question; and secondly, to the effect produced by the correspondence
between the Governor-General and Sir James Outram.[35] And here
Lord Derby may perhaps be allowed the opportunity of removing a
misconception from your Majesty's mind, as to any secret intelligence
or underhand intrigue between Lord Ellenborough and Sir James Outram,
to the detriment of Lord Canning. Lord Derby is in the position
to know that if there is one person in the world to whom Lord
Ellenborough has an utter aversion, and with whom he has no personal
or private correspondence, it is Sir James Outram. Anything therefore
in common in their opinions must be the result of circumstances wholly
irrespective of private concert. Lord Derby has written fully to Lord
Canning, privately, by the mail which will go out on Tuesday; and
while he has not concealed from him the opinion of your Majesty's
servants that the Proclamation, of which so much has been said,
conveyed too sweeping an Edict of Confiscation against the landowners,
great and small, of Oudh, he has not hesitated to express also his
conviction that Lord Canning's real intentions, in execution, would
not be found widely to differ from the views of your Majesty's
servants. He has expressed to Lord Canning his regret at the premature
_publication_ of the Draft Proclamation, at the same time that he has
pointed out the injustice done both to your Majesty's Government
and to the Governor-General by the (Lord Derby will hardly call
it fraudulent) suppression of the private letters addressed to the
President of the Board of Control, and deprecating judgment on the
text of the Proclamation, until explanation should be received. Lord
Derby cannot but be of opinion that this suppression, of which Lord
Palmerston was fully cognisant, was an act which no political or party
interests were sufficient to justify.

The state of the Government, during the late crisis, was such as
to render it impossible to make any arrangement for filling up Lord
Ellenborough's place at the Board of Control. Application has since
been made to Mr Gladstone,[36] with the offer of that post, or of that
of the Colonial Department, which Lord Stanley would give up for the
convenience of your Majesty's Government, though unwillingly, for
India. Mr Gladstone demurred, on the ground of not wishing to leave
his friends; but when pressed to name whom he would wish to bring with
him, he could name none. Finally, he has written to ask ad