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districts tliat we seized upon as security for 

 his debt to the British Government for arrears 

 of pay to the Hyderabad force, now forming 

 the contingent. 



I believe, moreover, that the maddening sense 

 of despair, arising from an utter hopelessness 

 of redress in all appeals to the Home Govern- 

 ment against the acts of Lord Dalhousie and 

 his council, was another main cause of the 

 late insurrection. 



The atrocities committed during the late 

 mutiny are quite unaccountable to those ac- 

 quainted with and appreciative of the extra- 

 ordinary and heroic devotion to their officers 

 displayed on countless occasions by the native 

 troops of every Presidency, no less th'an the 

 tender care by native servants of European 

 ladies and children, and sick and suffering 

 masters, in many cases, moreover, returning 

 good for evil, as the least impatient amongst 

 the latter often employ rough language towards 

 servants for trifling faults, if possessed of suffi- 

 cient self-command to abstain even from per- 

 sonal violence towards them. Of tlie two, 

 moreover, I believe that a native of birth 

 would feel less hurt at a blow than the dis- 



