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[PRIaE 4D. STAMPED 5D .]

General Havelock, except the distinguished bravery
by which those difficulties and dangers were met ;
and I hope that I shall not be thought to encroach
unduly upon the proper province of her Majesty's
Government if I observe that, considering how
diminished by the fortune of war and the effects of
climate those two little bands now are—consider-
ing how few men still survive who have either
gone through the entire siege of Delhi, or have fol-
lowed Havelock from the beginning to the end of
his marches ; I cannot help .entertaining a strong
wish that it may be deemed -right and consistent
with precedent by those who advise the Crown on
these subjects, that some distinguishing honour and_
reward should be conferred on the remnant of
those gallant men to whom the country owes a debt
of gratitude which it is impossible to over-
estimate."

GENE.RAL- SIR PATRICK GRANT.

(From the Inverness Courier.)

His Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir Patrick
Grant, K.C,8., Commander-in-Chief in Madras,
late in Bengal, is the first of the Company's officers
who has ben allowed to hold these high and
responsible posts, which have hitherto been re-
served as political patronage at home. Sir 'Patrick
Grant is one of the many Scotsmen that have risen
to high eminence in India. Second son of the late
Major John Grant of Auchterblair, in the county,
of Moray, ho was born April; 23, 1804, so that he
is still in the prime of life. He entered the
military service ortli;-llent. East India Company
in 1819, and on July 20, was. appointed to an
ensigncy in the 30th Regiment afterwards the
59th Bengal Native •Infantry.). Having at-
tained the rank of Captain in 1832, be was,
in 1836, selected by Sir Henry Fane, to raise
the Hurrianah Light Infantry Battalion, for which
service his Excellency appointed him Assistant-
Adjutant-General of the army. He served as
Deputy-Adjutant-General of the army during the
whole of the Gwalior campaign, under General Sir
Hugh Gough, for which he was made a brevet-
major, and received the bronze star for the battle
of " labarzpoor." He subsequently.Aerved as
Acting Adjutant-General of the army Miring the
Sutlej campaigh, being severely wounded at Mood-
kEe. Notwithstanding this, he carried on the whole
duties of the department to the end of the war, to
the entire satisfaction of the Commander in-Chief,
Lord Gough-e-receiving a medal. and clasps. At
the same time, -he was made a brevet-lieutenant-
colonel and Companion of the Bath, and was con-
firmed as Adjutant-General of the Bengal Army.
In the above capacity he also served through the
Punjaub campaign, being present at the crossing
of the river Chenab, and the battles of Chilliau-
walla and Goozerat, for which he received a medal
and clasps. He was also Adjutant-General of
the army for some time with General Sir Charles
Napier, and under him had t,)e advantage of
seeing further service near Peshawur. He left
India oa account of his health in 1851, and returned
to it as Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army
in 1856, when he was summonal by Lord Can-
ning, upon the death of General Anson, to fill the
post of C )mman ler-in-Chief in Bengal. This he
held until relieved by Sir Colin Campbell. While
at Calcutta, among other good services, he fixed
upon General Havelock to command the expedi-_
tion to Luckno Iv and, throughout that gallant
leader's noble strife,lent him every suppoi t. He
has since returned to the command of the fine
Madras army, which, under the moat severe trial,
has shown itself worthy of every confidence. Iu
1832, S'r Patrick was first married to Jauo Anne,
second daughter of William Fraser Tycler, of RV-
:nain county of Inverness, who died at Simla in
1838, leaving him two sons—Alexander Charles
at present acting as A.D. C. to his father at Madras;
his second son, Aldourie Patrick, fell at Lucknow
on the night of the first outbreak there, when no
entreaties could induce him to quit his post in com-
mand of a picquet. His death was announced by
Sir Henry Lawrence on a mere slip of paper, which
a cossid, or native messenger, managed to convey
to his father in these words, " Your boy died
like a soldier, at his post." In 1841, Sir Patrick
was again married to the Hon. Francis Maria
Gough, fourth and youngest daughter of General
Lord Gough, who was at that time Commander-
in-Chief of the Forces in India. Sir Patrick Grant
is one of Her Majesty's Aides-de-Camp, and was
made a Knight Commander of the Bath in
January last year for his Indian services.