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London, England, 1858-06-26 00:00:00

GRANT OF ANNUITY TO GENERAL SIR COLIN CAMP-

BELL, 0.C.8.

The CHAIRMAN said the Court had been made
special for the purpose of laying before the roprie-
tors a resolution unanimously passed by the Court
of Directors on the 9th inst., granting to Sir Cohn
Campbell an annuity of 2,000/. The grounds on
which this proposal was made were expressed in the
resolution, which the secretary would read.
The SECRETARY then read the following reso-
lution :

Resolved nnanimoualy,—With reference to the gracious
intention of her Majesty to confer upon General Sir Colin
Campbell, G.C.13., Corumander•in•Chief in India, the
dignity of the peerage, that as a special mark of the high
sense entertained by the East India Company of the
eminent services of Sir Colin Campbell, in planning and
conducting the several brilliant military openitipris, which,
under the blessing of Divine Proridence, resulted in the
rescue of the garrison of the Residency at Lucknow, and in
the restoration of British supremacy in that capital and in
Conde, an annuity of t.t,0001., commencing Irom the date of
the final occupation of Lucknow, be granted to Sir Cohn
Campbell for the term of his natural life, subject to the
approval of the General Court of Proprietors, and to the
approval and confirmation of the Board of Commissioners
for the Affairs of India.

Captain Easrwicx (deputy chairman) seconded
the motion, and said that no man had maintained
more nobly the glory of the British name and nation.
Long might he live to enjoy the honour and rewards
b2stowed upon him by his sovereign and his grateful
country.

Mr. CRAWSHAY said it was a most painful task he
felt to be imposed upon him to move an amendment
to the resolution before the Court. All that had
taken place in Oude since the relief of Lucknow was
unnecessary and unjust, and had excited greater
animosity than had ever previously existed against
British authority in India. He moved, therefore, as
an amendment :

That the military operations in Oude, subsequent to the
relief of the garrison of Lucknow, have been unjust,
unnecessary, calculated to increase the animosity which,
by previous injustice, had been excited against British
supremacy, and seriously to ag4ravate the difficulties of
sustaining it. That this Court, therefore, acting as
trustees for the people of India, declines to sanction these
operations by assenting to the resolutions of the Court of
Directors fin rewarding the officers by whom they hue
been conducted.

Mr. JoNes seconded the amendment.

The CHURNAN explained that the Court of
Directors, having been informed that her Majesty
intended to confer a peerage on Sir Colin Campbell
for his services in the relief and capture of Lucknow,
and in the restoration of British supremacy in that
city and in Oude, felt it their duty to propot,e a grant
to him by which he might be enabled to support that
dignity.
Mr. PRISSIER observed that the operations in which
Sir Cohn Campbell had been engaged had no re-
ference to the annexation of Oude. What was to be
done with Onde was a question hereafter to be con-
sidered. The present war was nit with Oude, it
was with a body of insurgents.
Mr. JONES said, after the explanation of Mr.
Prinsep, be should withdraw from seconding the
amendment.

The amendment then fell to the ground, and the
resolution was agreed to.

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