The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1859.

called in to Futtehpore, and he and his elder son
were hanged. The second son fled to Bainie
Madhoo for protection, and was assured that he
would never be abandoned. Out of 223 villages
on Bainie Madhoo's estates 119 were taken from

him on the second revision, after annexation ; but,
as he was assured that any complaints of unjust
treatment in former days would be considered in
the event of his submission, it must be supposed he
had some strong personal feeling at work for the
extraordinary animosity he has displayed against
us. It will be seen that the Begum, of whose
remarkable counter-proclamation I send a copy
further on, with much unction expatiates on our
known character for unrelenting revenge and vin-
dictiveness, and with great art enlarges on the
reasons for doubting the possibility of amnesty or
pardon.

Let us, then, see what the Queen of Oude, as she
is tailed, has to say to the Queen of England. Here
is her Majesty's counter-proclamation, translated
indeed very cleverly, I hear, but still deficient in
the subtlety and elegant diction of the original.
And be it observed here that if our proclamation
was couched in a phraseology but little understood
by the people, the Begum's manifesto is open to the
objection in a far greater degree, inasmuch as it is
written in the finest Court Persian. The document
is headed by a fine regal seal, and is in all respects
a regular Oriental State paper. It will be remarked
that its production affords significant proof that the
Queen's Proclamation had reached Buraech, and
that it was producing an effect which the Begum's
party found it essential to neutralise or destroy.
TRANSLATION.
(By order.)

