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Forty-one years in India

CHAPTER LXVIII
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He asked for no reward, and was never seen again.] [Footnote 2: Native magistrate.] [Footnote 3: City magistrate.] * * * * * APPENDIX II.
(These two memoranda are referred to in the note in Chapter XXV, Footnote 6.) _Memorandum by Lieutenant McLeod Innes._ '1.

Sir H.Lawrence joined at Lucknow about the end of March, 1857, succeeding Mr.Coverley Jackson in the Chief Commissionership.
'2.

On his arrival he found himself in the midst of troubles, of which the most important were these: I.A general agitation of the empire, from the discontent of the soldiery.
II.

A weak European force at Oudh, with all the military arrangements defective.
III.

Grievous discontent among several classes of the population of Oudh, viz., the nobility of Lucknow and the members and retainers of the Royal Family, the official classes, the old soldiery, and the entire country population, noble and peasant alike.
'3.


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