1 THE WAR WITH THE BRITISH.
2 Having as they thought made their peace with the Ranee,
3 who had apparently forgiven the murder of her brother, the
4 troops in their gratitude promised true allegiance to Maharajh
5 Dulleep Sing and implicit obedience to the commands of his
6 mother. Many of them even went so far as to declare that
7 they would receive as Wuzeer whomsover she might choose to
8 appoint ; but others, including Court's, Avitabile's, and the
9 Povindeea divisons sent their deputies to Goolaub Sing at Jum-
10 moo, inviting him to come to Lahore to be made Minister, in-
11 stead of Rajah Lall Sing, for whom the Ranee now openly
12 evinced her preference and favour. However, even these re-
13 fractory battalions so far submitted themselves to Her High-
14 ness's commands as to break up their camps and retire to
15 their several stations. They did this the more readily, perhaps,
16 because when issuing the order, the Ranee intimated to them,
17 that it would soon be necessary for them to reform the line
18 for the invasion of British India. On hearing this the troops
19 became clamorous for stores and ammunition and the means of
20 conveying them, which it not being convenient to supply,
21 the Ranee chose to regard their demands as intended to em-
22 barrass the state and thus to furnish a pretext for declining to
23 march as ordered. The troops, however, quietly repaired to
24 their various cantonments, and for some time nothing more
25 was heard of the projected expedition to Hindoostan. During