. The life and correspondence of the Right Hon. Sir Bartle Frere, bart. respon-dence of the native troops, and the whole arrangementseems to me one of the many mischievous results ofemancipating the post-office from the authority of thelocal government and their representatives. The plan of the mutineers in Sind, so far as they hadany definite plan, seems to have been to seize the fortat Hyderabad, and make it a rallying place like Delhi ;then to cause simultaneous outbreaks at Kurrachee,Shikarpur, Jacobabad, and Mooltan in the Lower premature discovery of disaffection at each place
. The life and correspondence of the Right Hon. Sir Bartle Frere, bart. respon-dence of the native troops, and the whole arrangementseems to me one of the many mischievous results ofemancipating the post-office from the authority of thelocal government and their representatives. The plan of the mutineers in Sind, so far as they hadany definite plan, seems to have been to seize the fortat Hyderabad, and make it a rallying place like Delhi ;then to cause simultaneous outbreaks at Kurrachee,Shikarpur, Jacobabad, and Mooltan in the Lower premature discovery of disaffection at each placedisconcerted the whole scheme. The first alarm was at Hyderabad. On the evening ofSeptember 8, a native Soobedar-Major of Artillery in-formed his Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Battiscombe,that the men had been holding secret meetings and hatch-ing treason. Battiscombe reported this to Brigadier Morris,and the report having been confirmed, the following even-ing the guns were taken possession of by the Europeans,the police, and a hundred picked men of the 13th Native. xehx i Hi I
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