The Sun.
London, England, 1820-04-08 00:00:00

tilt LAtg LiEbigNANT tiliStiotAL

Nothing has a greater tendency tb perfect the
morale of an Army
,tham theAliscripinate use of re-
wards, and no reward is &ore-
dying praise. The CollsCiOtlatle3ll that it' is be-
stowed with equal justice upon those who have
finished their career of glory, as tipori the living,
animates the survivors in the pursuit, and greatly
rids them of the encumbering apprehensions that
will hang about the stoutest heart--

For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey;
This pleasing anxious being. e'er resignCll—
s

Nor cast one longing, ling'ring, look behind.?

The Commander who duly tecogniZes merit at the sate
time raises a monument; more lasting than brass or marble,
to himself, and renders the most important -service. to the
State. He sweetens:poWerby exeititig gratitude, and allure*
to danger by warminti the hearts of his I-irate folloWers with
respect and regard; by example he zeiiinit es them to the love
of virtue. Nor though last not.least is the alleviation of the
sorrow of surviving relatives-, which makes them view the
loss they sustain less as a common t•aerifice than a solemn of-
fering at the altar of their taiontry. '
We have been led toeuntemplate this subject mote partieu;.
larly from having- just seen a testimonial in favour of a
subaltern other!, lately written by onewhose high rank,' and
the recent reward of hilosplendird services, must Oonftl diguity
in any case, but- which is particularly characterized in the
present.
In hallo dozen lines it speaks volumes. We shall nu longer
detain the reader from the; toliownig extract of a letter front
Lieut. Genetal Sir Thomas Hisiop, Bart. Commatider-in-cirief
of the Forces in the Presidency of Madras.
" Your late relative Limit:Chisholm, of the Madras Artil-
lery, who fell .in the unparalleled glorious vontest at curry-.
gatsru, on the Ist day of the present year, was a very excellent.
°dicer, and regained by 'all who knew biiu, and no
less has Ins loss been deplored on ,pt irate than un publie
grounds.

(Sigurd)

Tuomas HisLor."

Lieut. Chisholm was of a family whose name is every.
where prominent in the toils of war, and lie has left behind,
him two brothers of similar character--Lientenants John.
Chisholm of his own corps, and Archibald Chisholm of the
Hon. Company's Native Infantry. The three are SOUS of the
late Mr. John Chisholm, of Knot:liku,and nephews of Wnt.
Fraser, of CulbOkie, in Stratlighiss, Inverness-shire.
The late Lieut. William Chisholm, who was thus pram-
trtrely ent-cirin the claw .of glary in the fioWer of his age,
was, as is with terse e:eganee described by Sir T. Bishop, to
be deplored equally out private and public grounds. He had
a kindness of heart that won him the esteem of all ranks its
the army, and he was one of the best linguists in it, a talent-
which is.naturally of the highest promise in India.—His do-
mestic virtues ss ere_ equally prominent, and his filial piety
was evinced in a particular no:nrier.
In the action in which he tell his native bravery was parti-
cularly remarkable; the force of the enemy opposed to himo
ft thing inconeeivahtZ in European wade' e, was more than
an hundred to one ; and this force was excited by pro.aised
rewatds.of Scindiab for the ()lacers and guns of the artillery ;
against this did he stand. while his last men were cut down
arount4 him, and then gloriously tell at his post !
We cannot do better than close these hasty 'remarks by the'
extract of a letter from tile British Resident at Hydrahad,
to Lieutenant John Chisholm, his surviving brother, befine
mentioned.
.. ...

" I send you a letter, which has just: arrived,from Scrorei
and which may Perhaps give you sonic particulars of your
gallant. brother's fate.. If one .be destined ►o tall its the dis-
charge of his profession, it could not have been on a moreglo-
riuus occasion. Of all the actions our troops India have ever
performed, this, 1 think, is the-most brilliant, and if a brother
of mine had. fallen in it, I should feel proud of his fate to the
very last day of my life, &c. &c.
• tSignedi

" HENRY RUSSELL."

There are few, we think, who will differ from our position
in the outset of these remarks, or read these extracts with-,
out .feeling a glow of admiration at the character of this gal-
lant young oihcer, and the devotion of his life.