Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IIL A REJOINDER AS TO JIIANSL Having explained how on the general question of adoptions, Lord Dalhousie's defenders have suppressed riot only all adverse arguments, but the conclusive acknowledgments of their own side, we. may proceed to a particular question, that of the Jhansi succession, in which the same tactics are pursued in a still more remarkable manner. The Jhansi case was very fully discussed in Tlie Empire in India, wliich Sir diaries Jackson quotes, and which has not, perhaps, entirely escaped the Duke of Argyll's observation. In the Edinburgh Review article of 18G3 the annexation of Jhansi is dismissed in two lines. In the reprint of 18G5, my book having been published in the interval, these two lines are expanded into two pages. In these newly interpolated comments on this very bad case, the Duke of Argyll, while engaged in concealing its worst points, charges " the opponents of Lord Dalhousie" with " carefully concealing some special circumstances affecting it." The first concealment of wliich the Duke of Argyll complains is of the alleged circumstance that" Jhansi had been erected into a Principality by ourselves, and was not one of the old Independent States of India."')' Nobody ever said it was an old Independent State. It was a dependent ajid protected State ; it stood in a relation to us which, made its destruction especially disgraceful; but it was iiot " erected into a Principality by ourselves. Far from concealing what had been said on this point, I fully exposed Lord Dalhousie's unfounded assertion that Jhansi " was held by a diief under a very recent gmnt from theBritish Government as Sovereign," and "under a grant such as is issued from a Sovereign to a subject." I did not conceal what had been said. I showed that it was not true. I show...