Volume 1
Kaye's and Malleson's history of the Indian mutiny of 1857-8 / edited by G.B. Malleson.
- Kaye, John William, Sir.
- Date:
- 1897-1898
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Kaye's and Malleson's history of the Indian mutiny of 1857-8 / edited by G.B. Malleson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ivas comnmuicated to her by her brother, she received it with apparent indifference. She was not one to give her enemies an advantage by confessing her wounds and bewailing her lot. She uttered no cry of pain, but said that she was ready for any- thing, and at once prepared for the journey. The autumn passed quietly away. But an important change was impending. Lord Hardinge was about to lay down the reins of government, and Colonel Lawrence to leave the Panjab for a time. The health of the latter had long been failing. He had tried in August and September the effect of the bracing hill air of Simla. It had revived him for a while, but his medical attendants urged him to resort to the only remedy which could arrest the progress of the disease; and so, with extreme reluctance, he consented to quit his post, and to accom- pany Lord Hardinge to England. He w^ent; and Sir Frederick Currie, a public servant of approved talent and integrity, who, in the capacity of Political Secretary, had accompanied the Governor-General to the banks of the Satlaj, and who had been subsequently created a baronet and appointed a member of the Supreme Council of India, was nominated to act as Eesident in his place. Meeting the stream of European revolution as they journeyed homewards, Hardinge and Lawrence came overland to Eno-land in the early spring of 1848. Brief space is allowed to ine for comment; ^ but before I cease to write Lord Hardin go’s name in connection with Sikh politics and history, I must o'ive ex- pression, if only in a single sentence, to the admiration with which I regard his entire policy towards the Panjab. It was worthy of a Christian warrior: it was worthy of a Christian statesman. It is in no wdse to be judged by results, still less )y accidents not assignable to errors inherent in the orio-inal esign. What Hardinge did, he did because it was right to under provocation, his moderation in the hour of victory foreshadowed the humanity of his subse- quent measures. It was his one desire to render British con- nection_ witli tlio Panjab a blessing to the Sikhs witbmit ( estroying their national independence. The spirit of’Christian Liuiilrv^ not over the whole face of the countiy--not ]„cre imago of a specious benevolence dis- gnising the designs of our ambition and the impulses of our breed, but an honest, hearty desire to do good without o-ain to save an Empire, to reform a people, and\o leave behind us](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28710782_0001_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
