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Noble George
feroormgehisAEtaxrccieulilsencoyf
Tweeddale, K.T. and 0.13., Commander-in-Chief, are
published to the army :--
Syed Ghouse, regimental No. 506, private in the A
troop ; Mahomed Malik, regimental No. 450, private in
the A troop ; Syed Seabaz, regimental No. 423, private
Mae
Chto roinoed Jamaul, first., regimental No.
in the B troop; Syed Fusil, regimental No. 138, private
2in9Bt,hperßivatrte in oop;th
p; Mahomed Booden, regimental
No. 197, private in the C troop ; 'lsmail Khah, second,
regimental No. 478, private in the C troop ; Abdool
Ruhman, second, regimental No. 329, private in the C
troop ; Shekh Fenkroode, regimental No. 195, private
in the C troop ; Syed Ahmeed, regimental No. 551,
private in the D troop ; Ismael Khan; regimental No.
366, private in the D troop ; Syed Khaidr, regimental
No. 548, private in the D troop ; Surwar Khan,
regimental No. 464, private in the E troop ; Yuswant
Rao, regimental No. 489, private in the E troop ; Ma-
homed I.Vazeer, regimental No. 497, private in the E
troop; Syed Ahmeen, regimental No. 110, private in the
F troop ; and Daood Khan, regimental No. 427, private
in the F troop; all of the 6th Regiment of Light Cavalry,
placed in confinement by order of the Most Noble the
Commander-in-Chief. Charge--For having excited and joined
is a mutiny in
the 6th Regiment of Light Infantry, as set forth in the
following instances :-
First instance.-In having at Jubbulpoor, during the
night of the Ist and morning of the 2d December, 1843,
mutinously combined, with others, to disobey the lawful
commands of Major William Edmund Litchfield, of the
6th Regiment of Light Cavalry, their commanding officer,
and, in pursuance thereof, having on the morning afore-
said, together with others, mutinously refused to saddle
for a mounted parade, ordered by the said Major William
Edmund Litchfield, their commanding officer.
Second instance.-In having, at the same place, and
the morning of the 24 of the same month, in the same
year, in pursuance of previous mutinous combination to
resist the lawful authority of aforesaid Major William
Edmund Litchfield, their commanding officer, mutin-
ously proceeded, together with others, in a body to the
quarters of Captain John Byng, of the Sixth Regiment
of Light Cavalry, and then and there openly declared to
the said Captain John Byng, their determination not to
serve under the said Major William Edmund Litchfield,
their commanding officer.
Third instance.-In having at the same place, on the
morning of the 4th of the same month, in the same year,
in pursuance of previous mutinous combination to resist
the lawful authority of the aforesaid Major William
Edmond Litchfield, their commanding officer, when their
regiment was being inspected by Brigadier Lewis: Went-
a orth Watson, commanding the troops at Jubbulpoor,
Wenly delivered to the said Brigadier Lewis Wentworth
atson certain written papers, purporting to be petitions
from the several troops of their regiment, therein de-
manding, among other things, that the aforesaid Major
William Edmund Litchfield, their commanding officer
should be removed from the command of their regiment
and declaring that they would not serve him, or to that'
effect.
The above being in breach of the articles of war.
By order (Signed) C. A. BROWNE,
Acting Adjutant-General of the Army.
Fort St. George, Sept. 5, 1844.
The Court having most maturely weighed mad consi-
dered the whole of the evidence brought forward in sup-
port of the prosecution, as well as what the prisoners
have urged in their defence, and the evidence in support
thereof, is of opinion-
That the prisoners, Mahomed Malik, regimental No.
450, private in the A troop ; Syed Seabaz, regimental
No. 423, private in the B troop; Syed Fusil, regimental
No. 138, private in the B troop; Mahomed Bowden, re-
gimental No. 197, private in the C troop ; Ismail Khan,
second regimental No. 478, private in the C troop; Shekh
Fenkroode, regimental No. 195, private in the C troop;
Syed Ahmeen, regimental No. 551, private in the 1)
troop ; Surwar Khan, regimental No. 464, private in
the E troop ; Yuswant Rau, regimental No. 489, private
in the E troop ; and Daood Khan, regimental No. 427,
private in the,F troop ; all of the 6th regiment of Light
()a valry, are-7.-,
FilldlOg On,the first instance of charge-Guilty of the
first instance of charge.
Finding-on the second instance of charge-Guilty of
the "seelinct isistance of charge.
-Finding on the third instance of charge-Guilty of the
thirdsinstande of charge.
