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London, England, 1857-09-23 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 18b7.

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THE MUTINIES IN INDIA.

THE ADVANCE ON CAIVNPORE.
Tke following letter is from a lad of 18 who had
joined the Volunteer Cavalry upon the mutiny of
his own regiment :
" Camp Nawabgunge, near Cawnpore, July 21.
" I have not written since Allahabad, butt hope
you will forgive me when you bear how actively
we have been engaged. I began by joining the
Volunteer Cavalry, which was being raised from
officers withent regiments, and went into camp im-
mediately and was nearly washed away by rain.
O. n Tuesday, the 7th, we marched out at 4 p.m.,
it still raining, arid the Volunteer Cavalry leading
the way. We had also 1,500 Europeans, eight
guns, and a few Sikhs and some Irregular Cavalry.
That night we were very uncomfortable, being en-
camped in a marsh, no food to eat, and the tents
not coming up till after dark. On Saturday we en-
unped within a few miles of the column that had
gone before, and which joined with us the next
day at 1 a.m. ; 6 a.m. found us after an 13 miles'
march close to Futtehpore, where there was known
to be an intrenched camp in the enemy's posses-
sion. We, mustering 20 is all, a, few of the Irre-
gulars, and a company of Fusileers, were pushed
forward, and approached towards the place. Tytler,
our Quartermaster-General, went close up, and was
taking a good survey of the place when
the whole force rushed out on him ;ho
galloped back to us, and we stood there
till the guns opened on us with round
shot, and their cavalry skirmished on our flanks.
The Irregulars tried to bolt, but were stopped by
the Madras Fusiliers. We then all retired slowly ,
on our camp, the enemy following. When we had
formed up our artillery advanced and opened !upon
them, but nothing more, as they bolted imme-
diately, their cavalry leading the way. They left
11 guns in all, a great deal of baggage, but no
treasure. We learnt af, erwards that they had
come out supposing us to be Major Renaud's
column, with two guns only, and 'they had come
with their baggage, intending to cut up Major
Renaud's party, and then go straight on to Allaha-
bad. We marched through the town and got to
our encamping ground at 3 o'clock in the afternoon,
having been marching and fighting since 1.1 o'clock
the night before. We had not a man killed,
though several poor fellows fell victims to sun-
strokes. We, of course, halted the next day, but
had to disarm the Irregulars, as they had bolted
and deserted their officers the day before, when
called upon to charge the rebels. Wo fought on
Sunday, halted on Monday, and on Tuesday again
came across the enemy intrenched ; we imme-
diately drove them out, and they left b2hincl two
guns ; we rested an hour, though I personally had
no rest, being sent back to see if the baggage was
all right, it having been attacked by the enemy's
cavalry, though without success. On my joining
our men again we got the order to advance, which
wo did for about three miles, when they opened on
us a 24-ponitiler entrenched on the other side of a
small stream, they having withdrawn all their men
across the bridge. We blew them out of that
again, and crossed the bridge justin time to save its
being blown up, as they had laid a train so to do.
This second time we took a 24-pounder and one
16-pound carronade. The men were so done up
that we had to halt them, and not before tiny., as
the sun was overpowering. The next day was an
awful day for us Volunteer Cavalry ; we marched
early and went about 16 miles, or within three of
where the enemy were strongly entrenched, and
we had therefore to go on picket, I myself
standing sentry for an hour, and from the be-
ginnuing to end we were on the qui rice all the
time, as the Sowers were hanging around us.
I had been on picket all night, and had nothing to
eat except biscuit, nor anything to drink but
