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London, England, 1853-06-18 00:00:00

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.

Tuesday, June 14.
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JUNE 18, 1853.

THE CAMP AT CHOBHAM.

(From a Currepoudent.)

Juxt. !T.
time with a 'Misfit' of people I was wending my way
yesterday from Chertsey towards the camp, when. from the
eery of the " knifeboard," I witnessed a little scene worthy of
the tvetical spirit of Landseer, and suggestive of the spec.
tilde we were about to witness. Suddenly turning a shin? eor.
tier in the roail, we came upon a little country inn embowered
in trees. Before the door the olthaoeustomed signboard
,Hung front its pe•.t planted on the village green, and the
dark, still pool reflected the whole picture of repose. save
where the patriarchal drake gently pushed the peacetbl
A% ato before his downy limns+. Under the shadow of the
urea g a dozen horses were picketed; and beneath a bright
laburnum, which hung, like a lady's shawl. from am adjoin-
ing gerdeu, peered the ptirtentous muzzle of a niece of
artillery. Little incidents such as this reminded us at
every turn that we were in the vicinity of camp. Now
the black forms of artillery-waggons 'Swain our way now
eame by a solitary officer, switching the nettles from the
roadside, as he lazily cantered on the turf. That all was a
" fancy camp," however, the gaily-decorated booths. thicken-
ing us we came towards the ground, bore ample testimony.
Very few of the untntvelled in this country have ever seen
a camp of 10,(4X) men, myself among the number ; but I
must confess it was wonderfully like what 1 imagined it
to be—a long lute of tents dotting the russet heath, and
nothing more : but the details of this living mass I soon
found were infinite and ever changing. Cholihnin-henth,
the site of the edeampment, is itself a picturesque and
beautiful spot, undulating. broken, and boggy. Along the
spine or highest ridge of the space, or rather a little
towards its northern slope, nre pitched the line of tents,
extending for three miles, having the cavalry on the right
wing, anti the artillery on the h•ft. My notions of topo-
graphy are generally of the most confused nature, and
therefore I will not venture uponpositious further; but if the
spectator will wend his way, us I did, to a rising mound
crowned with fir•trves, near the centre of the camp, he
will take in the whole camp at a view—vee rising among
the tents of the household cavalry the purple-tinted
spire of the Queen's pavir —see the city of tests laid
out in streets, and the bright•coloured soldiers thronging
in anal out like bees in the hives of an npiary -see
the deadly line of twenty guns lying hartulessly in the
suushitn•, whilst along the wintling, road, in it misty
haze of dust, the horses out on exercise trot in hasty and
rebellions line see, in the plain beneath, the great
waolt of the camp going on, end the ground covered with
stuAl white patches, as tl gh seine giant in a rage had
torn up some irritating correspendence. lint to understand
the picturesqueness of a camp you must descend into it,
slip, as I dil, through the line of sentries, and throw
yourself shuttle•like up and down each " street" of tents.
Every turn is a picture fur Webster—for any painter who
loves ineitlent :n al movement. Hero you see, upon
pile of yaw: straw, the !wallet shoulders of gigantic gre•
leaning in heavy slumber, and coming out bright
anti sharp against the purple distance : the next turn
brings us to a dozen fellows improvising a sentry•box out
of poles and pine branches ; and tam we come tote " ra sok it ig•
shop." wilie!i the constructor, in the trite spirit of art,
according to Mr. Ruskin, has made eminently typical of
its purpose: a rounded mound of earth. with a branch of
fir stuck at the top, gives it the exact resemblance of
plum•ptelding ; round the ed..;‘, of this it trench is cut, and
holes for the camp kettles, it most bungling apparatus we
must confess, and far behind many of the higenions and
simple conttivitoces of the French for a similar purpose.
These improvised kitchens, however, are only for the
men : the officers, whilst they are roughing it, command
the sc'enee of Gunter and other first-rate cooks..

Passing between the tents, I had an opportunity of see-
ing au army at its toilet. Styli a brushing up of " high.
lows " I nev:o. witnessed: lien. a fellow was scrubbing his
sinewy legs ; there a lancer mending his
,jacket ; or an
indomitable British chin was stolidly held out whilst the
regimental barber relentlessly scraped at it. A vast High.
binder was burning a letter to. perhaps, his absent Jennie,
and, instead of behind his car, his spare steel pens were
thrust into his tenon socks. Whilst these little episodes
were going on in the camp, 41 mating multiunit:of redcoats
'ever,: playing at football over the heath. Who shall say
that officers do not put their shoulders to the wheel ? A
Hi 41iland officer ass we passed was levelffing with a shovel
the broken ground before his tent. whilst another was
e'earing his doorway with a besom, like jolly good fellows
and gentlemen.
The tents of the soldiers must be tight fits. Bound the
central pole are placed the muskets, eartridgedemes. and
knalsacks ; and niying out from this rather bulky pyrsmilt
lie the men, twehe in each tent. packed like hen iogs in a
barrel. The officers, however, two in a tent, e eamp
bedsteads. They are protected from the ground ley a straw
matting. All this is very well thy tine weather; but a tea
days' rain would; witl t doubt, raise a magnificent crop
of rhenffiatism, for the monad is sponge itself, end bog
span*r Inn, which map be ascertained from the, water,
which is execnible. What the method inspectors could
have been about in camping men in the height of summer
whore niNJuna but tainted water is prewar:llle is beyond my
comprehension ; and if dysentery or 'Ennis ill Asada Lefal
them it is not to be wondered at.
The married soldiers of each regiment :we. located by
themselves in long tinlmilt sheds, with •mall compart-
ments for each heel; and, as there is lent little month:side,
garments of all unmentionable kinds, both male and fee-
Tale, are kung on the exterior walls, making it Ina a
little Tiolywelleitreet. 1 asked a sentry why this was al-