That the prisoners, Syed Ghouse, regimental No. 596,
private in the -A troop ; Mahomed Jamaul, first regi-
mental No. 298, private in the C troop ; and Mahomed
Wazeer, regimental No. 497, private in the E troop ; all
of the 6th regiment of Light Cavalry, are-
Finding on the first instance of charge-Not guilty of
the first instance of charge.
Finding on the second instance of charge-Guilty of
the second instance of charge.
Finding on the third instance of charge--Guilty of the
third instance of charge.
That the prisoners, Abdool Ruhman, second regi-
mental No. 329, private in the C troop ; Syed Khadir,
regimental No. 584, private in the D troop ; and Syed
Ahmeer, No. 110, private in the F troop ; all of the 6th
Regiment of Light Cavalry, are-
Finding on the first instance of charge-Guilty of the
first instance of charge.
Finding on the second instance of charge-Guilty of
the second instance of charge.
Finding on the third instance of charge-Not guilty of
the third instance of charge.
That the prisoner, Ismail Khan, regimental No. 366,
pri% ate in the D troop of the Gth Regiment of Light Ca-
valry, is-
Finding on the first instance of charge-Guilty of the
first instance of charge.
Finding on the second instance of charge- N©t guilty
of the second instance of charge.
Finding on the third instance of charge-Guilty of the
third instance of charge.
Sentence-The Court having found the prisoners
guilty to the extent above stated, doth sentence them,
the said Mahomed Malik, regimental No. 450, private in
the A troop ; Syed Shabaz, regimental No. 423, private
in the B troop ; Syed Fusil, regimental No. 138, private
in the B troop ; Mahomed Jamaul, first, regimental
No. 298, private in the C troop ; Ismail Khan, second,
regimental No. 478, private in the C troop ; Abdool
Ruhman, second, regimental No. 329, private in the C
troop ; Shekh Fenkroode, regimental No. 195, private
in the C troop ; Ismail Khan, regimental Ne. 366, pri-
vate in the D troop ; Surwar Khan, regimental NO. 464,
private in the C troop ; Yuswant Rao, regimental No.
489, private in the E troop ; Syed Ahmeen, regimental
No. 110, private in the F troop ; and Daood Khan, regi-
mental No. 427, private in the F troop ; all of the 6th
Regiment of Light Cavalry, to suffer death in such man-
ner, atidatlsuche
c place,detiommemaanndrin- in-Chief m
c haishisayExcellency the
be pleased to
direct. And the Court doth sentence them, the said
Syed Ghouse, regimental No. 506, private is the A
troop ; Syed Ahmed, regimental No. 551, private in the
D troop ; Syed Khadir, regimental No. 584, private to
hardn t of
Light 97 ,
private
Cavalry, in
the D troop ; and Mahomed Wazeer, regimental No.
each the Et 0 troop,
undergo a
imprisonmentl l o f the u hlt
withegi t Regiment e
labour for the term of two years, in such place as his
4
Excellency the,Most Noble the Commander-in -Chief may
appoint.
Arcot, the 17th of October, 1844.
(Signed) THOS. A. DUKE, Major lst Madras
Fusileers, President.
(Signed) T. B. CHALON, Judge-Advocate-
General, conducting the proceedings.
Interpreter to the Court.
consideration
of
sidctioderaath ton
(Signed) W. WHEELER, Adjutant 2d N.V.8.,
Assistant Interpreter.
(Signed) M. T. FFBENCH, Lieutenant, 34th
RECOMMENDATION.-TheCourt having performed a
somost
many
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giati
inwfdaaenrdedt aim
theen,doth (
sentence
i
n
of the great length of time that has elapsed since the
commission of their crime, a period of nine months,
and considering that during that time all duties have
been performed by them) most respectfully, most ear-
nestly, and unanimously recommend the under-mentioned
men to the moat merciful consideration of his Excellency
the Commander-in-Chief-namely, Privates Mahomed
Malik, of the A troop ; Syed Fusil, of the B troop •
Mahomed Jamaul, first, and Ismail Khan, second of
the C troop ; Ismail Khan, of the D troop ; Surwar
Khan and Yuswant Rao. of the E troop ; and Syed
Ahmeen and Daood Khan, of the F troop.
(Signed) THOMAS A. DUKE, Major Ist
Madras Fusileers, President.
(Signed) T. B. CHALON, Judge-Advocate-
General, conducting proceedings.
To Captain Boulderson, Deputy Judge-Advocate-
General, VII. District, Madras.
