The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-11 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, ,sEP I'EMB R il, 857.

TIE MUTINIES IN INDIA.

PESIIAWUR.

The following are extracts from letters from
Lieut.-Col. Ed warlies, C. 8., dated from June 21 to
July 6 : _

" Peshawur.

" As yet we have made no impression on Delhi. Gen.
Reed's or rather Gen. Barnard's force was too weak to
besiege Delhi, and has had to stop and wait for
reinforcements just as General Whish had at Mooltan.
The rebels far exceed him in number and in guns. The
numbers ate of little consequence, for disorganised frag-
ments of rebel regiments never can contend successfully
with the serried battalions of a well-appointed army led
by English_ officers. But. it is a serious matter to have
150 pieces of artillery (taken out -of our own magazine)
playing upon our camp. Engagements take place every
two orlbree days, and we are-easily victorious in the
open field. - The enemy loses hundreds in every skir-
mish, and the heaps of dead are re-plundered by our sol-
diers of all the plunder they had secreted round their
waists. We lose very few men or officers. But we don't
get into Delhi, and the delay damages our reputation,
and encourages the belief, artfully disseminated by the
Brahmins and Moollahs, that all prophecies agree that
the English rule is now at an end !' So, the deluded
people rise here and there, and add to the anarchy and
confusion. Wa.trust that 20,000 Fir Idlers are now em-
barking from England, but they cannot reach till Sept.,
and you may judge what has to be endured and done
during the intervening months. There never was any-
thing a hundredth part so serious-in India before. This
post, so far from being more ariuous in futinte, w!ll be
more secure. Events here have taken a wonderful turn.
During peace Peshawar was an incessant anseety. Now
it is the strongest point in India. We have struck two
great blows—we have disarmed our own troops, and
raised levies of all the people of the country. The troops
are confounded ; they calcurated on bengbriched by the
people. The people are delighted, and a better feeling
has sprung up between them and us in this enlistment
than has ever been obtained before. I have also called
on my old country, the Deregat, and it is quite delight-
ful to see how the call is answered. 2,000 horsemen,
formerly in my army at Mooltan, are now moving on
different points, according to order, to help us in this
difficul y, and every post brings me remonstrances from
Chiefs as to why they have been forgotten. What fault
have they committed that they are not sent for 1 This is
really gratifying. It is the heart of a people. Is does one
g ,od all through. The Pushawurees had often heard that I
hid been grateful in gettiug rewards for my followers
after the Mooltan war ; but they were not prepared to
see such a demonstration from the other end of the
Soolimaneo Mountains. It excites their better feelings,
and will do them good too. Al! yesterday I was busy .fit-
t ng out 700 horse foot levies (Mooltinee) to re-inforce
Nicholson at Jultundhur. How all the liberality shown
to these Mooltan: es after the war of 1848-49 is now re•
paid, in the alacrity with which they rush to our side
again to help us ! They are now invaluable, and so glad
to see me again ; it is quite a pleasure in the midst of
this howling wilderness."

LITCKNO W.
The following are extracts from letters received
from the Chaplain, the Rev. H. S. Pul.hampton,
M.A., late Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford :
" Lucknow, May 12.
