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addressed the Government, urging the right of 

 adoption, and protesting against the forcible 

 annexation of the state of Nagpore to tlie 

 British territories, and the seizure and sale of 

 their personal property, but without effect ; 

 though their Highnesses deputed a Wukeel to 

 Calcutta, and subsequentl}^ despatched three 

 Wukeels to England. Thus the plea of Lord 

 Dalhousie for the annexation of Nagpore was a 

 false one, and no Englishman can read with- 

 out shame the manner in which that nefarious 

 act of spoliation was carried out. Mr Mansell, 

 the Resident at Nagpore, was too high-minded 

 a man for the dirty work required of him, and 

 resigned the office, it is said, in disgust, being 

 succeeded by a functionary who subjected 

 those unhappy princesses, the aged grand- 

 mother and widows of the late Rajah, to the 

 cruellest indignities and humiliations, under 

 which the principal widow, Arna Poorna Bhaee, 

 shoi*tly sunk. Their most trusted servants and 

 advisers, though men of rank and family, were 

 summarily committed by the new commissioner 

 to the common jail, and arbitrarily subjected 

 to close confinement. The privacy of the 

 ladies was invaded by a Eurojpean officer being 



