AN AMNESTY FOR GENERAL DYER.
[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Among the details now known relating to the recent rebellion in the Punjab, it appears that certain of the offenders convicted in connection with the rising were subsequently pardoned under the amnesty which followed the introduction of Mr. Montagu's Bill into India. A case is cited in which an inhabitant of Amritsar was first convicted and sentenced to death, the sentence being subsequently reduced on appeal to a term of imprisonment. The criminal was released shortly afterwards on the proclamation of the amnesty. Is it then unreasonable to hope that a distinguished officer, condemned for an error of judgment, committed under most difficult cir- cumstances brought about by the frightfulness towards his country folk, is also entitled to be included in the amnesty, and that the proceedings ordered by the Secretary of State to be taken against certain British officers suspected of error of judgment should be immediately stayed?—! am, Sir, Ise., C.
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