" . . . Since I wrote to you last we have had a little
excitement in the station. I told you about Dr. Well's
bungalow being burnt down, and that it was supposed
to be done by the Sepoys in revenge for his tasting a
bottle of medicine in the hospital. Well, a day or two
alter I wrote, the whole of the huts of the Sepoys of
the 13th Regiment were burnt, it was supposed by
accident, but, from after events, that deems rather
dobutful. You may imagine that huts with thatched
roofs for 1,000 men made a pretty good blaze. Last
Sunday week it was my turn to take the evening ser-
vice at Cantonment Church. There was an unusually
thin congregation. Towards the, end of the prayers
a servant came into church, and spoke first to Major
Bird, of the 48th, and then to Mr. Doshwood, of the
same regiment. They both wont out, and after-
wards others were ca led away. I began to think that
)me more houses had been set on fire, but of course I
went on with the servic-. The ladies began to look very
uncomfortable : one or two went out of church, one or
two others crossed over the aide to friends who were sit-
ting on the other aide. Ahogether I had not a very
attentive congregation. After service we found that the
7th Irregular Infantry, 1,000 strong, quartered at the
Moose Bagh, had mutinied, and that the 71st, 4Sth,
Cavalry, mod a troop of English Att'llery, with six guns,
had gone to quell them. This was the cause of the offi-
cers being called out of church. The 321 Qaeen'e, as I
afterwards found, also marched to the Moose, Bagh, and
an Irregular Cavalry Regiment, so that no less than
3,500 men marched to put down the mutiny. I felt
very much inclined to ride down myself to see what was
going on, but as the Illoosa Bagh is sevea miles from- our
house, and as I siould have I,ft my wife all alone. I
stayed where I was. I thought of what William 111
said when he was told that the Bishop of Derry had
been shot at the ford at the battle of the Boyne, ' What
took him there 1' However, if so strong a force had not
been sent that the mutineers were completely overawed,
there might have been work for me to do. I heard all
about what took place from Sir Henry Lawrence and
one of the artillery officers. Sir H. Lawrence went
himself, es the highest civil authority. When the troops
arrived there—somewhat about 9 o'clock p.m., a bright
moonlight night (the 7th)—the mutineers were ordered
out; so out they came. They had gone to their huts.
Their mutiny consisted in refusingto use somecartridges
which had been given them, because they thought they
were greased with English fat. They also threatened to
shoot one of their officers. Well, the mutineers were
drawn up in line, and Sir H. Lawrence went forward
and harangued them, and then retired to the neighbour-
hood of the six cannon which were drawn up in front 0
the mutineers. The officer commanding the artillery
asked him if he should give orders to bad, he said 'Yes';
so they loaded with grape. In loading, one of the artil-
lerymen anticipated the next order, and lighted the
match for firing the cannon. The mutineers no sooner
saw this than they imagined that they were going to
be fired upon, and immediately they flung down their
muskets and ran for their lives, and the 7th Cavalry
after them, to bring them back. So ended the mutiny,
happily without bloodshed ; but this certainly would not
have been the case had not so strong a force been taken
against them that they had no chance. Ninety of their
muskets were found to be loaded. The Irregular Regi-
ments here were in the King's service before the annexa-
tion, and they are not, of course, in such a state of dis-
cipline as the Regu'a-e. Sir H. Lawrence told me that
it was a mercy there was not a shot fired. If there had
been there would have been no stopping a fight, and the
unfortunate mutineers would have been regularly MPS-
-act ed. Another most absurd story they have got tail('
Of. This came on in the examination of some of the
mutineers before Sir H. Lawrence. They say that in ,
consequence of the Crimean war there are a g..eat, many
widows in England, and that these are to be brought
out and married to the Rajahs in 0 ede, and that their
children, br .ught up as Christiana, are to inherit all the
e fates t The natives are like babies—they will believe
anything. However, Sir Henry locks very serious over
the present state of affairs. No doubt the friends of the
King of Oude will make all the plots they'can, and give
tee Government no'end of trouble. I don't believe there
wilt be a rising in Lucknow, but I know that the natives,
many of them wish it, and that our commanders here
have prepared for it. The officers of the 321 Queen's
are not allowed to sleep away from the messhouse,
as they formerly were, so that they may be ready
at a moment's notice. Two cannon have, been
sent down. to the city to strengthea the 32d. If the
Native Infantry and Cavalry regiments were to tuen
against us we should be in a very ticklish position. We
should have only the 32d and the Cuiepany's Elijah
A.rtilary, about 680 in all, and some 300 civilians, against