Sir-I have the honour, by order of the Most Noble
the Commander-in-Chief, to forward you the proceed-
ings of a general court-martial, whereof Major Duke, of
the Ist Madras Fusileers, is president, upon the trial of
17 men of the 6th Regiment of Light Cavalry, and to in-
form you, that you are appointed to relieve me as judge-
advocate, on the said trial, and directed to proceed to
Arcot, with all convenient dispatch, in order that the
court may re-assemble for the revision of its finding and
sentence with regard to the prisoner, private Mahomed
Jamaul, first, of the C troop of the 6th
Regiment of
Light Cavalry, it appearing to his Lordship that the evi-
dence is sufficient to convict the prisoner of the Ist and 2d
instances of the charge, but not of the 3d instance; whereas
the Court had found him guilty of the 2d and 3dinstances,
and not of the Ist instance of charge. This error his
Lordship believes to have taken place in recording the
opinion of the Court.

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His Lordship further instructs me to point out that
in a sentence of capital punishment the Court itself
should specify the particular mode of intlictioo, because
of one mode of death being more ignominious than the
other, its specification becomes a necessary part of the
judgment of the Court, in which the Commander-in-
Chief, who has to direct the execution of the Court's
award, can take no share, or he would have an union
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(Signed) THOS. B. CHALON,
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[ln pursuance of this direction the Court re-assembled,
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and sentence, which were similar to their former finding
and sentence, except that private Mahomed Jamaul, first,
was found guilty of the first and second instances, in-
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Lordship's view, and that'll ow capitally convicted; were
sentenced to be shot to death by musketry. It is unne-
cessary to repeat the document.]
In promulgating to the army the proceedings which
have been lately instituted against the 6th Regiment of
Light Cavalry at Arcot, I will accompany them by a
concise detail of events which render them necessary.
In October, 1843, the 6th Regiment of Light Cavalry
was suddenly required to proceed on field service from
ICamptee to Bundelkund, the regiment having previously
been informed that, on the termination of the service,
they were to move down to Arcot.
Subsequent events, however, required the services of
this regiment, at the advanced post of Jubbulpoor, to
form a part of the Bengal division of observation at
Saugur, and orders were received for the regiment to re-
main at the former station.
This movement appears to have occasioned consider-
able dissatisfaction in the regiment, and, while in this
state, it was announced to the men on the Ist of De-
cember, consequent upon orders which had been errone-
ously promulgated by the pay department, that their
field batta was discontinued.
Acting, as there is reason to believe, upon a determi-
nation which had been previously formed in anticipation
of such an order—a rumour of which had been in circu-
lation for some time before—a large portion of the men,
instigated by some evil disposed persons, that same even-
ing were secretly bound together by an oath not to turn
out for parade the following morning, nor do any more
duty.
Accordingly, the next morning, the men refused to
turn out when ordered, and it was not until nearly half
an hour after the second trumpet that they yielded to the
exhortations of their officers, and consented to proceed
to their duty.
On the close of the morning's exercise, Major Litch-
field addressed the men on the subject of their miscon-
duct, and warned them against its repetition.
His address was raceived by many in the most disre-
spectful manner, and consequent upon his refusing to
listen to them, on their calling out to him from the
ranks, and his requiring them to be silent, and to make
their representations through their troop officers in the
regular course, they shortly after stabling proceeded in a
body, and in a most tumultuous manner, to the quarters
of Capt. Byng, the second in command,' where they de-
clared their determination no longer to serve under Major
Litchfield, who, they asserted, had no sympathy with
them in their distress.
And in this determination they persisted until the
morning of the 4th of December, when, at a parade
which had been ordered by Brigadier Watson, a sepoy
from each troop presented an urzee, stating their alleged
grievances, and demanding that another commanding
officer should be appointed to the regiment, for that they
would not continue to serve under Major Litchfield.
With the presentation of these uraees the excitement
commenced to subside, and an order which had been dis-
patched by Government, the moment the error which
had been committed by the pay department was known,
having been published the same day, cancelling the p.m-
vious order for the discontinuance of the batta, the men
gradually returned to their duty.
Immediately on receiving Brigadier Watson's dispatch
of the 10th of Dec., reporting these proceedings, and in-
timating that although the regiment had returned to its
duty under Major Litchfield, he did not consider it in a
state to be employed on service, I issued orders to with-
draw the regiment from Jubbulpoor, and two other regi-
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its relief.
I then had to determine upon the measures to be
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penalty, which would have left not only the men, but
their wives and children with them, in destitution and
distress many hundred miles distant from their homes,
there were other very serious considerations which de-
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there to institute a thorough investigation into all the
circumstances of their misconduct.
