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same time, for the sake of humanity, and the honour
of the country they belong to, he calls upon, them
to spare all women and children that may come in
their way.
" ' It is so imperative, not only for their safety,
but for the success of the assault, that men should
not straggle from their column, that the Major-
General feels it his duty to direct all commanding
officers to impress this strictly upon their raen, and
he is confident that, after this warning, the men's
good sense and discipline will induce tb'em to obey
In addition to the Calcutta Mail, the contents of , their officers and keep steady to their duty. It is:
t the .t i
which we we published in an early .
second edition yes_ to be explained to every regimen
nate plunder will not be allowed ; tha's prize agents
have now received our private
have been appointed, by whom all captured pro-
terday, ere (Times)
papers from Bombay to the 3d :
petty will be collected and sold, to be divided, ac-
ofcorresporaderme and
cording to the rules and regulations on this head,
October.
The following as the letter of our Bombay corre- fairly among the men engaged ; and that any man
spondent, which gives the particulars of the fall of found guilty of having concealed captured property
Delhi and the usn'dl summary of events since the will be made to restore it, and will forfeit all claims
to the eeneral prize ; he will also be likelytobe made
departure of the las..`. wail : over to the Provost-Marshal, to be summarily dealt
" BOMBAY, OCT. 3. with. The Major-General calls upon the officers of
"At length lam en %bled to announce to you the the force to lend their zealous and efficient co-ope-
fall of the revolted.capite'l of North-Western India, inrationtobe commenced. He looks especially to the
the erection of the works of the siege now
or if that appellation be not strictly correct, of the about
ancient chief city of the Ms Irel enet ire, in which a regimental officers, of all grades, to impress upon
their men that to work in the trenches during . a
g
faithless soldiery had sought to re-erect the lode
siege is as necessary and honourable as to fight in
pendent throne of the descendant of Baler. Delhi the ranks during a battle. He will hold all officers
is once more in possession of the British. Our in-responsible for their utmost being done to carry
formation at present is more scant3' than could be odut the directions of the engineers, and he collie-
desired, oveheg partly to the dawk communication
hearty from which he
ion entlytruAs that all will exhibit a healthy and
spirit of emulation and zeal, .
being unluckily intercepted between 15,ehore and
Mooltan. rut the main facts have reached ns from l b rs " '
has no doubt that the happiest results will follow,
in the brilliant termination of all their a ou .
aate
so many quexters as to leave no doubt w ,
.verlth "On the morning of the 14th, soon after day-
that the place was assaulted with success on 14
the • break, the assault took place. The attacking co-
of Sept., when a permanent lodgment was effected, i lumns were—as I gather from a letter that I have
that during the. Liar or five following days further seen—written on the following day by an officer of
advances and acquisitions on the city were made, rank in the army, whicb, though short, is, as far as
and that finally ton the 20th the whole of the space I know, the only communication of so late a Bate
enclosedwithin the walls was in our possession. I that has yet reached Bombay—three in number,
should observe, however, that we have not received one being held, as I understand it, in reserve.
