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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810 Excerpt: ...If blood is once spilt in the cause, there is no knowing where it may end; and the probable consequence will be that India will be lost for ever. So many officers of the army have gone to such lengths, that, unless a general amnesty is granted, tranquillity can never be restored. The honourable the governor in council will not, I trust, impute to me any other motives for having thus given my opinion. I am actuated solely by anxiety for the public good and the benefit of my country; and I think it my duty, holding the responsible situation I now do, to express my sentiments at so awful a period. Where there are any prospects of success it might be right to persevere; but, where every day's experience proves that the more coercive the measures adopted, the more violent are the consequences, a different and more conciliatory line of conduct ought to be adopted. I have the honour, &c. The following is a Copy of an Address from the Officers referred to in the Letter of Colonel Stuart to the Chief Secretary of Government. Things of importance, when required to be told at a juncture like the present, admit of no preamble; we, therefore, proceed to inform you, that, authentic information having been received of the determination of government to exert every resource, under every circumstance and at all risks, to stifle the voice of the army, which has merely been calling aloud for justice, under the assumed designation of quelling a dangerous insurrection and mutiny, a shadow of which we are convinced never existed, it becomes to us a bounden duty not only to deny a fact, thus unwisely, as well as unjustly, asserted, but to exert every active measure within our power to prevent the operation of an assumption so palpably destructive in its tendency. The orders o...