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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. This third was due to disobedience of, or departure from, the
instructions laid down by Government at the annexation, as very
clearly shown in Lord Stanley's letter of October 13, 1858. The
promised pensions had either been entirely withheld or very sparingly
doled out; the old officials were entirely without employment;
three-quarters of the army the same; while the country Barons had, by
forced interpretation of rules, been deprived of the mass of their
estates, which had been parcelled out among their followers, who, for
clannish reasons, were more indignant at the spoliation and loss of
power and place of their Chiefs than they were glad for their own
individual acquisitions.

'4. The weakness of the European force could not be helped; it was
deemed politic to show the country that the annexation did not require
force.

'5. But the inefficiency of the military arrangements arose from mere
want of skill, and was serious, under the threatening aspect of the
political horizon.

'6. The discontent of the province, and the coming general storm, had
already found vent in the brigandage of Fuzl Ali, and the seditions of
the Fyzabad Moulvie.

'7. And with all these Sir H. Lawrence had to grapple immediately on
his arrival.

'8. But I may safely say that ten days saw the mass of them disappear.
The Fyzabad Moulvie had been seized and imprisoned. Fuzl Ali had been
surrounded and slain. The promised pensions had been paid, by Sir H.
Lawrence's peremptory orders, to the members and retainers of the
Royal Family. A recognition had been published of the f