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Maharajah was quite horrified. roe troops Lai him, -it
was a case of deep (fai',l)) and they would Lot go aga'nst
their brethren.

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" There seems to have been an understanding between
them and the Mhow troops ; for, eimultaneausly with
Indore, the Mhow regiments shot the good old Cslotel
Platt, Major Harris, and a few others, and burnt some
bungalewe. The Rev. C. Hamilton, Capt. Eliot; atid all
the other officers are quite safe. Early on the morning
of the. 21 the whole of the 22d Regiment and the wing of
frtw:r,,cavalryejlgirayeeht revolting,
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poor lasted for two days can hardly be described ; eervants-
Tne mutineers dictated their own terms to the Mahe.
they proposed to him the hard terms of cutting
IPflorootreaEcrtildiorn°Psieenannhdsiisnagnd owntCo hplalsahlcejaen,nstogether with those of his
advisers who were in the British or Klee.' interest.
Of these, unfortunately, I was one, and Ramehuder,
K:woman, and Gunisb, and you can conceive his High.
ness's situation; but he firmly deuied to yield to ary
such terms. On the 4th the general plunder a the town
of Indore commenced ; there was no end of fright. Oeie
own guards began to run away with our property, and.
the whole was confusion and uprsar. At 1 tst the Maha-
rajah rode with a very few of his paigab, guarded the
posts, and then went to the mutineers' camp with -a
handful of followers, and told them in the name of
then' to cease plundering. He said he wool las lone 4e .
he lived never consent to give up his European proteges,
dead or alive, nor those of his courtiers, and though
he knew his troops had deserted he would yet pie
inaffially if they did not 'cease plundering. The las-
' cally mutineers had also philosophers and historians
among them ; they reminded the Maharejsh of his
illastrions ancestor Jeswunt • Rao Holkar, that he
ought yet to take the barabo' upon h s shoulder.;
and proceed to Delhi :with them ; that the stll f
the...Zritish in the East had set owing to Weir
pride and faithlessness, and his Highness must not
prove himself to be a coward. But to all this harangue
his Highness made proper answers. He said he had•no
strength of his forefathers,- that he did not think rapine
and the murder of poor women and children a part of
any religion, and that he could not therefore make a fit
companion to them. He then came home, and the plan.
deriug in•the town ceased. On the evening of the 4th
they plundered the British Treasury to the extent of 10
lacs, and with about 6 of the guns which had been given
over to the mutineers marched on towards Dewar. The
panic is yet great, his Highness endeavours to recover
the guns and the Treasury, and has sent an attack, hut
I don't know if it will succeed. His Highness is giving
every assistance to the European officers in Mhow fort,
and about 12 'ace of the remaining and the recovered
treasure, with notes to.the value of 241 lace, was sent to
Mhow under a strong escort, together with the Euro-
pean proteges. Al tie ringleaders have gone astay
with the Mhow Brigade to Dtlei ; a great part of pro-
perty has been recovered. I went to see the Residency
and my house yesterday, and I c iuld not help bursting
into tears to see its ruins. So you see the fearful conse-
quences of your leaving Indore. The authorities were told
months before there was danger, yet they could do no-
thing. Last night a letter was received from Captain
Elliot, stating that Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson, who..had
fled in disguise, were caught at Zen•jeera. His highnees
iininediately ordered 300 foot, 200 horse, and two guns,
under Khooman Sing, to blow up Arnjeera ; but, though
the troops have marched, the report appears to be inc 'e-
rect, and Capt. H.-- and party are al safe at Jahcoan,-
Molabux having received a letter to that effect-. We
have just despatched runners to bring correct news. I
am yet alive, but momentarily expect my head to be cut
off, r wing to old enmities and being known to be in the
British interest. Pray do coma out soon or Mal aa is
gone ; your presence is equal to fi se regiments. I can't
write more.—l am your obedient servant,
"OMEID SINGiI.
"P.S. Should I survive this row I will write again,
but there remains verylittle hope; his Highness's troops
are completely disorganised and disaffected. Mejer
Timmins has gone again from Mal.idpere, and Mr.
Keatiug from Mandlaisir. The delay in General Weed.
burn's arrival has been serious."