"At this time certain weak-minded, foolish people have
spread a report that the English have forgiven the faults
and crimes of the people of Hindostan. This appears very
astonishing, for it is the unvarying custom of the English
never to forgive a fault, be it great or small, so much so
that if a small offence be committed through ignorance or
negligence they never forgive it.
" The Proclamation of the Ist of November, 1858, which
has come before us is perfectly clear ; and as some foolish
people, not understanding the real object of the Proclama-
tion, have been carried away, therefore we, the ever abiding
government parents of the people of Oude, with great con-
sideration, put forth the present Proclamation in order that
the real object of the chief points may be exposed and our
subjects be placed on their guard.
" 1. It is written in the Proclamation that the country of
Hindostan, which was held in trust by the Company, has
been resumed by the Queen, and that for the future the
Queen's laws shall be obeyed. This is not to be trusted by
our religious subjects, for the laws of the Company, the
settlement of the Company, the English servants of the
Company, the Governor-General, and the judicial adminis-
tration of the Company, are all unchanged. What, then, is
there new which can benefit the people, or on which they
can rely?
"2. In the Proclamation it is written that all contracts
and agreements entered into by the Company will be ac-
cepted by the Queen. Let the people carefully observe this
artifice. The Company has seized on the whole of Hindos-
tan, and, if this arrangement be accepted, what is there new
in it? The Company professed to treat the Chief of Bhuq-
pore as a son, and then took his territory ; the Chief of La-
hore was carried off to London, and it has not fallen to his
lot to return; the Nawab Shumshoodeen Khan on one side
they hanged, and on the other side they took of their hats
and salaamed to him; the Peishwah they expelled from
Poonah Sitra, and imprisoned for life in Bithoor ; their
breach of faith with Sultan Tippoo is well known ; the Ra-
jah of Benares they imprisoned in Agra. Under pretence of
administering the country of the Chief of Gwalior, they in-
troduced English customs; they have left no name or traces
of the Chiefs of Behar, Orissa, and Bengal; they gave the
Raes of Furruckabad a small monthly allowance, and
took his territory, ShA.hjehanpore, Bareilly, Azimghur,
Jounpore, Goruckpore, Etawah, Allahabad, Futtehpore,
&c. Our ancient possessiens they took from us on
pretence of distributing pay ; and in the 7th article
of the treaty they wrote on oath that they would
take no more fromus. If then the arrangements made by
the Company are to be accepted, what is the difference be-
tween the former and the present state of things ? These
are old affairs; but recently, in defiance of treaties and
oaths, and notwithstanding that they owed us millions of
rupees, without reason and on pretence of the misgovern-
ment and discontent of our people, they took our country
and property, worth millions of rupees. If our people were
discontented with our Royal predecessor, Wajid Ally Shah,
how comes it they are content with us ? And no ruler ever
experienced such loyalty and devotion of life and goods as
we have done. What, then, is wanting that they do not
restore our coritry?
" Further, it is written in the Proclamation, that they
want no increase of territory, but yet they cannot refrain
from annexation. If the Queen has assumed the Govern-
ment, why does her Majesty not restore our country to us
when our people wish it? It is well known that no King
or Queen ever punished a whole army and people for rebel-
lion ; all were forgiven, and the wise cannot approve of
punishing the whole army and people of Hindostan, for, so
long as the word punishment' remains, the disturbances
will not be suppressed. There is a well-known proverb—
' A dying man is desperate ' (Murta kya ne kurte). It is
impossible that a thousand should attack a million, and the
thousand escape.
" 3. In the Proclamation it is written, that the Christian
religion is true, but no other creed will suffer oppression,
and that the laws will be observed towards all. What has
the administration of justice to do with the truth or false-
hood of a religion? That religion is true which acknow-
ledges one God and knows no other. Where there are
three Gods in a religion neither Mussulmen nor Hindoos—
nay, not even Jews, Sun-worshippers, or Fire-worshippers
can believe it true. To eat pigs and drink wine, to bite greased
cartridges and to mix pig's fat with flour and sweetmeats, to
destroy Hindoo and Mussulman temples on pretence of mak-
ing roads, 1.3 build churches, to send clergymen into the
streets and alleys to preach the Christian religion, to insti-
tute English schools, and pay people a monthly stipend for
learninr, the English sciences, while the places of worship
of Hindoos and Mussulmans are to this day entirely neglected
—with all this, how can the people believe that religion
will not be interfered with ? Tho rebellion began with
religion, and for it millions of men have been killed. Let
not our subjects be deceived; thousands were deprived of
their religion in 'the North-West, and thousands were
hanged rather than abandon their religion.
"4. It is written in the Proclamation that they who har-
boured rebels, or who were leaders of rebels, or who caused
men to rebel, shall have their lives, but that punishment
shall be awarded after deliberation, and that murderers and
abettors of murderers shall have no mercy shown them,
while all others shall be forgiven. Any foolish person can
see that under this Proclamation no one, be he guilty or
innocent, can escape. Everything is written, and yet
nothing is written, but they have clearly written that they
will not let off any one implicated ; and in whatever village
or estate the army may have halted, the inhabitants of that
place cannot escape. We are deeply concerned for the con-
dition of our people, on reading this Proclamation, which
palpably teems with enmity. We now issue a distinct order,
and one that may be trusted—that all subjects who may
have foolishly presented themselves as heads of villages to
the English, shall, before the Ist of January next, present
themselves in our camp. Without doubt their faults shall
be forgiven them, and they shall be treated according to
their merits. To believe in this Proclamation, it is only
necessary to remember that Hindostani rulers are altogether
kind and merciful. Thousands have seen this, millions
have heard it. No one has ever seen in a dream that the
English forgave an offence.
"5. In this Proclamation it is written that when peace
is restored, public works, such as roads and canals, will be
made in order to improve the condition of the people. It is
worthy of a little reflection, that they have promised no
better employment for Hindostanees than making roads and
digging canals. If people cannot see clearly what this
means, there is no help for them. Let no subject be de•
ceived by the Proclamation.

(A. true translation.)
" Secretary to tho Chief Commissioner of Oude."

It will be for statesmen, the press, and public
opinion to weigh the nature of this remarkable
paper. The Begum does not pretend to go over the
old ground of the causes of the revolt and mutiny.
She is content to rest the quarrel on our habits of
aggression and our annexation, in charges of perfidy
and vindictiveness, and on the nullity of the pre-
tended change in our rule, with other matters
patent in the document itself. The insinuation
that we intend to doom the natives of Hindostan to
slave labour on roads and canals, in the last para-
graph, is particularly clever. But the natives, with
all their insouciance, are a remarkably practical race
in ascertaining the " but" of any State paper ; and
when they ask themselves what is the end of the
Begum's proclamation, and find that it is simply a
summons to appear in her camp on the Ist of
January, they will, in all probability, treat her
Majesty's wishes with indifference; for they are
beginning to feel that the cause is hopeless.

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