‘2. This clause will add little or nothing to your discretionary power, but it may serve to indicate more clearly to the thalookdars the liberal spirit in which the governor-general is prepared to review and reciprocate any advances on their part.
‘3. It is expected that you will find means to translate this additional clause into the vernacular languages, and that you will be able to have copies of the proclamation, so amended, prepared in sufficient numbers for immediate use. If more should be required, the magistrate of Cawnpore will lithograph them on your requisition.
‘4. It is very important, as you will readily see, that every copy of the vernacular version of the proclamation sent to you, with my letter of the 3d instant, should be carefully destroyed.—I have, &c.,
(Signed) ‘G. F. Edmonstone,
‘Secretary, Government of India, with the
Governor-general.
‘Allahabad, March 10, 1858.’
E.
It was not until after a lapse of three weeks that the promised detailed reply was sent to Sir James Outram, in the following terms:
‘Allahabad, March 31, 1858.