The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-15 00:00:00

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BRIGADIER-GENERAL HAVELOCK.
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Bishopswearmonth, near Sueta§aiKi; •
father, who was descended froM faipikr,ilaleh
long resided at Grimsby, hav_lcittatouimilaceiiii-u,.
independence in commerct
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Sunderland, purchased leg sielatld, nksalel3eitt- •
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ford, in the county of Kent. 'llegas mprietto a
daughter of the family of Ettrick,'WhiCh—hadeen
seated for many generations at High Barnes. H.
_Havelock was educated at the Charterhou.se, where
he had as his contemporaries Lord Panmure, Dr.
Thirlwall, the Bishop of St. David's, Dr. Wadding..
ton, the Dean of Durham, the late Archdeacon
Hare, G. Grote, the historian of Greece ; Sir W.
Macnaughten, the unfortunate Envoy to Cabul ;
Sir W. Norris, late Recorder of Pensog ; Sir- C.-
Eastlake, and Mr. Yates, tl e actor. , In 1813, in
consequence of the decline of his father's fortunes;
Ingress Park was sold to Government, and Have.:
lock was entered of the Middle Temple, and at-
tended the lectures of Chitty, the eminent special
plestder, where his most int'reeto associate was the
late Sir Thomas Talfourd, the author of " Ion."
His elder brother William had distinguished him:,
s -if in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo
and Henry, yielding to the military propea-
s;ties of his family, endeavoured through his in-
tere4 to obtain a commission. A month after the
battle of Waterloo he was appointed Second Lieu-
tenant in the Rifle Brigade (93th), where his military
trailing was assisted by Captain, afterwards Sir H.
Smith, the victor of Aliwal. Havelock served for
eight years in England, Scotland, and Ireland,
and, having at length exchanged into the 13th
Light Infantry, embarked for India in 1823.
In 1824 the first Burmese war broke out, itud
Havelock was appointed Deputy Assistant-Adju-
tant-General, and was present at the actions at
Napadee, Patanagob, and Peghan. On the termi-
nation of the war he was associated with Captain
Lumsden and Dr. Knox on a mission to the Court
of Ava, and had an audience of the " Golden
Foot," when the treaty of Yandaboo was signed.
In 1827 he published the " History of the Ave
Campaigns," remarkable for the freedom of its
comments on the transactions of the war. In that
year he was appointed Adjutant of the Military
Depot formed at Chinsurah by Lord Combermere,
and soon after married the' youngest daughter of
the la'e Rev. Dr. Marshman, of Serampore. The
Chinsurah establishment was soon after broken np,
and Havelock returned to his regiment. He sub-
sequently visited Calcutta, and, having passed in
the languages at the College, Wail appointed Adju-
tant to his corps by Lord W. Bentinck. The corps
was then under the command ofColonel,afterwarde
Sir R. Sale. In 1838 Havelock was promoted to a
company, after having served 23 years as a subal-
tern. An army was now collected for the in-
vasion of Affghanistan, and Havelock accom-
panied it on the staff of Sir Willoughby Cot-
ton. He went through the first Affghan cam-
paign, was present at the storm of Ghuznee and
the occupation of Cabul, and then returned to
India with Sir Willoughby Cotton. Having ob-
tained leave to visit the Presidency, be prepared a
" Memoir of the Affghan Campaign," which was
soon after printed in London. He returned to the
Punjaub in clieree of a detachment, and was placed
on the staff of Gen. Elphinstone, as Persian Inter-