six Native Infantry reemente, three Regulars, three Ir-
reoulars, nearly 6,000 in ad, and two regiments, one Ir-
regular, one Regular of cavalry, more than 1,000, besides
the %hole population of Lucknow, several hundred
thousand men. And thus it is all over India, Our go-
vernment in this country is the most wonderful thing in
the history of the world; we are not one to a hundred of
ties inhabitants, nor anything like it. • Our strength
under God, whose hand I think one may plainly see in
our governing this immense country, lies in the disunion
of its inhabitants, their being divided into Mahomedans
and lelindoee, who hate one another with the deadliest of
all enneities—the proverbial odium _theologicum. If a
Mahomedan makes a plot a llindoo reveals it to the
English, and rice versa. Besides, there are two parties
among the Mahomedans who hate each other nearly as
much as if they were Mahomedans and Hindoos. Ano-
ther chief reason of our keeping the country is thegood-
ness and regularity of our pay. All this news is likely
enough to have a bad effect on the disaffected here, and
our Brigadier is taking means to prevent a surprise in
case of the native troops mutinying. The Queen's regi-
ment in the city has been reinforced by a troop of native
artillery. It is unfortunate they are so far from canton-
ments (5 miles), and the natives might, by barricading
Lucknow, make their progress here very slow, if not im-
possible. I asked the Brigade Major, who is a friend of
mine, why they bad not sent the English Artillery to rein-
force the 32.11 He said, Because in case of mutiny
they are all we have to defend us here. We think the
Native Artillery will be true wlatever happens, but
to provide against their treachery a soldier from the
32d has been appointed to each gun, who, if he
saw anything going wrong, would give warning to
the regiment, and they would instantly shoot _the
mutineers. It is also intended to have a. company
of the 32d up here to protect the English Artillery
in case of a row. If the Artillery are well protected,
no doubt they would give a good account of the
Sepoy regiments, should they mutiny ; but if not pro-
tected by English soldiers they would be done for iq case
of a mutiny. There are cells 90 of them. However, I
don't anticipate .any worse consequences than have
already happened. The mutiny has spread from station
to station, and, having been put down at each, ha', I
think, ceased. I think we have have bad our share here,
and have reason to be msst thankful that things were no
worse, but time will show. rlearned that in thenight
some natives had gone to Capt. Hayes, the military sec-
retary, and had told him that parties had been appointed
in the three Sepoy regiments to go round and murder as

all in our beds, and set the houses on fire. Capt. Hayes,
not knowing whether this was true or not, thought it
was wise. to take all the precautions he could ; so he sent
to Col. Inglis (as I tinderstood) for help, and he sent at
once a. regiment of
.native cavalry, and the 32d started
from the city for cantonments before daybreak. C--
also told me 'that -the 32d have completely left their
barracks in the city, hospital Madan. The sick have been
brought to the Residency, art have the women, and '„the
Residency is garrisoned by 130 men of the 32d, and by
the battery of native artillery, All-the natives, wives of
comebßiinto,
Rto hmeesei
(Pio: etn seFiydo, eynocey,
sSoummee
satre tr a.
civilians, who live in different parts of'the city, have
e
YOlmaatneMy'er,
I mean a pi:ce of ground a good
deal elevated above the rest of the city, allotted by the
King of Oude, when he first put himself under British
protection' some 50 years ago, to the British civil resi•
dents. It is wailed round, almost entirely ; on one side
native houses abut upon it, but on the other three sides
it is tol.rahly clear. Roads without gates in some
_places connect it with the city, but it is not at all a
bad place to make a stand,
.certainly the best in Luck-
now, to which it is a sort of 'Acropolis.' The Residency
contains the Chief Commissioner's house, Mr. Gub-
bins's; Mr. Ommaney's, Foyne's, the pest-office, city
hospital, electric telegraph-effice, the church (laet not
least); &c. You wi.l perhaps say, Why did not all the
32.1 garrison the place, and the rest of the English retire
to it ?' I'll tell you. Wo don't think the disaffected in
the city are likely to rise unless they know that they will
be backedby the Native Infantry Regiments. Now, if
all the-321 had gone into thu Residency, there would
have been no power to keep the three Native Infantry
regiments in check. But now thet the 82d and English
Artillery are in cantonments the three Native Infantry
regiments know that if they mutiny they will have to
meet the 32d and Artillery ; and though they are five to
ono and have Artillery themselves (for there is an Irre-
gular battery besides those I have mentioned), yet they
have a whelesOrii% "drealebtstlie igffsh. They know
that we have beaten them 10 or 20 to one before now.
