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NPR are requested by Mr. Ro,s Donn ely /44n gles
io publil the follo*ing,- io reply to the le :ieri of
Ajor-Geri-rid Tuclir' which we published on the
28L11, ult., and of " Miles," which appeared iu our
impression of Monday last
"Let me beg you to do me the justice to make as public
as the charges against me the following extract from the
speech which I delivered at Addiscombe--a passage which
because I believe it to contain the truth, and wholesome
truth, the manner in which .it has been distorted to my
Prejudice cannot cause me to regret that I addessed to
the young men who are just entering or who have lately
entered the Indian army.' I believe that they need such
counsel, given certainly, as I think that the passage will
evince, in no unkindly or ungenerous spirit by one much
older than them Selves, who spent the best years of his life
in India, anctwho learnt there nit only to treat with due
kindness and respect every alas of the native community
with which ho was brought into contact, but to feel the
highest admiration for those officers of native regiments of
the good old school who know and loved their men, and
were looked up to by them in return with real affection
and respect. When -I spoke at Addiscombe I uttered
not my own sentiments only, but the opinions e neatly
urge I upon me, with entreaties that I would do my
utmost to inculcate thorn, as appropl iate to the conjunc-
ture, by many officers of that class ; and I have no fear
that any officer of the East India Company's Service who
has any, the slightest, acquaintance with my character
and real feelings will believe for a moment tb I ant
so foolish and so false as to " cast aspersions" upon
the g Want and distinguished servioa to which he be-
longs, and with which it is t) me.a source of high grati-
fication that, although a civilian, I long have been, and
still am, officially associated."

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is believed that he feels peculiarly interestedin the
cas.3, :yid has so mastered it that ho will leave no
stone unturned to secure the deliverance of his un-
fortunate client.

Extract from the chairman's address to the owlets
at Addiscombe, on the 12th of June, 1857 :
" He then said emphatically there was one point of para-
mount importance to the efficiency of the Indian army on
which he deemed it his duty to dwell at some length, in
the hope that through the instrumentality of the press
the words which be now addressed to them might reach a
much larger number of young men who are just entering
or who have lately entered the Indian army. And they
might believe him, those words were but the echo of the
sentiment of every offieer in that service of ability and ex-
perience. It deeply grieved him to tell them that all joined
in lamenting the marked alteration in the tone and bear.
ing of the younger officers in the Indian army towards the
native soldiers of all ranks. - It was alleged, he feared too
truly, that the kind and cordial feeling of comrades in
arms, serving the same Government, sod bound to allegi-
ance and loyalty by the same military oath, had been
superseded by a cold and distant demeanour, if not in some
ins. a,nces by positive rudeness of behaviour. Such a state
of things was greatly to be deplored: If that estrangement
of officers from men, and especially of English from
native officers, was allowed to continue and grow,
it was impossible to calculate the fatal consequ-
ences that might' ensue. The attachment—the devo-
tion to the death of the native soldiery to their English
commanders has been one of the proudest and most
gratifying features in the annals of our Indian em-
pipe. He would read to them the glowing words in which
the great historian of our day describes a remarkable in-
stance of that devotion. He is speaking of the defence of
Arcot, the occasion on which the great Lord Clive, then
scarcely more than a boy, first displayed his high military
genius Daring 50 clays the siege wont on ; during 50
days the young captain maintained the defence with a
firmness, vigilance, and ability which would have done
honour to the oldest marshal in Europe. The breach,
however, increased day by day. The garrison began to
feel • the pressure of hunger. Under such circum-
stances any troops so scantily provided with offi-
cers might have been expected to show signs
of insubordination, and the danger was peculiarly
great in a force composed of men differing widely from
each other in extraction, 'colour, language, manners, and-
religion. But the devotion of the little band to its chief
surpassed anything that is related of the tOth Legion of.
Caesar, or of the Old Guard of Napoleon. The sepoys came
to Clive, not to complain of their scanty fare, but to pro-
pose that all the grain should be given to the Europeans,
who required more .nourishment than the natives of Asia.
The thin gruel, they said, which was strained away from
the rice would suffice for themselves. History con-
tains no more touching instance of military fidelity,
or of the influence of a commanding mind.' For the
honour of their country let them not fling away through
their own default the inheritance of this great moral power.
He entreated them, therefore, to lose no opportunity of cul-
tivating the attachment and confidence ofthe native officers
and ir •3. Their respect and esteem would abundantly repay
any exertion or eel f-denial which the performance of that
duty might cost them. Like other men, they had, their
troubles and anxieties. They would learn to resort to them
for counsel and comfort. Like other men, they had their
sports and pastimes; they would be greatly gratified by
their partaking in or even by their witnessing them. They
might look on or join within proper bounds in such pas-
times, without losing a particle of their men's or of their
own respect. Ho would be the last to advise them, for the
sake of winning a little temporary popularity, to take
part in any amusement, or be present on any occasion un-
becoming the character of Christian gentlemen. But cout-
tesy, kindness, sympathy, and especially respect for the
position of the native officers, were not only not der, gatory
to that character, but they were Christian virtues which
they were positively bound to exercise; and every link
which such conduct on their part might forge in the
chain which binds the native soldiery to their English
commanders would give additional stability to the British
power, and add to the strength and security of our mighty
empire in the East. He entreated them to treat the native
soldiery with kindness and respect. It washy such means
alone that a few hundred officers could hold the command
of m .ny thousands of men. These were the principles
upon which India had been won by their predecessors, and
which had enabled them to hold it ; and most earnestly
did he entreat them to follow their good example."