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 74 UFS OF HURI8H OHUKDIR MUXHBBJXE. vernment and vice versa. He not only faithfully represented the native feeling on this subject, but disproved, with a masterly pen, the fallacious nature of the serious allegations made against the loyalty of the Natives and Princes of India. He was host in himself, and proved himself a foeman worthy of the steel of the entire Anglo-Indian Press headed by the Serampore Frtend of India, the Englishman, the Hurkara, and the bloody Buist of the Bombay Gazette, The Govern- ment of Lord Canning got a truer insight of the exact state of Native feeling towards it from his writings than from the rabid vapourings of the Anglo-Indian Press. Week after week, he wrote -in the Hindoo Patriot masterly and clever articles on the Mutiny, with the sole object of removing, misapprehensions from the mind of the Government, and sometimes with a bitter, sarcastic spirit, and at other times with sober, sound judgement and array of arguments, he convinced the Government •of the arrant nonsense and malevolence that invariably disfigured the columns of the hostile Press. The conse- quence was that the Government saw the state of affairs in its -true light, and avoided extremes. In short, Hurish Chunder stood as a mediator between the people and the Government and caved both of them from headlong ruin. We therefore call him the saviour of his country during the horrible days of the Sepoy Mutiny, and he will be known to posterity as such. The poor Keranee in the Military Auditor General's Office placed himself," unsolicited, as a mediator between his coun- trymen and the alien Government, and his mediation was accepted. What tribulations, what mental agonies and anxieties, what sacrifices this poor Brahmin publicist had to make to represent the dumb millions of his countrymen, in this crisis, it is now impossible for us adequately to delineate. The history of the Sepoy Mutiny remains yet to be written from the national point of view, and the