The Post Office of India and Its StoryClarke, Geoffrey
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The Post Office of India and Its Story
Clarke, Geoffrey
Postal service -- India
Edward Eyre, William Bailie, Esqrs.; the Revd.
Jervas Bellamy; Messrs. Jenks, Reeveley, Law, Coates,
Napcourt, Jebb, Torrians, E. Page, S. Page, Grub, Street,
Harod, P. Johnstone, Ballard, N. Drake, Carse, Knapton,
Goslin, Dod, Dalrymple; Captains Clayton, Buchanan, and
Witherington; Lieutenants Bishop, Hays, Blagge, Simpson,
and J. Bellamy; Ensigns Paccard, Scott, Hastings,
C. Wedderburn, and Dymbleton; Sea-Captains Hunt, Osburn,
and Purnell; Messrs. Carey, Leech, Stevenson, Guy Porter,
Parker, Caulkee, Bendal and Atkinson;
Who, with sundry other inhabitants, Military and
Militia, to the number of 123 persons, were, by
the tyrannic violence of Suraj-ud-Dowlah,
Suba of Bengal,
Suffocated in the Black-Hole Prison of Fort William,
on the night of the 20th day of June, 1756,
and promiscuously thrown the succeeding
morning into the ditch
of the ravelin of this place.
This monument is erected by their surviving fellow-sufferer,
J. Z. Holwell.
This horrid act of violence was as amply as deservedly
revenged on Suraj-ud-Dowlah, by His Majesty's arms,
under the conduct of Vice-Admiral Watson and Col. Clive,
Anno 1757.
The Marquis of Hastings in 1840 had the monument pulled down, but Lord
Curzon in 1903 had a replica made and placed in the same spot where it
now stands.
APPENDIX G
Extract from the narrative of the interruption in the mail
arrangements in the N.-W.P. and Punjab subsequent to the Mutiny at
Meerut and Delhi on the 10th and 11th May, 1857.
By MR. G. PATON, Postmaster-General, North-West Provinces.
On the mutiny of the native troops at Meerut and Delhi on the 10th
and 11th May, 1857, the mail communication between Meerut, Delhi and
Allyghur was interrupted. The eastern mails were then forwarded from
Allyghur via Anoopshahur and Moradabad to Meerut and thence direct to
Kurnaul or via Seharanpore to Umballa. In like manner the mails from
the north-west were forwarded from Kurnaul and Umballa to Allyghur.
There was delay by the arrangement, but it was the only one practicable
on the route via Delhi being closed by the mutiny and rebellion there.
2. After the lapse of a week the mail was reopened between Allyghur and
Meerut, but by the mutiny of the 9th Regiment N.I. on the 20th June at
Allyghur all postal communication from the north, the south, the east
and west of that station was stopped.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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