The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-07 00:00:00

join you. We will kill the officers, and then the
Mussulman religion will again be the religion of
India.' He also said that a native officer of the S.
M. horse would join them with 100 men. The old
soubadar put food before him, and said he would
consult about how it was to be done. He got two
other faithful officers into the house, and told them
quietly to keep the man engaged in conversation,
and not let him go, while he himself ran up and
told the major. He then went back and
brought the man quietly up through the
lines to the major's house. He was then tied
and sent into the city, where he was put in irons
'in the gaol. The next day four of our officers and
I went into the city and tried him by court-mar-
tial, after having his irons knocked off. He was
then takea out, and shot by six of the S. M. horse
in the gaol yard. The man who commanded the
firing party was the native officer who he said was
to join them with 100 men. In the meantime about
90 men had come in from the fields and villages
about, who said they had only run out there on
hearing the firing to place their wives and children
in safety, not knowing where else to go ; several
men had also been brought in by the village autho-
rities and by the parties of irregulars who were
riding about the country. They were all sent into
the city of Kolapoor, where they were put into
the gaol in chains, and guarded by the Rajah and
his people. At night we all slept at Maughan's,
where there is a very strong guard kept ; we have
also outlying pickets of horse and foot in every di-
rection, and a regular chain of videttes all round
camp.
We telegraphed on the night of the Ist to Sat-
tars about the raw : Kerr, the adjutant of the S.
M. Irregulars, started on the morning of the 2d,
and was with us, bringing 50 men, on the morning
of the 3d, having ridden with his men the 80 miles
in 24 hburs, and swam their horses over three deep
and rapid rivers which in the rains are considered c
quite impassible. He is a very fine fellow and a
capital specimen of an irregular horseman ; the
other day he rode 240 miles without stopping. Im-
mediately the row occurred Maughan telegraphed
to Bombay for Europeans, but they have not been
by any means so expeditious as Ker, for, though a
steamer was despatched from Bombay immediately
with 2CO of the 2d Europeans to Wargoten, and
they arrived there on the 3d, they have not been
able to get here yet on account of the nullas and
rivers being all so flooded. A troop of Horse Ar-
tillery, too, started from Poouah, but they have not
arrived here yet for the same reasons. It was at
eve time feared the whole country had risen ; we
might have been all cut to pieces for all they knew,
so that th-y are very much to blame for not having
made more haste. Up to the 10th the mutineers
had met with no check ; on that day, however, we
had the great pleasure of doing for a few of them.
On the night of the 9th Maughan received intelli-
gence that 25 of the mutineers with muskets in
Viol.. hands were coming back in the Kolapoor di-
rection, from a place 16 miles out on the Wargoten
road, whew they had all gone to at first. Kerr
mounted at 12 o'clock at night and set off through
tlie rain with 30 men to meet them. He rode out
about 12 miles, and caught three men, but he heard
from them at half-past 11 o'clock the main body of
them had marched in and occupied the same

