The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-07-13 00:00:00

DEAL. JELY

Arrived last evening after post, and rail. d for the River,
the Baring, Lamb, and William Mara, Wad Ir, from Bengal ;
Tigris, Sisk ; Lady Holland, Robson ; and Julio, Kipple.
well, from Jain:ties ; Teruo, Chi IWO, 1.1 PerllllllllbUCU j
and Cicero, Taylor, from the South Serie.
Came down from ibis flivrr the George, Deeper, for Gib-
raltar ; Jam, a, Itereidge. for Oporto ; Thames, Weyeton,
for New 1'1)1k ; Effu►l, Halo r, kw the Mrelieetraiirau ; sad
remain iu the Downs with the rert of the ships as before.
GAAVIVIEND, JVI.V 10.
Arrived the Flyini: Fish, Smith, frutn ()stead; William,,
Balmer, is. * ; If 1,, Wawa, ns awa, (tom Cork; Mar-
git. t, Was kieis, (tom Antwerp; Lind Liverpool, Ellie, (min
Rotterdam; Elkrgill, Luke, from Hollard ; and a few fu-
etegeirri.
Sided the Envier, Haim, for Gibraltar; William and
Mary, Burrell, fur Genoa, Piiilip 'fabtr, Tubb, fur Phila.
delphia ; Dreg ea, Baton, for It 0741111; Fiona, Cooper, for
Antwerp ; Mat in, lierlery, for Celure; Virile's', Strang. fur
Elaiewur ; Ap 110, Smith, fur Stuelthuinsi aud Mary, Shaw,
fur Quebee.

At the Assiies forlnshire, which opened on
Satord.y (before the Right Jim. Churl' Baron
RICHARDS and the lion. Jitmice DALLAS), we are
happy to mate there is the lightest callenilar that
has been known for some years, the prisoners for
trial being only nine in number. and the offences
not of the most heinous nature.

Dit.AYS A it 6 Da NoLuotiv.—Thia adage is sp.
plicable to those who have lived rather gay. %Oita
on the eve of Matrimony, and who are 'lambda; of the cons.-
garner* uf Int ill-enroll conliamou ; and it must afford conaulm
tints to the aGlieted h. know ilwy may leave lire best when-eat
the Medical Board at Cluialutte Hnute, Great Chariot te-►[reel,
up nice the Rev. Rowland Hill's Chapel, Blackfriais-rnail,
amt Wootlittuck %Voodstock-street, 6ve doors from
thiford•strii•t. The Ward particularly claims the attention
of those afflicted with Ruptures, S.rectures, Fistulas, Can-
cers, Seroplaulas, Ne►vous Lk bilitlea, arising (runt warm
climates, juvenile indimnt Sic. Eruptions us the head,
titre. and body, ulcerated throat, !woos in the head and
limbo, frequently mistaken for rheumatism, nodes on the
altin-hunes,are symptonts whirb slipper ~.4113 after, and the
clonittineueea of improper treatmeni.-111ebtos.CIMPER and
CO. of Medical mid Aorgical celebrity, aft. r fo►ty years expe-
riener ta this iipitopolis. are consulted daily at both LOOM/.
11111i1 nine vi night, rod tie poor hare RtITSCC gratis ow
Tuesday, Tiourodery, road tbroseLty Don wrap, until twolte
u'Awk.—All lenses to Ire directed to Chatbate House,
BYaekfriars•rua.l, but none are auanertli a ,its du sot eva-
leis a conadltiag fse.

BE INDIAN ARMY.

