The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-16 00:00:00

A MISSIONARY'S ACCOUNT OF THE
- INDIAN OUTBRhAK.

The Rev. Mr.' Hay, the American missionary in
India who escaped from Allahabad, returned to '
Southampton from London on Saturday night. In
London he had.an interview with Sir Charles Tre-
velyan. The Chairman of the East India Company
Was anxibUs 'tia'aoo-Mr. Hay, but his wife was so
ill at Southampton that lgr. Hay could not prolong
his stay in the metropolis. Being- one of the first
persons wholaas come from the heart of the mutin-
ous districts, and being thoroughly acquainted with
the history and extent of the mutiny, and with its
nature and bearing, his society has been anxiously
sought after. for information.
His account of the rise of the mutiny and defeat
of the mutineers at Allahabad is exceedingly inter-
esting. Allahabad contained about 100,000 inhabi-
tants at the time of the mutiny. There had been
several panics in the city for some time before the
revolt broke out there, and three weeks before
there was any -fighting the city was patrolled,
and European-women and children were ordered
into the fort: At tines the alarm died away,
and the ' • come out 'of the fort. The
expectlition'avaw that the city would be attacked
by mutineers from Benares. At length a chief
raised the standard of insurrection. No European
knew who he was ; some said he was a Moulvie,
that is, a Mahommedan religious teacher, some-
thing like t_ padre of the Portuguese-; others,
that he was a native officer ; others, that he was a
weaver by trade. 'He, however, represented him-
self as i'Viceroy of the King of Delhi. He com-
manded about 4,000 of the mutineers. Mr. Hay
speaks in the highest terms of Major Brazier and
Oolonel Neil, with both of whom he was personally
acquainted. Major Brazier rose from the ranks.
He comma,nded.the Sikhs at Allahabad, and exer-
cised great influence over them. It was to him
that the Europeans were indebted for preventing
the relaili 'from taking the fort. Had they done
so, scarcely anything would have driven them out
of it, for it is constructed on an European model.
Nothing would induce the rebel Sepoya who be-
sieged it to come near, so much so did they dread
its guns. On the 13ili of June Colonel Neil can-
nonaded Daraghung, a suburb of Allahabad.
Brazier behaved here with distinguished gallantry.
The chief of the mutineers was taken prisoner. He
was a young man magnificently dressed, and was
said to be a nephew of the Moulvie, who headed
the mutiny inside the walls. Major Brazier, sur-
rounded by a few Sikh soldiers, ordered the chief
to be brought before him to be interrogated. After
being questioned he was taken to a place of con-
finement. His arms were loosely fastened behind
him. Before he left the presence of the major he,
by a great effort, caught at a sword that was with-
in his reach, and made a out at one of the Sikhs.
Brazier and all the Sikhs fell upon him, and the
former wrested the sword from the prisoner's
hand ; but the enraged Sikhs, while the chief was
vostrate. laced their heels on his head and liter-

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ally crushed out his brains, and the body was
thrown outside the gates there. It was owing to
General Neil's gallantry that all the Europeans in
BIM ares were not massacred. After saving
Benaree the general arrived at Allahabad,
and superseded Colonel Simpson. After can-
nonading Daraghung he attacked and burnt
the lower part of the city on the 14th of June.
The head-quarters of the Moulvie were in the
higher part of the city at the old Mahomedan gar-
dens. There the prisoners of the mutineers were
confined, and among them were the native Chris-
tian teachers belonging to Mr. Hay's mission esta-
blishment. On the 17th of June Col. Neil, with
about 500 European and 800 Sikhs, complet-ly de-
feated the Moulvie and his 4,000 troops. The na-
tive Christians knew, from the manner in wh'ch
the mutineers returned to their head-quarters—
bloody, hurried, and dispirited, that they had met
with a defeat, and they counselled one another and
their families to keep up their spirits, for they knew
that the defeated mutineers would not stand an-
other battle. Sure enough on tha morning of the
18th they evacuated the place and the native teachers
were liberated. Hummiau, a wealthy Hindoo Ze-
minder, befriended them until they got to a place
of safety.

