§ MR. RICHsaid, that he wished to make an addition to the question which had been addressed to the Government by the hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Devonport (Sir E. Perry). At present there were large bodies of armed mutinous Sepoys, who, having been defeated in the field, were roaming about India; and he thought, that all substantial resistance being at an end, it was incumbent on us to open some door to these unhappy men who had been drawn into this mutiny against their will. No doubt, it was right that the guilty should be brought to condign punishment; yet those who had been led by fear or by example to enter into the revolt should have a door opened to them, through which they might return to their allegiance. This held good more especially with regard to the inhabitants of Oude, whose case, in many respects, was different to that of other parties to the mutiny. If we attempted to hunt down and kill 50,000 or 60,000 Sepoys, we should not only cover ourselves with indelible disgrace, but we should convert those men into thieves, robbers, and pindarees, and thus give rise to a predatory warfare which would give us a world of trouble to extinguish. He hoped to hear that some proclamation would be issued, offering an asylum to such Sepoys as had laid down their arms, and were willing to make their submission. An indiscriminate vengeance would be alike contrary to every principle of policy and justice.