The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-15 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDA f EVENING, MARCH 15, 1858.

in the magnificent Skive] Dagoon Par", a
Buddhist temple, deemed the glory of the atty. An
officer relates that, as he woe wandering about the
pagoda on one occasion, he h..eird, as he thought, the
sound of psalm singing, and cideavonring to trace it
to its source, came upon Hav Block, who sat with
his Bible and hymn book before him, and more than
a hundred men listening to his instructions. The
lamps which served to light them they had carried
in and placed in the laps of the croto-legged images
of Boodh which were ranged round the room. A
brother officer who knew him at this time has said :
When I first knew Havelock, In 18.24, he was esly right-
and-twenty ; but he was conspicuous a s an earnest *admit of
his profession, a chivalrous soldier, and .e man of the highest
integrity. That which formed the brightest glory in his
whole career wes his sterling Christie'. oottartost7. He
was not a man to parade his opinions or ft oliogy, or to =am
any striking display, online called for by sane act or word of
others, when no one could be more firm in th e avowal of his
sentiments, and his calm, impreseive mans Cr always told
with effect.

Another writes—" He invariably scoured two
hours in the morning for reading the scriptures and
private prayer. If the march began at silt, he rose
at four ; if at four, he rose at two." hir. Brock
notices that he came under the conviction that "to
the Lord's service there wu due at least one-te nth of
his income;" and that even when a subaltern, and
domestic claims were pressing, that proportion was
" sacredly devoted to the objects of Christian bene-
volence.*

On the conclusion of the peace he was associated
with two other officers on a mission to the Burman
capital, and had audience of the Monarch, from
whom he received a ring and a patent of Burman
nobility. In 1827 we find Havelock with his regiment
at Dinapore. He was soon after appointed by Lord
Combermere adjutant to the depot of King's troops at
Chinsurah. In 1828 he published his Memoirs of the
Campaign in Ave. On the 9th of February, 1829, the
anniversary of the tight at Pagham-Myo, he was mar-
ried at Serampore to the third daughter of Dr. Marsh-
man, a union which was fruitful of nothing but
happiness to both. In the following year he openly
joined the Baptists, and was immersed according to
their practice. In 1833, he passed an examination
in native languages at Agra, and in 1834
was equally suocessfal at the college of Fort-
William, and was appointed acting interpreter to
the 16th Foot. In 1835 an attempt was made to
obtain for him the appointment of adjutant to the
13th Light Infantry ; and we are informed that the
application was opposed on account of his religious
habits. Consideringthe emphasis with which the story
of this opposition le told, it would have been as well
if the case had been stated a little more definitely.
However, it is satisfactory to know that a strict
inquiry was made as to the discipline and conduct of
Havelock's company, and that when it had been well
ascertained that his men were the soberest and best
behaved in the regiment, theOovernor-General, Lord
William Bentinck, gave the appointment to him, de-
claring that he was the fittest man for it. In 1836 he
sustained a heavy calamity. His wife hat given birth
to a daughter a few months before, and had been re-
moved to the Himalayas for a change of air. A fire
broke out in their thatched bungalow, his daughter
was destroyed by fire, and his wife only escaped
dreadfully burnt.
After rendering the best service to his sovereign
for 23 years as a subaltern, he was promoted to a
captaincy. The army which was to invade Aff-
ghanistan was now being formed, and Havelock was
appointed aide-de-camp to Sir Willoughby Cotton.
He was at the surrender of Fort Bakkur, entered
Made, re-crossed the Indus, was present at the
occupation of Khandahsr, and the storming of
Ghurnee. He then went to Cabool, moved down to
Jellalabad and Peshawar with Sir Willoughby Cot-
ton, and returned to India to write the narrative of the
campaign. As adjutant he had persevered in the
work which he had before begun. His brother
officers would sometimes say : "If the men like to
drink, why let them. Suppose they do swear, no
great harm. Soldiers will be soldiers." But he went
on fighting against everything that was evil, and
looking to a higher power for success. During this
campaign he had laboured hard to promote tempe-
rance in the army, and he has left on record that
after the capture of Ghwinee the appeals of the
helpless were never disregarded, and that not a
woman was outraged by the captors.
In 1840 we find him accompanying General
Elphinstone's escort and convoy back to Cabool.
He was soon after appointed Persian interpreter
to that general, by whom he was sent to the
camp of Sir Robert Sale, and was present at the
forcing of the KhoordCaboul Pats. He made one more
journey to Cabool with despatches, and was again
sent back to Sir Robert, who happily detained him, for
the insurrection at Cabool immediately followed.
Sale fell back on Jellahabad, and the memorable
defence commenced. Havelock's old regiment, the
13th, acquitted itself nobly. The commander wrote
of them, " The men ascended heights nearly perpen-
dicular, under the sharp fire of the insurgents."
The defence was protracted to the following year,
when Havelock commanded the right column in the
first attack on Mohammed Akbar'a c imp, for which
he was afterwards promoted to majority by brevet,
and received the cross of Companion of the Bath.
When General Pollock had forced the Khyber,
Havelock was first nominated interpreter, and sub-
sequently deputy assistant and adjutant-general to
the infantry division. Cabool was once more occu-
pied. We revert to the defence of Jellalabad to
recall a striking incident. For six weeks offices
and men had worked night and day, with the sword
in one hand and the pick or hammer in the
other, when, about Christmas time, the for-
tifications were deemed complete and suffi-
cient. Havelock went to General Sale, and
asked whether it would not be proper to assemble the
whole garrison and give thanks to God, who had
given them strength to bring the works to • conclu-
sion. Sir Robert approved the suggestion. The
brave men were called together, and stood waiting
to receive the word of command, when a well-known
voice was heard, " Let us pray ;" and while all the
soldiers knelt in reverence, Havelock presented in
sincere and simple words to heaven the gratitude
and trust of the garrison.
The army of Affghanistan was broken up in 1843,
and Havelock returned to regimental duty, acquiring
the regimental rank of major. Upon the arrival of
Sir Hugh Gough in India, he was appointed Persian
interpreter to the new Commander-in-Chief, and soon
after was with him at the battle of Maharajpore.
In the next year he was promoted to the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel by brevet, and was detached from
his old regiment, the 13th, with which he left Eng-
land. Of his original comrades, only five remained
in the corps. In 1845, the Sikhs invaded India.
Havelock, as usual, was in the fight ; and at the
battle of Moodkee had two horses shot under him. In
the battle of Bobraon, which was fought in the
succeeding year, his horse was struck down by a
cannon-shot, which passed through the saddle-sloth.
Oa the conclusion of the war he was appointed
Deputy Adjutant-General to the Queen's troops at
Bombay. He has scarcely been installed in his new
post when he writes to his sister in England, " My
health is perfectly shaken,if not wholly broken, byes
many years of hard work in this climate. I ought
to be oft in March for England ; my circumstances
hardly afford me an opportunity of so doing." His
own belief was that he had received irremediable
injury at Moodkee. At the close of an arduous
day, parched with thirst, he rode up to a well. His
horse, though greatly needing water, recoiled and re.
fused to taste; Ins master, less prudent, drank heartily.
The well had been poisoned by the Sikhs. In 1848
Havelock was appointed to act Ls military secretary
to the Commander-in-Chief at Bombay, and at the
close of that year learned that the brother who had
obtained for him his commission had fallen in •
skirmish at Itamiouggur. In 1849, after an absence
of twenty-seven years, he returned, broken down, to
sfek rest and medial aid in his native land. He was
advised to take up his residence in Plymouth,
where, having no company or regiment to care for, he
sought out the sorrowing trod afflicted. In Merck

