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Tll E SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY F.,VENINC)I, AUGUST 16, 1,857

state. I have lost nearly everything, though my
servants behaved splendidly, and saved all they
could. Two tables, a few chairs, three beds, a few
odd volumes of my dear old books, and my silver
is all I have in the world ; however, my life has
been mercifully spared, I thank God !
My horses I- have saved ; I sent them to poor
Alexander for safety and for use before the fearful
night of the 6th, when his Sowars rode two of them
and Old Smuggler saved Harward's life. When
he ran up to his camp he mounted him, ani he
dashed through the Sepoys like an old trump, as be
is. I have the good old beast under me everywhere,
carrying on the work of retribution.
Now that we have plenty of men a force is to be
moved up to Cawnpore to relieve the poor fellows
there, who are hard pressed, being intrenched in a
kind of made-up fort.
The Commissioner, Mr. Chester, sends me as the
political agent with the force, and I trust to see
some service before I return, so don't be anxious if
you do not hear from me for several mails to come;
my kind friend, the collector, will write a few lines
to set your minds at ease. If we can beat off the
rebels at Cawnpore it is probable we shall go on td
Lucknow, where we shall have some hard fighting.
I shall probably be away a month. Fancy marching
in the rains ! they have just come-on. If I can keep
from rheumatism and fever I sha'nt care, for excite-
ment enables one to stand the sail and fatigue won-
derfully. At any other time the sun would have
kno,..:ked. us down like dogs, but all this month we
have been out in the middle of the day, toiling like
coJlies, yet I never have been better in my life.
Such an appetite! The whole c3untry has been up,
and frightful massacres have been taking place all
over the north-west. We have not yet heard half
the horrors, for the daks have been stopped for three
weeks. The poor Henry Tharnbills have been mur-
dered at Seetapore, in Oude, and nearly all the
people at out-stations, but many reported dead
have turned up. Robert Chalmers is here with me, •
having escaped in a wonderful manner with those
of his station. He comes on to Cawnpore with us.
I can write no more, as lam just starting. May
God bless you all.

The following letter is from a clergyman
" Bangalore, July 4.
"I began writing you an account by the last mail
of this terrible outbreak in th 3 Bengal Presidency,
and I. have determined t, give you a brief outline
of what further has been perpetra'ed, as English-
men ought to be in possession of facts, lest there
should be any squeamishness about the punishment
in store for the brutal and diabolical mutineers.

" We have had an awful time of it, I can assure
you, though we ourselves have been mercifully
' kept from alarm or dang Pr. No words can express
the feeling of horror which perl'ades society in
India, we hear so many private accounts of the
tragedy, which are too sickening to repeat.
" The cruelties committed by the wretches exceed
all belief. They took 48 females, most of them girls
from 10 to 14, many delicately nurtured ladies—
violated them, and kept them for the base purposes
of the heads of the insurrection for a whole week.
At the end of thatftime they made them strip them-
selves, and gave them up to the lowest of the
people, to abuse in broad daylight in the streets of
Delhi. They then commenced the work of torturing
them to death, cutting off their bre tsts, fingers,
and noses, and leaving them to die. One lady was
three days dying. They flayed the face of another
lady and made her walk naked through the streets.
Poor Mrs. --, the wife of an officer of the Re-
giment, at Meerut, was soon expecting her confine-
ment. They violated her, then ripped her up, and,
taking from her the unborn child, cast it and her
into the flames. No European man, woman, or
child has had the slightest mercy shown them. I
do not believe that the world ever witnessed more
hellish torments than have been infl.cted on our
poor fellow-countrywomen. At Allahabad they have
rivalled the atrocities of Delhi. I really cannot tell
you the fearful cruelties these demons have been
guilty of—cutting off the fingers and toes of little
children, joint by joint, in sight of their parents,
who were reserved for similar treatment afterwards.

