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which they were intended to reach on the day pre-
vious. As it quite certain that the enemy are
moving about the fords on the left bank of the -
Ganges, between Fut tehpore and
.Cawnpore, an ,ea-
peditionary column has been ordered to set out to-
morrow from the force stationed betwee“lawn-
pare and Alumbagh to take them in the
will consist of her Majestj's 3 ith, 38th, and 53d
Regiments, one squadron of the 7th Hussars, -one
squa4ron of the 9th Lancers, ono squadron of
Hodson's Horse, one of Watson's hor6e, of one
troop Royal Horse Artillery and one troop or bat-
tery Bengal Artillery, one 18-pounder, one 8-inch
howitzer, and a company of Sappers and Miters.
They will move off the road at a point near Bun-
nee, and proceed on a line inclining towards the
Ganges so as to cut off the enemy, who will either
have to cross the river, when in all probability they
will meet Walpole's column, or seek refuge either
by a circuitous rou!a back to Lucknow, or by fall-
ing back towards the north-west of Onde. There
is news from Lucknow which prepares us to hear of
an attack on Outram's force at Alumbagh to-mor-
row. The Begum's favourite, MUIliOO Khan, or
his creatures, issued a proclamation stating that
there were only 200 Europeans at Alumbagh, and
yet that no one dared attack them euept Mumoo
Khan. The sepoys, angry at this taunt) held a
council of war, and it was decided that two and a-
half months' pay should be given to the troops
en2aged in the assault, wh'cla wasfixed forithe 16th
of February, but the money is not yet fur hcorning.
Tnere are 26,000 sepoys in the city, but the force
of matchlock men, very formidable in. defending
streets and houses, is enormous ; the . inhabitants
and the men of various arms arrayed against us •
constitute a total probably of 200,000 souls. The
enemy had sent orders to Maun Singh to march
into Lucknow to join in the fight, but
that chieftain is at present on his estates, and
it is presumed that he will not comply with
the demand. It is unfortunate that we cannot
give active support to those who are inclined to be
n utral, for by so doing we should decide theM in
our favour. The Rajab of Churkharee harbitherbo
hell -out on our side, 'but very recently the Calpee ,
force detached a party against him, beat his troops
in two engagements, took two of his guns, and
forced the Rajah to retreat to his fortress and to pre-
tend to negotiate. Unless we can help him it is
feared he may have to yield.

