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of the cavalry, cutting, slashing, and hooting. I
drew my sword, and, running forward in the despair-
ing hope of reaching the Mound, where I still saw
some of our people, I tripped and fell. The cavalry
passed over me; one man cut at but missed me.
There were upwards of 250. They went right
through the camp and back; their brethren stayed
beyond the Mound. I at the time thought it was
all over with us, for in falling I saw a man gallop
from the Mound, and felt sure all had been cut up.
If the whole thousand had charged, and the infantry
followed, nothing, humanly speaking, could have
saved us from annihilation. I got up and ran to the
Mound, where such confusion reigned as I never in
my life saw before. The guns were served by re-
cruits and Sikhs; one gun had run off its platform,
carrying away the sleeper; another was our preser-
vation, for it blazed away on the infantry (at •) who
were advancing to the attack, but who bolted in con•
sternation ; but the shouting, noise, and confusion
I shall never forget. The blackguards who rode
through the camp contrived to carry away 250 camels.
By this time our people recovered from their asto-
nishment in camp, and soon the whole advanced,
clearing the whole of the gardens and joining our
pickets at the Samy-house, and drove the sepoys back
to the walls of Delhi; but it was a disgraceful affair,
and owing to the treachery of the irregular cavalry,
which is now with us in camp ! The Sikhs swore
they aaw them in conversation with the enemy, and
individuals from both sides come forward and join
them. The Sikhs begged one officer of artillery to
fire, hut the irregular cavalry waved their hands and
said they were our friends, till a number of them
were collected together, when they drew their swords
and dashed forward. Though all this has been re-
ported, nothing has been done.

LORD ELLENBOROUGH'S ADDRESS TO
THE MEMBERS OF THE WINCHCOMB
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

Southern Delabere, October 16, 1857.
Gentlemen,—l much regret my not being able to attend
your Annual Meeting to day, the more especially as I was
desirous of speaking to you upon the subject nearest my
heart—the war in India—and of urging you to assist, as
you and all country gentlemen and farmers can, most
powerfully, in bringing the country through the difficulties
in wl,ich it is involved.
Not having the opportunity of addressing you otherwise,
I now write to you.
As to the war itself, I need say but little. As to the
conduct of the Ministers and of the Indian Government in
this emergency, I shell say nothing. I must soon have
ample and more proper opportunities of saying whatever I
may think upon that subject.
Gentlemen,—You may not hare looked into all the
details of what has taken place in India, but you must know
this—that we have there a great war forced upon us by
rebels who would deprive all our countrymen of their
lives, and England of an empire—that where we placed
our confidence, we have been met with treachery—where
we acted with kindness, we have encountered murder—
murder, not directed only against men by whom resistance
might be made, and from whom wrongs might have been
feared; but extending equally to unoffending, helpless
women—to the children at their knees, and to the infants
at their breasts.
Bat, too often, where death has been inflicted with
torture, it has been a refuge from the horrors before wit•
neased and endured.
We have seen there, in almost every instance of mutiny,
one general deliberate design, not only to deprive us of
the dominion we have so long held with honour, but to
place ns, as a people, under circumstances of outrage and
of indignity, which, if we submit to them, must render us,
in the eyes of all living men and of all future generations,
a despised and degraded race. Will you submit to this?
You will say you never will—you will have redress and
vengeance. We will say nothing about vengeance—that
belongs only to a Higher Power; but to punish crime so
signally as to deter all hereafter from its commission, and
to vindicate one sovereign authority—this is no doubt our
right, and it is our duty—and you will say you will not be
found wanting in the performance of it—but, then, what
will you do? Depend upon it, it is not enough to sit
quietly at home and to pay taxes, nor to go to public
meetings and pass resolutions expressive of sympathy with
the sufferers and of indignation against their destroyers.
You must do more than this, and I will tell you
what you can do—what none but those who are in your
position can do equally well, and what you now all ought
to do for the honour of the country, and for your own.
You have heard of the great reinforcements of trenps
which have been recently sent or are now going out to
India. You have been assured that we shall have there a
larger army than we had in the Crimes, and I dare say you
expect from the exertions of this force early and complete
success in the war. Every thing that the noblest of
soldiers can do has been done, and will be done by ours in
India ; and they have now a general who knows well what
war is—the lions are at last led by a lion—but be assured
that this is not a sudden temporary danger to be repelled
by sudden temporary exertion. What at first was a
mutiny is become a revolution ; to restore civil authority
is more difficult than to repress military resistance, and it
requires more force to occupy than it does to subdue.
Be assured that the military institutions of this country,
managed as they now are, are insufficient permanently to
supply the number of men required to reconquer what we
have lost, and to hold our empire hereafter in security.