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LITLRATURE.

The Plays of Shakespeare. E.3it-d by 11.)wacd
Staunton. VOl. I. Routledge.
It is something to have proved oneself first of
all a perfect master among chess-players, and
afterwards a ripe Shaksperean. This feat—diffi.
cult thou.li it may seem, though it really
is —Howard Staunton has successfully accomp-
lished. His fame as a chess-player is not a
thing ce" yesterday. His repuettion as a poetic
critic and a dramatic comment 'tor has, on tile con-
trary,
been only very recently -ign lived. It is none
:he less actual nevertheless. It is so entirely un-
deniable now that this goodly volume, of 746 p .ges,
imperial octavo, double columned and miler sly
annotated, has b-en issued from the press of Mr.
Routledge, that we may henceforth regard Staun-
ton as one who has now permanently assumed his
place among men like Malone and Steevens, as he
had already done among men like Phillidore and
Delabourdonnaye.. A duplex celebrity like this is,
certainly, to say the least of it, a very remarkable
achievement. It is an achievement, moreover,
entitled, by its very singularity, to an instant and
cordial recognition. That recognition it com-
mands from ourselves forthwith and ungrudgingly.
According to Sir Wm. Jones, chess-dates back to a
period removed from this by some 4,000 years. Yet
the science of that emperor of games has only in
very recent times, indeed, been even proximately
appreciated, thet is to say, appreciated with any
due regard to its elevated excellence. Insomuch
that we do not conceive that we are writing in any
way extravagantly when we assert that possibly
the greatest chess players who have ever lived are
now living, are men of this present generation. It
is therefore, remember, at this crowning epoch in
the history of chess that Mr. Staunton has won for
himself his eminent and splendid reputation as a
chess player. And now, referring in turn to his
&bore recent but hardly less brilliant adventure, in
literature—we believe that, according to a far more
authoritative witness than even Sir Wm. Jones, to
wit. Cocker I very nearly 242 years have now elapsed
since the death of rare and right excellent Master
William Shakspere, upon St. George's Day, in the
year of grace 1616, at his own mansion in New-
place, in the little Warwickshire borough of Strat-
ford-upon-Avon. In other words, it is only about
eight years short of two centuries and a half since
the greatest. poet, tbegreatest dramatist, the greatest
inspired intellect (among writers) this world has
ever seen, breathed his last peacefully at the time
and in the spot just particularised—upon the very
day which was the fifty-second anniversary of his
birth, within arrow shot of the little tenement in
Henley-street, where his glorious eyes had first
opened to the light. During these 242 years whole
libraries have been printed and published in refe-
rence to the works of this extraordinary man, sim-
ply in the way of commentary. Authors themselves
of the greatest genius have written ponderous tomes
about Shakspere and his marvellous- productions.
Illustrious dramatic poets, no less than others of
comparative insignificance, have striven to aid the
extension of Shakspere's popularity by alterations
and (as they conceived them to be) emendations !
Dryden, not less adventurously than Colley Cibber,
dared with an almost sacrilegious audacity, to tam-
per thus with the integrity of the original text.
And besides all this impertinence of adapters, and
all this loquacity of commentators, how affluent
since the life-time of Shakspeare has not literature
been of panegyrists both of himself and his incom-
parable masterpieces. Even during his life-time--
a career extending over the latter half of the i elgn
of Elizabeth and the first half of the reign of
James—earnest eulogies of the " Immortal Bard,"
the " Sweet Swan of Avon," were sung iu thrilling
accents by Ben Jenson and Edmund Spencer.
Afterwards the glory of his fame' was celebrated
in the imperishable verse of Milton—was il-
lustrated by the authoritative pen of Johnson—was
recognised more and more distinctly in his native land
by generation after generation. Until with the
dawn of this nineteenth century it may be declared
at last to have been fully:and:exultantly appreciated.
Neverthele-,s, there is perhaps not a single name in