the Is'e of France, Persia, and other places, they
were packed into steamers and dak garreea (post
carriages), and sent off. But other stations too
had mutinied. Benares had been almost, Allaha-
bad ent'rely, in the hands of the rebels, and it
was necessary to settle those two places, the
latter being especially necessary as the base of
future operations, before any movement could
be made upon dawnpore. All this was done
as quickly as possible. Colonel Neill csree up to
Allaltab td, and, with the assistance of the hang-
man's rope, soon succeeded in restoring order at
the stati in. As soon as possible, he sent off a
force of 400 Europeans and 600 Sikhs, under Major
Renaud, in the direction of Cawnpore, and on the
10th of July, General Havelock, with 1,200 Euro-
peans, followed. I shall touch very briefly on
their subsequent operations, as they will be fully
described by your other correspondents. On the
12th General Havelock joined Renaud, on the 13th
surprised and defeated the rebels at Futteypote,
on the 15th again, at a nuddee 20 miles from Cawn-
pore, and on the 16 at Cawnpore itself, after a
very obstinately contested engagem-nt, after which
the Nena, protected by his cavalry, retreated upon
Bithoor, which is of difficult access and strongly
fortifi,d. To complete the account of the catas
trophe of the unfortunate remnants of the Cawn-
pore garrison, I may here state that the commis-
sioner of the district reported to the Government
that their bodies were found in a well in the As-
sembly-rooms compound, bearing upon them marks
of the most indecent and inhuman treatment it is
poosible tq.cocceive. •
MeankilleinarnOW, besiegedlsy a force vari-
ously computed at from 12,000 to 20,000 men, es-
pecially
strong in_cavalry, has lost its best head in
Sir H. Lawrence. That gallant officer and thorough
Englishman, against his own judgment, and yield-
ing to the entreaties of some of the civilians who
were with him iu the, fort, made a sally on the
2d of July, with two companies of her Ma-
jesty's 33d Foot and the native troops
who had remained faithful to Lim up
to that moment. No sooner had he come
up with the enemy than his native troops turned
upon him ; others attacked his rear. Ha was com-
pelled, thtrefere, to abandon his guns and fight his
way back. He did this at the expense of several
officers and 60 men killed (amongst the former
Major Case, of her Majesty's 32d Foot), and, what
was of infinitely more importance, of his own
valuable life. H© was brought in mot tally wounded,
and diet a few days afterwards. One consequence
of this unsuccessful sortie was that be had to aban- •
don a great part of his defences, give up the city of
Lucknow to the insurgents, and confine his efforts
to the preservation of the Assidency. The possi-
bility of such a catastrophe had been foreseen, and
that place been strongly fortified. Major Banks,
who has succeeded Sir Henry in a political capa-
city, writes that he is prepared to held out for six
week=. This was written on the Bth inst.