prefer.
The Eastern Ghilzieslhaving risen and blockaded
Cabul, Havelock was sent to join Sir R. Sale, then
marching beck to India, and was present at the
forcing of Khoord Cabul piss, at the action of Te-
zeen, and all the other engagements of that force
till it reached Jellalabad. In conjunction with his
friends, Major Macgregor and Capt. Broadfoot, ho
had the chief direction under Sale, of the memor-
able defence of that place, of which he wrote all the
despatches which were afterwards so highly o6m-
mended by Sir G. Murray. In the final attack on
AI %homed Akbar in April, 1842, which obliged thee
chief to rase the siege, Havelock commanded the
right column, and defeated him before the other
columns could come up. For this be was promoted
to a Brevet Majority, and was made Companion of
the Bath. He was then nominated Persian Inter-
preter to General Pollock, and was present at the
action of Mamoo Keil, and the second engagement
at Tezeen. He then procce lel with Sir eJohn.
M'Caskill's force into the Kohi sten, and had an im-
portant share in the brilliant affair at Istatiff. The
next year he was promoted to a Regimental Majo-
rity, and nominated Persian Interpreter to the
Commander-iu-Chief, Sir H. (afterwards Viscount)
Gough.
At the close of 1843 be accompanied the army to
Gwalior, and was engaged in the battle of Mtharej-
pore. In 1844 he was promoted to the rank of
Lieut.-Colonel by brevet. In 1845 he proceeded
with the army to meet the invasion of the Sikhs,
and was actively engaged in the battles of Moodkee,
Yerozeshah, and Sobraon. At Moodkee he had two
horses shot under him ; at Sobraon a third horse
was smitten down by a cannon-shot which passed
through his saddle-cloth. On the conclusion of the
Sutlej campaign he was appointed Deputy Adjutant-
, General of the Queen's troops at Bombay. The se-
cond Sikh war nowbroke out, andhis elderbrother,
Col. W. Havelock, was killed at Ramnuggur. His
own regimen', the 53d, having been ordered into
the field, he quitted his staff employment at 'Bom-
bay, in order to join it, and had proceeded eis far
as Indore, when his further progress was counter-
manded, and he returned to his post. Twenty-five
years of incessant and laborious service now began
to tell on his constitution, and his medical advisers,
in 1849, sent him to Europe for two years for the
restoration of his health. He returned to. Bombay
in 1851, and was soon after made Brevet Colonel,
and, appointed, through the kindness of Lord liar-
dingo, by whose side he had fought lit the
three battles of the Sutlej, Quartermaster-
General, and then Adjutant-General, of Queen's
troops in India. On the despatch of the ex.
pedition to Persia he was appointed to the second
division, and commanded the troops at Mohamme-
rah, the glory of which action was, however, re-
served for the naval force. On the conclusion of the
peace he returned to Bombay, and embarked in the
Erin for Calcutta, in which vessel he was wrecked,
in April last, off the coast of Ceylon. Five days
alter he ob*.amed a passage in the Fire Queen, and,
on reaching Calcutta, was immediately sent up to
Allahabad as Brigadier-General, to command the
moveable column, with which he has now, in three
decisive actions, defeated the Mahratta fiend, Nona
Sahib. It is singular that in all these engagements
in Burmah, in Affghanistan, at Gwalior, in the
Sutlej campaigns, and in Persia, though generally
exposed to the hottest fire, he has never been
wounded.

WINTERING IN DAY& STRAITS.—The hull Packet
says—" A letter has been received in this town, by way
of New London, America, from Mr. Skelton, the pre-
sent mate of the barque Alibi, of Aberdeen, which vessel
wintered in Davis' Straits. Out of her crew, consisting
of 30 to 40 men, five have died of scurvy, occasioned by
living on salt meat, and the want of suitable provisions ;
and the doctor of the ship, in desperation, had leaped
overboard, and was drowned. Amongst the dead are
the mate, Mr. Dannatt, and several other men from
Hull. It appears the Alibi was nine months locked up
in the ice, and was not released therefrom till July ; and
it will be November before she reaches Scotland. Sho
caught Or e whales last fall, and thres more this sum-
mer, making altogether 55 tuns of oil, up to the-24th of
July ; and it was possible that more might be caught,
but the fish, though plentiful, were very wild, and would
not allow the ships to come near them. The letter is
dated July 24, and states that the mate, John Dannatt,
died May 24, after being three months' ill of scurvy ;
John Brown died in February, after being ill two months
and a half, of the same disease ; one Dundee man died
in April, and two more in July. Many others of the
crew had been ill in scurvy, but most of them were re.
covering ; the doctor bad been out of his, mind most of
the winter—it was abuut the middle of July, in a gale of
was making for a harbour, that he
leapedwwiansd wsm,
overboard,the
hand was drowned, though every effort
Dannatt has left a widow and
five children, from three to thirteen years of age."
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