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48. No man is better acquainted with theki - s
Eastern districts of Oude and theirinhabitants thart"`
Mr. Wingfield, who is at present acting on that
ft ontier of the province as special commissioner of
IGoruckpore. Writing on the 6th of June, Mr.
Wingfield says—" Unsupported by-the presence of -
British troops, there are many -talookdars, who to
my certain knowledge are deterred from tendering
their allegiance, which is their sincere wish. Had
the garrison of Lucknow only been distributed
about the province, three-fourths of the talookdars
would, under the promi,es held out by the procla-
mation, 11a,ve Ikea entirely on our side by this
time." Unfortunately the garrison of Lucknow
could not be spared, nor any body of troops at all
approaching it in strength.
49. But when the 'season shall arrive at which
the troops can move rapidly over the country, when
the large police force now being raised by the
chief commissioner at Lucknow shall have reached
its complement, and received further organisation,
and when it shall be manifest that we have the
means of protecting or supporting those who return
to theirsallegiance, I cannot doubt that the spirit
in which the prOclarnation has been accepted in
many quarters will declare itself generally through-
out the province.
rill I have now described to your hon. com-
mittee the whole course of my proceedings in re-
(Yard to the proclamation of the 15th of March. I
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have at the same time explained the policy which
has guided me, and I have informed you generally
of the results.
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I respectfully await your judgment. _ . try
I have, &c.
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(Signed) CAIS'NIM.Y. 0C ,
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Allahadad, the 17th June, 1858. ! :b i; ; 0 _
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Foreign Department, Allahabad, JuitT4,lBsB. ..
TO THE HONOURABLE THE COURT OF .DIRECTORS ,::
OF THE EAST INDIA CONFANIC, , . . .
Honourable Sirs,—Your despatch No. 20, of the
18th of May, reached me two days ago.
I- beg your honourable court to
,accept my
warmest thanks for the assurance of your continued
confidence which that despatch and-the resolution
of your honourable court embodied in it convey.
2. Such an expression of the sentiments of
your honourable court would be to me a source
of gratification and just pride in any circum-
stances ; but the generous
.and timely promp-
titude with which you have ,been pleased to
issue it, and the fact that it conveys approval
of past as well as trust for the, future has greatly
enhanced its value. Your honourable. court have
rightly judged that in the niithit of difficulties no sup-
port is so cheering to a public servant or so strength-
ening, as that which is derived from a declared ap-
proval of the spirit by,which_his.:past acts have
been guided. .
3. I bellow that the. elpectations expressed by
your honourable court, as to the,spirit in which the
proclaimed confiscation. of proprietary rights in
Oude would be used, will not be disappointed when
you shall have had cognisaliee of the despatch which
I.had the honour to address to the 'secret committee
on t e 17th ult., and which, as being the sequel of
. corr t spondence already in the hands of .-your hon- •
oura le court, will no doubt have been laid before
you
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.
4. Your honourable 'court observe that I must
have been well aware that the words of the procla-
mation, Without the comment on it, which you trust
was ppeedily afforded by the actions of the govern-
ment, must have produced the expectation of much
-iiiore general and indiscriminate dispossession than
could have been consistent with justice or with
policy:

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Undoubtedly this i 5 _so.. But it was not without
deliberation that in framing fhe proclamation I used
the positive, peremptory,und, so to speak, enacting
words which declare that -the proprietary right in.
,the Soil of the province is confiscated to the govern-
ment, which will dispose of thatright in such man-
ner as it may deem fitting.
5. As this point was- scarcely -tmzehed upon in
my above-mentioned despatch to-the secret commit-
I will take leave to add a further brief explana-
tionjupon it. . I have said that it is in the nature of
thos to whom the proclamation was addressed to
care very little for the threats, but to have a greet
res et for the distinct orders of superior authority.
A bel landowner, to whom no more should be
said than that if he did not make submission soon
his Tights would be liable to confiscation, would be
likely to trust for hiS escape to the. chapter of acci-
dents, and to the chance of avoiding or defeating -
eliminatory evidence, and so to delay submis-
sion and cling to the cause • of those whose : -
inurtediate influence might be nearest and strongest.
Whereas, if he should be made to feel that the with-
draWal of his rights is already decreed, that it only
remains for the executive officers to give effect to
it by placing another proprietor in possession, -and
that the best hope left to him is to work out. as
large a claim to proffered indulgence as possible
whilst there is yet time, his manifestation of alle-
giance
would assuredly be quickened. •
6. It was my business to consider what would
most stimulate and hasten a return to peace and
loyalty. on the part of those addressed;- and I was
of opinion that this would best be done by making
it clear and plain that the rewards actually con-
ferred for fidelity were very large ; that the punish-
ment actually decreed for rebellion was very heavy,
but that from this punishmen . a door of escape wa
still open. .
7. To attempt to define more precisely the con-
ditions and degrees according to which indulge-ice
should be awarded and punishment tempered ap-
peared to me most inexpedient. It would, I submit,
have been impossible to put into the proclamation
_ally mitigating or conciliatory words to this effect
without incurring the greatest risk of raising false
hopes, and giving ground for mistaken claims, the
disappointment of which hereafter would have gone
far to confirm in the minds of many the reproach
which the rebel leaders have sedulously thrown out
against the English Government of a want of good
faith—a reproach to which no colour or shadow of
truth shall ever be given by any act of mine.
8. I, therefore, left the way of escape and the
amount of attainable indulgence to be learned from
the treatment which those who should first come in-:
would receive. No explanation in words woull
' hare been so certain to spread through the country • '
with ' little chandc 'Of perversion:- as this. r ),Nfi . ' sr
other course would have left the government so free
to use wise discrimination in the remission of
punishment. .

9. Your honourable court will, of emirs°, bear in
mind that the proclamation was addressed to a pro-
vince in arms, throughout which we had not at
that time a surviving friend or interest to defend,
and that, therefore, any fear of danger from an out-
burst of resistance by which matters should be made
worse was imaginary.
10. Upon a careful, and I hope dispassionate,
review of the whole subject, I cannot but think that
the' words in which the proclamation was couched
were those most befitting the government of India
in its relations with its rebellious province, and best
calculated to effect eventually a real and sure paci-
fication. But the question was one of very great
difficulty ; and I entreat your honourable court not
to suppose that I am so presumptuous as to depre-
cate criticism of the mode in which the difficulty
was met.

11. The reports lately received from Lueknow,
and despatched to your honourable court by this
and by the preceding mail, show that one of the
chief commissioner's greatest embarrassments is the
who arc eager to tender their allegiance, but whom
*ant of sufficient mcalls to protect the landholders,
ta.ou'l, i
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we cannot in some places effectually defend. until the
bands of the more desperate rebels and mutineers
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country
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which still harass the province shall have been sub-
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seagsotnh.Accordingly,
many who have declared their desire 'to make sub-
mission Mr. Montgomery
advise them to remain ' passive for the present.
12. The delay is to be
regretted,
but the fact
furnishes proof that the spirit of the proclamation
has not been misunderstood,
and that the temper
of the provineg is gradually tending towards order
and allegiance.

I have, &c.
(Signed) CANNING;
Allahabad, the 4th of July, 1858.

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