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480 And all this was’equalled onled by the fidelity with which they adhered to each other." -Western India, by Creorge Le Grande Jacob, K. C. S. I; C. B. #. 499.433 Charles Ball says:-"After the proclamation, still the struggle in Oudh was wonderful, and all these bands of robels were strengthened and encouraged to an inconceivable degree by the sympathy of their countrymen They could march without commissariat for the people would always feed them. They could leave their baggage without guard for the people would not attack it. They were always certain of this position and that of the British for the poople brought them hourly information. And no design could be possibly kopt from them while secret sympathisers stood around every moss table and waited in almost every tent in the British camp. No surprise could be effected but by & miracle, while rumour, communicated from mouth to mouth, outstripped even our cavalry."-Vol. I Page 572 7. ५२ पृ. ४९२-९३ "At the end of January 1859, Sir W. H. Russell was still with Lord Clyde and in one of his last letters from Lucknow he tells a delightful story which he henrd from the Commander-in-Chief. Alluding to this landlord at Allahabad (Anglo-Indian general mer. chant ), Lord Clyde said, "You doubtless heard what he did ? " 'No. 'Well, he was much in debt to native merchants when the mutiny broke out. He was appointed special commissioner and the first thing be did was to hang all his creditors." This' delightful story' is not of course contained in any 'History of the Indian Mutiny'. It was not even contained in the Time's special correspondents letters to the Times intended for publication. It was mentioned only in a private letter of Sir W. H. Russel to John Dolane.