"I told you how gallantly our Madras Fusiliers
—poor J—'s regiment—has behaved ; 100 men
of them, under Col. Neil, killed 650 mutineers. I
saw a letter from one of the officers yesterday. He
says that no imagination can depict th 3 scenes he
witnessed when he arrived at Benares. All the
troops were in astate ofrevolt. Theysaved Benares.
The whole of the Bsngal officers were paralysed with
terror and astonishment ; so Colonel Neil assumed
command and proceeded to the most summary
measures, cutting off whole regiments. All the
ladies were crowded into one room, with wounded
and dying men, and from the window the sight that
greeted the eye was a row of gallowses, ou which
the energetic colonel was hanging mutineer after
mutineer, as they were brought in. Alec rest,a,
in; some little order at Benares, on went the gal-
lant Fusiltas towards Allahabad ; thermometer
above 100 deg.. ; 30, and even 40 mile marches ; no
supplies to be had, living on flour and water. Oa
reaching Allahabad at night-thewhole cantonment
was in a blaze. The regiment had already muti-
nied, and slaughtered their officers with unheard-
of cruelty. The Sikhs had not actually mutinied,
but they assisted the rebel regiments in pillaging
the houses of the Europeans. This Sikh regiment
plied the fatigued Fusileers with liquor, and the
scene of dirt, drunkenness, and wretchedness baffled
all description. The officers of the Fusileers went
to the Sikh lines and up all the liquor they c3uld,
to prevent the men from getting it, and they bought
chests of champagne, beer, dic , at four and eight
annas (6d. to Is.) a-bottle. Now I hear the inde-
fatigable Col. Ned is beginningto bring about some
degree of order, and is hanging scores and scores of
littlel
do not hest-, official tidings
for
yet. I
prisoners.
am
lßoougtiwnge
to
oeht
eavrermyore,
tate to affirm that each day of delay places all our
lives in some jeopardy.

"I know fr-om the very best authority that the
Mahomedans are plotting at this plat?, but whe-
ther they dare rise will depend on how things go on
in other places. • The events of the next weeks will
be most momentous. At Madras the panic has
been intense. I believe, too, that the Bars are
reasonable. We have at. Bangalore a strong force,
and the Madras Sepoys have hitherto proved loyal.
There is one circumstance in our favour. We allow
all our regiments to have their women and children
with them in their lines, whereas in Bengal the
Sepoy leaves his wife in the village, and is allowed
to visit for a certain period every year. Our sys-
tem, doubtless, is a great check on the Sepoys, as
they know that, in the event of their rising, their
families are in our power, but the Bengal soldier
can roam at will.'

The following is a 'copy of a letter from Adolphus
de Kantzow, who so greatly distinguished himself
at Meerut :

" MYNPOOREE, JUNE 19.

" The following is a correct copy of a letter from
the Governor-General to me, just received via Agra.
The dak was the last from Calcutta, and just before
the road was closed :

" Goveinment-bouse, Calcutta, June 7, 1857.
"My dear Sir,—l have just read, in a report
from the magistrates of Mynpooree, the account of
yodr conduct upon the occasion of the mutiny of a
portion of the 9th Regiment of Native Infantry at,
that station on the 22d ult. I have read it with
an admiration and respect I caucot adequately
describe.

4• Young in years, and at the outset of your
career, yon have given to youir brother soldiers a
noble example of courage, patience, good judgment,
and temper from which many may profit.
" beg you to believe that it will never be for-
gotten by me.
" 'I write this at once, that there may be no
delay in making known to you that your conduct
has not been overlooked. You will, of course, re-
ceive a more formal acknowledgment through the
military department of the Goveinment of your
admirable service.

" I am, my dear Sir, yours very faithfully,
" CANNING:
" 'Lieutenant de Kautzow, 9th 8.N.1.' "
The following is the Lieutenant's own account of
his exploit .
" I was returning from reconnoitring, when in-
formation was brought me that five troopers of the
7th Light Cavalry were coming along the
An immediate pursuit was of course ordered by me,
and my 39 troopers tore away at full speed after
me. I was just coming up them, and had already
let drive among the murdering villain., when lo
I came upon 200 of their comrades, all armed
with swords and some with carbines. A smart
fire was kept up at a distance of not more than
25 yards. What could 39 do against 200 regular
troopers well horsed and armed, particularly when
walked into by the bullets of 100 of the infantry ?
I ordered a retreat, but my cavalry could not
get away from troopers mounted upon good
stud-bred. horses ; so we were soon overtaken,
and then commenced the shindy in earnest ; 12
troopers surrounded me ; the fiist, a Ma.homrue-
dari priest, I shot through the breast just as he
was cutting me down ; this was my only pistol, so
I was helpless as regards weapons, save my sword;
this warded off a swinging cut given me by No.
as also another by No. 3, but the fun could not
last. I bitterly mourned not having a couple of
revolvers, for I could have shot every man. My
sword was cut down, and I got a slash on the head
that blinded me, another on the arm that glanced,
and only took a slice off. The third caught me on
the side, but also glanced and bit me sideways. I
know not how I
escaped. God only . knows, as 12
against one were fearful
odds, especially as I was
mounted only on a pony. Escape, however, I did,
and after many warm escapes too numerous to men-
tion I got back there. 14 of my brave fellows were

killed, four wounded, six missing ; total 24, out of
39. Good odds, was it not !"