Well, now, I don't think you need al trm yenrself for us.
You see, the Native Infautfy, Cavalry, and Artillery are
kept in check here by the 321 and English Artillery, so
that they cannot effect a junction with the city people
without a fight for it, and they have no stomach for that
unless they are sure of being able to murder all before
them, or are led by their English officers, who of course
would all leave'them. The English in the Residency
are tolerably well protected by their position and garri-
son, and above all we must hope and trust that that over-
ruling Providence which has so long enabled us, one, to
a thousand, to govern this country will not desert us
now. At church I a :id the prayer in time of war and
tumults, and so, having in public and private committed
our-elves i to God's hands, and take:i all possible pre-
cauti• n. we calmly and fearlessly await the result. My
opinien is that in a few d Lys a terrible example will
have been ,made of the Delhi insurgents, and this,
an 1 the precautions taken, will show the natives that
it is the wisest plan to keep still. I bad service in the
city church ; it was fairly attended. After it wet over
Schilling, the principal of the Martiniere, asked me what
he ha I thought he had better do. The Martiniere is a
mi:e out of Lucknovv, on the opposite side of canton-
ments. Thera was about 80 boys boarding there, eight
masters, and two sergeants. There is a guard there of
six sepoys, but the worst of it is we don't know how
soon our guards may turn upon us. I advised him as
a matter of precaution to get some muskets and ammuni-
tion. We went first to Mr. Gubbins, who thought
with me, and than I drove Schilling dawn to canton-
ments, and went to Sir Henry Lawrence. lie offered
to give him a large guard. But I said No ; if we
can't trust the guard the smaller it is the better. We
want to arm ourselves le-t they should turn upon us.'
So Sir H. La srenee gave him an order for 12 muskets
and aminunToo, and gave him authority to command
the guard, who previously were under one of their own
men. So Sellilling drive off in my buggy, and I have
not heard from him since. Ho intended to have all the
boys and masters in the main building, and distribute
the six Sepoys as much as possible. The house is very
strong ; it was built by General Martin for a palace for
the king. There it only one way to the upper part of
the main building, up a narrow staircase, where half
a dozen resolute men might defend themselves for a week
All this precaution tutts seem absurd, but what has hap-
pened at Meerut and Delhi shows that it is necessary.
Indeed, if there were anything like union among the
natives and a clever man at their head, all that we could
do probably would not prevent our being all cut off to a
man, cad the English would have to reconquer the coun-
try. Things throughout India never looked so serious.
It may all corns to an end soon, and the country be
more tranquil than ever, or we may all be murdered in
a week. I think it will be the former. Whatever hap-
pens cannot be without the of God, and Heaven,'
as the +:11 sailor said, 'is as near us here as at home.'
To show you how serious people in authority think the
state of affairs, the other day. after the mutiny in the
7th Irregulars bat been put down,
Henry, said laughingly to
Sir Henry Lawrence, Why, Sir H you may have
soma work cut out for you now before you go home.'
He said, very gravely, I can assure you it is no laughing
matter.' I heard Colonel Inglis say the same thing to
a man who was inclined to be too jocular yesterday.
" Yesterday evening I went at six o'clock to the 32d,
to give them Divine service. I found them encamped
in a mango tope about 200 yards from ray house. Poor
fellows, there they had been in tents all day, the hot
wind blowing, and the thermometer at 110 I Colonel
Inglis had been to us in the afternoon to ask us to give
up our house for the soldiers. Of course we 13 insented,
and had begun dismantling it, when there came a mes-
sage that he had got thorn otherwise accommodated.
