The Mutinies and the People Or Statements of Native Fidelity Exhibited During the Outbreak of 1857-58

It was the first English journal which spoke out upon the military character of the revolt and attributed the salvation of the Indian Empire as a dependency of Great Britain to the fidelity aid and advice of the people of the country during the insurrection. [...] The acts of active Native fidelity yerforred under the greatest difficulties imagiable so much so as in the very scenes of the revolt under the eyes of the insur gents and with bloody threats from them within the hearing of the actors which it is intended to cite and embody in the following pages will conclusively show that the feeing of revolt and disloyalty was not shared in by the [...] The subjoined is an acknowledgment of the protection offered to the writer by the Rajah of Benares on the occasion of the outbreak in that Jerusalem of India :- " We did not take the direct road to Chunar on account of the mutineers who took that diretion but we crossed the river to Ramnuggur a fort and palace belonging to the Rajah of Benares. [...] The first three at once arrested the bearer of a seditious letter and brought the whole circumstance to the notice of superior authority." To the common temptation the unfortunate 1st '‘ 7. I. which was at the date of the revolt stationed at Cawnpore yielded on the 5th June 1857 and marched out of the lines at about three o'clock in the morning but " before doing so ( says the writer of Ch [...] Though the aid and fidelity of wealthy and influential zeminders allied Princes and of the people in and near the disturbed districts and the quiet demeanour of the mass of the population anxiously awaiting for the end of the struggle which vexatiouly interfered with the smooth career of their peaceful lives have materially helped our rulers in overcoming this crisis still the unswerving