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THE MADRAS SIXTH LIGHT
CAVALRY.

His Lordship further instructs me to point out that
in a sentence of capital punishment the Court itself
should specify the particular mode of infliction, 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
of powers incompatible with the British constitution and
of justice. His Lordship is aware that there are one or
two precedents within the last twenty years, in which
the Court has left the manner of inflicting a capital
punishment to the coo firming authority, but for the
reason stated, he considers such precedents are bad,
and trusts that the C ,art will not add to their number,
and by that means establish a usage in this army, not
supported by any precedent for the last thirty-four years.
His Lordship has accordingly directed a revision of the
sentence in this particular.
The proceedings of the trial are addressed to the Pre •
sident of the Court-martial, and will remain with you
till the assembling of the Court, when his Lordship
directs that the seals may be broken in the presence
of the Court.

The Government 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 Must Noble the Governor in Council, I
have accordingly ordered the suwmtry 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
now 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 them, especially in the cavalry,
who has not numerous near connections of all 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 for 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
Havildar Ghoolani-ood-been, lat
Havildar Ghoolam-ood-Deep, 2d
Naigue Nagogee Row
already discharged on the same account ;
Troop Havildar Major Shabaz Khan
['milder Mahomed Khan
B
- Syed Hajee ...
Meer Subder Ilossain
Naigue Sheikh Imaun
A
Syed Ali
Sheikh Ali
Sheikh Hyder
D
Private Mahomed Kasin
A --
- Sheikh Ahmed, Ist
Hoossemee Beg
Muctoon Khan
B
Mahomed Ibraham
Syed Ruza.
Sheikh Ibrahim, Ist
C
Lal Khan
Mahomed Kasim, 2d
Kadir Ali Beg
Zynoolabdeen, Ist
Sheikh Ibrahim, 3d
Ghoolam-ood-Deep
D
Mahomed Esoof
Hoossein Nuwaz Khan
Sheikh Ali
Mahomed Hossein, Ist
Moortiza Khan
Kasim Beg
Abdool Russool
Kurreem-ood-Deen
Pureed Beg
- Synd Adurn
Sheikh Bur

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COURT-MARTIAL.
CiENERAL ORDERS RV LIIS EXCELLENCY THE COMMANDER-
IN-CHIEF.
Head-quarters, Choultry-plain, Nov. 2, 1844.
The following extracts from the confirmed proceedings
of an European general court-martial (under the pro-
visions of Regulation 111. of 1899), holden at Arcot, oa
Wednesday, the 11th day of in the year of our
Lord 1544, by virtue of a warrant Sept.,from his Excellency
Lieut.-General the Most Noble George Marquis of
Tweeddale, K.T. and C. 8., Commander-in-Chief, are
published to the army :-
Syed Ghouse, regimental No. 506, private in the A
troop ; Nlahomed Malik-, regimental No. 450, private in
the A troop ; Syed Seabee, regimental No. 423, private
in the B troop; Syed Fusil, regimental No. 138, private
in the B troop; 'Mahomed Janeaul, first, regimental No.
298, private in the C troop; Mahomed Booden, regimental
No. 197, private in the C troop ; Ismail Shah, 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 1) troop ; Ismael Khan, regimental No.
366, private in the D troop ; Syed Khaidr, regimental
No. 548, private in t'ee 1) troop ; Surwar Khan,
regimental No. 464, private in the E troop ; Yuewant
Rao, regimental No. 489, private in the E troop ; Ma-
homed IVazeer, 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 in 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 let and morning of the 2d December, 1843,
mutinously combined, with others, to disobey the lawful
commands of Major William Edmund Litchfield, of the
Bth 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 2d 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
Edmund Litchfield, their commanding officer, when their
regiment was being inspected by Brigadier Lewis Went-
orth Watson, commanding the troops at Jubbulpoor,
openly delivered to the said Brigadier Lewis Wentworth
Watson certain written papers, purporting to be petitions
from the several troops of their regiment, therein de-
mending, 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 add 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 Booden, re-
gimental No. 197, private in the C troop ; Ismail Khan,
second regimental No. 478, private inthe C troop; Shekh
Fenkroode, regimental No. 195, private in the C troop;
Sycd 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
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-Guilty of the
third instance 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 ilestance 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,
prig ate in the D troop of the 6th Regiment of Light Ca-
refry, is-
Finding on the first instance of charge--Guilty of the
first instance of charge.
Finding on the second instance of charge-Not 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 No. 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 Da9ad 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, and at such time and place, as hid Excellency the
Most Noble the Commander• in- Chief may be pleased to
direct. And the Court doth sentence them, the said
Syed Ghouse, regimental No. 506, private in the A
troop ; Syed Ahmed, regimental No. 551, private in the
1) troop ; Syed Khadir, regimental No. 584, private to
eth Regiment of
ands regimental No.
the EM m
troop,
aho eadllWe
of
zteher,
Light Cavalry, each to undergo imprisonment with
ird
497,the Dprityraotoepin; a
labour for the term of two years, in such place as his
Excellency the. Most Noble the Commander-in Chief may
appoint.