the history of the literature of any tilde or of any
country that has been covered with greater obloquy,
either by jealousy or by ignorance, than that of the
grandest !wet that ever breathed the music of genius
into human language. Pope said of him that "he
wrote better and worse than any other man." Hume
actually wrote of him (in his History of England)
"as one bore in a rude age [the age of Bacon, and
Raleigh, and Sidney, and Spencer, and Borleigh],
and educated in the lowest manners, [King James,
it is well known, wrote to Shakspere with his own
hand ; and Sha-Tere, it is no less well known,
wrote one or two of his plays expressly at her
klajesty's command, to be enacted, and they were
so enacted, at the Court of Queen Elizabeth] with
out any instruction either from the world [!] or from
books." So much for Home's sagacity. Again, has
n.it Voltaire talked of Shakspere as an "inspired
barbarian ?" And even gone the length of declaring
that to his mind Hamlet—Hamlet, that grand phi-
losophic and poetic masterpiece—app, ared to be
the production of a "drunken savage !" Nay, to
crown all—it was only the other day, just a year or
two ago—that we read for the first time, be it said
(in spite of all our profound admiration for .this
wayward man's own resplendent genius) with feel-
ings of scorn and contempt the dignified estimate of
Shakspere formed by Lord Byron l An estimate
given to the world in one of the volumes of Moore's
Memoirs, edited by Lord John Russell—the en-
lightened estimate of Shakespere's genius formed
by Lord Byron, when he flippantly wrote to
Thomas Moore " Don't you think Shak-
spere a d— d humbug ?" Notwithstand-
ing all which absurdities, notwithstanding
the spleen of Pope, and the obtuseness of Hume,
and the envy of Voltaire, and the jealousy of Byron
—there, far above even those lofty heads, shine for
ever gloriously upon a pinnacle of renown those
great men could never with their united cele-
brity have hoped to attain for themselves, the
name and fame of•Shakspere. Foremost among the
most genial of his appreciators have been thegifted
critics of Germany : witness this the views ex-
pressed upon this subject by Leasing, in his "Dra-
maturgie, by Herder in the " Blatternvon deuts-
cher Art and Kunst," by Goethe in his " Wilhelm
Meister," by Tieck in his " Poetisches Journal,"
and last and best of all by Schlegel in his popular
" Lecturts upon Dramatic Art and Literature."
As to our English commentators, it would be diffi-
cult to adventure upon the enumeration even of the
chief among their names—from Dryden, and Cib-
ber, and Rowe, downwards to Johnson and Ma-
lone, and Steevens, and Bowdler, and Ayscough—
bringing the catalogue gradually down to our own
days when the two rival illustrated editions were
embellished, one by the pen of Charles Knight and
the pencil of William Harvey, the other by the
pencil of Kenny Meadows and the pen of Barry
Cornwall. Here—about a dozen years afterwards
comes forth another elaborately illustrated and an-
notated edition of " The Plays of Sbakspere :" an
edition, however, in which, in addition to the
matchless text, the soleattractions, are the notes
and the typography. The woodcuts profusely.scat-
tered through the pages being,!in truth, diametrically
the opposite of embellishments. Engravings in
truth they are for the most part so miserably puerile
in design, so feeble in fancy, so utterly devoid. of
humour, so entirely wanting in the attributes of
either the graceful, or the grand, or the beautiful,
that we conceive the kindest thing here to
be done in their regard is to cover the artist's
name over sub sitentio, and to pass his pictorial
efforts by, with—indifference. That is in one sense
the most, and in another the least, they demandat
our hands—indifference. Particularly when we
bear vividly in our recollection the exquisitely
graceful and humorous designs from the pencil of
Kenny Meadows—designs, in the truest sense of
the phrase, and surely that is grand commenda-
tion, in the truest sense of the phrase, Shaksperean.
Not so with these by—but we forget ; we gene-
rously suppress the name, elsewhere a name of emi-
nence, and pass on with a sense of relief to Mr.
Staunton's annotations. These in numerous in-
stances are manifestly the fruit of many years
tfami-
liarityh with the text of Shakspere. They are
_oet
ripened results of long and happy meditationn N
sudden freaks of thought--jotted down
the the
margin (as the edition i 4 passing throughe ingrseasys).
simply for the purpose of having somn
appear
oppear
A considerable number of them, certainly,
to us superfluous. We intentionally italicise to us,
because we understand at the very time when we
write the words that the exception taken to these
particular notes constitutes strictly and obviously
nothing more than au individual objection. To
other readers they may
not be unneces-ary. There-
fore it may, perhaps, be as well to let them stand_
although precisely the same things have bet n said
very nearly in precisely the same way in every
other annotated edition that has preceded this one
during the last hundred years. Supposin how
ever, instead a persisting in these objections upon
a matter, comparatively speaking, of little import-
ance—supposing, by way of example, we cull from
among these manifold leaves one of these more
blooming and ripened plums of annotative expla-
nation. In doing so w- e will deal fairly with our
reader, we will open the book haphazard. It opens
at page 181. It is in the fourth scene of the second
act_ of Romeo and Juliet. The nurse is talking to
Romeo about Mercurio. Nurse.—" An a' speak
anything against me, I'll take him down, an a' were
lustier than he is, and twenty such Jacks ; and if 1
cannot I'll find those that shall, scurvy knave ! I
am none of his flirt-gills ; I am none of his skains-
mates." Upon this last sufficiently enigmatical
sentence, what has Mr. Staunton to say for
himself by way of elucidation. Quoth he

4' P.:e fl .r - 'r4
It implied, fiz-yig, ,not.,er te, s uie
;gs,', wi'd, tli tiny rorniiino wench ;: 43txt-,skails-
mates has i:eeo a sore puzz.e t tvl the conineuia-
tors. Some have derived it fri:m skein. a knife or
dagger ; others su pose it a t»i.-pronvinciation of
ktus-:slates; Mr. Dot.-:e ventJres a r:oldorn
conjecture that the skains in question might be
skeins of thread, and that the Nur., meant no'hing
more than seinpstresses ! The difficulty after all
proves of ea,,), solution. Th..: word skain, I
am told by a Kentish man, was formerly a
familiar term in parts of Kent to express what
we now cc,ll !t scape grace or ne'er-do-well ;
just the sort of person the worthy old
Nurse would have entertained a horror of
being col,iJerecl a companion to. Even at this
day, my informant says, skain is often heard in the
Lk. of Tuanot, and yboui Ito adjacent coast in the
't-nse of a reckless dare-devil sort of fellow."
Enough : a solitary footnote, such a 4 the foregoing,
will suffice—ex no disce omnes. The work
is throughout carefully edi'ed, the annotations as
already intimated being only so far, to our mind, ill-
considered, that they appear to us occasionally too
abundant, too minute and even microscopic. In
a literary sense the edition is entitled to, and no
doubt will receive, a large amount and a high de-
gree of consideration.

Thorndale ; or, The Conflict of Opinions. By

William Smith.

131a-ckwoo-d and Sons.