water. We managed to get a little meat in the
middle of the day, but bad to eat it standing. At
3 o'clock we advanced again, and marched on to
some little distance, when the column turned off
to the right, the Volunteer Cavalry remaining on
the road so as to bide the movement, and then we
formed up in the rear. We were fired on imme-
diately, and after some difficulty carried their posi-
tion ou the Cawnpore road, where the infantry and
cavalry were in full reireat, and then we 20 Volun-
teer Cavalry made a gallant charge, losing one man
killed, though it is a miracle that we were not all
shot as they coolly pottsul at us. A. pretty sharp
baptism all this for a youngster 1 We then took
breath on the Delhi road, but a round shot from
the village on the right soon knocked U 3 up again ;
the village was carried at the point of tie bayonet,
but no sooner there than two 21-pounders opened
again further down the Cawnpore road and out
of the range of our guns, which wore on the
Delhi road, but these were ultimately captured
by us. We got on our encamping ground just as
it was getting dark, after having again captured 7
guns, among them the two 21 pounders. Our bag-
gage had not moved since the halt, and was there-
fere about seven miles behind. We had noliug
for it but to go supperless to I;_d, holding our
horses, as no grooms were up. As luck would
have it, I had to mount night guard from 9 to 11,
and had no sooner turned iu than a false alarm was
given, and we were all roused up again, but only
for a quarter of an hour. When I turned in with
a looted &Toy's cloak around Ins, and a bottle for
my pillow, I slept like a top. Next morning we
heard an explosion, which turned out to be half
the magazine which they had blown up. We then
marched into the cantonments, and I had the satis-
faction of putting up in the 2d Cavalry lines. A
nigger brought lots of beer, sodawater, and brandy,
which was a great haul, as we had only had a biscuit
for breakfast. We found the next day that the
Nena had murdered all the women and children
that ho had taken prisoners, and thrown them naked
down a well. This he did when he saw we were
getting the best of it. The women and children,
in all about two hundred, bad been kept in
a sort of Zenana, and no attention whatever paid
to cleanliness, and in that place they had been
butchered, as the ground was covered with clotted
blood. One poor womanbad evidently teen work-
ing, as a small workbox was open and the things
scat erect about ; there were several children's
small round hats, evidently showing that that was
their prison, and the well close by was one of the
most awful sights imaginable. It has been covered
in, and I hope that we shall raise a monument
over it. The Nena has escaped us for the time,
but he will assuredly be hung soma day, unless
the report is true that he has drowned himself.
The day before yesterday being Sunday church
parade was ordered, but instead of this we were
marched off to Biehoor, where the Rajah's palace
was. We found it quite deserted of men, though
they had kindly left us 15 more guns, bullocks,
elephants, &c. Their guns were in strong posi-
tion, but they seemed to have been seized with a
panic and bolted. Ther
Lawrence
tit;
Sepoys daily, and seem very glad to have us back
eifrom
villagers
drLucknow bringing in
are
Majorgood,
though
again.
Banks, now in command there, says he can hold
ut
out till the end of August. We had a general
order yesterday, in which we were told that we had
a cac
only commenced our work, as we bad to relieve
Lucknow, take Delhi, and march on to Agra. I
only hope we may, and then we shall be sure of a
medal. lam pretty comfortable just now; having
a tent with another man, and am keeping my
health wonderfully, and hope to do so till all the
row is over. The latest repoit is that we are to
make a dust at Lucknow without any baggage,
rescue the people there, and rush back. Pleasant,
won't it be, to have no covering in the rains 2 . We
march for Lucknow in an hour, so good bye."