he came up to London and was presented at a levee
by the Duke of Wellington. In the autumn of 1850
he proceeded to Ems in Germany, for the benefit of
the celebrated waters of that place. Potations, im-
mersions, and grape-eating, made him once more a
man, and he had to decide upon a future active course.
It waa a hard struggle. The children must be brought
up, and an Indian education could.not be thought of.
Twenty-seven years' service, twenty-three of which
passed over him as • subaltern, had given him no
chance of making a provision for his family. It was
only too clear. He must separate himself from the
wife and children who were all his earthly joy, and
go back to the East to earn the living. Having
formed his resolution, he took a house at
Bonn, which overlooked the Rhine, and
there for six months remained with his family
providing for their future comfort. In September,
1851, he came to England to take leave of friends,
returned to Bonn, took leave of his family, and set his
face coward's India alone. He arrived at Bombay in
December.

The letters be wrote on his way out prove that
this separation tried him to the centre of his being.
On no other subject does he speak so strongly. A
letter addressed to his wife two years later may be
appropriately introduced here as exhibiting Have-
lock in his domestic relations. He has written the
day before, but remembering that it is his wife's
hgtlyisky, he says :
It appears to me like a dream, so gnlcidy have tie twisty-
Isar years passed away since we became man and wife. I
may not--(who can slay f)—live to see soother of yove birth-
days, so now I will record how great have been year de-
in upholding me in toy many trials. But, above
asell7l2Lbs registered in heaven the care you have taken to
train our dm remaining children up fee the blessings of
eternity. • • • May God guide you perpetually, and
lead you into all holiness and truth. If I am spared to re-
turn to you, may our joint prayers obtains blessing on
those we love. On earth may you and I meet in peace, and
In heaven in earlier eatiefaction.
Returned to India, Havelock resumed his old
habits of usefulness. At the same time he was
exceedingly anxious to do something to place
his family in better circumstances. In a letter ad-
dressed to his wife in 1858 he writes :—"I hold to
my purpose as strongly as ever, I trust, of drawing
on the Bank of Faith ; but have learnt in my old age
that there is another establishment too much before
neglected—the Bank of Prudence." Great was his
joy when in May, 1854, he was informed that he was
appointed Quartermaster General to the army, and
in December of the same year when he became
Adjutant-General to her Majesty's forces. After
a separation of nearly seven years it was arranged
that some time in 1857 Mrs. Havelock should rejoin
her husband at Bombay, with one or two of the
children, and great was their common joy. But just
u expectation was at its height came the declaration
of war with Persia. At Sir James (hitzera's recom-
mendation General Anson offered him a divisional
command in the Persian expedition ; and for the
children's sake he dare not refuse. Thus all plans
for a meeting were postponed. It was written that
Havelock should never see his wife and children
more.

