PREPARING TO DEFEND LUCKNOW
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prevailing among all classes regarding all classes. A native letter, recently sent to your Lordship from Bareilly, fairly depicts the feeling of the better classes of natives, and especially of natives. They think that we are ungrateful, and that we no longer respect their religion or care for their interests. There is no positive abuse in that letter, whereas in all that are posted or dropped here the chief ingredients are abuse and violence.'