than back in charging. On Tuesday night we ex-
pected relief from I)inapore, vs ive heard firing,
but our men got caught among some topes (clumps
of trees), and were so mauled they had to retire.
"They had no guns with them. We have kept
this house with 46 Sikhs—splendid fellows—and 15
Europeans and half-castes ; not a man on our side
killed, and only one wounded dangerously, not-
withstanding the enemy brought small guns against
us; we were very nearly undermined, but we ran a
counter ono. Thank God fir sending us well and in
safety out of this, for I never expected to leave the
house alive. Wo must have killed ana wounded
more than 50 of the enemy.
" They expected to starve us I fancy, but we
have enough for another 4 o: 5 days, having got in
a sortie some sheep, awl we dug a well inside. I
write in au awful state of dirt and confusion, as the
Gora.log (European) are expected every minute.
" P.S.—Of course we have nothing left in the
world; but we must not mind as we hale our lives.

JUBBULPORE.
The following is from an officer :--
" Jubbulpore, Aug. 5.

My last, I fear, would have made you all some-
what anxious about me. lam happy to say we
are all quite well, and I :trust we have now little or
no danger to apprehend.. I mentioned that a force
had left Kamptee for this place. It arrived two
days ago—six guns, with 75 European artillery-
men, a squadron of the 4th Native Cavalry, and
the 33d Madras Native Infantry ; but, to the dis-
may of those who remain hero, the commissioner
has decided, in the meantime, to take the whole of
this force ot4t into the district to quell some refrac-
tory petty chi fs. lam in hopes the commissioner
will yet think better of it, and not venture to leave
this most important post to the tender mercies of
the 521. If he persist in taking the whole force
with him, I conceive our position here will be more
precarious than it was bet, re the column arrived.
If two guns were left with us I think we could
hold our own, even if the 52d did go. The move-
ment of the whole force has been strongly protested
against, anclErskine has been requested to halt the
column pending the decision of the Governor-
General. We were fondly hoping that all mutinies
were at an end, but the last four days has brought
us intelligence of the mutiny of six regiments. At
Segowlee the 12th Irregular Cavalry mutinied.
They shot their commanding officer, his wife, and
child, and burnt alive their doctor, with his wife
and child, in their own bungalow. At Futtyghur
the wife and child of Mr. Tucker, being about to
fall into the hands of another rebellious set, she
called to her husband to shoot her at once. He did
so, his child also, and then himself. A Major Ro-
bertsou has also shot his wife and children and him-
self. This is a new and ruelaucholy feature in the
tragedies. All this leaving occurred within the last
few days makes us the more anx'out about being
left here unprosectcd. Tho officers of the 52d
naturasly uphold their own regiment ; but as now
there are scarcely 10 regiments remaining of the
Bengal army, it is very probable that the 52d will
go sooner or later. It is most inscrutable. A regi-
ment appears stanch up to the hour it mutinies,
everything going on as usual up to the very hour of
the outbreak. You will get accounts of Havelock's
different successful engagements in his advance to
Cawnpore in the newspapers, but they may not
mention a wonderful piece of luck for us iu one
of them. Two 18 pounder guns were in position
and doing great mischief tons. We ran up to within
400 yards some nine pounders and howitzers to
oppose them, and people were surprised, after a
round or two, to see the heavy guns cease firing.
A rush was made and the guns were captured. It
was found that a shirapnell from one of the howit-
zers had broken both the loading staves of the big
guns. The Bth Queen's are now before Delhi, and
I fancy —is there. God grant he may got well
through the no child's play b4ore hi n. . In our
neighbourhood affairs, I fancy, will never mend.
The Shughur Rajah has been raising a mob—
troops they cannot be called. He wrote a letter to
Major Western, telling him to clear out of the
Saugor Fork, or he would come and level it with
the ground in three days, and cut the embankment
of the largo tank. It is very likely that he will do
the people at Saugor much harm. .He sent some
1,000 men against Dame!), in hopes of surprising
the treasury on its way to Saugor. By good luck
the party to escort it had not started, and as they
had a couple of 6-pounders, the rebels were driven
off with considerable loan—i3l dead were counted in
one spot. I am sorry to say that young Gordon, of
the 32d, is still in his hands, at least he was on the
25th of July. Oa that date be made Gordon write
to Hamilton that he would give him up. He told
him to add that Hamilton had taken a gun of his,
and he wished to get it again. Hamilton wrote and
said the gun would he restored as soon as he saw the
prisoners. On sending to the appointed place no
prisoners were forthcoming, so we are still in fears
for our friend. 1 believe the column from this will
first move on Deena), and then '.go against the
Shughur men. Some rebels took possession of a fort
some 60 miles from this, eight miles from the road
(at present under my charge) between this and Mir-
z spore. They
horses, so a company of the 52d was sent from this
were li:eginning to steal the post-
against them. The 52d men left this quite in high
spirits, but they hal not the fortune to have a
brush with the rebels, for they bolted from the
fort on hearing of the approach of regular troops.
I think I mentioned that a native chief had some
guns in this neighbourhood. It turns out that
thy wore mere playthings, an,' could do tts no
injury. I have just received letters from —, dated
the 3d ; all well at Kamptee and Seotbuldee.
We have been at church to-clay, as it was a day ap-
pointed for prayer, humiliation, and fasting.