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criminal. I believed that the majority of them were
good and faithful soldiers. I was fully convinced that
they had been misled by a few mischievous and design-
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to the army, to satisfy myself on that point, that I might
be enabled to discriminate between the really guilty
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To carry this purpose into fall effect, I at once deter-
mined upon ordering the regiment to Arcot, where this
important inquiry could alone be made under my own
immediate direction, and Major Litchfield was simulta-
neously instructed to use every exertion for the detection
of those who had been the instigators of those mutinous
proceedings.
Circumstances over which the Madras Government
had no control, prevented the removal of the regiment
from Jubbulpoor until the end of March, and it did not,
in consequence, reach Arcot before the middle of July,
when a special court of inquiry was immediately as-
sembled, and after a month's investigation, made its first
report.
Upon the information elicited by that Court, I selected
I seventeen of the privates for trial, as having been con-
spicuous for their misconduct—and these have been found
guilty, upon the clearest evidence, of the crime laid to
their charge.
Had these misguided men remembered their duty as
soldiers, and had they been satisfied with respectfully re-
presenting their case, all would have been well.
Had they even been guilty of refusing to turn out for
parades, though their crime would :till have been great,
yet if they had gone no further and had shown contrition
for their offence, it might have been possible for the
Commander-in-Chief, under all the circumstances of the
case, to have dealt leniently with them.
I was, unfortunately, prevented from taking such a
view of their case. In the first place, before ever making
an attempt to represent their grievances to their officers,
they were induced to combine together with an oath not
to do their duty ; and then, because Major Litchfield.
who believed that the batta had been discontinued by
order of the Government, showed himself determined to
carry the order into effect, and would not allow them to
make their complaints to him upon parade in an irregular
and unsoldier-like manner, they followed up the oath
they had taken, refused any longer to serve under hie
orders, and dared to give in urzees for submission to the
Commander-in-Chief, demanding that their commanding
officer should be removed.

PRICE sd.

The men of the 6th Light Cavalry appeared to have
deluded themselves with the idea that so long as they
acted in a body they were safe, for that none of the body
could be separately punished, and that thus all would
escape.
They now understand, and all the army will under-
stand from their example, that no combination, however
extensive, can screen them from punishment, and that
every individual of the whole body becomes personally
guilty, and personally liable to suffer for the whole.
The sentence of death on privates Mahomed Booden and
Abdool Ruhman, second, of the C troop (the two men
who swore in the Sepoys, by a solemn oath, to combine
and disobey the orders of their commanding officer),
will be carried into execution by the officer commanding
the centre division of the army, under detailed instruc-
tions which will be sent to him through the Adjutant-
General of the army.
The sentence of death on the 11 following prisoners,
privates Mahomed Malik, of the A troop ; Syed Shabaz
and Syed Fusil of the B troop, Mahomed Jamaul, first,
Ismael Khan, second, and Shekh Feakroode of the C
troop, Ismael Khan of the D troop, Surwar Khan, and
Yuswant Rao, of the E troop, and Syed Ahmeen and
Daood Khan of the F troop, I commute to transportation
beyond seas for the terms of their natural lives.
The sentence of imprisonment and hard labour against
privates Syed Ghouse of the A troop, and Syed Ahmeed,
and Syed Khadir of the D troop, will be carried into
effect under the civil authorities at Chittoor.
I pardon Mahomed Wazeer, as I believe what he
states in his defence, that the cause of his appearing
forward in these mutinous proceedings was his having
been desired by Jemadar Sheikh Ibrahim to obtain in-
formation of what was going on amongst the Sepoys of
the regiment. _

I have felt it to be my duty, by the measures I have
adopted on this occasion, to make evident to the army
the consequences which must inevitably follow such
breaches of discipline and failure of duty as have oc-
curred ill the 6th Light Cavalry, which, if passed over,
would sap the discipline and efficiency of the whole army.
With these measures, however, all proceedings
against the native ranks of the 6th Light Cavalry
will cease.

The individuals who have been selected as leaders in
these mutinous proceedings, have justly incurred the
penalty of death which has been awarded. I have, how-
ever, considered it sufficient for the purpose of example,
to limit its infliction to the two men who are proved- to
have been the parties actually engaged in administering
the oath to the rest.

I have no wish any longer to remember their miscon-
duct ; I am well acquainted with the history of the
corps, and I know well what have been its services.
I believe that all in its ranks are now deeply sensible
of the guilt into which they have been betrayed, and I
feel fall confidence in their desire, by their future course,
to restore and maintain its former high and honourable
reputation. TWEEDDALE,
Lieutenant-General, Commander-in-Chief.
