3 July 1792: The palace of Madurai deeply impressed the Daniells. Thomas was struck by the "great mixture of the Hindoo and Mahommedan styles of architecture, a circumstance not so frequently occurring in this part of India, as on the banks of the Ganges". As a result of an indignant report by the Governor of Madras, Lord Napier, in 1858, deploring that the state of the interior was "of little more use than affording shelter to cattle", the palace underwent extensive restoration in 1871-72, the vast pillared hall being later used by the British as government offices and law courts.