The following
Ittler and regimental orders were
written by Lieut.-001. Great,head on the death and
gallant conduct of Ensign Mon nstevon, 8. h (King's)
Regiment, whose death we announced on the sth
inst., as slain btfore the walls of Delhi :

" REGIMENTAL ORDERS, STE (KING'S) REGIMENT.
" Camp before Delhi, July 10.
" The regiment will lelrn with the greatest re-
gret that Ensign Mounsteven has died of the wounds
received by him in the affair of the 9th July, in this
his first and last engagement. This admirable young
officer, though only
18 years of age, displayed a
coolness and a brilliant brave-y which, had he been
led to future distinction ; and
spared, must have
it is with the most hew tfalt sorrow that Lieut.-Col.
Greathead announct,s the untimely close of his
career. He is buried in the eemet .ry, and the
officers and men, will erect a monument to his
memory,"

" Camp before Delhi, July 13.
" My dear Sir,—The very painful duty has fallen
upon me of acquainting you with the loss you have
sustained by the death of your most gallant son,
from a mort 11 wound received in action before
Delhi on the 9th iust. I cannot express to you the
sorrow this has caused to me and to every one in the
regiment. None have felt more than I, for I had
formed great hopqs of him ; he had every quality
to make a good soldier—bravery, coolness, ready
will, and ready obedience, and never were those
qualities more conspicuous than in the engagement
which was his first and last. We went into action
about 11 a.m., and the duty which we had to per-
form was to clear the mutineers out of an intricate
labyrinth of gardens and houses. This was done
wish great rapidity, but not without considerable
loss, as the mutineers took advantage of every wall
and building, and we lost 30 men killed and
wounded, out of 160 we bad in action. I saw your
brave boy head the men of his company in a dozen
charges, and his light foot let no man head him,
throughout he was unhurt. We had driven the
mutineers out of the garden aoross the road, which
we crossed, and going up the banks of a canal we
entered an enclosure, round which the mutineers
had mustered in force, and a shot from a loophole
struck him in the abdomen, passing out just above
the groin. He is buried in the cemetery. When
m
this business is over we shall erect a tomb to hisemory, He was sensible to the last, and died like
a true Christian, without repining, It is for us to
regret him whq are left, for a finer officer never en-
teredE's.seArll.'lGce:tEATHEAD,
om manding Bth (King's) Regt."
371,1 y,
, —l3elieve me, my dear
sir,,yoursLhi
eeurt
fM:ciatojilei
"Lieut.-Col.

DINAPORE.

The following is from a lady:-....
" Boat off Dina.pore, July 28.
gg My own dear Parents,—Little I thought it
would come to this, bad as the times are ; however,
I thank God, which I do most sincerely, that 1
have ne Worse news—we have escaped, and are as
well as we can hope to be under these most trying
circumstances. We have had a very hard run for
our lives, and are now refugees without homes or
anything but a few clothes which we had just time
to secure. Our house is burnt to the ground, and
everything in and about it, but we feel, and all do
these times, that should not be thought of. There
is no commiseration for any losses where life has
been spared. You cannot imagine the horrors we
and many others have had to go through, but,