He wanted my house because it has no thatch to be set
on fire and is near the Artillery. The 13th have given
up their messhouse for the soldiers ; indeed, we ought
all to turn out for them if necessary, for the heat will
soon knock them up. Five went into hospital yester-
day, and they are, under God, our only hope in case of
an outbreak. I gave the 321 part of the evening ser-
vice, and an extempore sermon on Deuteronomy, Bth
chap. 11th v., bearing on the whole chapter. They stood
in hollow square, muskets in band. At seven was our
ropier service at church. It was pretty well a+ tended.
Many, no doubt, were afraid to come. It would, of
course, be very easy for the Sepoys to surround the
church and murder U 3 all but it is no use being afraid of
anything, or one's life under the present circumstances
would be a burden to us. Sir 11. Lawrence was there.
Now, I have told you the.exact state of things, because
you would be sure to see in the papers something about
it,we paererrina
Po
not at
o be to an
exaggerated
e account. Our duty to
,
preach the Gospel is plain - if it meet with opposition
when we read what the
ad
Bible says :—" Go ye into all the woad and preach the
Gospel to every creature.' Ido not believe He will
allow our country to suffer if she faithfully tries to carry
out Christ's command. Had the Gospel been preached
as it should have been, had Christians here lived as
Christians, perhaps the trouble would never have come
upon us."

Governor advanced me 500 rupees far the 11111, Govern
ment paying half. I wa,e glad to give it them, as it may
save some poor la lies and children, and they have
brought lots in safe. They kg ed eight or ten officers of
the Gwalior force ; only one lady and three or four chit•
dren were killed. All the officers who were at mess
with me were shot in about five minutes after. It was
a dreadful sight, I assure you. We are in a bad state
here, and expect an attack every night from the towns-
people and Mussulman police, who, very foolishly, have
not been disarmed, and let the civilians do everything
they like.. We are all (that is, officers of different regi-
ments that have mutinied) formed into a mounted picket
and patrol, and last night were under orders to escort
two guns where some police were said to intend to break
out. 200 ran away in the night, the rest remained quiet
We had 100 men of the 31 Europeans. All the women
and some ladies are in the fort, and it is w.ll mounted
with guns. If hard pressed, we will re'-ire into the fort,
which I hope won't be the case, as sickness will break
out. There are about 3,000 women, men, and children
in Agra, and only about 700 of the 31 Europeans. We
hope after Delhi has fallen to get some aid, but they
have been some days there, and have not yet taken i..
All the native regiments, contingents, and arellery have
mutinied, and we must have at least 30,000 man sent
out before India is safe. The villagers all about are
killing and plundering each other, fir the rupees that
they take from the Sepoys. I cannot hear of the right
wing at Nowgong. I trust they have escaped, hut I fear
for them. Dunlop, Taylor, Maeßean, and every one
at Jhansi, children and all, were brutally murdered in
the fort. Poor Mrs. Skenee—l pity her, and little Mrs.
Powys. They all died together.' A good many of the
ruffians were killed before they slew them all. Not one
escaped from Jhansi. Lucky that I wa3 sent with the
detachment to Kuncha. I wrote to you from there two
letters, and one from Sepree, which I hope you will get.
I rode my horse 240 miles in five days.- He is rather
-knocked up, but will be all right.
4 " Fort.ekgra,. July 14.
"here we are all shut up in this wretched fort since
the sth. When there was an ergageinent outside the
cantonments the 34 European Regiment, numbering
500 men and a battery of artillery, with some militia,
under the Brigadier and Staff, went out about 3 p.m.,
and they came on the mutineer.] well in trenched in a
village and clump of trees, and they hail an artillery
fight for two hours, when they killei an a Niel lot of the
enemy. They fired beautifully, and blew up two of our
ammunition tumbrils, and killed a lot of the horses,
which crippled our bat'alliene, and at 5 o clack our
artillery bad unfortunately no ammunition left. Some
of the 3d then stormed the village and carried it, and
killed a good many. Our loss from their artillery was
great—Capt. D'Oyley, Lamb, of the Artillery, severely
woundei, D'Oyley since dead; Major Tuoinae, (Stile 3d,
severely wounded, and Williaine. of the 72 1, lost his leg.
