The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-08 00:00:00

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be might be able to recover more of the property. The
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THE 1.

7INY .

The following letter was addressed to a near
relative in England by an officer of the 9th Light
Cavalry. The date is not very recent, and several of
the details contained in it have been already men=
tioned :
'" My dear —, I sent you a letter by the last
mail, hut from the unsettled state that the country
is in I cannot think there is the least probability of
its ever having reached you. I will therefore re-
peat a great deal of what I then told you. We have,
indeed, had a very anxious time of it here lately in
consequence of a great portion of the native army
having in utinied. The disaffection was fiat shown
in the 19th N.I. at Berampore. The reason they
cave for their conduct was, that they objected to the
new cartridges that were served out to them, which
they had been told were greased with pig's fat,
which they said was prejudicial to their caste and
also against their religion ; but this reason for their
mutiny is of course absurd, for they were assured by
Government that they were not made up of any-
thing they could object to. However, this mutinous
spirit continued to spread, and next appeared in
the 34th Native Infantry at Barackpore. On
parade one of the men at!enepted to cut down the
adjutant and the sergeant-major (who is European).
They were both wounded, and were carried off the
parade ground. The man has since been hung,
also one of the men who was ordered to arrest hole,
and who disobeyed. That part of the regiment that
was present at this parade, consisting of seven corn-
panie4, has been disbande 1. I should have told
you that the whole of the 19th Regiment has been
punished in the same manner. This occurred two
or three months since, but about three weeks ago
three native regiments at Meerut have mutinied •
also two at Urnballah, one at Allghur, two at Fero:
zepore ; also the native regiments at Lahore, Pesba-
wur, Nowshera, Delhi, and two regiments in Oude.
If the brutes had been more successful at the places
I have mentioned I believe the whole Indian army
to a men would have rebelled and murdered all the
Europeans in the country, who, I am sorry to say,
are but few for =this large presidency. We have
only about 20 European regiments besides the
European . artillery, therefore if the niggers had
planed their designs better they would not have
had much trouble in getting rid of us. As it is,
they have murdered a great many people. Part of
the 3d Light Cavalry, rode over from Meerut to
.Delhi, and on their arrival the regiment there
joined them, and murdered every European they
could find, ladies and children inclusive. I hear the
Misses Fraser, daughters of Mr. Fraser, of the Com-
pany's Service, fe'l into the hands of the infuriated
savages, and, after having murdered the father, and
committed crimes of the most diabolical description
upon the girls, they then beheaded them and pa-
raded their bodies about the city the remainder of
the day. I believe the men of one regiment at
Delhi (I think the 74th) marched their officers a
short distance out of their cantouments, and then
allowed them to escape. Indeed, several officers
escaped from the scene of butchery through the kind-
ness, it is said, of their men. There were 15 women
and children who took refuge in the Palace of Delhi
—all murdered. We hear that it was the inhabitants
of the city who were the perpetrators of the
horrid deeds I have told you of ; but, sup-
posing that to be true, they ehe soldiers) are just as
culpable as if they committed the deeds themselves.,
From Meerut also we have some sad accounts. For'
instance, the wife of the adjutant of the 20th Native
Infantry fell into the hands of these inhuman
brutes, and was afterwards burnt to death. 'Tis
dreadful the reports that come to us. I have been
told that Mrs. M'Donald, after having been treated
in the same brutal manner, was besmeared all over
with oil and burnt to death, but I -cannot believe
this is true. We bear so many things that one does
not know what to believe. ou wilt be sorry to hear
that among the list of killed I see Mr. and Mrs.
Dawson, of the 3d Light Cavalry, Meerut (this is
Mr. K. Dawson's sou), but I have not heard that
any act of violence was offered to either of them
before they were murdered. Well, now I come to
our part of the country. It was discovered by the
Commissioner at Lahore that the native regiments
(four) agreed on the night of the 15th inst. to rise
at a given signal, and murder all the Europeans
in the station; therefore the Brigade was pa-
raded, and the native portion were then disarmed.
The 16th N.I. hesitated a little, but in front of her
Majesty's 81st Foot and two troops of horse artil-
lery they wise7y gave up their arms, or they would
most certainly have been fired into. The officers in
Lahore now live together in three houses, and the
ladies are all in two buildings, and are ordered by
the brigadier not to come out eitherby night or day.
The men for several nights slept at their guns, and
