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d PROPHECY FULFILLED.

The Times newspaper, a paper that has proved itself
generally to be the strenous vindicator of the privilege and
rights of the people, was the boldest and the ablest
advocate of annexation, but in its latter arguments it
reduced the question to one of money, and admits that, in
fact and reality, the object was to get money, because it
was seen that, while the revenues of India were in a
sinking condition, Oude was in a prosperous and wealthy
state, with an ample and flourishing treasury ; and that
forsooth, because it was in that prosperous and wealthy
state, it became the duty of this country to seize upon it,
and take pons( scion of its revenues. I say, I fear this
annexation will result in some fearful disaster to this
country, and so far from the people of Oude regarding the
measure as one likely to prove of great benefit to them,
as has been stated, 1 beg to tell the House that the very
reverse is the fact, for I have letters in my possession
which state that, when the measure of annexation was
proclaimed at Lucknow, no fewer than 10,000 persons ac-
tually put on mourning on the announcement of what they
regarded as the greatest disaster that could befal them—
namely, the annexation of their country to the British
dominions; and the letters further state that the poor
people almost universally tore their hair and beat their
breasts in despair when the sad intelligence reached them.
I very much fear that the result of the measure will be
tumult, disaffection and bloodshed, not only amongst the
people of Oude, but among the Sepoys as well, as many of
them belong to that country, and I have received a letter,
in which the writer, a most intelligent and respectable
person, declares that the measure has been regarded in
that country generally as one of the most unjust and
impolitic acts ever perpetrated by this country in the
course of its government of Melia, and petitions very nu-
merously signed, have been presented against it. The
chiefs, or Zemindars, spend their lives principally in forts
in the jungle, and when the Government collector makes his
appearance amongst them, they retreat, to their fastnesses,
and set the Government functionary at defiance. Now, does
it not strike the house that, as Oude has been annexed, the
Sepoys will be sent to act against these Zemindars, but is
the House or the Government quite so sure that those
Sepoys from Oude will be found ready to act against the
people of Oude I have recently received a letter from
Lucknow, in which the writer states that when first this
proposition of the annexation of Oude became mooted
about, and the Rajah of Nepaul heard of it, he offered to
come to the assistance of the King with a force of
50,000 men, and several other native princes had made
similar offers of assistance to enable the King of
Oude to resist the Company. Such is the information
which has reached me, and I think it somewhat worthy
of remark that this measure of annexation was carried
into effect without the slightest regard having been paid
to the feelings and wishes of the subjects of the King of
Oude in reference to the measure, or without consulting
them in any way, directly or indirectly, though the Raj-
poots, and other subjects of the King of Onde are as fine
a race of men as there is to be found on the face of the
earth. I can only say that it appears to me that to
dethrone a sovereign who was a ruler over 5,000,000 of
human beings, and annex his territory, without first con-
sulting:the feelings and wishes of the people who were to
be thus disposed of, is an act which involves a most
serious:and formidable responsibility. When we come to
hear of the results of this system of annexation, the coun-
try will then have an opportunity of judging whether, as
a mater of mere expediency only, it was a wise and a well
considered course to have adopted, or the contrary; but,
at the same time, I must again repeat that upon no ground
of morality could such a system be justified or defended,
and we have already had ample proof, from the results of
the annexations that have;taken place, that they have not
in any way whatever proved of the least pecuniary benefit
or advantage to this country."—Speech of Mr. Otway,
April 18th, 1856.—Hansard Debates, Vol. CXLI•, page
1,222.