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Mss Eur F213/24, p25

Record Id:
041-002301837
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002301764
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000001953.0x0002f4
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F213/24, p25
Title:
Letter from Dalhousie to Hobhouse
Scope & Content:
Law Commission staff; Turton case; refers to Hobhouse's letter of 23 January; Bethune; is grateful for Hobhouse's explanation that letters from Secret Committee were in fact from the India Board [i.e. Hobhouse] a fact which Dalhousie had not realised; describes (with adverse comments on Whish) final fall of Multan on 22 Jan; describes gallantry of Sikh defence; dilemma concerning punishment of Mulraj; proof of his complicity in murder of Agnew and Anderson unlikely, and gallantry of his defence of Multan and other things have raised strong feeling of pity on his behalf – 'I cannot deny that his execution would shock public feeling in India'; but severe punishment is necessary for 'so formidable and now so celebrated a resister of British power' – Dalhousie proposes sending him across the seas; questions concerning prize money from property confiscated at Multan; medals should be given for campaign as a whole (if successful) rather than individual actions; further severe criticism of Gough who is now vacillating; Dalhousie has ordered Whish to join him, and arranged other reinforcements; Sikh army has been reinforced by Chattur Singh and his guns; Dost Muhammad has seized Peshawar, summoned Ghulab Singh to surrender Kashmir, and made other hostile moves; he will have to be expelled from Peshawar in due course (and Dalhousie has already made plans for this) – 'we cannot, with safety, permit a Mahommedan power, raising the cry of Islam, to seize by force territories under our protection'; encloses copy of his letter to Queen on fall of Multan.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Project / Collection:
India Office Private Papers
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002301764
036-002301791
040-002301832
041-002301837
Is part of:
Mss Eur F213 : Papers of John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton, as President of the Board of Control 1835-41 and 1846-52
Mss Eur F213/21-28 : John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton, President of the Board of Control 1846-52: correspondence with persons in India and…
Mss Eur F213/24 : Letters from persons in India and elsewhere. Principal correspondents: Lord Dalhousie; Lord Falkland, Sir Henry Pottinger.…

 

Mss Eur F213/24, p25 : Letter from Dalhousie to Hobhouse
Hierarchy:
032-002301764[0008]/036-002301791[0004]/040-002301832[0005]/041-002301837
Container:
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Record Type (Level):
Item
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1849
End Date:
1849
Date Range:
7 Feb 1849
Era:
CE
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