no one thought of taking off his clothes, and the
81st Queen's Regiment was under arms for nights.
I heard from a brother officer at Lahore the other
day. He says 15 of them sleep in one house. They
remain dressed all night—pistols under pillow and
sword by bed-side. Horses saddled all night ready
to jump on to in a moment. He says four of them
keep watch while the others lie down. The Corn-
m'ssioner ascertained by means of a bribe that the
niggers had endeavoured to get up a conspiracy to
murder us at a large dinner party given at our
mess. They thought it would be a favourable oppor-
tunity, as we should then be unarmed and pert', ctly
helpless, but some of our men would not consent to
it, and we therefore providentially escaped. Our
Brigadier took every precaution, and had the Eu-
ropeans ready night and day in case the fellows
should break out. The guns, which before were
under a native guard, were drawn up in front of
the European barracks, horses harnessed all night ;
officers and men not on duty lay. down with their
clothes on. We slept soundly In a house, and
adopted the same means as I have told you they
did at Lahore. But, much to our regret, an order
arrived from the Commander-in-Chief in the Pun-
jaub, from her Majesty's 52d Regiment, all the
artillery, the 35th Native Infantry, and a wing of
my regiment, to march to Ferzerabad, and join
General Chamberlain's army there, but our Briga-
dier kept back two guns and 200 of her Majesty's
52d, but they have since been ordered to join the
others, and will leave the station to-night. This
will leave us with no Europeans in the station
(except officers), and we shall have the other
wing of my regiment here and the 46th Regi-
ment of Native Infantry, but I see no fear
now. The niggers have signally failed at the
other stations, and are in a precious funk now, and
evidently wished they had never mutinied. I hope,
the General will punish them severely at Lahore.
Nothing less than blowing them away from the
guns will be of any use. The Lahore Chrenacle
yesterday stated that the Commander-in-Chief had
hung 170 men at Umballah, I only hope it is true (I
doubt if it is). There is an army on its way to
Delhi, with a siege train. The niggers hold pos-
session of the place. I only hope they will remain
there until our troops come up, and, by Jove, they
will catch it. 1 believe the whole place is to be
levelled with the ground. I should have told you
that the same paper that brought us the above in-
telligence also stated that the Commander-in-Chief
had been attacked with cholera, and died on his
way to Delhi, The editor of a native paper at
Peshawur had written a seditious article in it, and
was immediately seized, tried, and hung in less
than 12 hours after he was taken. This is the way
to serve them. The people in the Punjaub take
no part in the rebellion. On the contrary, they
do all they can to assist the Government—
bring in deserters, bound hand and foot, for which
they get 20r. a head. Well, I must say ' Good-
bye,' but will keep this open until the last moment
in case any news should arrive.
" Since I wrote this I hear it is a false report
that the Commander-in-Chief had hung 170 men at
Umballah. 1 have been told by good authority
that the China force lately sent out from England
has been sent for, also a regiment from the Mauri-
tius, one from Ceylon, and two are coming up the
Indus—Europeans I mean ; any other sort are no
use. The Brigadier has remonstrated with the
people at army head-quarters for taking away the
few Europeans, and asks, in the event of a rebel-
lion, what is to become of the 100 sick men left
behind by the 52d Queen's and the Artdlery ?
" Sealkote, May 29."

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The following are extracts from a letter written
by the Rev. James Kennedy, of Benares :
" The morning of the sth was fixed by the mili-
tary authorities for the disarming. During the
4th news arrived that a Native Infantry regiment
at Azimghur, some 60 miles from this, had mutinied
and seized some 170,000/. of treasure. The news
somehow reached the Sepoys as soon as it
did the authorities, and greatly excited them.
The new Brigadier resolved to disarm the
at once. A parade was hastily ordered.ordered.37th
theydh . i ctrlhiuNes
hot
European
dseuortoooahri
Sepoys
The bells of arms, as they are called the
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that
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burst open the doors, and seized
Besides this regiment there was I their weapons.
regi-
ment, which was much trusted, here a Sikh
irregular cavalry regiment, and likewise an
at the beginning of these 't eo
well thought of that
from Sultanpore, 12 mil roubles it was called in
Many spoke higly
of es distant, to defend us.
ments, and the loyalty of these regi
but among others the'
others doubted them, and the doubters
have turned out correct. All the troops were near
at the time. No sooner did the 37th seize their arms
than the Sikhs fired at their own officers, who
had been speaking in such high terms ofibena.
Before the engagement was regularly begun. the
Commander of the Irregular Cavalry fell. Captain