(Concluded front our Paper of Friday last )

The Ca !to paigns of 1803 and 1804 present a se-
ries of Nunn., and sieges, in every one or which the
sepoya %hewed their accustomed valour.
At the battles of Delhi sod Laswarree they were
WI ruling-idly dis:inguished as at the eters of
Agra and Dent ; and we may, perhaps, safely
assert, that in the only two great reverses
which occurred during the war, toe retreat of
Colon. I Alai.sai, amid the siege of Buttpore, the
courage, and attachment of the native
troops were mute vonspicuuus than in its most bril-
liant periods. IVe kllow sufficient of the former
operations to regret that no full and faithful account
of them has b-en ,r 1 published; nor does the work
before us sufficiently supply this blank. We eau
only express our conviction. founded on a perusal
of a p. ware jusirosil kept by an officer of the de-
tachment. that iii this iliaastrous retreat, the native
troops (with the exception of a very few, who. after
sutferibg almost unparalleled hardships, were de.
luded bs the offers of the enemy to desert.) behaved
m the most noble manner. They endured the
greatest privetunw and (heiresses, during the march
from the banks of the Chumbul where
the first retrograde movement was made, till their
arrival at Agri., a distance of neatly four hundred
They had at once to combat the elements
(for it rained al t inceesantly) and the enemy.
Scenes ef horror • occurred winch were hardly ever
surpassed. Yet, though deprived of regular food
and rest, and !massed with continual attacks, their
spirit was unbroken. They maintained throughout
the most severe discipline. We are assured that on
many occa,ions, when their European officers, worn
down by the climate and fatigue, appeared faint
or desponding, the men next them exclaimed,
K,ep up your heart, Sir, we will take you iu
safety to Agra f." Mien in square, and sustain-
ing charges Irma the enemy's horse, it mare than
once liappe,ed, when a musket was tired by a
young soldier, that a veteran attack him with the
butt-end of his firelock, exclaiming, "Are you
mail, to destroy our di-e.pline mud make us like the
rabble that are attacking us ?"
There have been few olfice;ai who better render-
stood the character or soldiers than the late Lord
Lake. Ile had early discovered that of the Bengal
sepays. lie attended to their prejudices, flattered
their pride, and praised their valour. They repaid
his consideration of them with gratitude and adfee-
tiou, and during the whole of the late Mabraita
war, their zeal and devotion to the public service
was increased by the regard and attachment which
they entertained fur the C 1111 l mander-in-Chief.
The confiner of the 2d battalion of the 12th regi-
ment may be taken us an example of the spirit that
animated the whole. This corps. which has been
hefts, e not ced under its first name of ;alliez," or
the Lid l'ultair, hail behaved with uncommon
valour at the battle of Laswarree, where it had one
limidreil men and t hire ..fficeis killed and wounded.
It %%NA associated on that occasion with his Majesty's
7ffili regiment, and •hared in the praise which Lord
Luke bestowed au 't the handful of heroes," us lie
emphatically termed those whose great exertions de-
cided that battle. But al'. its former deeds were
outdone at the sieve of Burtpore. It appears by a
printed memorial which we have before us of its
European cotninundiog officer, that on the first
storm of that fortress this corps lost one hundred
and fifty officers slid men killed and wounded, and
did not retire till the last. tilti the third attack,
when joined with the Ist battalion of the saute regi-
ment (amounting tog, Cher to eight hundred men),
it became the admiration of the whole: y. The
ed hattishou of the 12th, regiment on this occasiou
not only dove hack the enemy who had made u
sally to attack the trenches, but efl.ected a lodg-
inept; ai.d planted its odours on one of the bastions
'Attie full. Unfortunately this wok was cut off by
a deep ditch from the body of the place ; and after
the attack had failed, the 12th regiment was or-
tiered to retire, which they did reluctantly. with
the loss i)l' seven officers and three hundred and fifty
men killed and wounded, being nearly half the
n ttttt her they had rirrietl into action.