thank God, we have still been most forth
n.ate. .On the evening of the 25th we got a pri-
vate note from the brigade-mejor in Dina-
pore, under official cover, to say the troops were
expected to mutiny every moment, and to make
our arrangements accordingly. We had been so
often frightened before that we did not think so
much of it, but got a boat anchored close to our
house, and got as many of the ferry boats on our
side of the river as we could. Went to bed, and
about 4 in the morning heard that the Sepoys were
gathering on the opposite bank; did not believe it,
but got up and wont to the boat, saw nothing un-
usual ourselves, so went home again. Presently
another alarm came, and we all coolly walked to
the riverside, and to our dismay saw something very
like Sepoys opposite. Before we knew where we
were they had many of them got into boats and
were bring at us, and we saw the houses and works
beginning to smoke.
" We got into our boat half dead.with fright, aud
got off as fast as strength could get us. It was awful
—lO minutes more and we could not have escaped,
or if our villagers had proved treacherous nothing
could have saved us, as we should, if we had got
from the banks, have been fired at on passing, as
they had done but too effectually in in,ny places.
We took the river for Dinapore, and all the way
down we sewnothing but fires—bungalo wa,
anything the -villains could file.
" We got near Dinapore and found all the sepoy
lines in a blaze, and after about six hours we got the
news that 3,000 of the native troops had mutinied,
made direct for poor Knocker, on their way up to
Arrah and all the stations up country. And fancy !
the old woman of a general letthesethree regiments
mutiny, help themselves to 60 rounds each of am-
munition, and would not allow the 10th to fight.
" All Dinapore is perfectly incensed about it,
and what should we beg We have had a good deal
of news since of their doings ; it is perfectly awful.
We met a steamer going up with five companies to
our rescue, they got but half way, and had to come
back for want of water. might have sent
some detachments on elephants, but it is too late
by a couple of days. The first thing they fired
ou the east side was our new house, and then they
destroyed everything and every building belonging
to the works; crossed, but before that butchered
a poor inspector, wife, and daughter, burnt,
robbed, and committed all imaeinaole atrocities
—my poor pet buggy horse killed in his stable,
and every living thing destroyed, as far as we can
learn, except J--'s riding mare. That we have
some slight hopes of, and some of Mr. P--'s
horees, which most likely, if they are alive, ran
away. They fired the coal-heap, and threw the
sheep, 45e., on the top. Out of all the houses and
immense works and materials c illected for the
bridge not a stick is left. What the Sepoys could
not take or destroy the villagers made up for.
"We had no time to get the treesu,y from
Knockar-heuse, and it of course is gone. It is a
sad thing, the work of years, and property to an
enormous extent. All our uropean inspechers es-
caped, mestly without a single thing save what was
on their backs, excspt one, a fine young man ; poor
fellow, ho was butchered—was too late to get into
the boats. It is feared many between us and Arrah
are gone. As for Arrah, we are in great alarm about
it. Some of the up-country engineers and civil
servants fled to a small bungalow they had forti-
fied. Arrah we know is in full pos=ession of the
rebels. The prisoners are sot loose, and they are de-
stroying everything. But the fate of the poor
people we cannot tell. There has been no news
since five in the evening of the 26th. If they stand
out some six or eight against 2,000 or 3,000 Sepoys,
it will be by a miracle. Poor Mrs. B— is here
in a fearful state of mind, as you may imagine. Our
friends the L—'s, by some great good fortune, came
here a few days before for change of air. Their
house and all they possessed are lost ; had they re-
mained nothing could have saved them. For seve-
ral up the line we are in great alarm. Lots of
troops have followed for places beyond Arrah.
They say, Oh, Arrah is gone by this ;no use our
going there.'
" It is a sad thing that human lives and property
should be left in charge of such generals. Our own
unfortunate position prevents my letting you know
of that of many others. But since there have been
dreadful accounts from up-country ; official reports
of engineers' deaths—wives and all, in some cases,
The country is in a fearful state all over. Patna is
expected to go next. What we shall do or where
to go to I know not ; the steamers going down are
too full of up-country refugees to leave room for us.
Dinapore is so full that for° any amount we could
not got a single room. We have no help but to live
as we have been doing, which is, I must confess,
very wretched—five of us in an open bolt, with a
thatched bamboo £hopper over part of it to keep
off the sun. I need not tell you we are very lea--
rassed both in body and mind, but if God gives us
heal h we shell be very thankful.
"If we are spared to come home, what scenes
shail we have to talk over and te'l you ! Our turn
has come at last to suffer, but our lives, so far, are
spared, so we should turn to Him with grateful
hearts and not murmur. But still it is very hard ,
after all, to be so thrown on tho world almost pen-
niless, without the means of getting a home over
our heads except by the aid of charity or borrowing
from refugees, and we have very little, if any, hope
of getting compensation, so many have lost. The
Company with their own losses, perhaps, cannot do