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mander-in-Chief does not set an example to his
officers by any extravagance in baggage. He lives
in a small subaltern'sient, and his chief of the staff
is equally moderate. I believe his Excellency's
personnel is contained in a couple of small port-
manteaus, and during this short campaign he has
slept on the ground among his men on more than
on occasion without cover of any sort. He is ap-
parently in excellent health, although his labours
are arduous and incessant, as he and his chief of
the staff manage all the details connected with the
disposition of bis force. and to a great extent dis-
pense with the usual services of Adjutant-General
and Quartermaster-General. At present all the
artillery, except a couple of guns, are beyond. the
Ganges. Some small delay was caused by the
briaaking of the bridge of boats, but the greater part
of the infantry are- beyond the river, and are on
the march to or are stationed between Cawnpore,
Biinnee, on the road to Lucknow, and. the Alum
ba4h. Meantime the enemy are becoming
more and more uneasy, and, as we are closing
uron them, the dissensions in Lucknow are aug-
mented. A night or two before my arrival a body
of) 200 horse crossed the Ganges upon our left,
an 4 managed to get past our position, and have
espaped, as it is supposed, to Calpee, where the
remnants of the Gwalior Contingent are strongly
posted on the right bank of the river Jumna.
At first it was reported that Nana Sahib was
w th them, but more accurate information leads me
o t believe that the Nana is still on the left bank
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of the Ganges, and that it was his nephew who
get over. However, there is reason to think that
thole Nana is manoeuvring with a body of 2,000
mnn, a large portion of whom are cavalry, to get
tamer the Gauges either to join the Calpee enemy or
tol fall upon the convoys which are constantly pass-
ink, between Agra and Cawnpore along the Trunk
Road. If these sepoys at Calpee•qand firm, they
arie likely to feel the action of the Bombay column
under Sir Hugh Rose, which has already passed
Saugor, and is clearing the country up to theJumna
wiry rapidly. That there is inconvenience in leav-
ing these fellows behind us is very evident, but it
cannot be helped, and at present they are watched
nil front by a portion of the 88th Regiment. A
convoy on the road towards Agra has been recalled,
aiid Walpole's brigade will he sent in that direc-
tin to-morrow, so that if the enemy attempt to
ceoss they will be soon and effectually disposed of.
They have reason to dread our means of attack •
some must appear to them almo-t miraculous. A
short time ago a body of sepoys crossed the Ganges
jtist below t, • junction wit:, is waters of the Grand
Canal. The river was low, and they forded it with-
out difficulty, but, finding that there was a small
fdrce waiting to receive them, they retired precipi
tatelyafter a brief encounter, and prepared to re-fi,rd
tllie river. As they were contending with its shallow
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Fin: 16.
It is rereated, certainly, that there wilt be an
attack on Outram to-clay, and the natives have a
bazaar report that the camp at Cawnpore is to be
attacked. The hot weather is threatening us. The
sick are to be sent c•ff without delay:
The condition of the country, even in the districts
within reach of our operations, is much disturbed.
Our outposts are ever on the alert, and everyweek
a small action of some kind or other occurs between
our troops and the enemy. For instance, on the
4th of February the Sepoys from Calpee moved
out and attacked the position occupied by the 88th
Regiment, under Colonel Vaughan Maxwell, at
Bhigneepore, but they were disposed of, with the
loss of 80 dead on the field and many wounded,
and were driven in confusion across the river by
live c impanies of that regiment, two guns, 'Royal
Artillery, under Capt. Talbot, and 50 Sowars under
Lieut. Thompson (who was wounded), our loss
being six wounded men, two dangerously. On
the Bth of February, Mr. Hume, the -mag,istrateof
Etawah, with his deputy, Mr. Maconochie, having
with them 60 troopers of Alexander's Horse, 80
Erawah Local Horse, and 300 matchlock-men,
with one 3-pounder brass gun, the troops being
commanded by Capt. Alexander, attacked a foree
of 1,500 men under Rouf Singh, with one gun,
strongly posted near Anuntram, defeated them with
the loss of 125 killed in the field, and captured
their gun and all their baggage. Our casualties
were 12 men killed and 18 wounded.

,a;ater3, the officer in charge of rho canal suddenly
turned down the sluice gates, and in a few mo-
*tits the immen-e body of water which had been
drverted from its channel returned to its bed with

