. HOLLY LODGE, KENSINGTON ...