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was appointed to reside in the capital
The necessary result of protection in this
form is to take away from the protected
Prince all interest in the good government
of his country. He is without response
bility to his people, and therefore in due
time sinks into sensualist and sot. 1t
should be remarked that all these treaties
for protecting the Indian kings and princes
were not requested by them, but were
forced upon them blythe British Governor
General. Why, then, was the kingdom
OF Dude blotted from existence and its
territory annexed to the British possess
sions in India? The only pretext given
by the Marquis of Dalhousie was mal-ad-
naanastratlon on the part of the govern
ment OF Oude-a very indefinite charge,
which could as readily be brought against
the East India Company, and therefore its
possessions be annexed to any adjacent
State which might covet them. Whether
the government of Dude was wisely or un-
wisely administered, the English had no
claims to the country and in dethroning
the king and taking possession of his ter
ritory, they acted the part Of the filibus-
tiers, for whose conduct in Cuba and Mica
ragua they execrate and denounce the
Americans. Pegu, the Puniaub, Beraz,
Sattara, Jhansi, and Dude, all annexed to
the British empire in the short space of
eight years, within than 100000 square
miles of territory and 100000 people!
without rhyme or reason exceptthe British
cupidity of gold and the Unsuitable greed
for additional domain. Dude is one of the
richest countries in Asia. The soil is ex-
ceedingly fertile. while some districts are
as rich in minerals as Cornwall in England.
Already the East India government have
made their estimates of annual gain, cal
culating that the revenue in some three or
four years will exceed the expenses of the
government above TWELVE MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS in this annexed kingdom only
Such is the kingdom of Oude-a perfect
garden in its culture and productiveness.
A greater outrage was never perpetrated,
whose infamy is enhanced by the hypoc-
risy under which it was perpetrated
The King of Dude has funds to the
amount Of nine millions Of dollars inves-
ted In India public securities, besides per-
sonal property and jewels; to which the
government of India adds an annual pen
sion of sac hundred thousand doHarsl
A sybarite as he is said to be, like other
eastern princes, deposed and kicked from
his throne as he is, he need not suffer
| essentially from apprehensions of coming
to want when he retires to private life.
In eight years Lord Dalhousie added
four Kingdoms besides considerable terri
tory to the British empire, from all of
which the East India Company derive an
annual income of from twenty to twenty
FIVE millions of dollars above the expenses
of the government He worked hard;
he was energetic and sagacious, and did
more for the enlargement of the British
domain in India than any of his predeces-
sors; and upon resigning his office the
East India Company voted him, in graft
tude for his services, the nice sum of
S25, 1000 per annum during his life, which
the elpless and miserable population of
these despoiled and plundered Kingdoms
must pay.
With such facts before him. an Amer
can can hardly choke down his indignation
when he hears his own country assailed by
Englishmen for its penchant for annexa-
tion, whatever may be his own thoughts of
the policy or justice of adding to our bound
less domain.-Boston TraUeIer.