as yet such certain. evidence of the truth of the lat- Their strength is not given. The main point of as-
ter part of this story as of that of the former. The
sault was the breach at the 'Cashmere bastion. One
proceedings of the 14th, 15th, and 16th are known column, however, consisting of Ghoorkas and the
to us, however, compendiously from the official newly arrived Jummoo contingent, was directed to
bulletins issued by the Chief Commissioner at La- make a diversion by attacking the Kishengunge
bore, and founded, as you know, on telegraphic
suburb, which lies outside the Lahore gate on the
messages from Delhi. But of the final occupation western side of the city, and, if it succeeded in
on the 20th we have only heard by an express from carrying the suburb to assault the gate itself. But
Ille Residency at Jeypore in Rajpootana, which the suburb was occupied by the enemy in force,
reached Lord Elphinstone by way of Alameda- with a battery of heavy guns. The Cashmerian
bad yesterday. It is dated at Jeypore on the troops behaved indifferently, and in spite of the
evening of the 23d, and it is to the effect that efforts of the brave Ghoorkas the column was re-
the news had just been received at the Residency, pulsed. Its commanding officer, Major Reid, of the
both from the Rajah and also from the Vakeel oi
Sirmoor battalion, is among the wounded of the
Minister of the Nawab of Jhujjur, to whom it may
day ; but on the northern side of the city all went
be presumed to have been forwarded by his master,
well. The troops entered at the breach with no seri-
a chief resident in the immediate neighbourhood of
ous opposition, and spreading to the left and right
Delhi. Thus the tidings of our ultimate and corn-'
occupied the "whole line of defences from the Water
plate success rest at present on native authority
bastion to the Cabul gate, including the Cashmere
only, but, as the natural sequel and complement of
crate and bastion, the Moree gate and bastion, the
our undoubted triumph of the 14th, they are uni-
English church, Skinner's house, and the grounds
versally credited.
about." The principal loss sustained by the assail-
" But to complete, so far as my present materials
ants was due to the obstinate resistance they met
will allow, the story of the avenging army. When with in clearing their way along the ramparts to
I closed my last letter we had heard that the heavy the Cabal gate, and afterwards in an attempt to
siege train was expected to reach the camp in a very penetrate beyond that point into the denser parts
fe w days, and that works were being erected wherein
to mount the guns on their arrival. While the of the city in the direction of the Jumna Musjid.
In all the loss amounted to about 500 killed and
troops were thus busy, the enemy was inactive. wounded. Five officers are reported to have been
There were none of those desperate sallies from the slain—Tandy, of the Bengal Engineers ; M‘Barnet,
city that characterised the early days of the siege, of the late 55th N.I. ; Murray, of the Guides ;
when day by day successive waves of mutiny were Bradshaw of the 52d Foot ; and Fitzgerald, of
shattered against the heights of the British posi- the 57th. Captain Rosse, of the Carabineers, Major
tir.n ; and though their artillery was not silent the Jacob, of the Ist Bengal Fusiliers, and Lieutenant
only success attained was on the night of the Ist of Homfray, Ist Punjab Infantry, are returned as
Sept., when a shell from the battery on the further having died of wounds received. Brigadier Nichol-
side of the river (of which I wrote in my last) burst
son was wounded, and his brother, of Core's
among a picket of the 61st, in front of the Metcalfe Rifles, and many others—in all about 30. Of the
house, killing two men and wounding seven. 0 n
less of the mutineers I do not observe even an
the morning of the 4th arrived in camp the long
estimate. It is only said that bodies of them were
looked-for siege train of between 30 and 40 heav3
seen to be retreating both to the south of the city in
guns, howitzers, and mortars, with large quantities
of ammunition, escorted b the remainin wing of the direction of Kootub, and also across the bridge
y g
of boats, and that our cavalry had moved round the
the Bth Foot, two more companies of the 61st, and
city to intercept and destroy the former. Our vic-
e wing of the Ist Belooch battalion of the Bombay
torious infantry, prudently recalled from too hasty
Army. On the 6th came in from Meerut a most