The above charge and sentence, together with the re-
marks of the Most Noble the Commander-in-Chief, are
to be translated and carefully explained to every native
corps and detachment in the Madras army.
A translation of the remarks will be forwarded from
head-quarters, and copies are to be supplied by corps to
their detachments.

I should have been glad to think the whole guilt of
the regiment rested with the ringleaders amongst the pri-
vates. But it is clear, from all the information that has been
obtained, that many of the native officers and non-eom-
missioned officers were deeply implicated, and failed
most culpably in their duty, and, although the fact has
not been distinctly proved, there is good reason to be-
lieve that some of the number were, in secret, the in-
stigators of the men.
They have indeed asserted that previous to the actual
publication at evening stables of the order for the dis-
continuance of batta, they had never heard any mention
whatever of the subject, and they have declared they
were perfectly ignorant of what was intended by the
men, until the whole combination on that night had been
actually formed.
But this is altogether incredible and impossible.
It has been proved that the subject was talked of
amongst the men for some time before—that the order
itself was known to the regiment some hours before
evening stables—that though the native officers were at
some short distance from the men's tents, they did hear
shouts of " deen, deen," and must have known what
those shouts meant, though they pretend that they sus-
pected nothing ; while, as to the non-commissioned offi-
cers, they were most of them actually living in the same
seen
all with the men, and must have both heard and een
all that was going forward.
Further, it has been proved that they used no real
exertion either to prevent the combination at the first,
or to support the authority of their officers afterwards.

Commanding officers are further directed to assemble
their native officers, and to have the whole fully explained
to them in their presence.
The European General Court-martial (under the pro-
visions of Regulation 111. of 1829), of which Major T.
A. Duke, of the Ist Madras Fusileers, is President, is
dissolved. C. A. BROWNE,
Acting Adjutant-General of the Army.
THE EXECUTION OF THE TWO SENTENCES,
(From the Madras Spectator, Nov. 9.)
ARCOT, Nov. 7, 1844.—The whole of the troops in
cantonment paraded this morning, to witness the execu-
tion of two troopers of the 6th Light Cavalry, condemned
to be shot. The ground was kept by a party of the
Hussars, and everything was in readiness to prevent an
quietly.
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death all
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outbreak amongst the thousands
passed off gtly
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first fire only one fell, the other y firmly, though at the
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kneeling position; however remaining firm in his
also, though it took several , at the second fire he fell
After the execution, four more shots to finish him.
and two Jamudars) native officers (two Subadars
, with a
number of privates and non-
commissioned officers d
were called to the front' an
and their the regimental Moonshee,
, sentence of discharge
from the service read to them. The other prisoners had
also their sentences read to them; after which the 6th

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The bovernment will not retain in their service men
who have thus shown themselves, at such a juncture,
either unwilling or unable to do their duty, and with the
sanction of the Most Noble the Governor in Council, I
have accordingly ordered the summary discharge of the
following :
Subadar Alum Khan,
Subadar Bawooddeen,
Jemadar Daood Beg,
Jemadar and Native Adjutant Sheikh Abdool Kadir,
in addition to
Subadar Syed Elraheem, and
Subadar Ismail Khan,
who have been already dismissed for the same reasons.
Subadar Major Kadir Beg was not present with the
regiment at Jubbulpoor, and was consequently not im
plicated with the rest in their misconduct ; but he has
been with the regiment ever since, and although urged
to exert himself in obtaining information which might
lead to the detection of the ringleaders, he has constantly
evaded the duty—pretending that he has tried, but has
never been able to elicit anything. He has thus proved
himself altogether unfit for the responsible station which
he occupies in the regiment, and has exposed himself to
the serious suspicion of desiring to screen the guilty par-
ties in the corps,
I have considered it necessary that this native officer
should be punished, though not to-the same extent as
the others; and under the authority of Government I
new direct his removal to the Pension List, upon a re-
duced stipend of one-half of what he would otherwise
have been allowed.
The native officers of the army will learn from the
fate of those of the 6th Cavalry that they cannot ever
remain passive on such occasions without the risk,
perhaps, of their lives, and certainly of their commissions.
There is hardly one of thew, especially in the cavalry,
who has not numerous near-couttectituss of oil grades in.
the ranks, through whom he must at all times be able to
obtain information, and over whom at least, if over no
others, he must be able to exercise influence—and it can
hardly ever be possible for him, under such circum-
stances, to be ignorant of the feelings and intentions of
his corps.
