The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-24 00:00:00

THE KING OF OUDE.

A late number of the Mofussilite contained an
article offering some evidence to prove the com-
plicity of the King of Oude aid his people, in the
events which are now disturbing India. After
a few words introductory, the article proceeds :
" Early in April last an Armenian gentleman
mentioned in the course of conversation with the
Consular representative in Calcutta of a Europe at
kingdom, that some of the big men attached to the
King of Oude's eAtablishatent at Garden Reach,
had applied to him some time previously for a
correct list of the number and location of all the
European troops in India, and for particulars con-
cernin.; our military resources ; wbicli, if we re-
member correctly what was related to ns by the
Consul, the Armenian furnished to the best of his
ability.

"Although the King of Oude is too ignoranf,
fat, and ltzy tr possess either the ability or incli-
nation to take a personally active part in any busi-
ness whatever, yet he bas in his suite many men of
considerable talent and energy, who do acts and
make promises in his Majesty's name, for which the
royal faineant is decidedly responsible ; and that
these men had a motive in seeking the information
we have described, it is unnecessary to assert ; and
what, in our opinion, that motive was it is now
equally unnecessary to explain.
" When the mutinous spirit in the Bengal army
first displayed itself, the present writer, having
then just heard of the conversation he has men-
tioned, made an allusion in the columns of a Cal-
cutta journal to the possibility of the King of Oude's
servants and advisers being implicated in the
mutiny, or at any rate possessing a foreknowledge
of its coming, and he was in consequence personally.
threatened with punishment by his Majesty's Euro-
pean Vakeel, and the paper itself barely escaped
prosecution. However, later events show convinc-
ingly that such a widely spread insurrection must
hays been determined upon long before the explo-
sion occurred, and its breaking out in so many
places at once shows also that it • was an organised
conspiracy, in which there can be no doubt the
principal Mahomedans in India, including those
about the person of the King of Oude, were, if not
the originators, at auy rate accessories before the
fact.

"It is.not impossible that theOudean nobles, re-
collecting that the insurrection in Cabul and -the
difficulties we experienced in that country, led
eventually to our restoring his kingdom to Dost
Mahomed, then a prisoner in Calcutta, may have
imagined that similar difficulties in Oude, such as
have now occurred (in spite of the masterly rule of
Lawrence) were calculated to lead to a similar re-
sult iu the case of their own king.
" it is therefore by no means improbable that the
0 udean nobles about the king may have originated,
joined, or, at the very least, connived at and con-
cealed their knowledge of the projected outbreak,
arguing with themselves in the manner we have
described—and the fact of the king residing peace-
ably and quietly in Calcutta, and the queen and
heir-apparent being in England—the former by her
Iribits and character not likely to be suspected of
political intrigues, and the latter being engaged in
agitating his cause with the sympathising people of
England in a constitutional manner—were circum-
stances very much in fay.ur of the policy we have
ascribed to the nobles, leading to the issue we sup-
pose them to have anticipated."
The evidence now published in the Mofassilitc is
almost superfluous.
of Government are in possession
f tl-1
,igoatur e Posfttc9m.p et e
proofs of the guilt of the
King and
Seditious
te
rd oacrueniine n tt sh
ewpi with
et
iosne aoliagnod.
verement. lie of course denies that they are
genuine ; but to
cal 1 them forgeries is the only pos-
sible detercfe he could make under the circum-
stances. Of
guilt there is not the slightest
Ony his
question requiring the decision
oralis when and how Ally
odfo doubt, and the
Governor-on