s not yet relieved. This news, coupled
with the tidings of fresh outbreaks, and the details of the
horrors of Cawnpore, generated deep feelings of resentment in
the country.]

_Queen Victoria to the Earl of Clarendon._

BALMORAL CASTLE, _23rd September 1857_.

The Queen hopes that the arrival of troops and ships with Lord Elgin
will be of material assistance, but still it does not alter the state
of affairs described by the Queen in her letter, which she wrote to
Lord Palmerston, and which she is glad to see Lord Clarendon agrees
in. Though we might have perhaps wished the Maharajah[40] to express
his feelings on the subject of the late atrocities in India, it was
hardly to be expected that he (naturally of a negative, though gentle
and very amiable disposition) should pronounce an opinion on so
painful a subject, attached as he is to his country, and naturally
_still_ possessing, with all his amiability and goodness, an _Eastern
nature_; he can also hardly, a deposed Indian Sovereign, _not very_
fond of the British rule as represented by the East India Company,
and, above all, impatient of Sir John Login's[41] tutorship, be
expected to _like_ to hear his country-people called _fiends_ and
_monsters_, and to see them brought in hundreds, if not thousands, to
be executed.

His best course is to say nothing, she must think.

It is a great mercy he, poor boy, is not there.

[Footnote 40: Lord Clarendon had written that he was "sorry to
learn that the Maharajah (Dhuleep Singh) had shown little or
no regret for the atrocities which have been committed, or
sympathy with the sufferers."]

[Footnote 41: Sir John Spencer Login, formerly surgeon at the
British Residency, Lucknow, guardian of the Maharajah Dhuleep
Singh, 1849-1858.]

[Pageheading: LETTER FROM LORD CANNING]

[Pageheading: SIR COLIN CAMPBELL]

[Pageheading: INDIA]

[Pageheading: THE POLICY OF CLEMENCY]

_Viscount Canning to Queen Victoria._

CALCUTTA, _25th September 1857_.

Lord Canning presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and asks leave
again to address your Majesty, although the desire which he has felt
that his next letter should announce to your Majesty the fall of
Delhi, and the first steps towards a restoration of your Majesty's
Authority throughout the revolted Districts, cannot as yet be
accomplished. But although it is not in Lord Canning's power to report
any very marked succes