It, would be difficult to deny to this volume the
great merit of originality. We are unacquainted
with any literary production strictly comparable
to it, either considering it iu regard to its design
or in reference to its treatment. Although its aim
is stricily ethical, its argument for the most part
metaphysical, its colouring scrupulously artistic
throughout, and although, beyond this, the parti-
cular mysteries it strives, upon occasion, to eluoi-
date are chiefly, if not invariably, the inner mys-
teries of psychology, it bears about as slight a re-
semblance to the " Wilhelm Meister" of Go6the as
the late Shelton Mackenzie's art-novel of "Titian"
bears to the younger Disraeli's psychological ro-
mance of " Contarini Fleming." If there be any
hook at all that it faintly reminds us of in tone, we
should say it was possibly Sir llumphry Davy's
strangely impressive phantasy, " The Last Days of
a Philosopher." The tone, indeed, is at once emi-
nently religious and eminently philosophical. And
the effect o the whole is, in truth, to sum up all in
a few words, exquisitely and profoundly pathetic.
" Thorndale" comprises within it the thought of a
lifetime. Its every syllable shows it to be the pr 0...,
duction of a thoroughly earnest man, and that Mall
a Christian gentleman. It affords a wholesome cor-
rective to the mass of frivolous rubbish squandered
annually from the printing presses of the United
Kingdom, in the form of one-volumed, two-vo-
lumed, and three-volumed frivolities, half of them
absurdly facetious, and half mawkishly sentimental.
Mr. Smith's book is not merely written thought-
fully, but conscientiously. It is the production of
an author desirous of neither wasting his own time
nor that of his reader. And while it is undoubt-
edly, from first to last, an imaginative composition
that is, purely intellectual, it is moreover at the
same time almost unintermittingly fraught with en-
tertainment. The general character of the work
may be conjectured readily enough by the discern-
ing from the second heading upon the title-page—
that second heading, "The Conflict of Opinions,"
being of itself, we take it, sufficiently significant.
Yet more clearly, however, may the genius of the
narrative be recognised, even before its perusal, by
a cursory glance down the synopsis of the five books
completing the Diary of Charles Thorndale. In
those five books, penned haphazard, just as the
whim of the moment has seized him, that dying
diarist has written down upon the very in-
stant—frankly, unreservedly—every thought that
has flitted across his pensive and dreamy imagina-
tion. The author, or rather, as he would
fain have us regard him, the editor and
reviser of the whole production, discovers
at Mount Posillipo the blotted and straggling
manuscript of his deceased friend, long after that
friend has been buried away under the green lap of
the Neapolitan soil, fragrant with myrtles, and
rose; and orange blossoms—another of the mani-
fold victims of that fairest but saddest of all the
Angels of Death, Consumption I Thorndale, in his
diary, lays bare to us his heart—his heart of hearts.
Ho gives eloquent, and sometimes thrilling utter-
ance to all his doubts and aspirations. The pages
are not less plenteously sprinkled with tears than
they are minutely tesselated with printer's ink.
There is a nerve tingling in every sentence. As
we read on, we not only think the writer's thoughts
but feel his feelings. It is thus variously in each
book in due succession—it matters not whether the
hero of the book is Thorndale himself, or Cyril, the
modern Cistercian, or Seckendorf, "the spirit of
Denial," or Clarence, the Utopian. To the book
dedicated to the record of the opinions of the
penultimate personage, namely Seckendorf, is ad-
mirably prefixed as a motto that thought of Vol-
taire, " Ah, croyez moi, l'erreur a son morite."
The motto selected for the whole book is enigmatical
enough, to say the least of it, and hardly required
tobe authenticated with the name of Wordsworth—
" Sleeps the future, like a snake enrolled,
Coil within coil."
At the conclusion of Therndale's Diary we have
elaborately unfolded to us, in two parts—preceded
by an introduction and supplemented by a conolu-
sion—" The Confession of Faith of an Eclectic and
Utopian Philosopher," dated A.D. • 1850. The
introduction endeavours to explain "This Crea-
tion of Nature and Mau" to be " A Progressive
manifestation of the Divine idea." Part One
undertakes to define " The Development of
the Individual Consciousness "—and Part Two,
The Development of Society." The whole of
this somewhat daring Appendix—purporting to be
the Confessis Fidei of Clarence—constituting, in
fact, the scheme of a New Philosophy. It is
scarcely necessary to add that, as this volume of
Thorndale hardly leaves one theme of emotional
meditation untouched, we very often find ourselves
dissenting, toto ado, from the views and sera-
meats herein advanced. Indeed, the second title
of the book, " The Conflict of Opinions," involves
this, perforce, as an admitted necessity. It is not
merely the reader who dissents, but the writer him-
self likewise very frequently. Besides, the argu-
ments being repeatedly placed by him in the
mouths of various and conflicting interlocutors, he
(the writer) is often, in a manner, no more respon-
sible for the opinions propounded, than a dramatist
for those expressed by his motley characters. For
the aggregate moral of these 600 pages he is,
however, responsible ; but he may cheerfully
accept that responsibility. The book is elevated
in design, and, therefore, elevating in its tendency.
Among the more reflective and discerning class of
readers it can hardly fail appreciably to advance
its author's reputation.

Mn. HOREMAN, M.P.—We are glad to state that Mr.
Horsman is se far recovered from the effects of his late
accident that it is his intention to address the electors
of Stroud (with Mr. Scrope, his co-member) on the poli-
tical topics of the day in the course of the present week.
Letters from Constantinople mention that another
attempt is in progress to consolidate the paper currency
and Government floating debt, but that it is not ex-
pected to succeed. The plan is to issue a sort of
Exchequer-bills paying 6 per cent. interest, with 9per
cent, sinking fund, in exchange for both the descriptions
of notes now in circulation.

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—We learn that the
respectingeaa: w
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committee of shareholders who conducted to so suooesaful
a termination the claims ot'the preference shareholders
have a surplus of subscriptions in hand. It is understood
Oone
George's-in-the-
East, g Fridaye,s.in.ththat the surplus will be added to the amount to be
raised for presenting a testimonial to Mr. Williams', who
originated the opposition to the directors' determination
to deprive the preference shareholders of their dividend.
fore-
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deaths of six persons who died very suddenly from the
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CARDIFF BOROUGH POLICE,—The Secretary of State
has signified to Mr. Williams, SEc inclemencyat
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that the Government • oath-court (mayor),
Cardiff police has been . •
inspector has certified that the
maintained in a state of efficiency
in "numbers and discipline"
29, 1857, entitling iseipline" for the year ending Sept.
the Treasury of
_the borough to the allowance from
one-f
police ourith the total annual cost of th•
force.

THE OVERBEA COAL TRADE.—It appears from the
Custom-house returns, published in Brown's Export
List, that Newcastle sent 94,826 tons of coals and
9 362 tons of coke oversea, in December, against
79,843 tons of coals and 7,199 tons of coke in the same
month of 1856. Sunderland, 46,299 tons of coals and
2,075 tons of coke, against 33,575 tons of coal and
1,867 tons of coke, in December, 1856; that 1113 Hartle-
pools exported 29,340 tons of coals and 1,804 tons of
coke, against 25,481 tons of coals and 737 tons of coke
in December, 1856 ; and that the other small
ports on the north-east coast, exported 57,355 tone of
coal.

THE HAvimocir FAMILY. The public have been
already informed that the Havelocks are of Danish
descent, and were for many years settled at Great
Grimsby, in Lincolnshire. Our readers, however, may
not be aware that the ancient seal of the corporation of
that borough bears the figure of its Danish founder,
Grime, holding in his hands a boy, with the word
" Havelock" over him. Th.: story runs that " Havtlock,"
or Hafluck," was the lost child of a Norse see-
king, and was brought up by Grime, and became a
valiant warrior under his rough tutelage. It would seems
that, if this be so, military valour is hereditary, and
:;reappears in families after an interval of many certturre
so true is the old proverb, "Fork.: Grontur fort "
bonis.",

