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 68 LIFE OF HTJEISH CHUNDEB MU^HERJKE. British democracy in tlje course pf a review of the "Reasoner* periodical. His articles on Annexation were not only learned, and logical J>ut brilliant and ejoqueut. ^ith his usual single- fnindedness aqd honesty of purpose, untempted by favour and undeterred py the frown of the "Pqwers that be," he attached the policy of Lord Dalhousie. Nor did he when the occasion came, ever shrink from criticising $he conduct of Sir Laurence Peel and Sir James Colville, Chief • Justices of the Supreme Court However highly ' Jie respected those high, dignitaries for their talents and private virtues, he regarded them as too muoh of "courtier Judges." (vide the "Life of Kristo Das Pal p. 5, 6, 7, 8.) These are the brief outlines of his great journalis- tic career from 1853 to 1856. The files of the Hindoo Patriot for this period are now irrecoverably lost to the country, as we pould not, find them either in the Metcalfe rfall or in any other put>% or private libra- ries 0$ Calcutta. And in the absence of these records, or any other authentic information about his career,, it is impossible for us to say anything more on the subject CHAPTER III. HIS CAREER AS A JOURNALIST DURING THE MUTINY OF 1857-58. Hurish Chunder Mukherjee immortalized himself by his noble defence of the policy of "Clemency" tan- ing during this horrible crisis. It was in May 1857 that the hurricane of the Sepoy Mutiny swept over the land. ^ Discontent and disaffection engendered by the Imperial policy of distrust of the people in general and dispossession of. the hereditary rights of some Prin- ces. $eje among the chjef causes tfcaj brought about