The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-16 00:00:00

'HE SILENT FRIEND : A Medical Work
on the physical exhaustion and decay of the frame, from the
effects of solitary indulgence, infection, and the injurious conse-
quences from the use of Mercury ; with observations on the obliga-
nons of marriage, and directions for obviating certain disqualifica-
tions. By R. and L. PERRY and CO., Surgeons. Consultations as
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The next day, Sunday, the 20th, was a halt.
Our volunteer cavalry went out reconnoitring, and
came across the enemy's camp, and got fired upoe.
None of us were allowed to take touts with us (a few
were provided for the men, and only one for all the
officers of each regiment). On Sunday night th.
.anie doses, zir. 4 eticlrbe, and the
ground that I awoke in a regular puddle, and slop*
in one, well too, till the morning.
At seven o'clock, Monday morning, the 21st, we
commenced our march on the Luoknow road. We
could not have gone a mile when the enemy opened
a heavy artillery fire upon us. The guns—Eyre's
battery—which we were protecting were immedi-
ately or dered to the front, and two companies of
the stb, thrown out in skirmishing order, protected
the guns right and left of the road on an open
plain. The rain was pouring down continuously,
and our men were lying down in a regular swamp.
Simmons, the major, Haig, the adjutant, and my-
self, were all together, on the left, and the only
mounted officers. The major sent roe several times
across the road with orders to the officer command-
ing the right party. This was not a very safe duty,
as I had to pass our artillery, and the guns of the
enemy werejprincipally directed against our., but I
was mercifully preserved from all danger. The
major always employed me as a kind of aide-de-
camp. Not having a company to command, and
being mounted, it was the best way of making me
of any service. While the battle was going on
between the guns on the right, the other regiments
and guns were busily employed on the left. The
enemy had guns posted in villages on the left, and
opened an enfilading fire upon our troops as they
advanced in line and column. The slope of heavy
ground on which the enemy had taken up position
it was our business to dispossess them of, so
skirmishers were thrown out, and a good brisk fire
ensued. In the meantime our skirmishers, by ad-
vancing up the gentle slope, outflanked the
batteries which were firing upon our right down the
road. This manceuvie—more, I think, than our
firing—caused them to horse their guns and take
them away. Our practice, however good it might
have been with round shot, could not have done
much harm to the enemy, from the nature of the
defences they had raised in front of their batteries.
With shelling it was different, but we could not
guess even at their loss, they take great
pains to remove their dead and wounded. Some
few headless trunks and others terribly shattered
by round shot we passed on the road ; these
were probably left behind in the hurry of retreat.
We were rather amused at one time during the
fight by a little coincidence which occurred on cur
right. A large body of the enemy's cavalry were
threatening us, and looked as if they intended to
descend on our guns and a small handful of irregular
cavalry substituted by them. Eyre turned one of
his 8-inch howitzers, and sent a couple of shells
right into the middle of them, and took them quite
by surprise, for immediately upon the shell burst-
ing they commenced a most precipitate retreat,
amidst roars of laughter from our men. When the
enemy's fire ceased we advanced up the road, and
found their batteries empty ; they had built a strong
breast-work across the road, which took us some
time to lever, to enable our guns to pass. They were
flanked on their right by a small clump of houses,
but on the left by a long, low, loopholed mud wall.
Their position was capitally chosen, and fairly con-
tested, but they cannot wait for the British bayonet,
and as they see our line steadily advancing, they as
steadily and surely retreat. We went on that day
marching till dark, the rain continuing to pour
down in torrents, and got shelter in a very dirty
gunj, two long rows of low buildings—a kind of
market-place, in fact—which had been vacated by
the natives. Our cavalry pursued the enemy almost
up to this place, and cut up a good many. This
battle was fought at a place called Manglwarra, a
small insignificant place, about two miles from the
bridge. On the road, further on, we found a few
cartloads of the enemy's grain, a few tents and
camels. We took some of their guns, but not all ;
their horse batteries they managed to take away
with them. The first thing after seeing all the men
and ourselves housed was to inquire for our kitmat-
gars, with a view to get some dinner ; but what was
our dismay to hear them say that all our provisions
were behind in the mess-cart, and that orders had
ben given to admit no carts within the gunj. We
immediately sent out foragers, but with no suc-
cess, and we had the pleasant prospect of going
without anything to eat, having only taken a light
breakfast before we started, and feeling ravenous.
Had it not been for Captain L—'s coined beef I
don't know what we should have done.
On Tuesday, the 22d, we commenced our march
in a pouring rain, with our wet clothes on. All my
coolies, carrying our luggage, had run away during
the night, and I could not by any means pet any
more. The general told us before leaving Cawn-
pore to bring ss little as we could, as we should be
back again in fifteen days. We marched the whole
of that day in an incessant and drenching rain, saw
nothing of the enemy, and merely took a few pri-
soners. We passed a very strongly fortified posi-
tion on the road, whore we expected to meet with