an advance into the close lanes of the city, occupied
valuable reinforcement in 200 of the 60th Rifles
the comparatively open space inside the Cashmere
and 100 Artillery recruits. To the latter were gate, and the walls which they had won upon either
added 45 men of the 9th Lancers. The place of side of it. Head-quarters were established in the
, this detachment was supplied at Meerut by the 7th house once occupied by the renowned Irregular
Punjaub Infantry. On the following day the army Horseman, Skinner, and now known to us by his
was further strengthened by the 4th Punjaub name, to the natives as Secunder's. Preparations
Rifles under Captain Wilde, and by some troops of were at once made for shelling the enemy out of the
the Jheend Rajah. On the night of the 7th the Palace, the Selimghur, and the other strong places
advanced batteries intended for the destruction of of the city, and the firing commenced next morn-
the Moree bastion and the adjacent curtain were ing, the 15th. By the evening of that day a breach
armed with 10 heavy guns at about 650 yards from was effected in the wall of the magazine enclosure,
the bastion, and an enclosure within half that die- which was held in force by the enemy, and the
tance of the walls, called the Koodsea Bagh, was place was stormed the next morning by the 61st
occupied by a detachment of infantry and artillery. Foot, and detachments of the Beelooch battalion
In these operations we sustained a loss of some- and Wilde's Rifles. In it were captured 125 pieces
thing under 50 killed and wounded, two officers ' of cannon. The Palace being now well exposed the
being among the former, Lieuts. Hildebrand, of guns and mortars opened upon it from the maga-
the Bengal Artillery, and Bannerman, of the Bona- zine enclosure, and the enemy appears to have
bay Fusiliers, attached to the Beelochees, the latter fallen back at all points. Thus the Kishengunge
a promising young officer, well known to myself battery, which had repulsed the Jumrnoo troops,
and to many people here, and by all regretted. was abandoned and occupied, and the guns there
The next day was marked by the opening of the taken swelled the total number of captured pieces
advanced batteries on the Morse bastion and by to upwards of 200. The battery on the further side
the arrival in camp of the Jummoo or Cashmere of the river seems also to have been abandoned, and
Contingent. Meanwhile the engineers were hard at the date of the last certain and official news-7
at work in the erection of other batteries. On the p.m. on the 16th—an attack upon the magazine had
11th a mortar battery opened on the Mores from been repulsed, a chain of posts had been established
the Koodsea Bagh at little more than 300 yards, from the Cabul gate to the magazine, and the
and upon the Cashmere and Water bastions a fire enemy some hours before dayfall had been maintain-
was commenced from 16 heavy guns and howitzsre ing only a detached and desultory warfare from the
and 10 large mortars, planted at two points in tops of the houses. Many townspeople had come in
front of the enclosure known as Ludlow Castle, and and received quarter, which was of course refused
so noted in Wyld.'s map. On the 12th, the attack to every Sepoy. All this is so satisfactory that we
on the Water bastion was strengthened by fair may well credit the tale from Jeypore, that on the
18-pounders and two light (51 inch) mortars (in- 211th the place was entirely in our hands. But I
creased afterwards apparently to eight of the for- shall keep this letter open to the last in the hope of
rarer, and 12 of the latter), planted at 200 and 250 fuller intelligence, as a steamer is just in from Kur-
yards from the wall and the Custom-house com- rachee, where Mr. Frere was keeping ready for an 1
pound near the river. The fire of the enemy was emergency, and which he would not have despatched
most severe upon the last-named batteries, which unless he had something worth sending. I must 1
were exposed not only to the guns of the Water not omit, by the way, to mention that the Jeypore
bastion. but to those in the old inner fort of Se- report asserts—though Ido not assert it—that the
limghur, and also to those on the other side of the King of Delhi escaped to a neighbouring shrine in
river. Here Capt. Fagan, of the Artillery, described the disguise of a woman. Scindia, it is moreover
as a most enterprising and excellent officer, fell, reported, was raising 15,000 men to intercept fugi-
shot through the head. No other fatal casualty ec- fives.