Let the native officers of the army, therefore, distinctly
understand, that it is not enough for them to be able is
prove that they have not been parties in the men's mis-
conduct, they must be able also to prove that they have
kept their European officers fully and promptly informed
of every act or intention of misconduct from its very be-
ginning, and that they have exerted themselves actively
and heartily far the maintenance of order, or they will
be dealt with themselves as guilty.
I further direct the discharge from the service of the
under-mentioned Havildars and others, in addition to
Troop Havildar Major Mahoodeen Khan .. A troop
Haiildar Ghoolam-ood-Deen, Ist
Havildar Ghoolam-ood-Deen, 2d
Naigue Nagogee Row
already discharged on the same account ;
Troop Havildar Major Shabaz Khan
Havildar Mahomed Khan B -
- Syed Hajee
Neer Subder Hossain E
Naigue Sheikh Imaun A -
- Syed Ali
Sheikh Ali .
Sheikh Hyder D
Private Mahomed Kasin A -----
- Sheikh Ahmed, Ist
Hoossemee Beg
- Muctoon Khan
B
Mahomed Ibrahant
Syed Ruza
Sheikh Ibrahim, Ist
Lal Khan
Mahomed Kasim, 2d
Kadir Ali Beg
Zynoolabdeen, Ist
-- Sheikh Ibrahim, 3d
Ghoolam-ood-been
D
Mahomed Esoof
Hoossein Nnwaz Khan
Sheikh Ali
Mahomed Hossein, Ist
E
Moortiza Khan
Kasim Beg
- Abdool Russool
- Kurreem-ood-Deen
F
Fureed Beg
Synd Achim
Sheikh Burrey
Hoosein Khan..
Regimental Moonshee Mahomed Khan.
The:delav which has taken place in the present case,
occasioned by the difficulty of relief by the distance from
the l'residency, and by other causes, rendering it neces-
sary to bring the regiment within our own frontier, but,
above all, by my own anxious desire, by a full inquiry,
to discriminate between the innocent and the guilty, has
possibly been the means of enabling some of the native
officers of the; 6th Light Cavalry to escape severer pu-
nishment than they have now incurred ; but it has been
unavoidable, and the nature of the combination which
has existed in the corps made it impossible for me to fix
upon the individuals to be selected for punishment, until
the court of inquiry had succeeded, with much difficulty,
in establishing sufficient proof against them.
It may, however, serve to prove to the army, that
although secret oaths, and an unwillingness to expose
the ringleaders, may delay and impede the Commander-
in-Chief in eliciting the truth, and punishing the guilty,
yet no lapse of time within the limitation of the law
will secure the instigators, when discovered, from the
penalty due to their misconduct. It will also show that
while in the desire to dispense strict justice, I have re-
frained from inflicting punishment until after the most
deliberate mad patient investigation. lam inflexibly de-
termined that in no case shall those who are guilty of
such a breach of discipline escape, particularly when
committed in such a position, and under such circum-
stances, so utterly in defiance of their obligations as
soldiers.

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the lines. Thus ended the punishments consequent 4,.
the mutiny at Jubbulpoor. The convicts march for then
destination to-morrow morning, I believe; the Missal.-
sod Artillery also leave to-morrow or the day after, fc•e'
Bangalore. The Court-martial on Captain Beier 's
postponed until further orders; during its postpoiseneete.
the Major-General will inspect the corps at Vellore tine
. other places, I hear. I can write no more ; my beate
lis, too sad.
COURT-MARTIAL ON CAPTAIN BYNG.
1 (rom the Madras United Service Journal of Nov. 8.)
We mentioned in our last number that Captain Byng,
of the 6th Cavalry, had been ordered for trial, and wiP
could not but express our regret that one of the smarteei
and best officers in the service should be placed in ei,
situation to cause any anxiety to his friends. The official
letter of Captain Byng, whereon the charge against him
1 is founded, was certainly ill-judged, inasmuch as betook
upon himself' to offer objectionable opinions for the gui-i
1 dance of his commanding officer, although such opinions
were fully concurred in by the three other captains'
and three senior subalterns present with the regiment,
Much allowance must be made, however, for the state
of excitement prevailing at the time amongst both men,
and officers; indeed the Sepoys, on being addressed by
Captain Byng, in obedience to the orders of Major •
Litchfield (who was well aware of that officer's induence
lover the Sepoys and their strong personal attachment for
him) received his address, delivered in the presence of
the other officers, with one unanimous burst of feeling,
one and all positively refusing to listen to any, orders
‘ern anati ng from Major Litchfield, who, they said,
" would not attend to their grievances !"