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In promuloting 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
Kamptee 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 persona, 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 received 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 &termination 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 ursees 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 pee-
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-
ments, without loss of time, were put in motion to effect
its relief.
I then had to determine upon the measures to be
adopted towards the 6th Regiment of Light Cavalry,
suitable to the military position in which it was placed.
I might at once, without further inquiry, have
punished the whole corps. Besides, however, that such
a course would have subjected all alike to one common
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-
cided me to bring the regiment within the frontier, and
there to institute a thorough investigation into all the
circumstances of their misconduct.
I felt perfectly certain that all had not been equally
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-
ing individuals. I felt it was due to the regiment, and
to the army, to satisfy myself on that point, that I might
be enabled to discriminate between the really guilty
parties and those who had foolishly allowed themselves
to be their dupes.
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
bntooe use
theinstigators
every exertion
of
those
thefor
detection
omutinous
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
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 vvell.
Had they even been guilty of refusing to turn out for
parades, though their critne would t till have been great,
yet if they had game 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 smell 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 thorn 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 hi.
orders, and dared to give in urzees for submission to the
Commander-in-Chief, demanding that their commeading
officer should be removed.

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MR. TOTHILL'S REPORT FOR 1844.
TO THE PUBLIC.
The only thing r have to add to my report of last year is, that I
feel still more convinced, from practical experience, of the truth of
Mr. Morison's Hygeian System of Medicine, and of the fallacy of the
organic theory taught In the schools of medicine. I have, during
the last ten years, treated gratuitously upwards of 5,001 poor por-
sons, labouring under all sorts of diseases, at the Exeter Hygelan
Dispensary, solely with Morison's Pills, of the British College of
Health, London, most of whom had been given up as incurable by
the most eminent medical men of Exeter. To all persons desirous
of investigating such cases, I shall be most happy to give them the
names and addresses of the parties cured, tothether with the names
and addresses of the medical men they were under. I beg to thank
Lady Sophia Grey, and the other subscribers, for their annual sub-
scriptions. (Signed) RICHARD TOTH IL L, M.R.C.S.L.,
but now practising on tho Hygeian System.
Exeter Hygeian Dispensary, 91, Fore-street-hill, Exeter,
January 6, 1845.

Hoosein Khan..,
Regimental Moonshee Mahomed Khan.
The:delay which has taken place in the present case,
occasioned by the difficulty of relief by the distance from
the Presidency, 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 and 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.

