tury, the emperor of emperors, and history will write him down a chief! This letter and that from Venice will not burthen you with figures, for Italy and Austria furnish poor material for commercial correspondence. ARTICLE IX. John Bull looking careworn-American sympathy-Young BengalEast India Company--Indian Mutinies-Battle of Plassey-Clive— Canning-Red Tape-Plot to Massacre Europeans-King of OudeHistory of the Insurrection-England still blind to her dangerM'Kay's Clippers-Delhi not taken-Indian Generals Dead-Nena Sahib- Cawnpore-Woman's Bravery-Massacre of Troops-Madras and Bombay-Kings of India-Lucknow-Agra-Wives, Mothers, and Children Butchered-English Press Misrepresent the DangerChinese Army-Native Soldiers-The Crimean Army and Indian Army compared-The Climate-Distances-No Railways-France lands Troops at Pondicherry-The Mutiny National as well as Military-England still Blind-Silver Drain-Persian War-ReligionTippoo Sahib's Theory-Europeans in Danger-Financial Position of India-Public Debt-Revenue-Expenditure-National Debt of England-Commerce Paralyzed-Anxiety for Telegraphic NewsThe American Eagle, united with the British Lion, to administer Vengeance on the Bengal Tiger. LONDON, Sept. 28, 1857. MY DEAR SIR:-While at St. Petersburg last month, I received a copy of the London Times, containing an able article from your journal, sympathizing with England on the Indian insurrection. The Times gave a leader partially accepting the proffered aid, and the editorial in question, you are aware, went the rounds. of the European press. Since the opening of the Indian question, I have expressed similar opinions. I feel that you are right-England thinks so-while Continental Europe says that you are wrong. Why? Because every despotic monarch despises the free mind of the race from which we sprang. To-day, India absorbs all other topics. You have introduced me too often to your readers not to find space for an outsider's opinion on England and her Eastern possessions. To commence-let me observe that John Bull looks sad to-day; that good-natured face appears more careworn-mark the crow's feet about the eyes. There are more wrinkles on his brow; more gray hairs, less elasticity of spirits. Really our grand old Saxon father begins to look for a cheering word from his eldest boy. He shall have a thousand; but the truth is he is too proud to accept our sympathy. A few months later that feeling will wear away, and Brother Jonathan will be treated with that dignity which the child of a proud old English sire has a right to demand. I am glad to see America extending her hand to England in this terrible affair in Hindostan. The Se poy mutiny! Mutiny did I say? Call it insurrec tion, revolution, anarchy! the fiercest, the wildest, the most terrific in the annals of the world. Young Bengal is aroused-young India is red with the blood of Englishmen. It is just two hundred and fifty-eight years since the Anglo-Indian tree was planted. Macaulay says the bells that rang out the knell of 1599 rang in the Charter to George, Earl of Carlisle, with his two hundred and fifteen merchants, Sir Thomas Smith was the knights, and aldermen. Governor, and the cash capital was but one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That bigoted old fanatic, the first James, the patron of our Protestant Bible, in 1604, 1610, 1613, and 1618, extended the charter; but that stern old reformer, who told his men to put their trust in God and keep their powder dry, did for the Company what he afterwards did for Charles the First. Oliver Cromwell upset the entire monopoly, as General Jackson did old Biddle's Bank. Two years later, they got under way again, with a cash capital of three million six hundred thousand dollars. That gay bird, Charles the Second, clinched all former charters; then came the princely dividends. Just a century before our Declaration of Independence, (1776,) the company got |