After ascertaining the alleged grievances of the men,
and reporting precisely what they had stated, Captain
Byng, it appears, made known to Major Litchfield that
it was the unanimous and fixed opinion of the European
offic-rs, that no chance whatever existed Of inducing the
men to desist from their demands, and that they appeared
by their bearings to be convinced that their officers had
no power at band to control them; indeed, seeming .to
have fon% almost all faith in the word of. their supenors,
as referring their officers to the order given out to them
by troops at Kamptee on which they had depended, and
the subsequent one from the pay department, depriving
the regiment of batta, which thus bore the appearance of
a positive breach of faith.
It is exceedingly easy for the Fort St. George officials,
calmly seated at their desks, with all quiet around them,
to come to a cool deciscin upon this or that subject
submitted for considerati in; but the case is widely
different, situated as the officers of the 6th Cavalry were;
their own men excited almost to madness at real or sup.
posed grievances, and the other corps at the station, from
being similarly situated in regard to batta, hardly to he .
depended on, should recourse to coercive measures have
become imperative:
(From the Calcutta .Enylishznan of Nov. 20.)
The Most Noble the Commander-in-Chief's reasons fol.
not involving the regiment iu " one common penalty,"
apart from this fact itself, and the destitution and distress
in which it would have left the men, their wives, and
families, at a distance of many hundred miles from their
homes, are thus given :—" I felt perfectly certain that
' all had not been equally criminal. I believe that the
majority of the men were good and faithful soldiers. I
was fully convinced that they had been misled by a few
mischeivous arid designing individuals. I felt it was due
to the regiment and to the army to satisfy myself on this
point, that I might be enabled to discriminate between
the really guilty parties and those who had foolishly
allowed themselves to be their dupes."
There is so much of kindly and merciful consideratiota
in these views, that we should be loth to criticise them
too closely ; but we must say that we have perused the
paragraph with no little astonishment. A mutiny, em-
bracing a whole regiment, taking the deliberate charac-
ter of a preliminary compact under the sacred form of
an oath to disobey authority, open disrespect to a com-
manding officer, and a demand, persisted in, to have this
commanding officer removed—a mutiny, so serious, that
its formal judicial investigation has left two men to
pay the awful penalty of their lives, eleven to bid
adieu to their country and families for ever, three to
dra; out two years of their existence in imprisommeat
and hard labour, and 44 officers and privates by dis-
missal from the service, to be deprived of all present
means of support—is spoken of as the apprehended
work of " a few mischievous and designing indivi-
duals," while the " majority" of the men—actual sub-
scribers to the oath, and sharers in the open mutiny !
are believed to have been " misled"—to have " foolishly
allowed themselves" to be made the dupes of others.
These be honeyed words, but they stand in remarkable
contrast to the recorded facts which precede them, and
the fearful judgments which close the Commander-in-
Chief's remarks. Perhaps, however, we ought rather
to read in them the argument. for the point we have
secondly to notice, viz., the delay in bringing the mu-
tineers to trial.
This is a question regarding which much discussion
has been raised, and opinions are still very much divided
upon the policy and necessity of the delay which took
place. It is currently reported that the 43d Regiment
Native Infantry volunteered to act against the 6th Cu-
valry at Jubbulpoor, if it was desired to resort there to
coercive measurs; and it is contended that, with the
powers of coercion held in this regiment and a detach-
ment of artillery, the 6th would have been made to give
up the ringleaders of the mutiny, and the corps been
marched back avowedly under impending investigation
and punishment. But, assuming the uncontrollable cir-
cumstances which are stated to have detained it in Jub-
bulpoor till March, it is still urged that an inquiry might.
have been instituted so soon as the regiment reached
Nagpoor, and that this could have been as efficiently con-
ducted there, under the express direction of the Com-
mander-in •Chief, as at the station of Arcot; and that the
anomaly would thus have been spared of marching men
through the country in apparent enjoyment of the con-
fidence of the State, who were destined at the conclusion
of their journey to be subjected to so severe an ord cal.
We now understand that great difficulties have existed
in identifying the ringleaders* in the outrages that have
occurred, and that much of the delay may bo ascribed
to this cause; but still there is no sufficient reason
afforded why an investigation at Nagpoor should not
have equally well sufficed to overcome these with one at
Arcot. •
•
‘Ve now come to the conduct of the pay department—the
.foss et origo of the immediate mischief that occurred.