" Now, General Havelock was at Cawnpore on
the 17th July. Lucknow is 52 miles distant. He
has, therefore, a full mon.li before him to reach
that city. Let us calculate his chance of success.
" Ist Should he cross the river at once, or march
upon Bithoor? If he prefer the former alternative
we must suppose that the means of crossing are at
his disposal. We will go further, and imagine
him on the left hank of the Gang: s. He must
take his whole force with him, for he has but 1,600
Europeans, and he has to face 20,000 men. E.
cannot leave a man for the prote3tion of Cawn-
pore What, than, would be the result of his
crossing at once ? Why, that Cawnpore would be
immediately reo.icupied by the Nena with his 6,000
or 7,000 men, that ho would cut off all Havelock's
communications, meet and destroy the 280 men
advancing under Neill and leaving Havelock to be
dealt with by the Oude mutineers, march himself,
avoiding Allahabad, upon the undefended Mirza-
p,ra and Benares districts, where everything is
ripe for a rebellion. It is plain, then, that General
Havelock cannot advance into Oude so long as the
Nena remains with his force lying on his flank in-
tact at Bithoor, only s'x milts distant from Cawn,
pore. f.We must inquire, then, what are his chances
of success against Bithoor ? Bithoor is a very
strong position, commanding the river and the road.
This latter lies over a series of ravines attificially
bridge 1. . We must suppose that the Nena has
taken the precaution of breaking down the bridges.
This will render the place itself very difficult of
access. However, General Havelock has, as far as
I cau see, to make the choice between attempting
a very difficult task, or leaving our c ,untrymen at
Lucknow to'their fate. He is not the man to hesitate.
The sight of our murdered, violated, and mutilated
countrywomen has been quite sufficient, we may
be sure, to infuriate our soldiers. They will dare
anything in advancing against such a monster, and
we may expect to hear in a few days that he has
been hanged on a turret of his own castle, and that
Havelock, perfectly easy as to his communications,
is in full march to Lucknow.
" The effect of such a measure and such a move
would be incalculable."
The following extracts from the letter of an
officer whose position enables him to have the best
information, addressed to his wife in England, con-
tains, perhaps, the most authentic list of those
who have perished. We still believe, however
that many returned as murdered wia be found to
have escaped :

"JULY 1.

"A letter from Sir H. Lawrence, dated the 26th
of June, with news from Cawnpore gives the fol-
luwing

" Sir M. Jackson' two sisters, Mrs. Dorin,
Captain Hearsey, and Captain Orr, are safe. The
Cawnpote casualties are Brigadier Jack, Colonel
Williams, Major Prout, Sir G. Parker, Lieutenant
Quin (seu), Major Lindsay and many ladies ;
among the rest, Mrs. Wig.gens died from heat and
expcsure. Mtsirs. Halliday, Reynolds, Poole,
Smith, Redmond, Supple, Eckford, Demster,
Jervis, Chalwin, Hillersdon, and many others
killed. Lieutenant Bax, 48th, killed ; most of the
Seetapore party save. Colonel Birch, the.
Christians, Gowans, and Snells, killed.'
"This tinislie3 Sir H. Lawrence's letter.

" The Gwalior Contingent have risen to a man.
It appears Brigadier-General Havelock, with a
force, had pushed on from Allahabad as far as
Futteypore, 60 miles on, and exactly half way be-
tween Allahabad and Cawnpore. He had expected
to be opposed by rebels, but found no enemy, so he
sent on men to ascertain the truth of a report of
the fail of Cawnpore. They returned, said it was
true, that General Wheeler had been wounded in
the leg on Wednesday, the 2d, and on the follow-
ing day was mortally wounded ; that most of the
officers had been killed in the narrow entrenchment
which they held. Seeing all further resistance was
useless they surrendered. Nena Sahib barbarously
murdered all the women and children, the remnant
of the Cawnpore garrison, whom it appears he had
kept as hostagee.
" Agri is gone, that i', the city is in the hands of
the rebels. The Europeans are, as far as we know,
in the fort, which is strong enough to hold out for
some time. At Saugor the Europeans are in the
fort. Brigadier Sage, with great forethought, has
laid in six months' provisions. At Jubbulpore
there is no fort, but the Europeans have intrenched
themselves in the Residency under the political
agent, Er,kine. Futteyghur is gone ; in fact, in
the central provinces we now hold Meerut, Luck-
now, Agra, and Allahabad. The good news is,
General Havelock reports the enemy before him are
running short of caps, which they cann it manufac-
ture. The last accounts from Lucknow stated the
enemy there were short of round shot, also of
powder, but of this last they continue to manufac-
ture some within the city walls.
" The Eckford named as killed at Cawnpore must
be Ensign Eckford, of the 56th. His Lather, . Gen.the
Eckford, was, when I last heard, at Latldollr,
in
hills.
" The Jervis, too, Engineer officer, as
of the 56th, came
home
ehreaev e
two beardmen
thCsaapromi.nlisTalbteebr,pirsa,n
enderpst mentioned
at Agra as being killed may possibly be Captain
Prendergast, of the 44th, which corps was, I think
stationed at Agra.