Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-27
ENGLAND IN THE EAST.

telllgence. wealth. ana beauty Ol EHSHihu' 'iri e
hcited the great speech of SHERIDAN which no pen
could record, and the glowing invectives of BURKE
clothed in resplendent diction and gorgeous ina
gerry, has India and the East been to the English,
and to the world on object of so much attention
and soicitude. That splendid empire founded
by the genius of the justly prosecuted HASTINGS,
which has so long poured the riches of the East
into the lap of England, is again the scene of COM
motions and atrocities not less dangerous nor less
bloody. than when the celebrated HYDER ALI
threatened to put an end to the English rule, an d
the harmless RoHILLAs were inhumanly butcher:
ed, their villages plundered and burned, and the ir
women violated without pity or remorse. That
misrule and oppression which awakened almost to
frenzy the vrtuous Indignation of BURKE, that
picture of great countryion proud, independent
and gifted with genius aud language whose beau
ty and aexibility was calculated to subserye all
the purposes of poetry and philosophical coun-
try venerable from the antiquity of its mosques
and the splendour of its priesthood, and tempting
from the palatial wealth and tue unresisting eff
feminacy of its inhabitants, BY one bold stroke Of
unprinciple policy, subjugated to trading COM
pany, and taxed and plundered with the mercless
rapacity of jew might we'll attract the attention
and call forth the anathemas of the humane and
phanthropic We're not that charity spurious
which pretends to sympathze with the happy ne
- G,,l r,lI for -,
rawlings in the English tyranny in the East,and no
doubt but that the BURKE of to day, could produce
evidences Of msrule and extortion not inferior to
the oppression of the Begums or the invasion Of
Rohilcund.
But time will bring around the reyersons Of
fortune, and when the hour of retributon arrives,
terrible the revenge of the injured is sure to be-
The lower their degradation has been, the deeper
their infamy, the more abject their submission,
the greater will be their vengeance and more afro
cious their deeds. India, few months ago, as
quiet as the lamb under the shears, is now one
scene of commotion The mysterious cake and
the symbolical lotos have spread the flames of re
bellion through all that once passive realm. Al
ready the mutineers have reaped a terrible re-
venge on the English resident in the revolving dis
.-:-4. n.lI; civ -E>--.-~A..- -lA-l:~. l -L-
refuge in room; one of them, very Young and
beautiful, concealed herself under sofa. The
other FIVE were subjected to outrage by the mutin.
Gus soldiery, and then beheaded. The blood
trickled under the sofa, and the young female con-
cealed there, betrayed herselfby uttering shrek.
She was seized and taken to the harem of the
King of Delhi.
An extra from the Delhi Gazette, gives the fol-
lowing picture of the horrid massacres perpetra.
ted at Delhi:
"Giye full strength to your imagination
of everything that is cruel inhuman, Internal, and
You cannot then conceive anything go dabolical as
what these demons in human form have perpetra-
ted. On the I'd we marched from Peniput to Raae.
At this place some of the poor fngitives from Del
hi met with the most barborous treatment. We
burnt four villages on the road, and hung seven
Lumberhars. One Of these wretches had part of
q lady's dress for his kummerbund- had seiz-
ed lady from Delhi, stripped her, violated, and
then murdered her in the most cruel manner first
cutting off her breasts. He said he was sorry he
had not an opportunity of doing more than he had
done.
"Another lady, who had hid herself under a
bridge, was treated in the same manner, then
hacked to pieces, then her manged remains
thrown out on the plain. We found pair of
boots, evidently those of girl six or seven years
just above the ankle. We hung many of the vii
l;opc ond hnrnt ba villa oros 1ua 20 mn olon,
A man who witnessed the last massacre in Delhi,
where he had gone as spy gives horrid ac-
count of it., stating thatlitte children thrown
up in the air and caught on the points of the bay
onets, or cut rs they were falling, with tulwars."
But the English are confident of success and are
gloating their imaginatons on the prospect of fu-
ture retribution. A correspondent of the Times
says:
"But let it be remembered that the game to be
played out at Delhiis one Of which it is impossible
to estimate the value of the stakes and one,
therefore, not to be lightly taken in hand, nor to
be conducted otherwise than in cautious, if also
in an alert and vigorous mood have no fear but
that the blow will be struck soon enough for the
security of the empire. And when the retribution
has come, as come it surely will, when the puppet
King Of Delhis taken or slain, when the streets of
his capital are choked with dead, and every Eng
lish bayonet is bent and bloody with the strife,
then you will read the ghastly tale of the attroci-
ties perpetrated in the accursed CITY, unsurpassed
in kind, as will think appear, by anything re-
corded in history of the cruelest sack Of cap
tured town, and will rejoice that your murdered
countrymen and country women are fully if fear
fully avenged"
1t is impossible to give all the causes of the mu-
tiny. English papers attribute it to reaction in
favor of Mahommedanism, and to the intrigues Of
the ex-King of Dude. Ofcourse the blame will be
fixed on him, since the English are bound to pay
him an annual pension of fifty thousand pou nds,
which he will forfeit if the charges are proved
against him, and this will not be difficult in coun-
try notorious for chcanery, bribery and suborna-
ton. Thus we see England continues the old
game inaugurated by HASTINGS, of deposing at
pleasure Indian Princes whose ancestral line is
more ancient than the proudest blood of England,
and for the pitiful pretext that they still have
little spirit left to feel their degradation, and
spark of ambition to aspire to pristine dignity,
small stpened is cut off, and themselves and their
,epoys taunted with treason md rebellion.
In the same spirit of aggression and rapacity
he English are now laboring to establish perma-
,ent foothold in China, to subvert the Celestial
empire, and make that great and populous ma
ion tributary like Bengal, Bombay and Madras,
% support the artificial growth and greatness of
he Britanic realm. She has secured the conni-
'ance of the United States Russia is occupied in
'ppropriating different portion of Asia, aud the
French are still employed with the magnificent