The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-07 00:00:00

PETITION FROM THE QUEEN AND
PRINCES OF OUDE.

The following is the petition from the Queen
Do and the Princes of °tide which was presented
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y by Lord Campbell to the House of Lords,
which th it lordships declined to receive on
neeeant of an objection baling been taken to it by
Lord Itedesdale because it did not style itself " the
humble petition." A memorial to her Majesty has
also been prepared, the terms of which are identical
with these
" The petition of the undersigned Jensbi Auliah
Tajara Begum, the Queen-Mother of Oude ; Mires
Mohnmmud Hamill Attie, eldest son and heir
apparent of his Majesty tbc King of Ulnae,. and
?Casa Mohammad Jonaad Allis Sekundar Mish-
ima Bahadoor, next brother of his Majesty the King

of Oude, sheweth,
"That your petitioners have heard with sincere
regret the tidings which have reached the British
kingdom of disaffection
_prevailing amongst the
native troops in India; and that they desire, at the
earliest opportunity, to give public expression to that
solemn assurance which they some time since con-
veyed to her Majesty's government, that the fidelity
and attachment to Great Britain which has ever
characterised the royal family of Oude continues un-
changed and mediected by these deplorable events,
and that they terrain, as Lord Dalhousie, the late
Governor-Goamal of India, emphatically declared
=p royal mew ever faithful and true to their
with tin British nation.'
• Tint is midst of this great public calamity
yam peillimeas have sustained their own peculiar
sans d emi sorrow in the intelligence which
semW than, through the public papers,
thatlis MEV the King of Onde has been sub-
jai& fiIIWMIIMA at Calcutta, and deprived of the
imam sffseirMelmicating even with your petitioners,
his mother, lea, and brother.
" That your petitioners desire unequivocally and
solemnly to aware her Majesty and your lordships
that if his Majesty the King of Oude has been
suspected of any complicity in the recent disastrous
occurrences, inch suspicion is not only wholly and
absolutely unfounded, but is directed against one
the whole tenor of whose life, character, and conduct
directly nmitives all such imputations. Your peti-
tioners recall to the recollection of your lordships the
facts relating to the dethronement of the King of Oudc,
as set forth in the petition presented to the Rouse
of Commons by Sir Fitzroy Kelly, on the Ilth May
last, that when resistance might have been made,
and was even anticipated by the British general, the
King of Oude directed his guards and troops to lay
aside their arms, and that when it was announced to
him that the territories of Oude were to be vested
for ever in the Eon. East India Company, the King,
instead of offering resistance to the -British govern-
ment, after giving vent to his feelings in a burst of
grief, descended from his throne, declaring kis de-
termination to seek for justice at hes Msjeety's
throne and parliament of England.
" That since their resort to this country, in ohm
dience to his Majesty's commands, your petitioners
have received communications from his Majesty,
which set forth the hopes and aspirations of his
heart; that those communications not only negative
all supposition of his Majesty's personal com-
plicity in any intrigues, but fill the minds
of your petitioners with the profound conviction
that his Majesty would feel, with your petitioners,
the greatest grief and pain at the events which have
occurred. And your petitioners desire to declare to
your lordships, and to assure the British nation, that
although suffering, in common with his heart-
broken family, from the wrongs inflicted on them,
from the humiliations of a state of exile, and their
loss of home, authority, and country, the King of
(hide relies only on the justice of his muse, appeals
only to her Majesty's throne and to the parliament
of Great Britain, and disdains to use the arm of the
rebel and the traitor to maintain the right he seeks
to vindicate.
"Your petitioners, therefore, pray of your lord-
dips *MOB the exercise of your authority, you
WM WNW *doe to be done to his Majesty the
Kiag el Ow* and that it be forthwith expli-
eip=l: knows to him and to your
wherewith he is aisrged, and by whom,
ands what authority, so that do King of Osde
may ham fell opportunity el relating and disprov-
ing the istiest esephisse any eslimmes of which he
is sew the helpless victim. And your petition=
frourthsri== that the Kin of Oude may
be freely to eerreepood with
in this country, sod
that tiiy
say silo have opporticity of vindicatiag tae
the eharester sad- angst' al their streeseigs
ant rube's, oirmWebiag his isisesesos Id=
amp spirt the mown a lingland tk•
prornment or pa*, and at sberrbsg that, under
eireametsnee the ral
2tgo haw untbinnistsedissi and trueoyto
their teleadehip with the &hie aids&
" And your petition= win over pray, &c."