TO General Sir Colin Campbell, G.C.8., the fearless,
skilled, and sound-judging leader in this anxious enter-
prise, his country owes a new debt of gratitude. In the
name of the government of India, the Governor-General
in Council desires to record his deep obligations to his
Excellency.
The Governor-General in Council offers his moat cor-
dial thanks to Major-Gen. Mansfield, Chief of the Staff,
to whose ability and experience the Commander-in-Chief
expresses himself so deeply indebted for the most valu-
able assistance throughout these operations.
To Brigadier-General Hope Grant, C. 8., who imme-
diately commanded the division employed, his lordship
in council tenders his warm acknowledgments for the
very admirable mannerin which he performed the arduous
duties of his command. This well-tried officer had already
greatly distinguished himself in the operations before
Delhi, and has received the public thanks of government.
The Governor-General in Council recognises with
great satisfaction the conspicuously gallant conciuot of
Brigadier the Hon. Adrian Hope, 93d Highlanders, who
is repeatedly brought to notice in these despatches,
To Captain Peel, C. 8., of the Royal Navy, whose
exemplary coolness and energetic courage are so promi-
nently mentioned by the Commander-in-Chief, the most
sincere thanks of the government are offered. To no
officer are they more eminently due.
The officers commanding brigades and regiments have
merited the acknowledgments of the Governor-General
in Council, and be has much satisfaction in tendering his
thanks to Brigadier Crawford, Royal Artillery, com-
manding the Artillery; to Brigadier Little, 9th Lancers,
commanding the cavalry ; to Brigadier Greathed, her
Majesty's Bth Regiment, who having, in a series of
important successes, led a column of troops from Delhi,
after the capture of that city, to Cawnpore, has now
further distinguished himself in the relief of Lucknow ;
to Brigadier Russell, 84th Foot, who was severely
wounded while commanding the 33 Infantry Brigade ;
to Lieut. Lennox, Royal Engineers, acting chief engi-
neer ;- to Lieut. Vaughan, Royal Artillery, who
served with the Naval Brigade ; to Major Turner, com-
manding the Bengal Artillery, in whose praise the
Commander-in-Chief has so warmly expressed himself;
to Capt. Travers, commanding the Royal Artillery; to
Captains Remmington and Blunt, commanding troops
of Bengal Horse Artillery ; and Capt.Maxwell,Artillery,
attached to the Naval Brigade ; to Captains Middleton,
Royal Artil!ery, and Bourchier, Bengal Artillery, who
so ably commanded field batteries ; and to Capt. Long-
den, Royal Artillery, commanding the mortar battery.
The Governor-General in Council cordially concurs
with the Commander-in-Chief in the eulogy bestowed
by his excellency on the Royal Artillery and on that of
Bengal and Madras, who emulated one another, and
werealike distinguished in rendering the most conspicuous
and important services in these memorable operations.
His Lordship in Council offers his thanks to Lieuts.
Walker, Bengal Artillery, FSrd and Brown, Royal
Artillery, who commanded batteries; to Lieut. Bridge,
who ably commanded the guns of the Madras Horse
Artillery ; to Lieut. Scott, Madras Engineers, in com-
mand of the Sappers and Miners.
The thanks of Government are also due to Major
Ouvry, commanding 9th Lancers ; to Maj or Robertson,
commanding Military Train; to Lieut.-Colonels Wells,
commanding 23d Fusiliers ; Gordon, 93d Highlanders,
in temporary command of her Majesty's 53d Regiment ;
Hale, commanding her Majesty's 82d Regiment ; Leith
Hay, commanding 93d Highlanders ; Hamilton, com
mending 78th Highlanders, and whe led the let
Battalion of Detachments ; and to Major Barnston,
her Majesty's 90th Foot, commanding the 2d
Battalion of Detachments, whose services, together with
those of the other officers commanding corps named above
are repeatedly brought to the favourable notice of Go-
vernment, and who, it is observed with great regret,
was dangerously wounded.
The Governor-General in Council has to regret the
loss of Capt. Hardy, who commanded the heavy field
battery of the Royal Artillery.
His Lordship in Council acknowledges the merits of
Lieuts. Watson, Probyn, Younghusband, and Gough,
commanding detachments of Punjaub cavalry and Hod-
son's Horse ; of Capt. Green, commanding 2d Punjaub
Infantry; of Lieut. Willoughby, 4th Punjaub Infantry ;
of Lieut. Ryves, who commanded the samecorpstowards
the close of the operations ; of Major Milman, sth Fusi-
liers ; and Lieut.• Col. M'lntyre, 78th Highlanders, who
commanded detachments conspicuously; of Lieut.-Col.
E wart, 93d Highlanders, who commanded at the bar-
racks ; of Capts. Dawson, 93d Highlanders : Rolleston,
84th Foot ; and Hopkins, 53d Foot ; and of Lieuts.
Fisher and Po wlett, 2d Punjaub Infantry—all of whom
bravely and effectively commanded separate detachments
or posts.

To Capt. Norman, Assistant Adjutant-General of the
army, the Commander-in-Chief has recorded his warm
acknowledgments, and the Governor-General in Council
cordially concurs in recognising the distinguished services
rendered, not for the first time, by this officer.
The Governor-General in Council offers his thanks to
Cu!. Berkeley, H.M. 32J Foot; to Major Alison, military
secretary to the Commander-in-Chief (severely wounded);
to Capt. Sir D. Baird, Bart., aide-de-carap;and to Lieut.
H. Johastone, aids-de-camp to the Chief of the Staff.
His Lordship in Council has also to thank Lieut. Al-
good, Deputy-Assist. Quartermaster-General ; Captains
Maycock and Cary, of the same department; Capt. Rud-
man,of the Adjutant-General's department, H.M. forces;
Captain Hatch, Deputy Judge Advocate-General;
Capts. Alison and Forster, rides-de-camp to the Com-
mander-in-Chief; Captain Metcalfe and Lieut. Murray,
on his excellency's personal staff ; Capt. Cox, 75th Foot,
brigade major; Lieut. Roberts, Bengal Artillery, deputy
assistant quartermaster-general ; Capt. Hamilton, 9th
Lancers, deputy assistant adjutant-general ; Capt. the
Hon. H. A. Anson, H. M.'s 84th, aide-de-camp ; and
Lieut. Salmcnd, 7th Light Cavalry, acting aide-de-camp
to Brigadier-General Grant ; Capt. Hammond, Bengal
Artillery, brigade major of Artillery (who was severely
wounded) ; Captain H. Le G. Bruce, Brevet-Major Barry,
and Lieut. Bunny, staff officers of the Royal and Bengal
Artillery ; Lieut. Watson, Bengal Engineers, brigade-
major of Engineers ; Capt. Sere!, 17th Lancers, brigade-
major of cavalry„2- and Capts. Bannat ne, Bth Foot, and
Lightfoot, 84th root, brigade-majors ofY infantry; as well
as Lieut. P. Stewart, Btcgal Engineers, superintendent
of the electric telegraph, whotei the Commander-in-
Chief mentions with much praise.
The acknowledgments of Government are also due to
Capt. Dickens, commissariat department, and
to Lieut
Tod Brown, Ordnance commissariat, who have rendered.
distinguished service, and given much satisfaction to the
Commander-in-Chief in the discharge of their duties.
Of the services of Surgeon J. C. Brown, attached to
he Bengal Artillery, since become euperintenaing sur-
geon, his Excellency speaks in high terms ; and it
gives satisfaction to the Governor-General in Council to
acknowledge this officer's merit.
His Lordship in Council has to record with much re-
gret the death of Col. Biddulph, 45th 8.N.1., to whose
conduct the Commander-in-Chief bears testimony.
It is with much gratification that the Governor-
General in Council recognised the distinguished bravery
of Sulezelar Gokul Sing, 4th Pun sub Rifl-s, at the
Storming of Secunderb eel'. The services of this gallant
native
Commander-in-Chief
will be duly rewarded.
onernander-in-Chief speaks in high terms of the
daring conduct of Lord Seymour, who, as a volunteer,
j lined the Commander-in-Chief, and was present through-
out the operations before Lticknow. The thanks of
the Governor-Creeerat arae due to Lord Seymour, for the
h
good service which he
freely rendered.
valuaHisbl Excellency m •
°" with just appreciation the
e aid which he Anna
from Mr. Cavenagb, of
the Uncoveranted Civil
Service ; and the Governor-
General in Council offers
sp:cihaolratheaninksintiondMbry.
Cavanagh, whose conduct will h
government
To the brave and indomitable troops of all
took part in the glorious operations des c r i baerdna who
Commander-in-Chief, and to their comrades of the Naval
Brigade, unsurpassed in gallantry and devotion to their
duty, the Governor-General in Council cordially offers
the tribute of his warmest acknowledgments. Under