At Bombay, on the eve of embarking for Persia,
he writes : "The command is responsible, but my
trust is in God. It is a rare thing for an officer in
the Bengal presidency to be called to command Bom-
bay troops. I never should have solicited such a
command, but when the post of honour and danger
was, offered me, old as I am, I lid not hesitate a
moment. The telegraphic wires carried back an
unconditional acceptance."
On board the steamer which was conveying him to
Persia, he writes—" On the morning of June 27,
1857, the battery fired a salute, as I was supposed to
have embarked; the first expense of the kind to
which I have ever put the Indian government." He
arrived at Bushire on the 29th of Sept., just after the
battle of Koorhah, and in March went with the
expedition to Mohammerab, where, however, his
troops were not called to fire a shot. They had,
however, to risk some. Havelock writes—" The
cannonade was warm, and my steamer, the Berenice,
crowded with Highlanders, led the troopships to
the place where we landed." In all his letters, he
speaks very warmly of the kindness of Sir James
0 utram.

Havelock left Persia on the 15th May, 1857, and
went to Bombay to take his poet of Adjutant-Gene-
ral, but on arriving there received the astoundingin-
telligence of the Sepoy mutiny. Three days after-
wards, after consultation with Lord Elphinstone, he
embarked in the Erin with two regiments of his Per-
sian division for Calcutta. Before the Erin reached
Point de Geile she struck. The captain was over-
come by the greatness of the misfortune and the crew
lost their wits. There wanted yet four hours to
daylight. Havelock mourned some authority; kept
the men from the spirit cask, and by great exertions
a communication with the shore near Calton wu
effected. On the Bth of June he made a new start
from Point de Grille for Calcutta, which he reached
on the 17th, in company with the new Commander-
in-Chief, Sir Patrick Grant. On the 20th he was
re-appointed brigadier-general, and sent up to see
what could be done to relieve Cawopore, where Sir
Hugh Wheeler and the hapless garrison were then
threatened. As is proper in a permanent record,
Mr. Brock has devoted a large proportion of his
volume to an account of Havelock's advance upon
Cawnpore and Lncknow, aiding his description with
plans ; but we need not follow him here, for this is
the very part of the history of the Indian mutiny
which is most deeply impressed on all our memories.
The reputation of Havelock is not the handiwork
of a "powerful " special correspondent, embellishing
and magnifying all. It grew on us fortnight by
fortnight, in the suspense, never to be forgotten, of
last August and Septenber, by the eloquence of
deeds. The military historian will hereafter com-
pute the precise technical value of his exploits, will
number the miles marched, the guns taken, and the
disproportion of the combatant forces ; but the Eng-
lishmen and Englishwomen of this generation will
remember him with love and honour as the great-
hearted, single-minded man, whose high heroic acts
and manly trust in God in a long interval of gloom
stood between them and despair.
Why recall
What lives and burns within the Norte of all ?
We all remember bow he rose—a star
On the thick midnight of that dreadful war,
Rolled back the tide of ruin, and restored
The poise of empire by his single sword.
" Thanks to Almighty God" is the first exclama-
tion after every victory. After the battle of Futteh-
pore he writes to his wife : " One of the prayers oft
repeated throughout my life since my schooldays
has been answered, and I have lived to command in
a successful action." And then he remembers de-
friends, " How dear old Julius Hare would
Larvniejoiced if he had lived to see the day." In
the interval between his junction with Inglis at
Lueknow and the effectual relief of that place by Sir
Colin Campbell, Havelock's health had visibly given
way. The doctor saw what was taking place, but
there was no remedy. His vigilance and energy
were wanted day and night for women and children.
When the mighty task was performed the strong
man gave way. The repose of the Alumbagh re-
sealed the ravages which bad been made in his con-
stitution. His own satisfaction was intense ; and on
all sides he received the most pleasing marks of
attention. How he valued the honours conferred on
him in England, with the first only of which he
lived to become acqrainted, appears from the last
letter ha wrote to his wife: " The papers announce
my elevation to the Commandership of the Bath for
my first three battles. I have fought nine more
since then. Love to the children. Ido not after all
see my elevation in the Gazette : but Sir Colin ad-
dreams me as Sir Henry Havelock." This was
written en the lath of November. On the 22nd his
disease, drentrry, assumed a malignant form. His
,eafferirgs were not severe, but strength was
met Miling. On the 23rd Sir James Outcam called
to see his ;Id comrade, and heard him say, " For
more then forty years I have so ruled my life that
when death came I miOt hoe it without fear." The
nerfc day, attended by his faithful eldest son, Wilma
worded man, the noble warrior died.