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

JHANSI AND NOWGONG.

The following lettars contain very inter:sting
particulars of the mutinies of the 12th Bengal
Native Infantry and tiie•l4th Irregular Cavalry at
Nowgong and Jha,usi

"June 24
"I wrote to you from Sepree on the 10th, which w
hell you of my escape from the mutineers of our reg
meat and the 14th Irregular Cavalry. It was dreadfu
work. I left Sepree on my horse for Gwalior on the
11 h, and reached it in three days-80 miles ; and on
the day I came in, the 14th inst., about 2 p.m., they
set fire to three houses and the mess, and burnt
theta down. The Gwalior Contingent came, and
gave every assi4ance, BO I fancied they were all
right. However, we sat down t) dinner at the
Brigadier Ramsay's, and at 9 o'clock, when the gun
fired, we beard, a row in the lines, and the brigadier
ordered the officers to go to their regiments. S 3 I went
with the Dector, Mackallan (whom I was living with),
and the others, fir-t getting our swords, and gave the
word that the corps and batteries were in mutiny, and
then were riding towards the lines, when some men of
the 21 Regiment met us, and said we must come to their
lines, as the 4th Regiment were murdering every one.
There was heavy firing going on a!1 round the station.
They had pickets all over the place t) catch uI. When
we got among their lines they bine id away at us from
every direction. flow I escaped is marvellous ; the ad-
jutant and myself and doctor were together, and a volley
was fired, and down fell the adjutant and his horse. The
horse was , shot dead, but ho escaped. I put spurs to
my horn and galloped on until I was stopped by a man
who fired about two yards away, right in my horse's
face, the sparks all about me, but the bullet passed me,
and the horse and I went on, and came on 200 men
drawn up at the quarter guard, and whom I spoke to,
and asked them what was the cause. They said some
of the regiments were go ng to k;11 every one in the place.
They said we must go on tke top of the quarter guard—
that it was the safest place ; but I said if we did we
should be murdered" at their leisure ; the commanding
officer and his horse were lying dead near uq. The offi-
cer was mortally wounded in the lungs and dying, some
of thorn crying over him, saying their regiment did not
do it, that it was the men el the 4th. We remained
some time with them—half an hour ; they wanting us
to go int) a house, but we would not go. At last I
asked some of the men why they did not let us out of
cantonments, and they said after a time they would, so
they took myself and the doctor and prevented the men
from firing any more at us, and we galloped away to-
wards what we supposed in the dark the road to this
place. We rode all night among ravines, and in the
morning luckily came on the Agra road. We went to-
wards a ford in the raver Chumbul, but found some troops
were ahead, so we turned back and made for a ford 20
miles off. We were from 10 o'clock at night until 4 the
next day without food upon ous horses. We then got
some milk and fed our horses, and the people said that
at the other side men were ready to shoot any one, so
we were in rather a mess, we thought. As no one
would come on with us, after some conversation I Frs..
miaed, if they would come and see us safe in Agra,
we would give them 500 rupees. Seven men then came
with us, and we crossed and r ached a bur,alow some
five miles off, pa sing a fort and numLers of men :tried,
who behaved well in letting us past. We had a fowl,
and then started and reached Agra the following night,
or morning at sunrise, on the 11th, and the LietiWoLl•