The most Noble Marquis speaks most pointedly of this;
the terms " erroneous," " error," are prominently em-
ployed. At the time the issue of orders was made from
the Military Auditor-General's department to the troops
at Jubbulpoor, we know it was alleged that the order
was in conformity with the pay regulations ; but even
this is now publicly contradicted. Were it, however, the
case, can a more anomalous state of things exist than that.
any department, especially one serving under the very
nose of Government, should have power to issue or-
ders which involve important matters, without a previous
consultation with the paramount authority, or even its
cognisance of them. In this instance the pay department
might plead for their having merely intended to apply or-
dinary rules, but the military experience of its members
should have told them that it would be done under critical
circumstance, and that they should have made a previous
communication to the Government as a matter of duty. it
has been the policy of the Court of Directors tai
make the Audit-office feel a singular degree of
independence, reporting to itself direct, and so forth.
This is necessary to a certain extent; but it may work ill
nevertheless. A good servant in the eyes of the Court is
too commonly the one who exhibits the greatest saving
of money to them ; and, with this influence brought
directly to bear upon the military Audit-office, its funs-
tionaries may be apt to forget that its real and honour-
able post is to arbitrate between the Government and the
servants of the State, giving to the latter their due, and
their whole due, though nothing more than their fair
due, and not to have its views too closely directed to the
savings which an audit in the one and paramount interest
may enable it to effect. The present case of the 6th
Cavalry must, we should think, pave the way to some
reform in the condition of this department. It must be'
brought more in contact with the Government, for none
can patiently look upon an " error," springing from its
independent action, which has directly caused a once
untarnished corps to break forth in disgraceful mutiny,
and is now steeping the hearths of so many of our Native
soldiers in affliction, misery, and ruin.

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* As this has arisen from a general desire to screen th
guilty, it rather/militates against the convictions of the Coot -
mander-in-Chief, expreased in the paragraph we have befor
quoted.

THAMES REGATTA CLUB.
A special general meeting of the members of this
Club was held yesterday at the British Hotel, Cock-
spur-street ; J. D. Bishop, Esq., in the chair. In
opening the business the Chairman congratulated the
subscribers on the result of last year's regatta, a cir-
cumstance in some degree attributable to the encou-
ragement and presence of the President, Viscount
Castlereagh, and the Vice-Chancellor of England,
Sir Lancelot Shadwell. Very little business was
transacted at the meeting. It was stated that the
receipts of the year had been 8481. 19s. id., the ex-
penditure 7141. 16s. 7d., and that amongst the sub-
scribers for the present year were the Duke of
Northumberland, the Earl of Ripon, the Vice-Chan.
cellor of England, Viscount Castlereagh, the Univer-
Civil Enzineers, Thetis,
sities of Cambridge and Oxford, the Leander Club,
the London Amateur Scullers' Club, the Union
Lessness, Waverley,
Club, the Royal Thames Yacht ',flub, St. George's
pMreescreculeiptred:
iCvl,uesbt,m the
iWestminster,
terT
A Argcoandaeumt ,
Sphinx, and Halcyon Clubs, the Hon. George
eTnwtharesi e
saso,ffiwcfoioalnllobwaresy
:--
The Tofhlea
stG Denman,roelgd
atta Colonelvas
Challenge
four entries,
presented,
Oxford Universi •ty , the Silver Challenge Cup, nine
entries, won by the Leander Club; the Pair Oar
Silver Cups, five entries, won by Messrs. Julius and
Dalgleish ; the Challenge Scullers' Cup, thirteen
entries, won by Mr. Burnpsted ; the Champion (100
sovereigns) Prize, five entries, won by R. Coombes,
Newell, J. Phelps, T. Coombes--D. Coombes, cox-
swain ; the 50 sovereigns Four Oar Match, five en-
tries, won by the Newcastle (Clasper's) crew; the
Pair Oar (Watermen's) Match, twelve pair of oars,
first pair, Lett and H. Campbell ; the Scullers' (Wa-
termen's) Match, twelve scullers, first, R. Newell;
the Coat, Badge, and Freedom, thirteen apprentices,
won by Messam ; the Prize Wherry, three pair of
sculls, won by Kelly and Powell ; the Landsmen's
Match, Four Oars, four entries, won by the Chelsea
(Sheppard's) crew ; the Gentlemen's Eight Oared
Match for Silver Medals, eighty entries, seven boats
contended, won by Messrs. Palmer, Moorhead, Cloves,
G. Porter, G. H. Farr, llarrington, Pickering, and
the Hon. IV. Stuart—Stileman, coxswain.

Mr. Campbell had an interview with the Earl of
Dalhousie yesterday.

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