The storming of the Secunderbagh and the Shah Nujeef
has never been surpassed in daring, and the success of it
was most brilliant and complete.
The movement of retreat of last night, by which the
final rescue of the garrison was effacted, was a model of
discipline and exactness. The consequence was, that
the enemy was completely deceived, and the force retired
by a narrow, tortuous lane, the only line of retreat open,
in the face of 50,000 enemies, without molestation.
The Commander-in-chief offers his sincere thanks to
Major. General Sir J. Outram, G.C.8., for the happy
manner in which he planne,i and carried out his arrange-
ments for the evacuation of the Residency of Lucknow.
By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief.
W. MATHEW, Major,
Deputy•Adjutant-General of the Army.

DEFENCE OF THE A.LLYGITREI DISTRICT.
Lieut.. Col. Cotton to Major Mayhew,DeputpAdjatant

General of the Army, Calcutta.
Fort Agra, Oct. 8, 1857.

Sir,—l have the honour to report to you, for the in-
formation of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief,
that on Aug. 24, at the requisition of the Lieutenant-
Governor, North West provinces, I detached a party of
men, as per margin,* under the command of Major
Montgomery, Brigade Major of Agra and Muttra Dis-
trict, for the purpose which is explained in the ace m•
panying memorandum. I have the honour to enclose
Major Montgomery's despatch of a gallant affair executed
by his detachment against a large party of mutineers and
rebels near Allygurh, which I hope will meet with
favourable notice from his Excellency.
After occupying Allygurh for nine days, Major Mont-
gomery's force fell back on Hattrass, leaving at the
former place a strong detachment of J‘‘‘t horse and foot,
under the command of Raja Thaceor Gobind Sing. The
district hence to Allygurh has, by the means of this
detachment, been kept intranquillity, and much revenue
collected. Till within a few days the Rajah at Allygurh
was able to hold his own, but unfortunately allowed
himself to be surprised, and fell back on Hattrass. At
this juncture, the mutinous army from Delhi reached
Muttra. It became necessary to watch their movements
on the left bank of the river, and a strong position was
taken up at Saidabad, waiting for the approach of the
flying column said to be marching from Delhi in pursuit.
I proposed to the chief commissioner to strengthen
my 'Jet/Aliment is order to co-operate with this column,
but this the chief commissioner deemed hazardous, as we
were not strong enough to meet the reported numbers
of the enemy, viz., 6,000 men and 18 guns.
I beg to report that, in addition to watching the muti-
neers at Muttra, it was necessary to turn our attention
to Dholepore, where the mutineers in great force threa•
tened an attack on Agra, so that more could not have
been done with the handfel of troops at my disposal.
Yesterday evening the detachment under Major
Montgomery was recalled by desire of the Chief Com-
missioner, he having reason to believe that the mutineers
from Dholepore were making demonstrations in thiE
direction.—l have, &c.,

W. COTTON, Lieut.-Colonel,
Commanding at Agra.

Major Montgomery to Lieut.-C,ilonel Cotton.
Camp Hattraes, Sept. 1.
Sir,—For your information I have the honour to state
that the detachment under my command (as per margin)±
arrived at Hattrass on the evening of the 21st ult.; and
on the day following intelligence was received thaA the
Allygurh insurgents, numbering 5,000 to 6,000 under
Ghose Mahomed Khan, Naib Soobah of the King of Delhi,
had assumed the offensive, and were advancing to attack
our position ; further, that their advanced guard had
been pushed forward to Mudrock, about 12 miles trona
Hattrass. But as the information, though most im•
portant, could not be depended on, Mr. J. O'B. Tandy
volunteered, accompanied by Mr. C. Danish, C.S., and
Lieut. De Kantzlw, to ride on in the direction the
enemy were said to have taken up their position, for the
purpose of obtaining reliable and certain information
of the movements and position of the insurgents as far
as possible.
In the meanwhile I made the necessary arrangements
for repelling an attack, and to prevent a surprise during
the night.
At midnight Mr. Tandy and party returned, bringing
intelligence that the advanced guard of the insurgents
bad fallen back, leaving a party of horse (supposed to
be the mutineers of the 15th Irregulars) at Mudrok, and
had taken np their position, determined to fight, in a
garden with high embankments, belonging to Maun
Sing, close to and connected with similar enclosures,
near to and on the outskirts of the city of Allygurh.
From the information I received I determined at once,
in concurrence with the C )mmissioner, A. Cooke, Eq.,
On special duty, to attack their pos:Con at all hazsrds;
otht
ohne
:a
.Svacryuldonssdea rainy:
Allygurh,fhtehte h2:3dl
i evening,lightlyultimo,
omarch
equipped,commenced
our march
and prepared
a
gatn.t any contingency, and arrived at Sasnee about
mhaavinhg
, a been
h adl
teetda forned theby
night ; an old indigo factory
tra opalda,c
ewith t
ma dy-
joining buildings, andthe g
disposal, afforded tolerable shelter
the
rfor both men and
officers ; and, by the assistance
civil authorities,