You,remernher him atPau with M. Oel field. civil set-
vice, shot through the lungs ; 30 men killed and about 80
wounded. We buried seven one evening who died 'rem
wounds, and I regret to say we have had cholo.a in
the fort, and lost some people yesterday. Mi';iord, of
the 31 European Regiment, sleeping nex to me in a
verandah, was seized with it yesterday morning. He
was in great pain, but is now in hospital, and I hope
he will keep up. Captain Burlton, of the 2d Gwalior
Cavalier, died in six hours of it. I was at his fu ieral
last night, poor fellow. I have been very ill with dyten-
tery from bad water, but feel a little bethr to-day ; the
man living in my hut is ill, toe, but one suffers so much
from wet that is no wonder we should have cholera,
having no woollen clothes ; however, I trust we may
escape the pestilence. Tuere are about 4,500 men,
women, and children in here now, an 1 they are well
packet.. I am an assistant executive engineer under
Colonel Glassford. I was appoictel by the Brigadier
on the 28. h of June, and have arranged all the quarters
in the f. rt and put the people in them, and have had
great work ; but I am sorry that I got the appoint-
ment, it prevented me going to the battle outside. We
shelled the fellows from here. Colonel Cotton, of ihe
late 57th, rode my horse, as I was not allowed to keep
him here. He got two hits from bullets, but is nearly
right now and will carry me well, I hope, in the next.
A s soon as we get help we will go out. They have
bernt and plundered all the cantonments and civil lines.
Yon never saw such a blaze as it was. They killed a
great many trying to come into the fort, stripped them
naked, and cut their heads off, and women and children
are lying about the roads. We have caught a good many,
and hang them up every night ; but the authorities are
very weak, and do not act half strenuously enough ; but
when we get a good man I trust we shalt show them
that we are not done yet. All our servants ran away.
Same are now coming back. The fort is cleaned, and
I hope sickness may not be severe. We can make a
good fight with them hero for three or four months.
" We have about 700 of the 31 European Regiment
here ; so we will fight it out, and heap.] of militia end
half castes. All men are made to carry tuu.,kets and
man the ramparts.
"Clifton is here. Dunlop, Taylor, Turnbull, Skene, and
all at Jhansi were'killed. Women and children. Dread-
ful business. I cannot tell you the pat Gaul ire. They
say the R ,nee was at the bottom of it all. We can hear
nothing of Nowgong, but that the officers escaped to
Chattepore. I hope they escaped, but I fear for them."
"Nagode, July 19.
" I am so glad that God'a mercy enabl.s me to say
that your husband got safe to Agra. I have from time
to time, as opportunity offered, attempted to tell you
that I and the rest of the Nowgong officers f. It sure he
must have got to Gwalior, and I also beggel my father
and Mr. Ludlow, when I wrote to ttie.n, to tell you so.
I did so lest my letter to you might miscarry.
" We have had an awful lesson of the extent of man's
malice, and cruelty, and folly ; it would have gone much
further but for God's interference, and in all the horrors
and atrocities there is much to thank God fur.

" I shall first tell you ail I know about Jhansi. On the
Ist June, or perhaps a day sooner or later, God's meicv
Bo ordered it that your husband was sect out with 60
me❑ of the 12th and 40 troopers of the murderous 14th
Irregularo. On the 4Lh June, at 4 p.m., poor Dunlop
dashed off, in a handwriting I could not recognise, these
words :

" My dear Kirke,—The infantry and artillery have
broken into mutiny, and have entered the Star For,
where are the guns and treasure. No ono has been hurt
as yet. Look sut fur str.agg'ers.—V.,ura truly,
"'Jhansi, 4th June, 4 p.m. " J. DUNLOP.'
" Tide litter was seat by exiirses, and reached Now-
gong at 11 a.m. next day.
