The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-30 00:00:00

GELVERAL HAVELOCK.

The following letter has been addressed 10 A W.
ir —ln
tomporary
S the notice of General Havelock git°,l3o
by Mr. Graham at Belfast, and a copy of which:
appeared in your issue of Monday last, there r
pears to be some little inaccuracy which it maitor
hav
intimately
tkinmoawtenlyt,heaGndeuecranal
0,11%!
masowreeltlhtaonc,3yorryears most
with confidence that he has never baptized ant 0.4
neither, iu the strict professional sense of the 11°10.
can he be said to have "preached." When ?!,obie
barked for Burmah in 1824, in company tyl•„"'
regiment, his Majesty's 13th Foot, he WAS :Ile&
habit of assembling as many as could be Prei—ore
on to attend for devotional exercises, and he
sionally explained the Scriptures to them ill a brief
1.0
address. They were allowed to assemble at tlleg-socl
Shoey Dagoon pagoda, the glory of Range legged
there, in a chamber filled with the cross"
images of Buddha, might be seen little se na
lamps placed in the lap of the images, and 100 Aott
mare of the soldiers of the 13th around Lielltll3oo
Havelock, singing the praises of the living anu4 t of
God. Independently of the religious belle'', to
these services, it was a most desirable objecti. a
keep these men from licentious indulgences
conquered town by the strength of Christian Pt
ciple. They used to be called " Havelock's Sae
and the General-in-Chief, Sir A. Campbell, on (75-
occasion of a sudden alarm at Prome at iiight, of
ing it difficult to collect speedily a sufficient bode
soldiers, ordered the officer to call out "Havele°mrol•
Saints ;" "I can always," said he,' depend ou
They, at all events, are sober and ready for dll","00-
i When he returned to regimental duty he 4; of
t_nued to attend to the religious and moral warbled
Mil company with conscientious care, andsleEtteee•
ot em, as opportunity offered, for religiouser,',loo;
Of course, some were displeased with thee® non'
military" proceedings, as they were called' woo
various communications adverse to him den'
wade to the Commander-in-Chief, Lord . 'jorf
tinck, and he was described as a strait-lacedt,: the
a Dissenter, and, withal, a Baptist. Soon neat•
adjutancy of the corps became vacant, andoue
Havelock was a candidate for it, and very etreo,fre.
efforts were made to prevent his nomination.
__lto
Havelock, who happened to be at SeraruPere,„a
regiment being then in the north-west---47_t"- opia
Lord William to solicit the appointment.' 1 Phea lat 4
he could not give a reply till the next day. 7,;;,telf
calling a second time he said he had intertner-froo
sent for a bundle of letters about her husbull'tdore
Calcutta. " They are all hostile to him, but a de'
I read them to you I will tell you that I ilrhyb;ed)
t runnel t give the adjutancy to your 11111:8-0
because he is one of th,, best officers in his Oteuilicse
service. I will also show you the reply. te, f the
attacks in the return which I have ordered 43;‘, less
state of his company, and I find that there 470013
drunkenness, less flogging, less imprisonceen',, to
in any other;" and then, alluding facetioue,,i ac
one of the charges brought against him, said, oath
and tell Lieut. Havelock, with my coruPliej,llolo
that I wish he could make Baptists of the "
army."

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8, Sill!.
BRILLIANT.—Bermuda
YELLOW FEVER ON BOARD HER. MAJESTYI- OP.
papers to the Ist in t Alit° o
s • iito g
the British ship-A-war Brilliant had arrived at ft° 100
had
rom Granada, and sailed for Halifax. She 74,,stb° ;
eases of yellow fever among her crew, and 2_ be ? d"--0- f the
the chaplain of the ship, Rev. Mr. Watson, 'll'
latter number.