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to resist my order to clean up the very blood he had helped
to shed; but I made the provost-marshal do his ditty, and
a few lashes soon made the miscreant accomplish his task.
When done, he was taken out and immediately hanged,
and after death buried in a ditch at the road side. No one
who has witnessed the scenes of murder, mutilation, and
massacre can ever listen to the word " mercy," as applied to
these fiends. The well of mutilated bodies—alas ! con-
taining upwards of 200 women and children—l have had
decently covered in and built up as one large grave. lam
in the intrenched camp—a most miserable position. None
bat Englishmen could have held it for a day, and yet how
nobly did poor Sir H. Wheeler hold out here ! On the
29th General Havelock moved on towards Lucknow. He
had not gone far before he came on a strong post of the
enemy, about 20,000 with guns. lie defeated them gal-
lantly and took all their guns, but sustained considerable
loss. Among the number, I am sorry to say, was young
Richardson, a fine, gallant young officer of the Fusiliers,
whom I had highly noticed at Benares for his gallantry ;
and young Seton, of the oth Bengal Native Infantry, was
wounded. He was hit in the lower jaw. He was an aide-
decamp, and made so for his gallantry. The same aft-r-
-noon the force was again engaged, and again defeated the
rebels, taking all their guns, making a total of twenty
guns taken, all of which they spiked, and completely
gained the day. Notwithstanding this, on the 3lst General
Havelock returned to the bank of the river opposite Cawn-
pore, where he sent to me for further reinforcements—
requiring a battery, two .24-pounders, amid 1,000 more
European infantry. I have just written to him that there
is half a battery coming on here to•day from Allahalwl,
which I send on at once to him. I can also send him two
iron guns, but European infantry there is none to send
him here- If he waits for that lie mast wait reinforce.
ments from Calcutta, and a long delay, during which time
Lucknow may share the fate which befel Cawnpore. The
rebels, flushed with victory, will return on this, reoccupy
Cawnpore, and I have no troops to keep them out. I
must be starved out. The influence, too, on Agra may be
most disastrous, but I hope General Havelock, who has
been so successful, will now advance again and relieve
Liu:know, which is to be abandoned, the force there
brought in here. and by that time reinforcements will have
arrived, ready to accompany General Havelock to A3ra
and Delhi.

The following is the latest intelligence received of
the operations of the gallant general since his return
to Cawnpore

TRW' GENERAL HAVELOCK.

Munselwar, August 13.
I entirely routed on the 12th a detachment of about
4,000, with six field guns, who had intrenched them-
selves at Bermelijeeka Chowkee, in advance of ltusseerat•
gunge, with a loss on their part of 300 killed and
wounded; my own was thirty-five. This action has
inspired much terror amongst the enemy, and prevented
any opposition to my recrossing.
Faun GENEIUL NEILL.
Cawnpore, August 18.
On the 15th defeated the enemy near the old ground,
and returned in the night to my position, aix miles off.
On the 6th I sent a steamer with a small detachment to
look up Bliitoor, where the enemy were assembled, with
good effect.
On the 16th General Havelock moved out in one
column to lthitoor, and carried the enemy's position,
capturing two guns ; the men beir.g much exhausted
could not follow them up. Native accounts from Luck-
now represent them holding out well, the enemy making
no impression.
The Poonah Observer publishes a private letter,
giving an interesting account of the second advance
of Havelock :

We (Poonah Obserrer) have been very kindly favoured
with the perusal of a letter from Cawnpore, (Wed so
late as the 13th inst., from which we learn that General
Havelock, after having had • severe fight with the enemy
on the 12th, in which he took two guns, with some loss
on our side, crossed the Ganges on the morning of the
13th, and returned to Cawnpore, where he wili await
the arrival of reinforcements. The following is au
extract from this letter, which is written by a gallant
noncommissioned officer of the brave 7•4 th Highlanders,
who has been present in every action with the rebels fungi) t
by General Havelock:—
" Here I am again safe and sound at Cawnpore, after
a most severe fight yesterday with our old enemies, the
sepoy mutineers, in which we had three men killed and
ten wounded—one young man had his leg blown away.
There were only 120 of the pith Highlanders present, the
remainder being sick. Our whole force consisted of +soo
men, including the Sikhs. A great many followers were
cut to pieces by the enemy's cavalry and round shot.
There were two guns playing on the 7slth, which would
no doubt have destroyed every man of us but for our
timely resolution—a desperate one, no doubt, but it had
to be done, or all would have perished beneath the deadly
fire. General Havelock was calmly looking on ; he knew
well what we desired; and before he gave the order to
advance all rushed forward to the charge, and in less than
five minutes captured two guns and four horses, bayoneting
a number of the enemy who tried to save the guns (two
brass 0 pounders.) General Havelock rode up after
us, crying out, `Well done, brave Highlanders! You have
this day saved yourselves and your comrades !' We did not
loose a man in the charge, though it was thought by other
corns to be a mad attempt. As we started to charge the
last round of grapeshot went immediately over the heads
of our small bend of men ; bat in their haste to fire the
enemy lost their elevation, so we thus escaped. Private
M`Grath and myself were struck in the action, but only
bruised, the shot having first hit the ground. M'Grath
received five bells on different parts of his body, so he had