The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-26
ENGLAND'S STATE PRISONERS
SHE HAS HELD a NUMBER or con-
QuERED RULERS WITHIN FIJI
TY YEARS.

From Her Treatment of Them Some
Idea May Be Gathered of the Flu
ture TO BE Melted out to Trans
vaaI Leaders should the Beers BE
Defeated.
washington. March 2i.-In 1919 when the
STATE Of Maharaja Dhuleep Singh was
anally annexed to the Indian Empire that
potentate was requested" to take up his
residence in England-the inducement of
ready compliance being added by the
promise of a yearly income of $4,000 with
nothing at all as an alternative. Dhuleep
singh wisely acquesced, purchasing the
fine estate of Brandon in Norfolk, upon
which he resided for many years as
wealthy English country gentleman.
Though during this period the Maharaja
frequently expressed the desire to revisit
his native country, processing the utmost
loyalty to the Empress-Queen, yet he was
never permitted to travel east of the 18th
mus OF Suez In this case the bond seems
to have descended upon the heads of his
children, for while his sons have entered
the British army and one of them. Prince
Victor. recently married the daughter of
the Earl of Coventry, yet they have never
been allowed to set eyes on the land over
which their ancestors ruled.
Approaching Calcutta on the left bank
of the HULL river at Garden Beach the
visitor will have pointed out the fine pal
ace Of the late Valid Ali King Of Oudh
There from 1876 until a recent date. this
prince was held in semi-captivity upon an
annual allowance of 100000. the only pro
viso as TO his freedom of action being that
he should not leave the vicinity OF Cal
tutta The King of Oudh,true to those pro-
digal hereditary instincts which brought
about his down fall, not only managed TO
expend this large sum- but in the keep
ing of snake mounds, menageries, and
other costly forms of amusement dear to
the Oriental MIND, obliged to draw
frequently upon the imperial treasury for
further amounts. The generosity and len
iency with which he was thus treated
was probably due to the fact that he Of
iered no armed resistance to his own de
position. Blazing with jewels and seated
in smart equipage with servants in roy
al lveries, the King of Oudh was often
conspicuous figure on the Calcutta maidan
the famous park where the society of
the Indian capital takes an outing after
The heat of the day has passed.
Far different was the fate of the poor
old Bahadur Shah last of the great
he was tried for high treason and sent as
slate prisoner to Rangoon There, in
a small hut the only lineal descendant
of Shah Jehan and Auranzeb passed the
remainder of his days, unnoticed and
upon a mere pittance. AS, however, both
his sons were slaughtered and a less Gull
pable rebel leader Tantia Topi, was exc
cuted he may have thought himself for
tunate to escape with his life.
Near Colombo. in Ceylon, England still
holds in light durance Arab Pascha and
his colleagues of the Egyptian rebellion
of 1882. While Arab has not ceased to
bemoan his fate and uselessly petitions
the British government for permission to
return TO Egypt yet considering the ma
ture of his offense and that he was SEN
fenced to death, his lot cannot be consid-
cred burdensome. Provided with an in
come sufficient for his wants a pleasant
residence, permission accorded him to re-
ceive visitors and considerable meas
ure of freedom whiting the district, he
would undoubtedly have been worse off
he'd his successful enemies been of his own
race and religion.
OF minor potentates. England has at
present one African, being confined to the
limits of that island in the South Allan
tic made famous as the prison of the
great Napoleon; and another even the far
less desirable residence of Cape Coast
Castle. For several years Cetewayo, King
of the ZuluS, was held as an unassigned
prisoner at Ghowe, near the scene of the
present military operations in Natal,
where he died before the promise of resto-
ration to his throne was carried into ef-
feet. If the island of Maurtius is the
selected future residence of the Boer lead
ers, they may, at the worst look forward
to an uneventful, placid existence in a sa-
lubrous tropical climate.
Michael Clifford White.