tiny, and swept away 200 of the mutineers in its
course. Ere this mail closes I hope to give you
some intelligence of the operatic ns of Walp tie's
column, as well as an account of the prep trations
for the attack on Lucknow. There are reports of
great dissensions in the city, but no one doubts that
there will he a severe fight, unless the sepoys are
driven out by our bombardment. Maim Singh his
sent in an Englishwoman and her child who were in
possession, and is making overtures for peace.
There is a good deal to be said in his favour, and,
although he has probably been playing a double
dame, and trying to be fast and loose with us, he
certainly in trying times protected our women and
dhildr n, and up to September the 24th last year
rendered us services. Sir Robert Garrett, who
rrived here on his way to Umballa, is not able to
det on at present, as the read is not safe.
FEB. 13.
To-day I went over the so-called intrenchments
alt Cawnpore, which were held by Wheeler's g trri-
non fur nearly three weeks. It was a melancholy
eight,—beyond description sad and desolate. The
position, if such it can be called, consists of two
lofty one-storied buildings, intended, I believe, to
be barracks, divided into many rooms with out-
Ward doors opening into corridors. There are two
deep wel's near these parallelograms, which are at
the distance of 100 yards or so from each other,
and three detached outhouses on the flanks. These
buildings are surrounded by the remains of a
miserable trench formed by casting up the earth
dug from the soil out on a slope towards the enemy.
There is no ditch whatever ; the trench coulanever
have been six feet deep, and, as the enemy were all
round the station, these open trenches were en-
filaded upon all sides. The severity of the fire was
excessive. Every square yard of the walls is per-
forated by cannon shot, the roofs are knocked to
pieces, and in places have tumbled in en masse. No-
part f Sebastopol—not even excepting the range
of barracks behind the Great Roden, is more
battered and shaken than the barracks at Cawnpore.
In one small space I counted 73 shotho!es, most of
Which were through and through the walls. The
party walls were perforated and battered in the
same manner. It was a wonder how any one could
live inside for an hour. At one angle of a room was
written in pencil, "Below this mark young Wheeler
was killed by a cannon ball, which took off his head.
His blood and brains are - spattered on the wall
below." Scraps of music-books and fragments of
women's dresses still lie among the tiles, bricks,
and filth with which the floors are covered. In
another room the following inscription was written
on the wall ; it is on the larger building in the
corridor, between the fourth and fifth doors, facing
to the south, on the side opposite the doors:—
" Countrymen and women, remember the 15th oi July,
1857 ! Your wives and families are here, mi:ary I and at
the niTo4al of pa,va,ges, who has lavished both young and
old. Oh ! my child ! my child ! Countrymen, revenge: !"
This is an evident imposition, and is the work of
the same cr of a similar hand, in all probability,
which penned the inset iption on the walls of the
house where the slaughter took place after Have-
lock's victory. It need not be said that no atrocities
or massacres had taken place at Cawnpore at the
time and up to the date of Wheeler's evacuation,
and the dates prove the falsehood of the inscrip-
tion, which is intended to onvey the impression
that it was written by one of the women-who were
in the place. I am therefore inclined to think
that the inscription on the walls of the house where
also,who
the subsequent slaughter occurred was an imposition
theby anywal
walls, and
those t
is scarcely possible that any woman in such a scene
of massacre could have calmly traced with firm
hand the words, which for the first time were visible
inasmuchrst examined i as
ne dit
every w ae nut'
inch l sie oe f n
upon the walls long after Havelock's advance. A
good deal of doggrel writing of various kinds is to
be seen, not only on the walls of Wheeler's in-
trenched buildings, but on those of the bungalows
ou the line of march.
Just as I turned out of the building sad enough,
the crash of a military band broke out close at hand,
and, turning towards the road, I saw amidst a
cloud of dust the gleam of our bayonets, and then
long files of camels and elephants ; my old friends
of the 23d and of the Rifles were marching towards
the tote-du-pont, and I could not help thinking
how different the scene all around might have been
had those two regiments been in that place but
eight months before—what horrors -averted, what
bloodshed prevented, what suffering spared !
FEB. 15.
Colonel David Wood, C. 13., commanding the
Brigade of Field Artillery, arrived at the Camp of
Cawnpore this morning. In company with the
guns which came in with the brigadier were the 3d
Sikh Cavalry Regiment, the efficiency of whom as
cavalry may be best tested by the simple fact that
they marched 70 miles in the last two days. They
are hardy, active, resolute-looking fellows, well-
armed and mounted, clad in charkey or dust-
coloured tunics, with thick turbans on their heads,
and equipped with sling firelocks, pistols, and sharp
little,
broad sabres. Of actual news there is very
aide, has
:
General Rose's column, from
Bombaythebtsare entertained
passed Saugor, where some doubts
of the 31st Native
by the Europeans of the fidelity
extraordinary, inasmuch as
Infantry, all the more
eded
and the position of affairs at present stands thus
by the enemy,
they stood firm when surrey
tees.
there are no such strongthe g
eoluumn or the precise nature
The exact site ofs 1
believe, at present unknown
of its movements ta a
prehended that the General
in Cawnpore, but itip
some opposition from the
may have to overcomei.
men at one, if not at two points
Calpee and Gwa tor
and of the 42d Native Infarairrayn, for whose loyalty
I Whitelock was at Jubbul-
on
pore on the 9th hear that General
and that if, as was supposed, the
enemy march.
ow t h
a t
lor k column
were
still
only
,
were likely to molest him in his march he
might be delayed for a day or two in disposing of
them. On the Goruckpore side of Oude the intelli-
gence to h O
tfthe the,
Gr Madraso
at the other side of the river, but it was conidently
believed that they crossed it yesterday (the 14th of
on the
went of
show
February), and, once in Oude, they were to move
towards Sultanpore to co-operate with
column in the movements towards Lucknow.
.Till certain intelligence reaches the Commander-
la-Chief of the position of these bodied hie

FEB. VT.