He says in another letter (referring, as it is
fancied, to his saving the gaol at Mynpooree from
destruction) that be has been praised by the Major-
General, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, and his
doings brought to the notice of the Governor-Gene-
ral ; and h 3 is now in command of the station of
Mynpociree, and the remains of three native re-
giments there—an irregular force, in fact.

ALLAHABAD.
The following letter is from an of6on at Allaha.
bad :

"June 23.

"1 may not have another opportunity of send;ng
you a few words, as we have lots of hard work 1)3-
fore us. I wrote you from Calcutta just before
leaving on the 4th inst., and by dint of pushing on
day and night I arrived with six brother officers at
Benares on the 9th, just after the mutiny of the
native troops at that station. Fortuna►ely for the
residents there, a few of my regiment, with Colonel
Neill and two companies of Her Majesty's ICth
Regiment, had arrived two days before the row
commenced. Colonel Neill, a man of energy, saw
at once tde state of affairs, superseded the brigadier,
and took command of the station, ordered a parade,
and proceeded to disarm the native regiment. It
has since come out in evidence that that very night
the native troops were to have murdered the whole
of the Europeans in garrison.
" When the natives saw what was intended they
instantly rushed to their arms, the Sdch regiment
joining them, and poured a volley into the Euro-
peans, killing 10. However, the gunct, two in
number, commenced at them with grape ; my regi-
ment, with the 10th, poured volley after volley
into them, and even followed them into their lines,
set fire to them and burnt a great many, and ti•e
affair was over, for we had no cavalry to follow,
they having sided with the mutineers at the com-
mencement. All that have since been caught have
been hanged at once.
" I arrived, as I said, on the morning of the 9th ;
that same evening Colonel Neill took me with 40
of our men to endeavour to save or help the gar-
rison of this place, a most important fort, having
the largest arsenal in this part of India. He had,
however sent on 50 of -our men before, and they
arrived the morning after the mutiny of the native
troops here, but in time to save and hold the fort.
My party arrived on the llth, doing upwards of
70 mites in two nights by aid of a lot of natives
pus►ring our men along in light four-wheeled
carriages.

" The moment Colonel Neill arrived he set to
work to turn the villains out of the city and
cantonment; but I must tell you on the night thty
mutinied the officers of the 6th Bengal Native In-
fantry, 17 in number, were at mess ; these mur-
derers sounded the alarm bugle, got all their officers
on the parade ground, and then fired into them,
killing 14 out of the 17. They then wont round
the cantonment, burning all the houses, killing
men, w,)mur, and children, and committing all,
kinds of a' roci ties.

" Well, the Colonel sent out a party of our men,
50 in number to attack and clear the city, or rather
the suburbl. We lost two men killed and five
wounded, and one officer, but it so frightened them
that the next morning they all bolted. A much
stronger party, 200 of our men under my command
with guns and cavalry, the whole under Colonel
Neill, swept right through the cantonment, and a
steamer went along the river with guns, and we are
now pretty quiet at this place, though the hang-
man is at work daily and the Colonel is not the
man to spare them.