16 gunners,
,32 havildars, 15
—1 lieutenant, 2
* 2d Company sth Battalion A.,--7-------------.--lry
Isesragdeadnletrs,selrcgoer:tr,all,2s bugler,bEoumrobpaeradniedrlr,ive,
4 privy —total
native drivers, 1 havildar of gun lanai:
61; 3d European Regiment-2 captains,
cers, 11 sergeants, 14 corporals, 3 drummers, 121 tern °fa-
-total 154; Militia-2 sergeants, 20 trooper . privates
troopers—total 22 ;
2 9-pounder guns, 1 24-pounder howitzer.
+2d Company sth Battalion Artillery-1 lieutenant 3
sergeants, 1 corporal, 5 bombardiers, 1 bugler, 16 numers
1 saddler sergeant, 12 European drivers, 2 harifdars, 15
native drivers, 1 havildar of gun lascars, 3 privates—total,
61; 2 9-pounder guns and 1 24-pounder howitzer ; 3rd
European Regiment -2 captains, 4 subaltern officers, 11
sergeants, 13 corporals, 3 drummers, 121 privates—total,
`154 ; liilitia-2 sergeants, 20 trooper`—total, 22,

On the termination of the action, Mr. Cocks, who
throughout the day was by my side, strongly urged fol-
lowing our success on political grounds, by an immediate
advance on Allyghur ; but having to thread a defile of
walled enclosures (most of which were occupied) a
greater part of which running under and close to the
city with an enormous population ; with our grape and
canister nearly expended; without scarcely the possi-
bility of getting at the enemy; with our detachment, in
the first instance scarcely equal to the undertaking,
much rekluced by the killed and wounded : with reports
of aid for the insurgents being daily expected from
Delhi ;:with no possibility of obtaining assistance from
any quarter nearer than Agra, from whence a man
could scarcely be spared; with our wounded to attend to;
and all being well considered and explained to Mr. Cocks.
I, with his fullest concurrence, decided on returning to
our headquart?rs at Hattrass, taking with us our killed
and wounded, with the determination of occupying
Allygurh, on completing our ammunition, and which we
did on the 27th, without the slightest opposition.
The force opposed to us, commanded by Ghose
Mahomed Khan, Naib Sooba, on the part of Waleedad
Khan, appointed Sooba by the King of Delhi, was
chiefly composed of Mussulrnans, among whom were
many Ghazees, numbering from five to six thousand,
with one hundred and fifty Irregular Cavalry and two
hundred Mahomedan horse, aided by levies of Zsmin-
daree horse and foot, chiefly Mewatics, amounting to
600 and 700 men, the whole headed by Moulvee Abdool
Zaleel, a very influential religious instructor and leader
of the Ghazees, being assisted by several other Moul-
vees, three of whom, including Abdool Zuleel, were
killed, and a fourth wounded.
I attribute the success of the action to the cordial
co-operation and assistance I received from ,the civil
authorities and officers and men under my command,
and my best thanks are due to Captain Strover, second
in command (who, in quarters and in the field, has ren-
dered me every assistance) ; to the officers, non-com-
missioned officers, and men of the 3d Europeans, which,
though a young regiment, and under greatly trying
circumstances, behaved with the valour and spirit of
British seldiers.

To Lieut. Griffin, non-commissioned officers, and men
of the Artillery, for the promptitude with which my
orders were carried out, and to whose energetic ever
tiens I attribute, in a great measure, the success of the
of the day.
Lieut. De Kantzow and the militia cavalry, who
(with the Jat horse under Captain Murray*) rendered
moat important service by attacking, and dispersing, a
large body of irregular cavalry at the commencement of
the action ; of the conduct of the militia, both in the
field and in quarters, I eannot'speak too highly.
To Assistant-Surgeon Mackillar, for his judicious
medical arrangements, and hie assiduous and humans
attention to the wounded. _

To Lieutenant Blake, 31 European Regiment, and
Lieut. Clarke, of the late Gwalior Contingent, who be-
haved with conspiououl bravery, the latter being severely
wounded.

Ensign O'Donel, 67th NJ., who, during the march
and in the field, assisted me very greatly.
Mr. Volunteer Hennessey, who greatly distinguished
himself, shooting five men with his rifle, and one with a
revolver; and, as he was also present in the action of the
sth July, and is the son of an old and deserving officer,
I respectfully solicit that the services of the youth may
specially be brought to the notice of government, with a
view to his obtaining military employment.

I beg to bring prominently forward the praiseworthy
conduct of the Rev. hlr. Kellner, who gratuitously
accompanied the detachment, and for whose humane and
unremitting attention to the wounded, during the action
and under fire, too much praise cannot possibly be
bestowed.

lam also greatly indebted to if Cocks for his cordial
co•operatio❑ and assi,tance on all occasions, particularly
on the day of the action, and for the very aecurate infor-
mation he obtained, when the most confl►cting and con-
tradictory accounts were spread abroad, evidently with
the view of discouraging and throwing difficulties in the
way of our advance ;also to Mr. P. Saunders and Messrs.
Lane and Colvin, of the Civil Service, whose services I
cannot speak too highly of, in conveying orders through-
out the heat of the action.

To Captain Fanehawe, in charge of the carriage, etc.,
for his admirable management in providing ample car-
riage for the detachment, and energetic exertions in the
postal departments, as also for the very accurate infor-
mation he has at all times procured,

To Mr. Daniell, civil service, to whom was assigned
th• responsible duty of protecting the baggage, with the
Jet matchlock men.

I deeply lamest the loss of J. O'B. Ta❑dy, Eiq., a❑d
Ensign Marsh, 16th Grenadiers, bosh of whom were
vol❑nteers; the former fell whilst attempting quite alone
to enter the walled a❑closures. This gentleman's daring
and gallantry could not he surpassed, and possessing, as
he did, every qualification lthat could adorn a soldier
and a gentleman, his loss has been a matter of the deepest
regret to the whole of the party. Ensign :Marsh, the
son of an old cavalry officer, behaved most gallantly,
and at last overpowered :by odds, fell, cut to pieces by
the fanatic Ghazses.

A list of the killed and wounded I have the honour
herewith to enclose.—l have, &c.,
G. J. MONTGOMERY, Brevet-Maj,r,
and Major of Brigade, Commanding Detachment.