As far as I can guess, the Commander-in-Chief,

if all his combinations go right, will cross the.river
from Cawnpore about the 25th or 26th, at which
time it is hoped we shall hear of the advance of
Jung Bahadoor's force in conjunction with the
column under Brigadier Frankß, upon some point
close to Lucknow,, and, if possible, on the north
side of the river, so as to cut the mutineers off in
case of ab At from our bombardment. The actual
state of affairs as regards these combinations is, as
far as I can judge on this, the last post-day for the
overland mail from Calcutta, as follows :—Jusig
Bahadoor was at Bustee on the 12th inst., and was
expected to cross the Gogra yesterday, Franks's
column was at Singarapore, on its way to Sultan-
pore, whence it was to co-operate with the Ghoorkaa
werewho
the river akteTepantdabehniin
, leaving a
division to watch the enemy in the stronghold. of
b. t
higher cross
up,th
expec-
tation of an attack, while the main body WAS pass-
ing the river lower down.- By waiting for these
troop 3 the Commander-in-Chief will have 22;000
infantry around Lucknow, instead of 10,000, and
will be able to present a front to the enemy on both
sides of the Goomtee. Sir IC Rose's column was
still, by last accounts, near Saugor, and the Madras
column had reached Jubbulpore, but there were
still some portions of it on the road. These troops
are not intended to operate with the troops before
Lucknow, and belong rather to the second system.
of operations, by• which we expect to clear the
country of the enemy in our rear, and to re-estab-
lish the authority of the civil servants of the Com-
pany. On the north and west orders have been
sent to Major Coke to form a movable column of
Sikhs, to which an English field battery will be at-
tached, and to march upon Roorkee. Brigadier
Penny is engaged at Meerut in preparing a eJlumn
fo active operations from that point ; and Briga-
dier Seaton wine stationed with an adequate force
in Futtyghur, now tenable against any force the
enemy may bring. We may thus hope to engage the •
attention of our foes in Ruhilcund while the army is
before Lucknow. Meanwhile Col. Maxwell, with
the 88th, strengthened by an English field battery,
is ordered to move up and down continually through
that part of the Doab which lies between Cawnpore
and Calpee, not resting for a day in the same place.
The movable column under Walpole is moving up
the road from Cawnpore to Delhi, nearly parallel
to the Ganges, in ordtr to meet the Agra convoy
f women and children, which reached Mynpoorie
yesterday, and may be expected to arrive here on
the 2d inst. On the other side of the Ganges the
column under Grant is marching upon a place called
Futtehpore (in Oude, and on the Cross-road from
Oonao to Moordahabad), so as to take in the rear
and disturb Cie parties at the gliauts or fords of the
liver. When they reach Futtehpore they are to
burn and destroy the residence of the Nana, who
has resided there for the most part ever since the
destruction of Bithoor, and, returning thence
towards the Lucknow-road in time for the general
concentration of the army at the Alumbagh, they
will lay waste the three strongholds of a native cbief
named Mirnseet Ali, who has been levying contri-
butions and receiving the revenue of the district on
his own account for the last six months. Thus the
country is covered with grand patrols, the enemy
are perplexed, and the natives .impressed by the
display of our power. . The attack on our position
at the Alumbagh, which was to have taken place
yesterday, has not been made, and we are told that
the regiments in Lucknow are clamouring for their
pay. That there. are some chiefs of considerable
intelligence among the enemy, we have proof in
the fact that they seem to be organising a sort of
guerilla warfare, which may hereafter prove very
troublesome, if they are not completely crushed be.
fore the hot weather sets in. All our sick were sent
down towards Allahabad yesterday, and all our
guns are across the river. Orders have been given
to blow up some buildings here which are the re-
sort of some fanatic fakeers and spies. The beat in
the shade to-day is 85 deg. Outside the tent it is
106 deg., but there is no dust.

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