position which Maughan had tried to take before.
Kerr left his men round about the place to
see that they did not go away during the night, and
rode in to ask Maughan to givd him more men, and
let him try to take the place. Accordingly at ten
o'clock next morning Capt. M'Culloch and I set off
with 30 volunteers from our regiment, and Kerr
br aught 30 more of his Irregulars. When we got
Micro we found the fellows inside ready to receive
us, with twosentries walking up and down between
the wall and the lake, and a man at each of the
corner towers, who fired when any of us came too
near. We passed behind the little native huts which
line the road, to a little stone temple, which they
had not bean able to occupy, as it is solid stone,
without door or window; in fact, it is a monument,
and not a temple. From here we could see what
sort of a place it was. It was a double square, hol-
low in the middle, like a farm square in Scotland,
with a low, tiled shed inside the wall, for putting
horses and cattle in. The four doors were all of tre-
mendously hard wood, into which a musket ball
did not penetrate half an inch, and the main gate
of the same wood, bound and studded with iron,
and Bor 10 inches thick. The two men who were
walking up and down the place in front of the little
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for skirmishers. From here we soon dislodged the
two men, one of whom was hit on the thigh, and
they ran inside the square. We could not get very
near the square, as there was a little temple at that
corner, which they had occupied, and from the little
windows of which they fired at us. We remained
here behind the trees a long time, answering their
shots, on the' chance of some balls going in through
the loopholes or windows. After a while a fellow
came riding round the lake to say that all our offi-
cers had come down with 20 more men, and that
they had got two ofthe Rajah's guns and were going
to blow the main gate open and storm the place. I
was told accordingly to collect my men and prevent
any of the fellows escaping by the road towards
our camp. I therefore formed my men up and
made the horsemen mount so as to be ready
to chase them if they came past. I was here
concealed by a bank from the fort. The fellows
with M'Culloch then began blazing away with the
guns at the main gate, and I expected every minute
to hear that they had broken the gaze open and
gone in, and was feeling very much disgusted at not
being able to go and see the fun, but I felt obliged
to stay and watch that road. The guns soon stopped
firing, and I supposed all was over. However, I
was soon undeceived, for Kerr and the major came
round to the lake where I was, and said they were
going to bring the guns there to see if they could
open a way in. They said that the guns could only
be brought to fire obliquely, and there Te did not
have much effect on the gate, for the balls merely
went through, leaving only a small round hole in
the wood, but not breaking it so as to make it pas-
sable. The guns were then placed in a new position,
and we began firing at the little side door. Two
balls went through it, but only left little round
holes, as in the other door, and no two balls hit on
the same spot, for the balls were too small for the
guns,
and the fellows could not aim them at all—
so much so that several balls went right over the
place and did considerable damage in the city.
While here a native gunner was killed from the
wall, and one shot cut my trousers on the left leg,
but did not touch the skin. The major, seeing that
the guns were not likely to open a way into the
place, said to me, Will you take a party and turn
those fellows out who are firing out of the windows
of that little temple?' I got l 2 men to volunteer,
and we rushed up the road with a shout, six of the
men firing their muskets at the windows while run-
ning up, the remaing six reserving their fire for
closer quarters. I ran up to one window and fired a
cavalry carbine which 1 had used all day right into
the place, and one of the men did so to the other.
We found, however, that the fellows who had been
there had left it, and gone into the main building.
From round the outside of this temple we could
keep them almost entirely from firing from that side
of the building, for if one shot was fired from a loop-
hole it was immediately answered by a dozen, and

we were so near that alot of our balls always went
in. The biggest gun was here hauled up clo-e to the
little door. Here two natives were killed; one was
hit on the mouth, and the other had the whole of
back part of his head carried away ; a ball grazed
the toe of my left boot. Here seven men came out
of the place and gave themselves up ; one of them
had his eye shot out, and another his left ardma
brokenwhole
by a cannon ball. All of a sudden we ltieeladr
that Kerr
lot of shots inside the place, andbwern
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stones inside against it. We rushed
at
alittle door
which had not been tried before because it was so
difficult to g& at. We found it not so strong as the
others, and I rake it in with a pickaxe and the butts
door down in a few mWaosreethshesyohnoilltdasYd,
piled a
lot
of
big
of oar muskets. Several men were shot down in-
side, and three prisoners taken. It is very extraordi-
nary that not one of our men was touched, though
they fired a lot of shots at us. Six men took refuge
in a little room in the middle of the square. This
was made of immense blocks of solid stone. There
was a small door looking towards the main gate, up
to which there were four stone steps ; there was a
little stone verandah round it, to which the window
looked, and which was raised about 4 feet above the
ground. TN, window was about 2 feet above the
verandah, and about 4 feet square. The door and
wooden shutter of the windows were shut. We sent
a lot of balls through the door and windows, and
they returned them each on the chance of hitting
the other. They hit one colour-havildar on the
.
head and one sepoy on the knee. After awhile, find