214 ANNEXATION OF NAGPORE. 



Very weak policy this, driving to cnmit}^ a 

 frontier prince, who Avas and is willing to be 

 ours body and soul. And it hurts that con- 

 fidence in British faith, which Lord Ellen- 

 borough and myself have so earnestly sought 

 to establish in those countries." 



Of course, it must hurt that confidence, and 

 it is conduct such as this that has estranged 

 from us the people of India ; in fact, almost 

 all the native princes have been thus estranged 

 from us by our own arrogance, self-sufficiency, 

 and oppression; and in too many instances 

 of late years we have broken faith and tram- 

 pled upon treaties in the most flagrant manner ; 

 I say of late years, because, in former days, 

 the word of an Englishman was considered 

 by the natives as inviolable. Alas, that it 

 should no longer be so, but such is unhappily 

 the case, and who can wonder at it? having 

 such facts before them as the Marquis of Dal- 

 housie's seizure and confiscation, in 1854, of 

 the Nagpore state, producing a revenue of 

 nearly half-a-million sterling, and forcibly seiz- 

 ing and selling jewels and other property to 

 the amount of one million. This annexation 

 was resolved on, declared the Governor-General, 