Examples of equal valour might he given from
many other corps ituring the oar, and insialleeb of
valour might be noticed iii anti• number;
hat mine is loot nrcrsaait• to satisfy the reader of the
just title of the Bengal sepoys to the high name
which they have acquiied ; and from late accounts
we perceive, that their conduct throughout the ar-
duous service to Nrpaul, where they had at once
to contend with the natural obrticies of on almost
impracticable country, and the desperate valour
of a race of handy mountaineers, has been worm y
of their former fame. Since the conclusion of this
war, a small body of these troops has had au op-
portunity of exhibiting, in a most distiuguished
manner, that firmness, courage, and • attachment
to their officers and the service. which have al-
ways clialacterised this army. IVe allude to a re-
cent occurrence of ■ most serious seditiou at Ba-
re Ile, the capital of Itoltilcund.
Tile introduction of a police tax, intended to
provide mewls for the security of life and property,
mid spread ulatin and discontent among an ignorant
population, above prejudices in favour of their
ancient usages are so strong, as to lead them to
regard any innovation (whatever he its character)
with jealousy and indignation. Acting under these
ferliigs, the Roltillas of Bareilly, who are alike
remarkable for their strength of body and indi-
ankletl courage, rose iii a body to oppose the ordeis
of the civil magistrate. They were led by a pri• at
upwards of ninety years of age, who dug his grave
to indicate his revolution to conquer or die, and at
whose wilt rs the green flag, ur standard of Ma-

• Pullenlady at thoChuenhullee Nullah, a rapid torrent,
at which the elephants were employed to carry the troops
tie. F. The animals, becoming wearied or impatient, shook
off those on their barks, numbeis of whom were drowned.
Put a mill more horrid sc. se ensued. 'I hr Fatigued ele-
phants could nut bring over the foliuwera. The lahr.'ll.,
asuantaiii banditti, ?neon/aged by Hulkar, ram, down upon
the unprotected I. males and children, r hem they naJasscred
in the moat inhuman messier. It was on (Ilia essireme trial
that some of the gallant fellows, who hid before suffered
eves; hardship with brothers, gave way I. despair Screen,
of them, maddeued with the '•reams of 'lntr. wives a.su
chilsheo, thew themselves, with their loch., Imo Ow raped
weans, and perished in a vain ails 'opt to aid tbuee they
lured more than life.

t We have been informed of Ibis fact by officers to whom
tbeae citprvatimus were used.

hornet, was liolsteri, religious Iteligl ought
be excited to aid the r Worts which they noir pro.
claimed themselves determintd to make to efbet
the downfall of their Europeans tyiauts. What
rendered this ri volt more alarming wa* the know.
ledge that the cause of the insurgents oils popular
over the whole country, and a belief that 'I.- 1r
success would be the sigivil for a general Tie in tl.e
or ighhota ring province*,
Ali the force that could he collected to ..oppress
this revolt was a detachnirot or between three and
four In:mired sepoys of the 27111 regiment of native
infatcry, and part of it provincial battalion, under
Captain li,e,eseren, with two guns, and a party of
about four 'mothed RvsliU le:rse belonging tit is
corps lately embodied nutter Captain Ciiiiiiingliani.
The former received, with undi.tiviyed coot:we, the
charge of an unili*riplinerf. but forum* :mil deva•
rite rabble, who, encouraged by their nuinbeni,
which eirceettial twelve thou.aiiil anneal men, per-
severed in the attack till more than two thousand
of them were *lain ; and the latter, though of ilia
saute class owl religion as the insurgent*, and
,elated to many of 'brio by the ties of kin.
died, 'trove(' equally firm a* the sepoy* to flair
duty. When their priest advanced and invoked
them to join their natural friends, Sod to range
thrmselv, s under the standard //f their faith, only
one titan war fotind w iiitiag iu fidelity ; he desert-
ed, and was soon afterwards .trio by Ills Gamer
comrade*, who continued throng' t t to display
prompt obi-dirtiest, exemplar) courage, and
nu-
shaken attaciiment to the officer by whom they weir
led.—l lowever slight this aB.air may set ui, wdo of
recollect any occurienee in itibtg*ry
!mho snore calculated to chew the dependaiste of
our power on the fidelity of our native troo;i*, :tad
the absolute iieces.ity of adopting every Inra4l r.• hV
which their attachment can be confirmed sad
proved.

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