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London, England, 1819-05-13 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

vICE•CHANCrII.OIOI COrRT, IrtnatiNlTEß,
WEDNESDAY, 111&T 12.

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COL. FITZCLARENCE'S JOURNAL.

Extract from the interesting work of this arCOuts,
/dished Officer, just nublislied :
"harming, 11th December, 1817.
" (ht the morning of the Silt, before the break of day, I
quieted the ramp. and left the army advancing to the banks
sir the river Stied, for the frontier of Sciudiah's territory, in
coo.. crenee of two of the Pindarry illorrahs, or tribes, hair-
tot' m•wool in the direction of his camp, as Nein., mentioned,
wool it. twine impossible to say what effect 20,000 horse
hay- on the feelings of his 'herbal.
'' I had sent my palaticpsin forward to Emroltee, white we
had hewn eacamped the day before, and my elephant cdTrled
me from the romp to the spot where 1 was to take my final
deo urtsire I most confess that though even with the pen.
sneer .4 returning to my Native coltish,. which repays an
fie.zli•hinim for many year•' toil and absence, I turned my
hark no my fellow-soldier" with a vary heavy heart, r pet-
tier the loss of so many f. lend/ and companions, never per.
/tos to meet them ,gain. Whilst at Emrokee, daring the
turn., me servants were preparing my palanquiii. I could not
help taking a vapid view of my situation, and the obstacles
snit ilsogers of the undertaking presented themselves most
forcibly to me. I was in the centre of Bundeleund, one of
the most inland provinees of India, petting wit to cross die
who of that continent, the greatest part of which helooged
to Princes at war with ns, or at best bat Seaton', envious,
c04.1-hearted friends I reflected on the extreme dub.
Catty I should have to combat in judging of the degree of
risk to be avoided wr encoantered in certain *attrition', to
escape the importations either of rashness or want of enter-
p. lie. I certainly felt myself ahsolately foi turn, mid the busy
Peelle I hail Ireeii so Inn accustomed to was strongly wine
tra•ted with the stillness anoint'.
" Rot three days before I had been with some of my
companions on a neiehhoitring hill, viewing the busy camp
of 80,000 stools at the foot of it, spreading over the wide
extended plain, with the blitz of voices, townie of cattle,
roaring of camels, and the smoke of inumerable fires ascend-
ing un all sides, when the whole country around was covered
by a moving host.
" Under the walls of a email fort, with nose hut my pa.
lanquin bearers and servants around me, I now stood almost
alum, in the mitre of a plain, too extensive for the eye to
reach its limits, and the only vestiges of the crow.l which
haul !roil down the growing wheat in the adjoining field three
days before were the marks of thousands of feet, uniformly
so one direction, and the carcass of a bafT+'••, a sacrifice to
the last day's march, covered with voracious rultnres. I
took leave at this place of every thing that belonged to me,
eat-poling my palanquin, four baskets containing my clothes,
which were sluing from the ends of two poles, resting on the
',humbler., of the same 'lumber of hearers, a bag of biscuit,
my terecope, sword, and pistols, and I proceeded to the
town of Eruj through the melancholy vestiges of the pesti-
fence which had carried off thousands. The remains of the
poor wi etches who had fallen victims Si, its rage, lay on the
road.sid-, torn from flow graves by the hungry wolves; and
the horrid state ul which they were. half devoured, half de.
romposed, exhibited affecting proofs of oar mortality in its
worst shape, sod did not by any means tend to dispel my
gl?onse thought..
" This destructive complaint, the choler.: market, called
Lr the french Neuf dc cairn, and trounce gallant, had 'hewn
itself early in the antismo in Calcutta, tint by the activity of
the Magistrates and Medical Gentlemen, after the public
"lice of a crellreiV. consisting of the liberal use of laudanum
and calomel, its ravages had in a great measure been wrest-
ed • This was in a city; how dreadful and instructive WWII
it have been is a moving ramp remote from assistance, and
leper, as in all Indian armies, eight or ten followers on an
ay. rage accompany every fighting man 1 It certainly sur-
pas‘ed the tor-st afflicting conception I could have formed of
such a visitation; and had the wire. and children of those
in the ramp been equally exposed to the contagion, it would
haveluecome still more terrific. It began to spew itself in
the centre division about the 10th of November, and by the
lath lia4 at its height. The progress of the thscate was au
rapid (a lorkeidjaw coming ou in the coarse of a very short
time), that many servants or followt•rs, seised on the line of
march, died in a few minutes ; and those who were obliged
In go some distance from the camp in their several occupo.
lions, such as the grass-cotters to procure forage for the
animals, and the enntel•drivers accompanying their cattle to
grow, *offered dreadfully. The ravages among the troops
were at one time very alarming, and the number of nor suer-
limit, affected brought it borne to the officers.
" The son was braved by every one, and on all nor tables
stood always early small bottles of laudanum awl other re-
nieebes The mode in which the mesh one was administered
wes so simple, :hat all the officers became expert and inc.
cessful pra et i now rs, the professional men being muds too few
to meet the rugeucies of the deity.
" Our tents were crowded wills the sick, flying, and dead ;
▪ addition to the horrors of the scene, it was most dis-
teeming to see the almost universal apathy with which
the natives conducted themselvea towards tacit other,
and the general want of sympathy so common amongst
them. I haul under my hands, during the course of the
malady. iwenty.eine patients, of whom twenty-three recta-
erred ; and I never quitted them till compelled by its attack-
ing incself. It was in one or Iwo instances, where CUllGillef.
able anxiety and feeling bad been shewn between relatives
end w belt success had crowned our exertions, very delightful
to receive the burst of gratitude from them; and their na-
tural untutored manner of &hewing it, by throwing them-
selves at our feet, and embracing our knees, had au unaffect-
ed
and primit:er appearauce that carried my mind bat k to
the earliest ♦ge•.