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 Ahrneeo,
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 in 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.
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. T WEEDDALE,
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
haad-quarters, to be supplied by corps to
their detachments. ,
_
-tgraunarsltactriso,naonfd
copies
ereesmaarorks will be forwarded from

Arcot, the 17th of October, 1844.
(Signed) THOS. A. DUKE, Major let Madras
Fusileers, President.
(Signed) T. B. CHALON, Judge-Advocate-
General, conducting the proceedings.
(Signed) W. WHEELER, Adjutant 2d N.V.8.,
Assistant Interpreter.
(Signed) M. T. FFRENCH, Lieutenant, 34th
Light Infantay, Interpreter to the Court.
RECOMMENDATION.—The Court having performed a
)st painful duty, in awarding the sentence of death to
so many of these misk.Tuided men, doth (in consideration
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
them)commomatenrrthPeecutfnudiel3', most ear-
r-mentioned
nb
ee
se
tnl y
,and performed
unanimously
t recommend
men to the most merciful consideration of his Excellency
the Commander-in-Chief—namely, Privates Mahomed
Malik, Malik, of the A troop ; Syed Fusil, of the B troop ;
Mahound Jamaul, first, and Ismail Khan, second, of
the C troop ; Ismail Khan, of the D troop ; Surwar
Khan and Ynstvant Rao. of the E troop ; n
Ahmeen and Daood Khan, of the F troop.
(Signed) THOMMAaSdr/aks..l}),LlUsitlE' Major Ist
e
rs, President.
(Signed) `l. B.
conductingß.c?llt.L
ON,Ju,i gte-Advocate-
proceedings.
To Captain Boulderson, Deputy Ju4ge-Advocate-
General, VII. District, Madras.
me as judge-
Sir—l have the honour, by order of the Most Noble
to proceed to
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-
formadv o cya
tocu,, you,
othat t
ty,
eo us
iarei,i appointedtria ,
and toi relieveted
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 01 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 3d instances,
and not of the Ist instance of charge. This error his
Lordship believes to have taken place in recording the
.opinion of the Court.

The individuals who have been selected as leadexs 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 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 hube en
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 so-ne of the number were, in secret, the in-
stigators of the men.
They have indeed asserted that previous to the actaial
publication at evening stables of the order for this 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
aotually formed.
But this is altogether incredible and impossible.
It has been proved that the subject was talker! of
amongst the men for some time before—that the older
' 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.
petted nothing ; while, as to the non-commissioned offi-
cers, they were most of them actually living in the same
tents with the men, and must have both heard and seen
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.

have the whole fully explained
their native officers, and to
Commanding officers are further directed to assemble
to them in their presence. General Court-martial (under the pro-
. of
1899) of which M. • , T
The European
of the Ist Madras Fusrleers. is President, is
visions of Regulation 111. .... , . oy„r T.
A. Duke,
dissolved. C. A. BROWNE,
Acting Adjutant General of the Army.
TWO SENTENCES.
e°N./ktaOdlra' sTSlipeEctutor, Nov. 9)
EX(I.ErComUTthI.
ARCOT, Nov. 7,
THE
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
outbreak amongst the thousands who came to witness
the sad scene. However, all passed off quietly. The
poor fellows met their death N./Ty firmly, though at the
first fire only one fell, the other remaining firm in his
kneeling position; however, at the second fire he fell
also, thnugh it took several more shots to finish him. After the execution, four native officers (two Subadars i
and two Jamudars), with a number of privates and non-
commissioned officers, and the regimental Moonshee,
were called to the front, and their sentence of discharge 1
from the service read to them. The other prisoners had ,
also their sentences read to them; after which the 6th ,