curred among the officers during these days, nor "To •
does the general loss appear to have been severe, the north-west of Delhi, is the Hurrianah
district, Gen. Van Cortlandt is still busy repres-
considering the proximity of the batteries to the sing disturbance and resettling the country. On rho
walls and the tenacity of the defence, the enemy 6th of September an insurgent village near Hansi
keeping up a vigorous fire of musketry from rifle- was surprised and its occupants driven out and dis-
pits and patches of jungle, even after their heavy parsed, with the loss of one of the ringleaders in
guns were rendered unserviceable. This latter re- the mutiny of the Harrianah battalion and 25 of
suit was rapidly produced by the precision and his men. I read, too, of what appears to be the
weight of the constant discharges from our bat- destruction of another village at a later date, when
bat-
teries. By the 13th, the Cashmere bastion was in a number of the mutinied 10th Cavalry fell, and
ruins, and had long ceased to return a shot to the
several prisoners, formerly of the same regiment,
fire that was continually kept upon it. The ad- were forthwith executed. On this occasion a large
joining curtains on either side were similarly ruined,
and from the debris of the Mores bastion only a into the hands of the General men. From Meerut amount of booty in horses, cattle, and money fell
's
light gun or two pt intervals replied to the 1
heavy shot and shell that were poured into it. At we do not hear of any more raids against insurgent
nor d
the other end of the works the Water bastion Lad chiefs, oe3 our news from Agra report any
suffered scarcely less s2verely, its extreme maga-
further proceedings on the part of Major Mon tgo-
mery since his very successful engagement at
zine was blewn up, and a light gun which enfiladed
Hat-
trass with Ghose Mahomed Khan, the self-styled
our batteries had been silenced. And new., the i Soubandar of the King of Delhi, which I mentioned
moment fur Cie assault draw lug near, Gsnen 1
in
Wilson promulgated the following excellent my last, and which appears to have quieted the
country about Allyghar. Indeed, our intelligence
order a.—
Lora Agra is well-nigh contained in the single an-
" ' The force assembled before Delhi has had
n111(:h hardship nouncement of the death of Mr. Colvin, Lieut.-
mach
of the North-West Province, on the 9th
arrivali in this camp
and f stigue to undergo since its
eiseeneorfweely Lorne by camp, all
all of which has been most
Sept. This Eminent, and at the commencement of ors and men. The time
drawing near when the Majer-General com- the outbreak, most popular public servant sue-
over, and they
thwill a that their labours will be cumbed to an attack of dysentery, a disease to the
the city for all eir peastewardod. by the capture of growth of which the confined limits of the crowded
ful endurance cf stile greaetxertton s and for a cheer- -
fort must have been only too favourable. ler.
The troops will be reqtaredr fatigue and exposure, '
engineers in the erection ,of aid and assist the Meade, the senior civil servant present, assumed
trenches, and in daily expos the batteries ant temporary charge of the Government upon the death
tare to the , '
covering parties. ' up, as' of his chief. On the other side of the Doe'', two
‘c ' The Artillery will have even harder voile; eivilaue, regarding whose safety fears were enter-
than they yet have had, and -which they haves taiued, hive been preservedbyanetive, one Haldeo
well and cheerfully performed. tithe! to ; this, Low '°-
Bakal), of Dhurruepore, and by him forwarded to
ever, will be for a short period only, and when , (-1
.""npc,re They Mr. Edwards, collect er of
ordered to the assault the Major-General fesie ' Budao ' are
assured British pluck and determination will carry withr of Futteeliur,
filen, and Mr. Probyn, roll ct • '
everything before them, . and that the bloodthirsty wife and children. Several other Euro-
and murderous mutineers against whom they are peens are said to be in hiding in the neighbourhood.
lighting will be driven headlong outof their strong- ,
give you Cawnpore and Lucknow lam unable
hold„ or be exterminated ; but to enable them to do to give you so favourable as a fortnight
an accounte
Lu;•8 he warns the troops to the absolute necessity ago I, with reason as 1
of
togetherkeeps
g
1 Lotstraggling from their should be able to do. Gthought, anticipated that I
am.
col,umns—by this can success only be secured. member, in his letter of S
en. Outram, you will re-
g `Major-General Wilson.need hardly remind Se Out,
2, to which I refer-
she troops of thered in my last, expressed a ho
cruel murders committed on their Pe that he should get
officers and comrades aswell as their wives arid over the distance between All h
a abed (where ho
children, to move them in thedeadly struggle. No was at the time writing) and Cawnpore by the 9th.
quarter should be given
to the mutineers; at the In this hope he was however disappointed.
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