A Missing Chapter of the Indian Mutiny (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888. Excerpt: ... SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER. RECURRING now to the allusion in the Preface to the recently-discovered letters of General Lawrence, as throwing light on the miscarriage of my reports in transmission through his office of Agent GovernorGeneral, I may first cite a letter to my address, marginally ap AjMERE, -, J t August 2(, th, 1857. pended, showing how the My Dear Showers, --I. am very sorry to say i have earlier reports miscarried. not any of your letters. I That must of CQurse be must have sent them in as they came, either to the accepted as an accident, Lieut.-Governor or Mr. Ed-. monstone. I have searched Occasioned, perhaps, by among all my papers in the urgency of the period; vain. (Signed) and however much to be G. L. P. LAWRENCE. regretted as precluding the insertion in the Parliamentary Blue Book of the reports of the opening operations of the Mutiny in one of its principal centres, and of the just tribute paid in the same to the valuable co-operation of the distinguished coadjutors and zealous subordinates with whom it was my good fortune to be associated, the omission of the reports in question was at the time irremediable. But others of the recently discovered letters tell a different tale, and prove, under General Lawrence's own hand, that the statements he made in his letter of the 6th, March, 1876, addressed to Sir John Kaye, and published in the Appendix to the and Edition of Vol. III. of that author's "History of the Sepoy War" were contrary to the facts. On becoming aware of the publication of the statements in question, through Colonel Malleson's reference to them in the 1st Vol. of his "History of the Indian Mutiny," purporting to be a re-writing of the history comprised in Kaye's 3rd Vol., I conclusively disposed of the matter at the time by th...