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pore, and this portion deponent by the Orders of the
said Lord-Ellenborough restored to the Khan : Saith
that these proceedings adopted by him, deponent, to-
wards Meer Roostum and the other Khypoor Ameers
were adopted not at the instigation of Ali Morad, but by
the order of the said Lord Ellenborough : Saith that in
another part of the said article, there was and is con-
tained amongst other things the false, scandalous, mali-
cious, defamatory, and libellous matter following, of and
concerning the deponent, that is to say—" So much for
the punishment of the Khypoor Ameers having effected
this seizure and confiscation with a promptitude and
vigour that in a better cause would have won our admi-
ration, Sir Charles hurried down to call the Ameers of
Hyderabad to a similar reckoning. Colonel Outram
was still there as British negotiator, but the harshness
of the demands made since Sir Charles had arrived in
Scinde, induced these Ameers to doubt our real inten•

tions, and even to distrust this negotiator. The arrival
at Hyderabad of the aggrieved Roostum confirmed all
the Ameers in the belief that even submission would give
them no security against a general so disposed, hence
the resolution to gather adherents, hence the cabals and
consu tations which produced the outbreak that drove
away Colonel Outram, and brought on the battle of
Meeanee. It is not our purpose to describe this battle
at length, nor to follow closely the after-proceedings.
The plunder of the palaces of Hyderabad, even to the
women's wardrobes and jewels, the imprisonment of
every member of the family, and every faithful adherent
of the Ameers, their shipment to Bombay, and ulti-
mately to Calcutta, where many died, are not all these
matters of notoriety that have been talked and written
about till the public is nauseated with the discussion.
No one believes at this day that the Ameers of Scinde,
by their conduct before, or during, or after the Affglian
outbreak, deserved more than friendly advice and warn-
ing. We doubt if the Governor-General originally in-
tended more, yet what have they through Sir Charles
Napier's ungovernable determination, at whatever cost
of confounding the innocent with the guilty to achieve a
conquest." Saith, that the misconduct imputed to
him, viz., that he allowed the palaces of Hyderabad to
be plundered, and the women to be plun-
dered of their wardrobes and jewels, is entirely
false : Saith, that no plundering took place in either
the city or fort of Hyderabad, that the strictest discip-
line was maintained, that the city after surrender was
regularly taken possession of, and that this deponent
applied to the Ameers to go with her Majesty's and the
native forces, in order that the women of the Ameers
and their property might be protected ; but this depo-
nent saith, that the said Ameers refused to accompany
the forces, but sent one of their confidential officers to
protect the persons and property of the women, and
whose directions were implicitly obeyed by the forces :
Saith, that the women, by his deponent's orders, were
permitted during four successive days to carry of all
their personal property from Hyderabad, and with such
delicacy were the orders of this deponent obeyed, that
to the best of this deponent's knowledge and belief the
said women of the Ameers and their attendants took
advantage of such permission and carried off, as the de-
ponent afterwards ascertained by comparing the value of
the prize property captured, with the amount stated in
an inventory found in the public records of the said
Ameers, and purporting to have been taken by order of
the Ameers about two months before the battle of
Meeanee, about three millions sterling in gold bars
and jewelery of the public treasure : Saith, that an exact
account was taken by the prize agents of the public
treasure, amounting to a sum of money between
500,0001. and 600,0001., and which was sent to Govern-
ment with an exact account of everything : Saith, that
the whole or said treasure became the property of her
Majesty, and as such was sent to Bombay : Saith, that
although the said Ameers had surrendered themselves as
prisoners of war, there was not any of the family nor
any adherent of the Ameers imprisoned by the orders of
him, this deponent, although guarded as prisoners of
war in the usual way, and only one Ameer was impri-
soned by the orders of Lord Ellenborough, and who was
the notorious and infamous Shadad, and his confinement
was ,in consequence of the proceedings of a military
commission composed of officers of high rank, which
tried a servant of Shaded's, who was sentenced to death
and hanged : Saith, on his trial it appeared that Shadad
had given orders to massacre every Englishman,
woman, and child that could be caught : Saith, that
the followrYng is a copy of the General Division order
issued by this deponent on taking possession of the city
and fort of Hyderabad :
" Division Orders by Major-General Sir C. J.