" The P's are going down to Calcutta and home. '
There will be no railway work for at least a year or
two, if all goes well with the winter campaign. This
at least, is a sad life to lead, and now with such
danger a-ound it is very dreadful. I can scarcely
realise the narrow escape we have had—one 10 mi-
nutes more, and wo could have had no hope. Our
beautiful Guards all fled like wild things, and the
Santhal men, so it is well we had no real trust in
them. All said they would not fight armed Sepoys,
not one servant has turned up, so we suppose they
have joined the rebels. My poor dogs ! I could
fret myself sick if I thought much, but we saved
Bobby quite by good luck ; he was put in the boat
when we had no fe tr early in the morning, and we
did not take him out again. I have a fow clothes
and a little box with our silver, my watch and
Graham' are all we have left—not a pin's worlh
besides, to the best of my belief. I rushed at Gra-
ham, for I thought it might be useful if we wer g
e
sick in the boat; all our other booka—cv, rythin
we had in the world is gone. Oh, those vile wretches!
I could shoot at them myself. From the petty re-
vengeful things they did with our property ;Vc can
imagine how we should have fared. The details, if
I could only give them, would disgust you. Please
God all goes well, I will write again this mail.
Excuse this (I am afraid) not very legible SCI awl. I
am writing at the bottom of the boat on my knees,
half eaten by musquittoes, flies, &c., and grilled
with the beat. We have plenty to eat and drink,
but everything is frightfully dear.
"Now, my beloved parents, do not fret about
us ; indeed, you should feel very happy I am here
to tell you of our safety after such trials. I hope
to tell you we have been able to get a passage down
to Calcutta, and then it is to be hoped we shall
I have no fear of those wretches ; and for all else we
must hope the best.
" Ever your affectionate daughter."

THE GARRISON OF FUTTYGHUR.
The following is an extract of a let! er contain-
ing, it is feared, a too well authenticated account of
the fate of the garrison at Futtyghur : " August 6.
"I fear there is little doubt that the garrison of
Futtyghur have been murdered by that fiend Neua
Sahib. I hear the deposition of a servant that has
arrived here, stating that after a struggle of nino
days the small band was overconifii that the Nawab
of Furruckabad furnished them with bo:Itl, and that
they were all killed by Nena in cold L'..ood after
passing Bithoor. Of the 10th Native Infantry- .4.'his
includes, I believe, Brigadier and Mrs. Smith,
Munro, Phillot, Phillimore, Fitzgerald and wife,
Simpson, Swetenham, Henderson, Eckford, Dr.
Heathcote and family ; then there were the Rev.
Mr. Fisher and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, Major
and Mrs. Robertson. Tucker, the clothing agent,
was shot through the head when looking thrmish a
loophole.
" I have just seen the servant's deposition taken
at Ghazcepore. It appears that the fugitives moored
their boats near Cawnpore, their boatmen ran
away, the gentlemen gave the villagers money
of whi .
ch
to
induce them to get more men, instead
they told Nena, who sent conveyances for them,
confined them in the Assembly rooms,
an. d whon
Bragadier-General Havelock beat back h y
is troops
and took his guns, he had the
whole part
butchered.
"He is reported to have said he could nownd die I
happy, as he had killed 1,000 Feringhees,
i a
fancy he has completed about that number, includ-
ing the Christians at Cawnpore and the Futtyghur
refugees (in all about 150, including those who
fled early in June.)
"A deserter of the 10th Native Infantry, a
Sepoy, was seized at Ghazeepore, riding Sweten-
ham's horse. He said that Captain Bignell was with
.
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