" I have heard the depositions of those rcea who were
at Jhansi at the tune; and they agree quite enough to
corroborate and rectify one the other. The substance is
as follows :—The fort at the city he l been previous!y
fixed on as a resort in such an event, it would seem,
from the fact one man mentions, that stores of ainmuni•
tion and food had been cAlected thero. This, if
the case, was never told to us at Nowgong. Duni, p
and the others had till the last laughed at
our precautions at Nowgong, aed had urged us
to give them up. Letters that Daelop rec, ived from
Sleene and Gordon, the cominissioeer and depu4-com-
sioner, were sent to Major Kirke, and showed that the
Jhansi Psanee's headman was plotting to seduce our &
pop, and that Dunlop, through some men who stuck
by him, prevented their getting accsss to the lines with-
out great difficulty. At length at 4 p.m., on the 4 h of
June, the outbreak began by No. 7 Company 12 h N.I.
marching into the Star Fort ; the rest kept quiet. Dun.
lop, it is said, held a parade the net: tuereieg, and the
men raid they would stand by him. He spent the day at
the Quarter Guard, it is said, getting shells ready (j let
the man). Poor Taylor and Mr. Turnbull wt re with him
so was paor Lieut. Campbell, of the 15th N. 1., the only
officer of the 14th Irregulars. Lieut. Tyrrwhitt never
was able I o rejoin front leave. About noon (after, not
before it) Captain Dunlop and Ta3lnr were on parade.
One man (the mess shepherd) said that poor Du .lop had
just put three letters in the post-office, and had returned
with Taylor, when the two wore murdered. It seems
they were shot. Campbell got several buliets into him,
and, pursued by his own sowara, escaped to and entered
the City Fort. Dear, warm-hearted Turnbull escaped
unhurt at first, but as he could'nut reach the fort, per-
haps through his being on foot, ho got up a tree. He
was seen to climb it, and pointed out to his pursuers
who shot him down. Dr. M'Egan, and all the other
Christians in Cantonments, had gone the previous night
to the City Fort, and were safe there. Burgess's khit-
mutgar, who was in the fort till it gave in, says they
saw through telescopes the men kill Dunlop and Taylor,
and then closed the gate. They shot some troopers that
pureued poor Campbell, and then let hint in.
"Those villainous bloodthirsty troopers had never
been suspected at Jhansi. At Nowgoog some of us had
for many days distrusted them. The fort gates were bar-
ricaded inside with stones, and the garrison Christians
only, with some native servants, awaited their enemies,
who began the attack on the 6th. One man said thegar-
rison gave in on the Bth ; another says the 11th was the
day. The latter authority was inside the fort dur-
ing the defence. Burgess, he said, kil ed 14 men. Poor
Powys shot a man who tried to open one of the gates,
and was killed with sword cuts in return. Burgess
killed his murderers. Both tales agree on this point,
and Captain Gordon was hit in the he id when looking
over the wall parapet. He died of Some of the
wr;ters tried to escape in native clothes, letting them-
selves down by ropes, but they were caught and killed.
At last Major Skene and the rest were deceived by as-
surances that their lives would be spared if they surren-
dered, and they opened the gate, the Iliedoos and
as
having both sworn to therm Two attempts
to send word to Nagode and to Gwalior for help had
faded, and so, taking the hand of some man or other,
Major Skene marched out first ; they were taken to a
garden, tied to two ropes in two rows, men and women
separate,—Burgess's servant says the men alone were
tied,—and then every soul, whatever the age, rank,uorr
B
ses, was killed by the sword. The men died first,back,
:
gess taking the lead, his elbows tied behind his
and
a prayerbook
in his hands. What a sad tad for so
kind-hearted and unselfish a man ! But to die confess-
ing the faith is a noble death. The rest died in the
same way. They tried hard to get the women and
children saved. Our quartermaster-sergeant and his
family alone were spared ; the servant says he was taken
with the rebels when they left. This wan said the
women stood with their babes in their arms and the
e itr children holding their gowns. They had to see the
men killed, but I believe they were spared any violence
ais death. Dear little Mrs. Powys—l think of her
with such a pang. Poor Dunlop, too, the first friend I