"He (the Colonel) is now hard at work getting
his force together to move on to the assistance
of Cawnpore and Lucknow, both places being in
the greatest danger, for all the Sepoys that have
run away are now gathering round Lucknow.
Our reports cone _ruing that city and- Cawnpore
are mo,t gloomy, but reports in this country
and at this time are always against us. You
can have no idea of the awful weather arid
of our suffering from the heat; we sit with
wet clothes over our head, but the de tths from
sun stroke continue large ; that dreadful scourge
cholera has also broken out, and we have lost
already 70 fighting men. lye buried 20 three
night ago at one funeral, and the shrieks of the
dying were something awful ; two poor ladies who
were living over the hospital died, I believe, from
fright. We have now got about 400 men outside
the fort, and the disease is certainly on the decline.
Up to to-day we have had little to eat ; indeed, I
would not have fed a dog with my yesterday's
breakfast, but our mess and the head-quarters
arrived yesterday, and our fare was much better
to-day. All the village people ran away, and any
one who had worked for the Europeans these mur-
derers killed, so if the population was to a man
against us we should stand but a bad chance. A
poor baker was found with both his hands cut off,
and his nose slit, became he had sent in bread to
Ui. I need not say how anxiously we all look for
a large army from England. We can hold our own
well enough till it arrives, but India wad never in
such a mess, and it requires many a strong arm
and a wise head to put it in order again. The Ben-
gal army is to a man against us, and lam very
nervous about Madras and Bombay; one single
mischance, and those two armies follow. I fully
expect to go on in advance with the first party to
Cawnpore, so shall finish this off hastily, as we
only get a few hours' notice. I have written to my
poor wife, begging her to go home as quick as she
can, for I cannot bear the idea of her being in such
a country at such a timP, and I would give all I
have ,to know she was on her way. We cannot
leave this for the next two years at the earliest,
and this mutiny might spread at any moment, so I
long to hear of her being in safety. lam thankful.
to say I am in sound health and fit for a campaign,
though it is one I least expected, and almost envy
Mortimer his high stool. I had a terrible march
last week, concluding with a mile and a half in the
dry sand of the Ganges in the middle of the day.
I never felt anything like it in my life. One man
actually lay down and died at the end of it. So
much for soldiering."

The Nord of Brussels publishes the following let-
.er from Madras "from its own c nTespondent :"
" MADRAS, JULY 12.

" India at the present moment, from Cape Co.
motin to the foot of the Himalayas, is the theatre
of the most horrible crimes and atrocities—officers
murdered by their soldiers, women violated and
cut in pieces, and children roasted alive before
their parents' eyes.
"Such are the scenes now witnessed in India,
that fine country where, nevertheless, for a century
the English have established their rule and laws.
" This state of things has roused the East India
Company's Government from its habitual apathy.
The public press has taken hold of the question, and
numerous pamphlets have been published. to point
out the evil, its causes, and the remedies to be em-
ployed.
" As it was the army which first gave the exam-
ple of revolt and crime, it is on its organisation that
public attention was first directed, and all the or-
gans of the press coincide in discovering the evil—
"1. In priority admitted as the only claim to
promotion.
" 2. In the little talent and military taste of the
officers of the Indian army.

"3. In the total want of sympathy between them
and their men.

"4. In the faulty organisation of the military
government placed under the control of the civil
service.

" The native army, consisting of 73 regiments of
1,000 men each, tolerates patiently, but also con-
temptuously, its English officers, and from the
statement of its commanding officers, who really
took an interest in its organisation, it was a seert
enemy of the Indian Government.
"A grear, General often observed that he feared
the Sepoys more than an enemy on the frontier.
" Tho army, which consists exclusively of
Hiu-
does and Mussulmans, to whom the use of pork fat
is expressly forbidden by tbeir religion, made a pre-
text of grease" cartridges given to them with a new
description of musket, and they rose as one man at
every military station. The soldiers first refused
obedience ; they then fired on their officers (n
parade, and then deserted their colours and their
profession for ever.
"The Government at first tried to persuaden two
it-
self that it was only an accidental mutiny
Governortinylor three discontented regiments,
General issued a toproclamatio.n7de given them,
t reassure the
troops that other cartridges would
b
and that the Government would never interfere
with their religion. The troops received the
hours the pro-
clamation with very bad grace, and a
after it had been officially read some regiments
fired on their officers, burned their stations., and
put to death all Europeans they met with, without
regard to sex or age.
"The so-called mutiny assumed the proportions
of serious revolution, fomented throughout the
whole 4flndia by all the dethroned Kings and de •
posed Mussulman Princes.
" What is the cause of this revolution? Is it to
be attributed to the greased cartridges, or solely to
discontent among the Sepoys ?
" No, it is to be attributed ,--
"1. To the policy of annexation, followed for
many years by the representatives of the East India
Company.

"i To the unjust treatment of the women and
heirs of the dep-_sed crowned heads.
"3. To the breach of faith on the part of the
Government towards the army on two different
occasions.
"4. To the humiliation of Europeans in favour
of a few privileged class of natives and kluosulmttns