Napier, K.C.8., Hyderabad, Feb. 21, 1843.
"At eleven o'clock the 12th Regiment and two six-
pounders of Hutt's battery are to march and take pos-
session of the city of Hyderabad, and to unfold the stan-
dard of the Queen on the Great Tower. 2. Lieutenant-
Colonel Pattle is to command this force in person. 3.
The greatest care is to be taken not to give
offence to the peaceable inhabitants, nor is any
one to enter that part where the families of
the Ameers reside. 4. The prize agents are to accom-
pany this force, and take possession of all public trea-
sure till the decision of the Governor-General be re-
ceived. 5. The necessary guards are to be placed by
Lieut.-Colonel Pottle who is appointed commandant of
the town until further orders. 6. Major Lloyd is to
take charge of the ordnance found in the fortress. 7.
The line to be formed at such hour as Lieut.-Colonel
Battle may send word from the city that he is ready to
hoist the British colours, on which a royal salute is to,
be fired :" Saith, that the misconduct herein imputed to
him, viz. :—" That through his, deponent's, ungovern-
able determination, at whatever cost, of confounding the
innocent with the guilty, to achieve a conquest," is en-
tirely false : Saith that every step taken by him during
the operations in Scinde, was in pursuance of, or essen-
tial to, the execution of the orders which he, deponent,
received from the said Lord Ellenborough, and that the
said Lord Ellenborough expressed to him, deponent, his
entire approval and satisfaction with every step taken by
deponent throughout all the operations of Scinde :
Saith, that one of the headings to said article in the said
Quarterly Review for September, 1852, is in the words
and figtires following (that is to say)—" 3. Parliamen-
tary Papers relating to Scinde, 1836, 1843 :" Saith, that
in a book entitled " Correspondence Relative to Scinde,
1838, 1843, presented to both Houses of Parliament by
command of her Majesty, 1843," and which he, de-
ponent, believes to be a part of the Parliamentary papers
referred to in one of the headings to said article in said
Quarterly Review for September, 1852, there is contained
an extract of a letter from the said Lord Ellenborough
to the home authorities, in the words and figures follow-
ing (that is to say) :
" Palace of Agra, 13th March (No. 17), 1843.
" Although it was my anxious desire that a final and
satisfactory settlement should be made with the Ameers
of Scinde, without a recurrence to arms, I cannot but
feel that the victory of the 17th of February has placed
us in a position which will be ultimately more advan-
tageous than what I had endeavoured to secure by pa-
cific treaty. In occupation of Kurrachee and the island
of Bukkur, and of both the adjacent towns of Sukkur
and Roree, with armed steamers upon the Indus, and the
means, during seven or eight months of the year, of ra-
pidly reinforcing the troops of those stations, from Bom-
bay and Ferozepore respectively, we should have held a
position which would have practically protected the
navigation, and have given to us military possession of
the Lower Indus ; still it was impossible to depend upon
the continued observance of treaties by the Ameers, not-
withstanding their release, under the new treaty pro-
posed to them, from pecuniary payments, the never-
failing source of bitterness of feeling and of dispute.
Delusion as to the circumstances under which we retired
from Affghanistan, and ignorance of our real strength,
which they never experienced, would have induced a
brave and barbarous people of plunderers, to avail them-
selves of the first occasion on which we might be in-
volved in difficulties, to endeavour to throw off engage-
ments which they entered into with reluctance, and to
compel our retirement from the Indus. The war which
could not have been for ever avoided, would have been
forced upon us at the most inconvenient time, and might
have produced a serious diversion of our force when we
most needed it. Fortunately the treachery of the
Ameers, and the overweening confidence and the reck-
less violence of the Belooches, have brought on a crisis
at the period at which we could with least embarrass-
ment encounter it, and the result has been the most de-
cisive victory gained on the best-fought field. Sir
Charles Napier had my instructions more than three
months before the battle of Meeanee. He was during all
that period at the head of a preponderating force, but
acting with extreme forbearance, in the true spirit otfa.
generous soldier, he earnestly endeavoured to effect be
military
objects of the Government without using the
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her Majesty and her predecessors for a period of 58
way from the strict line of public honour—that he
never years, and during all that time he has never deviated
sen the
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humanity,
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evils of war.

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