We ventured to suggest, when the news of the Nana's
arrest first reached England, that Scindiah had surrendered him out of fear, or revenge for his conduct in 1858. It appears from the detailed accounts that this view was accurate, and that Scindiah has himself admitted his motive to his Durbar, though he boasted also of his fidelity to the English. "During 1857-58," he said, 4' the Nana Sahib Peishwa was the principal means of sowing the seeds of rebellion in Lushkar Gwalior, but the British Crown, according to the Seventh Article of the Treaty of 1844, ratified between me and the Government of India, again rendered me aid and caused my State to flourish. This fellow was no well-wisher to either Government, and he was the author of the Mutiny, hence he has been made over to the Resident on 22nd inst." Scindiah made the arrest in person, taking with him a regiment of cavalry, one of infantry, and a battery of artillery, and so excited was public feeling in Gwalior, that it was necessary to place the whole garrison under arms. The Government, we per- ceive, trusts its prisoner only to Europeans, but he will have a public trial at Cawnpore.
