. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce. d Lucknow.—Times, March 2-4th, 1S48. TheIndian view of the treatment of native princes andaristocracy, put forth by an avowed enemy, as ameans of instigating rebellion, is identical with thatexpressed in equally plain terms by many Englishwriters. In a recent number of one of our mostpopular periodicals, the statement is made, that ithas been
. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce. d Lucknow.—Times, March 2-4th, 1S48. TheIndian view of the treatment of native princes andaristocracy, put forth by an avowed enemy, as ameans of instigating rebellion, is identical with thatexpressed in equally plain terms by many Englishwriters. In a recent number of one of our mostpopular periodicals, the statement is made, that ithas been for many years our system to curtail thedominion, and to depress the influence, of theprinces and chiefs of India. The aristocracy of thecountry have gone down beneath the chariot-wheels of the great Juggernauth which we havedriven over them. Not only have we annexedand absorbed all the territory on which we could byany pretext lay an appropriating hand; but, afterannexation and absorption, we have gone ruthlesslyto work to destroy the local nobility. Our wholesystem has tended to this result.—Bluchvoods3Ia//azi)ie for April, 1860; p. 510. X llussellsD/an/.vol. i.,p. 276. Hydcr AH adoptedthe same policy. See vol. i. {Indian I!mj)ire), p. ^ a WALPOLE AT ROYEA—ADRIAN HOPE KILLED—APRIL, Iotii, 1858. 493 The struggle with a numerous enemy re-solved on following this system, was neces-sarily tedious and harassing, and requiredan incessant watchfulness in even minoroperations; the slightest intermission beingfollowed by disastrous consequences. SirColin and General Mansfield—men whoseminds and bodies were models of sustained,disciplined power—maintained admirableorder and accuracy in all their proceedings ;but officers in detached commaiuls were oc-casionally betrayed into acts of fatal rashness. Sir Colin, after amply providing for thetenure of Lucknow, divided his force intocolumns, which were ordered to proceedby different routes converging on the 9t
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