Mr. Ray is decidedly of opinion that Delhi will
not be taken before Nov. or Des. He has v sited
Delhi. The fort is built after the native fashion.
Heavy guns would Sion batter down its walls.
Unfortunately the guns which were sent to batter
them down were captured by the rebels at Phi llour.
When Mr. Hay left All thabad the English troops
before Delhi were scarcely able to held their own :
although always beating the mutineers in every
attack they had slightly tac-ded from their original
position. It tares nearly 50 days for troops to
get to Delhi from Calcutta. Mr. :ay was 17 days
getting to the latter phce from Allahabad. He
got down to Calcutta in a steamboat. While he
was on the voyage Sir N. Leslie and other offic-rs
were massacred near Dinapore by Sepoys belonging
to the very regiments the mutiny of which was an-
nouaced on Monday by electric telegraph. Tee
assassins ofSir N. Leslie were caught, tied up from
the backs of elephants to a ga'lie vs, and then swung
off. The soldiers of their own regiments were
made executioners, and it was bo isted at Cie time
that ono of the assassins was hung by his own fa-
ther, in order to show the loyalty of the regiments.
Mr. Hay says that many old Etat Indians fore-
told that these troops woul 1 ulsimately mutiny,
and that there could be no doeht they sympathised
with the assassins of Leslie and his brother
officers. Their turning exectaioners, and a father
hanging his own,Son, were only a blind. They were
biding their time. Mr. Hay thinks the news of the
mutiny at Anapore is bad news, became it shows
that the communications between Calcutta and
Delhi may be interrupted. There is one thing,
however, to be considerel ; the mutineers have no
gins in the neighbourhood, and thoy have a very
wholesome dread of the steamers passing between
Calout'a. and Allahabad, all of which carry guns.
He thinks also that the telegraph despatch on
Monday did- not coo tam good news generally from
India. It can hardly b 3 said that Central India is
tranquillised ; it must be only small portions of it.
The mutinies at Dinapore and in tee Bombay Pre-
' sidency are ominous ofevil. He was 20 days in Cal-
cutta before he left for Etieland ; diving that time
tnere bad been two or three panics there, and per-
sons living in the outskirts had taken refuge in the
forts and on board the ships. Confidence, however,
was restored when he left, owing chiefly t 3 1,700
troops from China that were landed from the
Himalaya. It was at one time fully expectel that
the native Mohaniedan servants would re-:el in '
Calcutaa, Numbers had been saying to the Elmo-
peen children of whom they had charge that all the
houses in Calcutta would soon beloag to the na-
tives. A converted Brahmin in Calcutta bad been
accosted by natives who did not know of his c
version, and was told that there would be a general
rising in Calcutta, and that the troops would be
assisted by the native servants in driving out the
English. About 5,000 fresh tro hII arrived,
and been sent up the country since the mutiny
broke out. They go up by steamers as far as
Allahabad, which is sisuated at the junction of the
Jumna and the Gauges. Mr. Hay, as ha was pro-
ceeding to Calcutta, met General Havelock and his
forces going up the country. He considered that
Havelock would, after leaving Cawnpore' pro-
steed to destroy Nona Sahib at Bithoor before
he went to relieve Lucknow, to prevent Nena
Sahib from occupying the r,- ar with any force.
It is most satisfactory to find, however, that
Havelock has apparently considered himself en-
abled to go on to Lucknow without first accom-
plishing the destruction of Nena Sahib, because
Lucknow was so much in need of to scour. Pro-
bobly Havelock has left the further chastisement of
the arch traitor to 0,1 Nei, who must have moved
on from Allahabad. Mr. Hay considers that Agra
must-have fallen by this time, unless relieve 1. He
States that on his passage to England met a French
offic,er, a captain La Fous, wlio had been in the
Penjab.war, and knew Nona Sahib intimately, and
saw him at Cawnpore after the mutiny had broke
out at Delhi. To show the duplicity of this scoun-
drel, he lamented to Capt. La Fous th
and stated that,
e outbreak
be could hardly believe it—it was
nest shameful. There
cannot be a doubt that he
had been
gloating over its atroci-
ties, and Was platiniliawtat mostt hellish treachery
&lithe time. After bpi-
rig defeated at Cawnpore and
Fa tteypore, he has escaped toaes castle at Bithoor,
which is well defended with cannon:
Mr. Hay thinks the issuing of the greased car-
to;dges to have been a great mistake.
Tile intelli-
gent leaders of thus mutineers well understood that
the greased cartridges were withdrawn, and that
the Government explanations were satisfactory ;
bet the illiterate natives never were convinced that
the outrage on their religion was discontitiusa. It
*as also an error to sentence the 80 high caste men
at Meerut to five years' imprisonment for refusing
to use the cartridges. They were all natihe Sepoyszve gentle-
men belonging to a cavalry regimmt. The
would have greased the cartridges themselves, and_a-
used she ep's fat, a material which scarcely a M
homedan or Hindoo would have scrupled to use..
The colour of the paper of the cartridges being dz.r
ferent from that which had hitherto been used, and
the paper being greasy excited suspicion and alarm.
Mr. Hay eays that the Britisla Government should
have declared itself a Christian Government. It
should not have persecuted the natives to make
them Christians, but it should have sot its face
against caste as much as against widow burning. The
Government relied upon keeping alive the igno=
mat prejudice of Hindoos and Mahomedans, and
pr ?serving its authority by balancing race against
ray-, and religionagainst religion, and the mutiny
shows that its scheme has signally fa led. The mis-