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far valuable as containing the opinions of 

 the longest resident European female in 

 India, she condemned the annexation of 

 Oude, as insulting to the pride of the 

 Court, as in direct violation of former trea- 

 ties with the East India Company, and as 

 outraging the prejudices of the natives. In 

 this one act she foresaw the discontent and 

 the dislike it gave all classes to our rule; 

 and to it she attributes all the evils that 

 have since arisen. 



She was possessed of every comfort, and 

 lived in comparative ease and affluence. 

 Her house being at the extremity of the 

 intrenchments, and nearest the city, was 

 made a barrack or fort, and therefore was 

 made the principal point of attack by the 

 bloodthirsty Sepoys, who, both by their acts 

 and gesticulations, threatened annihilation 

 to the little garrison and all within it. 



It was in a critical hour of this eventful 

 siege, when the mines of the rebels were 

 making fearful progress towards my sister's 



