230 CAUSES OF THE INSUREECTION. 



Indian insurrection, distinctly stated that in 

 his opinion it had been partly caused by the 

 system of annexation which had been of late 

 years introduced, and partly by the want of 

 respect shown to native princes by Englishmen 

 of high station in India. The annexations 

 that have been carried out have alienated 

 from us all India, for such acts cause us to 

 be looked upon as rajoacious foreigners, utterly 

 without principle. Those too who have not 

 suffered from our rapacity are by no means 

 assured that their turn will not come soon. 

 Not one of those princes considers himself 

 secure. Those acquainted with Indian affairs 

 and the sentiments of the native princes 

 know 'that the real cause of the Putteala Eajah 

 not having come to England, as he proposed 

 in 1855, after sending confidential officers to 

 make preparations for his accommodation, was 

 the distrust that he felt of Lord Dalhousie's 

 good faith in regard to his territory. This is not 

 surprising, since some of those princes who have 

 been most faithful during the late crisis have 

 not yet received common justice at our hands ; 

 take, for example, the case of His Highness the 

 Nizam, who is still, I believe, deprived of the 



