Mutiny records correspondence

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1MUTINY RECORDS.

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3desire. It is believed that light guns are not required at

4Dehlie.

54. All these troops are of excellent quality, fully equal,

6if not superior, to any that the insurgents can bring against

7them and comprise a force of 4,200 men.

8Enclosure (4) to 123.

9From Captain R, C. Lawrence, Captain of Police, Lahore Divi¬

10sion, to R. Montoomert, Esquire, Judicial Commissioner,

11Punjab, —dated Lahore, 18th July 1857,

12With reference to your letter No. 2431 of the 11th in-

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14stant, directing me to proceed to Sealkote and, in conjunction Lawrence at

15•with Captain Cripps, try and punish all persons who may

16have taken any active part with the mutineers, or who may

17have been engaged in acts of plunder at that station, I have

18the honor to report as follows.

192. Captain Cripps and myself arrived at Sealkote on Sun¬

20day morning, the 12th instant. We found the whole Euro¬

21pean community in the fort, and great alarm still p^tiTaded

22all classes. The station presented a sad scene of desolation.

23The kutchcry had been burnt and aU records destroyed ; the

24jail partly unroofed and otherwise damaged; Mr. Monck-

25ton^s own house completely looted—doors, windows, ^c., car¬

26ried away. In the cantonment every house was looted, but

27little or no injury has been done to either public or private

28buildings. The Sudder Bazaar has been partially plundered

29and bm’nt down. The Parsee merchants have suffered con¬

30siderably. Not so the Mahomedan merchants* residing in the

31bazaar. The shops of these men

32appear to have been respected.

33They declare that their money and other valuables have been

34carried away, but this assertion I do not entirely credit. The

35oilicers of the station appear to doubt their honesty, but there

36was nothing tangible against them, and my brief stay at

37Sealkote did not i>ermit of any lengthened enquiry. I would

38♦Nubbec Buksh and others.

39Description

40of state of af<

41fairs at Sial-

42kot.