" Excepong in Iwo instances which came to my know.
ledge, every ides of cast, prejudice of religion and impu.
lily, )ieldrd to its violence, and not one of those wader my
charge refuse.) to take medicine out of a wine glaw from
buy hand, The instanees I allude to were of to liramin:,
I believe writers or finks in the office* of the Adjutant.
Gen. rill and Judge-Advocate. Threw mete, from a i.%ead of
tieing at. filed, refused to she any thing hut from the hands
of each other, tuella stating that Mere were none in
the tamp of ear high anal purr a cast. Being seised at
the same time in diffeeent and distant parts, tleiv re.
focal of all remedies offered them proved fatal, and
'Cry equally fell victim: to what they fancied a religion,
and comeneitel,hte principle, and were dentletless Larked
coin me martyrs. It was observed that theme who fired on
grain and simple diet were the ting to faU a race Ace. The
Alaiiiimetans, who have nu •cruples about the use of animal
Coed, seiffreeil less; and the Europeans, who lived still Inure
.grneeiencly, miff; ri sl Inset of all.
It as worthy of setwerk how careless we all became on
many points. which, weeder differriet eireumstances, would
have unnerved ur «bucked us. I recollect buying left the
Jerome table to visit my patients found that one, a
a.. man, who hail Iwo n brought to sac in the a inst stage of
tine dive sac, hail Ineathril'her laM, snot as the native berViiii,
gile,Wroi sonic ilisiiLe to carrying tise burly a few yards from
the teal, to gave threw an example, l carried the bead iny:
self—au used were we to arse► Srtllo,ll. TO prove the rodent
of Ilse alarm througlonat the camp, it may he repeated, t►at
the followers oho Ord frum the army, added tee Omar who
shed, in ten days reduced it in randier how twenty to
tarrity.fivr thousand suuld.
" the 1911. Nutienihre we crowd the riot, factwah,
steel as if an iron 'sustain had dropt heieriess us awl the
♦venging angel, the di-atles d shed. Thum attacked
were in trifling numbers, confidence and security again up:
'oared in the conniensuces of all, and in a few day• the
eieerolwr greyer WI t►e outside of ILt camp reminded ass
sous of what bad petaled "

Tilt Slew FREI IN, a nom Frenchman, resident
N..,:•c.,-,rorclieitir. it declared the right and ►ole
► t t:c r.►h .\J. cs.n. ulfr late of Loudon.