The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-01 00:00:00

THE HIND OF OUDE.

TO TIN IDITOR Or Tall IOLTWS.

Bra,—A. certain English journals continue to
condemn the King of Our, without waiting for proof, on
the accusation brought sgainet him three mails ego of com-
plicity in the revolts and mutinies in India, I deem it my
ditty again to protest spinet the unfairness of their so doing,
and will lay before the public a few facts, which I trust will
tend to show how unlikely it is that the King of Ors should
Imo la say way, mixed himself up with the de-
signs of those who have clearly for a long time past
prated the overthrow of our power in the East. Two mails
Imo arrived since we received intelligence of the King's
arrest, on • charge of treason. In neither of these are we
laid duty farther proceedings against him, still less of any
dirge being established. May we not, then, look on the
most sea mere precautionary measure, as stated in a late
drabs? and in that case what becomes of the King's guilt?
In February, 1856, when our troops arched from
Onwspare to Lacknow, under some shallow pretext,
oil the King was suddenly called on to abdicate,
asl be indignantly refused, and It was then pro-
error that the independence of Ore was at an end,
the people of Our prepared to fight and to repel the in-
vaders, the King himself dieermd his soldiery and dis-
mounted hie guns, and boned proclamations forbidding his
people to leer the Vt, as he intended to appeal to the
Queen of Engird the ontrapous act of spoliation
committed by the t India Company. He set out to
England, but General Outram detained
re.2i to
nister Nawab Ali Nuckee Khan at Luckier
for five months; and in proof that the King was sincere in hie
deer to appeal to the proper authority, although unable to
go himeed without his minister, he sent his mother, his son,
snd he brother to prepare the way for himself or for whom-
soever he might depute. Had he altered his intentions and
determined to takenp arms, be would certainly have recalled
his family. Upwards of s year after the annexation of Our,
and after mutiny had begun to showitself in the Bengal army,
and after the disbanding of the 19th Regiment, the King
and his minister gave convincing proof that they still
adhered to their original policy of non-resistance, and that
their only hope of trios lay in the justice of the British
governor; by soft* me to this country to take charge of
the Ore case. I rater that if he had cherished the
designs now imputed to him, his family would have been re-
called, I never thould have been sent, and the King would
not have ressidar In Calcutta.
Farther, some mouths alter the annexation, a petition was
signed by a large samba. of inhabitants of Oro, complain-
ing of the operation they suffered under the new rule, and
pitying that the King might be restored to hie throne. In
this petition they plainly say that the fact of their King Or-
-2 iluma.appeakid to England, and forbidding them, on their
to resist. was the cause of their remaining quiet,
diretimethsy would have endeavoured "to right thee:lesiva."
It now err that for a considerable tune after the revolt had
herr oat in our old provinotr, Oude still remained tran-
quil By comparing dates it is clear that the signal for the
enehrenis is Ors wee the Mere of the Xing and re Wa-
iner. Pesple acquainted with India know that it to mesa
for the intermit of the King of Oude that we should be the
paramount power than that the Delhi empire should be re-
Ord.
The newspapers above referred to have more than
nos painted out the advantage that would moult
conlisiseriag the King of Onde's pen ion, and al p!ying
ti *e the purposes of the war. It is a pity that such saga-
chum thoughtfulness should be wasted, and I trust that the
wee will have resources to rely on of less Imaginary nature
than the King of Onde's pension ; for be it known that the
King of Our has, from the day of the seizure of his domi-
WOOS, steadily declined accepting anything in the shape of •
ppenmsiooonn from those who are his Obtuse for millions of money
burrowed from him and his ancestors.
The much lauded generosity of the East India Company
In giving pensions in thousands to those whom they had
stripped of millions, may be fact in some cases in that of
thsHing of Oude it is simply a fiction. There may, too, be
some generosity in granting a liberal pension to a sovereign
whom you have conquered in fair fight, but none where, so
In the case of Oude, by breach of solemn treaties and by
treachery you take possession of the country of a faithful
ally, merely roue he is too weak to resist, one too from
whom and from whose ancestors our government had re-
ceived sorter benefits.
One in speaking of the Queen Dowager of Our,
now atnoß House, uses the expression, "enormous old
=r I" Now, supposing she may not be so well off as
we robbed her sun, we ought to be the lam to &MOM
her of poverty ; at the same limo I Dave never beard that
she or any of the royal family of Oude, in India or in
EnPand, ever asked for pecuniary aid either from the East
India Company or the British government, but have paid for
what they required at of their own resources.
In conclusion, I solemnly declare that for any natives of
India, without excepti'n, who should be proved to have
been actors or abettors in the bloody horrors of which we
daily read, end at which we daily shudder, my hand
should be foremost to sign their death doom; but I
feel confident—and few have had better opportunities
to judge than I—that in spite of the cruel and unjust
treatment which the King of Oude has met at our
hands, be still merits the encomium conveyed in the words
of Lord Dalhousie, in the memorable proclamation annexing
Oude, in allusion to the King and hie errors—He has
ever been " • true and faithful ally to the British govern-
road."-1 en; &c., R. OESELEY. Colonel,
Chief Agent to the King of Oude.
Junior United Service Club, August 31.

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