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-488 Rio 48 9.408 Our remarkable friend, Tatia Tope, is too trouble some and clever an enemy to be admired. Since last June he has kept Central India in a fervour, He has sacked stations, plundered treasuries, emptied arsenals; collected armies, lost them; fought battles, lost them; taken guns from native princes, lost them; taken more lost them; then his motions were like forked lightening; and for weeks, he has marched thirty and forty miles a day. He has crossed the Narbuda to and fro; He has marched between our colums, bebind them and before them. Ariel was not more subtle aided by the best stage mechanism. Up mountains, over rivers, through ravinos and valleys, amid swamps, on he goes, backwards and side ways and zig-zag ways, now falling upon a post-cart and carrying off the Bombay mails, now looting a village, headed and burned yet evasive as Proteus."--The Times, 17th January 1859. सं ५४ पु. ५१० " It was accomplished. The nephew of the man recognised by the Marhattas as the hair of the last reigning Peshwe was on the Marhatte soil with an army, The Nizam was loyal, But the Times were peculiar. Instances had occurred before, as in the caso of the Soindia, of a people revolting against their sovereign when that sovereign acted in the teeth of the national feeling. It was impossible not to fear lest the army of Tatia should rouse to arms the entire Marhatta population and that the spectacle of a people in arms against the foreigner might act with irrisistable force on the people of the Dekhan. "Malleson's Indian. Mutiny, Vol. V. Page 239, 240. army of Tatand that the spicact with urrisis's Indian सं. ५५ ३ ५१२ "One of the Great results that have flowed from the rebellion of 1857-1858 has been to make the inhabitants of every part of India acquaited with each other.
