The Oriental Herald and Colonial Review [Ed. by J.S. Buckingham]. (1825) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BARRAC MASSACRE?BURMESE WAR AND PRESENT STATE OF THE NATIVE'ARM Y IN BENGAL. The details which have already been presented to the British public on these important topics, few and imperfect as they appear, have nevertheless, been sufficient to excite a very deep and powerful sensation throughout all claases in England, and to make many tremble with apprehension for the fate of our Eastern Empire. The full and accurate information which has been transmitted to us from the very scene of action itself, extending to the latest possible date, has placed in our possession materials which no man dared to publish in India, and which few, perhaps, would venture to give at the length they deserve even in this country. They appear to us, however, of so much importance to a right understanding of the particular state of events and feelings in that distant quarter, that we avail ourselves of the earliest opportunity to lay them before our readers: ?and that we may not in the slightest degree diminish the interest which we conceive they are likely to create in English bosoms, we present them in the words of the writer himself, describing the impressions of one on the spot, in a Letter transmitted to us from India, by the latest arrival from thence, under date of November 19,1824: The miserable conduct of the present rulers of India, particularly exemplified in the management of the Burmah war, if it has been justly represented to the people of England, must have already fully prepared you to hear of fresh disgrace and misfortune to the British Empire in the East. But I am sorry to say that your most gloomy forebodings will come far short of the disasters which the wretched system of measures followed hare now brought upon us. In the month of May last, we reckoned it a sufficient...