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Cavalry filed past the two dead bodies and returned to the lines. Thus ended the punishments consequent oza
the mutiny at Jubbulpoor. The convicts march tbr theie
destination to-morrow morning, I believe; the I.IU96APJ
and Artillery also leave to-morrow or the day after, for
Bangalore. The Court-martial on Captain Byag is
postponed until further orders; during its postponement
the Major-Generel will inspect the corps at Irellore and
other places, I hear. I can write no more ; my heart
is too sad.
COURT-MARTIAL ON CAPTAIN BYNG.
(From 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 we
could not but express our regret that one of the smartest
and best officers in the service should be placed in a
situation to cause any anxiety to his friends. The official
letter of Captain Byng, whereon the charge against him
is founded, was certainly ill-judged, inasmuch as he took
upon hirnfulf to offer objectionable opiniet s for the gui-
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, ter the state
of excitement prevailing at the time amongst both teen
and officers; indeed the Sepoys, on being addressed by
Captain Bvng, in obedience to the orders of Major
Litchfield (who was well rare of that officer's influence
over the Sepoys and their strung personal attachment fbr
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
emanating from Major Litchfield, who, they said,
" would not attend !o their grievances !"
After ascertaining the alleged grievances of the race,
and reporting precisely abet they had stated Captain
Byng, it appears, made known to Major Litchfield that
it was the unanimous and fixed opinion of the European
officers, 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 hand to control them; indeed, seeming to
have lost almost all faith in the word of their superiors,
as referring their officers to the order given out to them
by troops at liamptee 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 decison upon this or that subject
submitted for considerati )n; 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 be
depended on, should recourse to coercive measures halo
become imperative!
(From the Calcutta Englishman of Nov. 20.)
The Most Noble the Commander-in-Chief's reasons for
not involving the regiment in " 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 and 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 discruninate between
the really guilty parties and those who had foolishly
allowed themselves to be their dupes."
There is so much of kindly and merciful consideration
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
par the awful penalty of their lives, eleven to Lid
adieu to their country and families for ever, three to
dra out two years of their existence in imprisonment
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 " fool:shly
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 fur 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 tl.e end Regiment
Native Infantry volunteered to act against the 6th Ca-
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 dets,cli-
ment of artillery, the 6:h 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 existe d
in identifying the ringleaders* in the outrages that have
occurred, and that much of the delay may be 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. • • •
We now come to the conduct of the pay department—the
funs et °riga 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 to
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 Govermnent 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 or 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 non.
can patiently look upon an " error," springing from its
independent action, which has directly cau,nd u (!nee
untarnished corps to break t'orth in disgraceful mutiny,
and is now steeping the hearths of so Many of our native
soldiers in affliction, misery, and ruin.

* As this has 'arisen from a general desire to screen th
guilty, it rather, militates against the convictions of the Com -
mander-in-Chiet; expressed in the paragraph we have betbr
quoted.

HAMES 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, Eq., 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,
ncelo t andsiehaG
arsthe v
i ,aedi
7d.,V1 aibeneeled-,nCe
rthyiBlaa4ntBleilet.alt
mlll Vice-Chancellor
gou3sfsd'ti.En,
totnhshgesel
sawuen
ex-
penditure 5..,
Sir La
transacted at the meeting. It was stated that the
ipti is r eo f7tlh4eLy
the
eeEseanrtl
of
f-ear were the Duke
of Cambridge and Oxford, the sPrceercniedbie rs for the
cellor of England, Viscount
Northumberland,
IsCvpleubsbitn,inxth,iielstlaetnroayali'ail'en‘a,rnes
Club, the Royal Academy,
the London Amateur Scullers'
Castlereagh,the Vice-Cha.no-f
the Univer-
sitiese Leander Club,
Club, the Union
yacht
Civil Eclnugbi,neSert.s,GTeohregteis,'s
Argonaut, Lessness, IVaverley, Isis,
on Clubs, the Hon. George
Dc-nman, Colonel Mercer, &c. The official result
of last regatta was presented. It was as follows:
The Gold Challenge Cup, four entries, won by the
Oxford .University ; the Silver Challenge Cup, nine
entries, won by the Leander Club; the Pair Oar
Silver Cups, five entries, won by Messrs. Julius and
Dalgleish; tie Challenge Scullers' Cup, thirteen
entries, won by Mr. Butnpsted ; 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 11y the Newcastle (Clasper's) crew ; the
Pair Oar (Watermen's) Match, twelve pair of cars,
first pair, Lett and H. Campbell ; the Scullers' (Wa-
termen's) Match, twelve sculiers, first, R. Newell;
the Coat, Badge, and Freedom, thirteen apprentices,
won by Alessam ; the Prize Wherry, three pair of
seulls, 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
cbolnattcehndefodi:mS.oilnvebry Ms,
Palmer,e
G. Porter, G. H. Farr, Harrington, Pickering, and
lgiaye nit froi eos;hsee:de,nCiboovaetss,
the lion. W. Stuart —Stileznan, coxswain.

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