The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-23 00:00:00

THE JEYPORE TRAGEDY.

(From tile Calcutta Papers.)
Five of the-murderers of Arr. Blake have been executed,
and many have fled from justice.
A letter, apparently from a military officer on the sta-
tion, after giving it as his opinion that nothing had trans-
pired to prove a connection between the attempt upon the
residents' life and the murder of Mr. Blake, adds the fol-
lowing details respecting the latter unfortunate gentleman.
Major Alves and Mr. Macnaughten had previously left the
palace :—" Most unfortunately," observes the writer, " when
Blake came out either he or the chnprassce Luchmun ex-
posed the bloody sword with which the Major had been
wounded. The mob, on seeing this, exclaimed, The
feringees have. shed blood in the palace,' and with cries of
mar ! mar ! ' began to throw dirt and stones. If Blake
had apprehended more than local insult from this misguided
crowd, he doubtless would have here turned back into the
palace, but he ordered his mahout to push on homeward,
and his elephant was accordingly urged alms.. the Chand-
nec Chonk, for 300 yards, at a 'pace which left the mob
behind, and would soon have carried him out of the city,
but as he turned into the broad street which leads to the
Ajmere or Kishenpaul gate, a guard of the city police
attracted by the genbral cry ran up and began to wound the
elephant to stop its progress. • Blake now ordered a Suwar
who attended him to gallop on to the Residency, and re-
port what was occurring. The mahout still pressed on, and
had got half way down the street, a distance of 800 yards,
when another of police meenahs,' joined in the affray, and
hacked at the elephant's hind legs ; and .the mob coining
up rained stones at the howdah from all sides, exclaiming
Kill the murderer ! he has shed blood in the palace.'
Blake defended himself from 'the stones as well as he
could, and ordered the mahout to drive the animal up
to the wall of a mender (or temple) racing the street. The
door of this building was closed, but Blake, the chup-
rassee, and the mahout got in at a window, and were con-
ducted by two poojarries (priests) to a small room on the
ground floor at the extreme end of it, and there locked in ;
but the mob soon followed them, and, discovering their re-
treat, not only battered down the door of the room, but broke
a large hole through the middle of the opposite wall from an
adjoining court, and another on one side, just under the
roof, from an outside staircase,. so as to be able to attack
them from three points. Our friend got a sword from oae
oe the poojarries just before he wa3loced in, and with this
he defended himself most gallantly for some time, keeping
the door, and warding off sword and spear thrusts ; but -
when the dastardly assassins began to fire matchlocks at him-
through the breaches they had made in the wall and the
roof, he felt that resistance was vain, and, forgetting him-
self, desired the men who stood by him to try the only
chance of saving their lives by going out to the assailants.
There was a possibility of their being thus spared, for-some
of the crowd had loudly sworn by the Gunga and Jumna,
that if they would leave the feringee and come out, they
should not be hurt. The ohuprassee was the first to go
out, and was immediately killed. The mahout was saved
by a man who seized his arm and drew him aside. Our
friend had once or twice called out to his attackers not to
shed innocent blood, as he was guiltless. NoW, seeing that
he had done all that man could hope to do against the over-
whelming force of his mad enemies, lie threw down his
sword at the door of the room, and went' out calmly to face
the mob that filled a small court in front of it, when ere he
had advanced two steps beyond the threshold, he was de-
prised of life by twenty sword wounds. When the
intelli-
gence of Blake's death was brought to the Residency,
it was with difficulty believed ; so little was anything se-
rious expected from the effervescence of the people, but a
few hours afterwards the sad truth of the statement was
proved by the arrival of his body, which was brought with
all possible respect by the servants of the Rawel. He was
buried early the next morning close to the Residency, and
a monument is being built over the spot, to perpetuate the
memory of one who was as much esteemed by the Govern-
ment as he was beloved by his friends."
We hear that one of the principal Generals Of Nepal
has it in contemplation to make a voyage to England, via
the Cape of Good Hope, from motives of curiosity, and a
desire of acquiring knowledge. For a Hindoo of high
caste, this is very extraordinary. We can have no doubt
that the accounts of Raminohun Roy's reception in England
have led to this desire to travel.—Hurkaru, July 25.
We understand that some disturbances have occurred
among the ryuts in Rajeshahye, in consequence of which a
regiment of infantry, the 41st, has been ordered up from
Barrackpore to Berhampore. The scene of the tumult is
said to be the north of Rampoor Bauleah. We had not
heard any particulars as to the cause.—lbid.
The Hon. Sir Edward J. Gambier took the oaths and
his seat as Recorder of Prince of Wales' Island, Singapore,
and Malacca, at this station, on Monday last, the 29th in-
stant, and proceeded at once to the trial of a case appointed
to be heard that day.