1 The troops
2 turned out.
3 312 HISTORY OF THE SIKHS.
4 would hear nothing, but declared that rather than
5 put up with such an outrage, they would destroy
6 themselves. They then began to throw bricks at
7 him, and one of the gentlemen with him, and
8 wounded also some of the sowars; but the agent,
9 instead of setting these on the rioters, kept them
10 back and passed quietly along the streets, He had
11 however, no sooner reached his home, than he
12 wrote to the general to have all the troops out, to
13 close the gates, and to shoot the first man who
14 attempted to attack the troops.
15 * Major Lawrence told Lal Singh, when the latter
16 waited on him, that the only thing required was,
17 that they should forthwith produce the originators
18 of the disturbance.” Delhi Gazette, Ind May.
19 The above riot occurred on the 21st April; and
20 on the 24th, the kotwal’s exertions had been car-
21 ried on so actively, that the ringleader was dis-
22 covered and hung.
23 In trying to assuage the feelings of the British,
24 the Lahore government offered money. Major
25 Lawrence spurned every.ofter and explanation, and
26 insisted on the originator being given up. This
27 trait in his management will cause the brahmins
28 and khutrees to be more cautious in fomenting
29 riots and disturbances ; but the deep-rooted hatred
30 of the Sikhs remains the same, and a constant
31 watchfulness on the part of the British garrison at
32 Lahore is rigorously required, to check every dis-
33 turbance in the bud, and punish the authors of it,
34 whether the latter be brahmins or Sikhs.
35 In the discharge, of his arduous duties, Lal Singh