Return of Killediand Wounded of a Detaahuleut, under
the command of Major Montgomery, in an engage-
ment with the insurgents at Maun Singh's Garden, on
the 24th of August, 1857.
KILLED.
J. O'B. Tandy, Esq., indigo planter.
Ensign Marsh, 16th Grenadiers.
Lance Corporal Win. Armstrong, 3d company 3d Euro-
pean Regiment.
Private Nicholas Fitzgerald, 3d company 3d European
Regiment.

" This officer signally distinguished himself in a single-
handed encounter with a Ghazee, who, I am happy to say,
was shot down, though not till CaPtAin Murray received a
BOTOre contusion in the arm.

Captain Nixon is directed to place the elephants, lent
by the Bhurtpore State, with their establishment, at the
disposal of the officer commanding the detachment. It
is the particular wish of the Government that every pos•
Bible care may be taken of these animals, which belong
to a foreign state, and that the servants in charge of
them may be uniformly treated with kindness and con-
sideration, It will, no doubt, be practicable to assign
to one of the militia the special duty of carrying out the
wishes of Government in this respect.
Dr. Clarke is directed to arrange for as many waggons .
and carte of the Government bullock train and private
companies as practicable being collected and crossed over
the river, to be in readiness for the party on their arrival.
The requisite cattle will be hired for this purpose at
the public charge, and maintained for service whenever
required, with a sufficient number for relays on the road.
Dr. Clarke will further take immediate measures for
establishing a postal communication between Agra and
Hattrass, for despatch twice a day, and for transmission
of the expresses when necessary.
He should also put himself in communication with
Lalla Jotee Persaud, for the purpose of his arranging for
the re-establishment of horse vans on this line of road,
for the convenience of travellers and supplies.
The object of this movement is to give protection to
important town of Hattrass, which has hitherto escaped
being plundered; to establish authority in this portion of
the Allygurh district ; to give confidence to the loyal
Tbaleokdars, whose possessions are is the neghbourhood
of Hattrass ; and to frustrate the attempt of certain
rebels to usurp the authority of the British Government
in other portions of the Allygurh district.
Mr. Cocks is appointed commissioner with full powers
of the Revenue Board, superintendent of police, and ses-
sions judge in the district of Allygurh ; he will exercise
the powers of special commissioner under acts xiv. and
xvi. of 1857 ; and under act xviii. of 1357 he is further
authorised to issue a commission for the trial of muti-
neers and deserters, whenever this procedure may be
preferred to the trial of such offenders before him, as
sessions judge.
Pending arrangements for the deputation of a magis-
trate and collector, Messrs. C. J. Daniell and E. Colvin
are vested with the powers of joint magistrate and deputy
collector within the same limits, and in subordination to
Mr. Cocks, by whose advice and orders they will be
guided.
Mr. Cocks is empowered to invest Mr. P. Saunders
and Mr. J. O'B. Tandy with the powers of joint magis-
trate in such localities during such periods, and under
such restrictions as he may deem fit. The Government is
desirous that the loyal Thalookdara, especially those
through whose influence this portion of the country has
been maintained in comparative quietness and security,
should receive the fall support and approbation of the
Government ; they should be encouraged to give the
assistance of their tenants and armed retainers to lawful
authority, and to enlist for the service of Government
amongst them, a number of light horsemen, who, after
inspection and approval by the commissioner, will be
formally enrolled and employed on such duties as he
may direct he will submit hie recommendation of the
pay to officers and men of each levier for the approval of
Government.

The Thesildar of Hattrass will be maintained in his
position and authority, and will proceed under the direc-
tions of the commissioner, to realise the balance of
revenue due to Government, and to arrange for the re-
mittance of the same to Agra, reserving a sufficient sum
to meet requisite expenses at Hattrass.
Copies of these orders will be communicated to the
commissioner of Meerut for his information.
By order of the lion. the Lieut.-Governor, North
Western Provinces, C. B. THORNHILL,
Officiating Secretary to Government,
North Western Provinces.

Returns of Casualties in the Battle of Kudjwa. (See
Gazeik of Jan. 5, page 40.)
Royal Engineers.
Futtehpore, Nov. 8, 1957.
Return of Killed and Wounded at the action of Kudjwa,
on the let Nov., 1857.
severely. Sapporo :
Singleton, severely ;
e Smith, severely ;
KlLLED.—Sapper —D.S_acp paeprt.Jl h. nj6M;Ceaellorecgroekelome:g.
R.N., commanding column.
John John
u ya As e ;II:vet! ldl ,B,oBnsi
he
severelytrieyly. ;
RECAPITULATION—KiIIed, 1; wounded, 8 ; total, 7.
Return of Casualties of a Detachment 3d Company, sth
Bengal Artillery, Ca the let Nor., 1357.
Bombardier 0. Sullivan, contusion on the back from
W. Pzin,
shot wound.
G. T. Williams, severely in left eye.
Bullock-driver Lutchmun, slight wound in right arm.
Nauoo, alight wound on right knee.
Tlnganoo, severely in right hand and right foot.
Two bullocks killed and three wounded.
P. C. ANDERSON,
Lieutenant Ccmmanding Detachment
3d Company, sth Bengal Artillery.

