would be liable to a sentiment of despair, as in a contest with fate. And that sentiment would paralyse the Hindoos when entering upon a struggle for unrooting the British from Hindostan. But here suddenly, Woman steps in to aid the Hindoo. For the Briton, it is notorious, would never loosen his hold, more than his compatriot the bull-dog. But that scene which a man had faced steadily upon his own account, he shrinks from as a husband or a father. Hence the sepoy attacks upon women and children. From hurried writing, it is to be feared that I may have done slight justice to my own views. Let me conclude this head therefore by briefly _resuming_. The argument for tracing back the great conspiracy to the discontented rajahs is--that otherwise, and supposing the mutiny raised for objects specially affecting the sepoys, they would _not_ have massacred their officers. _They_ must have desired to leave an opening for pardon in the event of failure. That crime was exacted to compromise the native army effectually with the government. But this in many ways was sure to operate ruinously for the sepoy interests, and could therefore have found a sufficient motive only with the native princes. But the _female_ sacrifice was welcome to all parties. For no doubt they represented the British officer as saying:--So long as the danger affected only myself, I would never have relaxed my hold on India; but now, when the war threatens our women and children, India can no longer be a home for _us_.