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influence — ^ which had ""rown to be considerable — with the 

 London proprietors, to give hitn as good an appointment 

 on another road. It was in due time accompKshed, and 

 I removed my family to London. 



The benefit arising from the alteration I most prized 

 was the opportunity it afforded me of introducing my 

 wife to my sisters, and of now and then enjoying their 

 society. It was about this time that my third sister, rather 

 than witness the declinino- fortunes of our remainino; 

 parent, decided on going to India, as companion to a lady 

 of title and her daughter. The latter marrying in the 

 second year after their departure from England, my sister 

 had the option of returning, or accepting the hand of a 

 settler at Cawnpore. She chose the latter. 



After having survived two husbands, she was one of the 

 many females beleaguered in our intrenchments at Luck- 

 now ; where she had resided many years, her second 

 husband, not long deceased, being attached to the court 

 of the King of Oude. 



Naturally intelligent and observing, with a fair share 

 of accomplishments, experience had given her a thorough 

 knowledge of the native character ; wdiile her husband's 

 situation, and her intercourse with both Enoiish and 

 Xative chiefs — to whom she acted as interpreter, and 

 sometimes as amanuensis — had made her acquainted with 

 the political movements that preceded the awful outbreak 

 which convulsed this magnificent part of our Empire. 



In her correspondence with me and other individuals 

 of our family, which is so far valuable as containing the 

 opinions of the longest resident European female in India, 

 she condemned the annexation of Oude, as insultinir to 