HER MAJESTT'S 53D REGIMENT.
List of Officers and Men Killed and Wounded at the
eAlacfee, 2d company,
I
Action at Khujwa, on the let Nov., 1857.
Camp Futtehpore, let Nov., 1857.
lai C.,,i, killed in action.
Corporal-Sergeant
mortally, e ut,naeoln
e nt-
gincoede le lid Aa. l.
Corporal Edmund Crowly, 2d company, mortally, sinceeS. Px a
adoewl r
dead.
Private
company, mortally, since dead.
PrivatePla
killed in action.
Private Michael Farnam, Ist company, killed in action.
Private
v t e JohnarMichaeloh n Burnett,
D Downey,
Cashman,sv
n e 2dyl,
e2t
dcompany
co a la;
killed in action.
Private John Gerrard, 3d company, killed in action.
Private Richard McCurry, 2d company, killed in action.
Private McDanaher, 2d company, killed in action.
Private James Matthews, 3d company, killed in action.
Private Michael Sullivan, 3,1 company, killed in action.
oJTmahstaaohsis W. Corfield, 3d company, severely.
l‘ta.l, Acton, 3d company, severely.
WOUNDED.
oubray, 3d
Lieutenant
CaptainlLieutenant
auuetteee ,Dn grape4aTrin tht
company, slightly in the
Sergeant-Major Charles Pye, let company, severely.
Sergeant Edward Revery, 2d company, dangerously.
Sergeant Joseph Heathcete, 2d company, slightly.
CAporal James Nolan, 3d company, dangerously.
Corporal Edward Ware, 2d company, dangerously.
Private Thomas Davies, 2d company, mortally.
Private Richard Cowper, ild company, slightly, bayonet
wound.
Private Henry Porter, let company, dangerously.
Private Dennis, Creed, 2d company, dangerously.
Private James Collins, let company, dangerously.
,
Private Richard Tobin, 3d company, severely.
Private John Ashworth 3d company,
dangerously.
Private George Evans, 3d company, severely.
Private Henry Miles, 3d company, dangerously.
Private Wm. Eyles 3d company, dangerously.
Private Francis Reilly, 3d company, dangerously.
Private Patrick Mullins, 2d company,
dangerously.
Private Samuel Johnson, 2d company, mortally.
Private Benjamin Young, 2d company, severely.
Private Patrick Bedding, Id company, dangerously.
Private Hugh Scanlon, 3d company, dangerously.
Private Edward Rogers, let company, severely.
Private Jolla Dirrna, 3d company, dangerously.
Private Peter M
IC-e•iIY, 3d company, slightly.
Private George Huxley, 3d company, severely.
Private George Frary, 3d company, severely.
Private John M.Tarthy, 2d company, slightly.
Private Ed ward Barrett, 2d company, severely.
Recapitulation—Killed : 1 lieutenant-colonel, 1 ser-
geant, 1 corporal, 9 privates. Wounded : Mortally, 2
privates. Dangerously, 1 sergeant,
privates. Severely, 2 lieutenants, 1 sergeant, 7 privates.
Slightly, 1 captain, 1 sergeant, 3 privates. Total-14
killed, 29 wounded. 2 corporals, 11
JAMES GRANT, M.D. Assistant-Surgeon.
• in Medical Charge her Majesty's 53d Regiment.

Fattehpore, Nov. 1, 1857.
Detachment under Lieut. Fawning, H.M.'s 64th Regt.
Return of Killed and Wounded of the above detach-
ment in the Action at Kudjwa, on the Ist Nov., 1857.
64th—Private Christopher Gear, gunshot wound
through head, killed on the field.
84th—Privata James Murray, gunshot wound through
head, killed on the field.
64th—Private Thomas Rily, gunshot through
.right
lung, killed on the field.

The Cospatrick, sailing transport, Captain Scott,
left Spithead on Saturday afternoon for the Cape of
Good Hope.
The United Service screw steam-transport, which
left Gravesend at 2 p.m. on Thursday, was off the
Isle of Wight at 8 o'clock on Saturday morning,
having anchored on Thursday night in consequence
of the fog. She passed the Jason, brought up off
the Nore. When off the Nab her lifeboats, fitted.
with Clifford's gear, were manned and lowered
several times, both when the ship was still and
steaming at full speed ; on the last occasion the
commanding officer of the troops, Captain Gordon,
volunteering to go into the boat. The general con-
dition and arrangements of this vessel gave great
satisfaction to all on board, and she left with a
northerly wind and fair weather.
We understand that a letter has been received
by Major Peddie, Stirling Castle, from his on at
Benares, dated sth of December last, in which ho
states that he had seen Colonel Cameron, of
the 42d Highlaneler, at that date, and rather!
surprised the Colonel by putting into his hand a
Calcutta paper, containing an intimation of the
Colonel's death, as having taken place at Calcutta
three days previously. The intimation, which has
been copied into a number of papers in this coun-
try, has no foundation in fact, and it will be grati-
fying to his numerous friends to learn that the Col.
was in the enjoyment of excellent health.
The camp established at Clacton, near Colchester,
for the purpose of rifle instruction, has been broken
up, and the training is now proceeded with at the
Landguard Fort, Harwich.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :

Edward Rowe, Master, additional to the Blen-
heim, for service in the Arrogant ; Richard C.
Drew, Second Master, to the Impregnable ; Thos.
D. Nicholson, Second Master, to the Hogue ; and
Henry Wiustanley, Assistant Paymaster, to the
Renown.

DEATH OF REAR-ADMIRAL THE HON. G. P.

CAMPBELL.

We have to announce the death of Rear-Admiral
the Hon. George Pryse Campbell, only brother of
the Earl of Cawdor, which occurred on Tuesday
last, in South Audley-street, in the 65th year of his
age. This gallant officer entered the navy April 7,
1803, as tint-class volunteer on board the Culloden,
74, Captain Barrington Dacres, bearing the flag in
the Channel cf his uncle, Rear-Admiral George
Campbell, with whom he went soon afterwards to
the Mediterranean in the Canopuq, 80. In April,
1805, he joined the Namur, 74, one of Sir Richard
John Strachan's squadron in his victorious conflict
of Nov. 4, 1805, with the four line-of-battle ships
that had escaped from the battle of Trafalgar.
While midshipman of the Seahorse, in the Medi-
terranean, we find him, on the night of July 5,
1808, contributing to the capture, after a memorably
furious engagement, and a loss to the Seahorse of
five men killed and ten wounded, of the Turkish
man-of-war Badere Zaff,r, mounting 52 guns, with
a complement of 543 men, of whom 170 were slain
and 200 wounded. Another ship, the Alis Fezan,
of 26 guns and 230 men, was at the same time put
to flight. He received his first Admiralty commis-
sion March 15, 1811 ; an], as a lieutenant, was
subsequently appointed, Dec. 19, 1811, to the Bel-
videra, 36, Captain Richard Byron, whose official
praise he elicited for his able direction of that
frigate's maindeck stern-chasers on the occasion
of her celebrated escape from a powerful squad-
ron under Commodore Rodgers, after a long run-
ning fight, and a loss of 2 killed and 22 wounded,
June 23, 1812 ; Nov. 4, 1813, as flag lieutenant in
the Monmouth, 64, to Vice-Admiral Thomas
Foley, Commander-in-Chief in the Downs ; and
April 19, 1814, to the Royal Soverign yacht, Capt.
Sir John Poo Beresford, in which he conveyed
Louis XVIII. to Calais. Having attained the rank
of commander, May 16, 1814, he was next, May 5,
1818, appointed to the Racehorse, 18, on the Medi-
terranean station. He acquired a post commission
Jan. 27, 1821, and rear-admiral on the retired list
March 8, 1852. Rear-Admiral Campbell was ap-
pointed Feb. 24, 1831, groom of the chamber to
King William IV., in which capacity he officiated
at his Majesty's funeral in 1837. He married, in
1821, the daughter of General Gascoyne.
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