Hindoo Ouilaw.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 276, 22 November 1890, Page 4 (Supplement)

Hindoo Ouilaw.

A Bengalee has written a lifo of the notorious highwayman and oublaw, Tantia Bhoel, who was lately captured and executed. Ho sums up Tantia'e character in the following curious terms ; —' He was no common outlaw, this Tanbia, ho had stuff in him of which through developing and refining agencies greatness in the be,ab senso of the term is forged. Tanbia eeb, ab noughb and defied tho constituted authorities of the land-authorities whom a gracious Providence han in His infinito mercy ordained as the saviour 'of India; bub barring this solo circumstance, Tantia, when weighed in the moral balance, will hardly, we may Bay it without exaggeration, bo found wanting. He has alinosb all the greatest virtues o£ which the entire body of human morality ia composed. Hβ had, first of all, disinterestedness, on which the whole edifice of morality is reared, and then juebico and mercy, which, dropping like gentle rain, and verity and forbearance and fortitude and. courage which cast oub fear, and friendliness and roverence— in ehort, ho had a heart filled with every excellency. His ear had heard the eternal melodios that are ceaselessly chanted forth by tho spirit bhat is on eea and land and the light of the setting nun and the deep hearC of man. Tho life of such a person is a study fraught with the most precious and ennobling instructions. Tantia was reckoned ono of the principal Bheol outlaws in Contral India. Ho committed many a dacoity at many a place, ho set fire to many a village, he cub off many persons' noses and, etandinp; ab a distance, laughed merrily over their confusion and agony ; ho assisted ab the murder of many a man, and pillaging many a village ho roduced many a man to the mosb abjecb poverty, yeb we cannot resbrain our tears for him, still we cannot express the emotion thab heaves and swells in our bosom. Whoso heart will nob bo wrought up with an intense and burning griof at the sighb of one ranging woods and fells free as a bird, brought to such a plight at bhe treachery cf a common man ? From whoao eyee tea.ee will not trickle down in copious eSroams ?' —'Times. ,