Star.
London, England, 1825-03-18 00:00:00

fuge-- a bad spirit possessed the corps; and shen all
diffi:ulties were removed, And it was no longer pos-
sible to practise evasion, they refused on the parade
to march, with the exception of about 180 men, and
the non-commissioned and commissioned Native Officers.
On the receipt of a report to this effect by the Com-
cuarider-in-Chief, his Excellency immediately adopted
the necessary measures to bring those misguided men
to a sense of their duty. He instantly proceeded to
Barrackpore, and on the following morning, having
made a disposition of the other troops at the station,
and those which had arrived during the night, the
Adjutant-General and Quartermaster-General of the
Army, with his Excellency's Persian Interpreter, and
Officer commanding the 47th Native Regiment, were
deputed to make a last effort to induce the mutineers,
drawn up, loaded, and in regular parade order, to lay
down their arms, but without effect.
" Nothing then remained but to inflict the punish-
ment so justly merited. The Commander-in-Chief gave
the preconcerted signal for an attack by a part of the
force, the mutineers instantly broke, and betook them-
selves to flight, under the fire of the troops who at-
tacked them; and such an example was made on the
spot as the necessity of the case and the infamy of the
regiment merited—the most guilty cf those who were
made prisoners having been subsequently executed by
the sentence of a General Court-Martial. That a trans-
action so unusual in, and disgraceful to this ai my, could
have been planned, and carried into executiGn without
the knowledge, nut to say participation of the native
commissioned and non-commissioned Officers of the
corps, is not for a moment to be credited, cornpo.e..l as
the native-regiments are in Bengal. Connected by re-
lationship, and living as the native Officers and Sepoys
do, almost under the same roof, it is not to be believed
for a moment that the grossest neglect of the dory the
former owed to the State has not been shewn by the
parties in question ; the Governor-General in Council
consequently considers the 47th regiment of Native In-
fantry, including its native commissioned and non-com-
missioned Officers, to be disgraced ; directs that No. 47
be struck out of the army -list, the native commis-
sioned and non-commissioned Officers to be instantly
discharged the service as whoily unworthy of the
confidence of Government or the name of soldiers ;
and that a new .Regiment, to be numbered 69, to
ss !rich the European Officers of the late 47th will be
appointed, be immediately raised in its stead, for general,
service, agreeably with the detail as laid down in Ge-
neral Orders of the 11th of July, 1823, No. 65. •
" To the native commissioned and non-commissioned
Officers of the Bengal Army, the Governor-General in
Council now more pa: ticularly desires to address him-
self. Ile is perfectly satisfied that no instance of in-
subordination can take place in a corps without such
coming to their early knowledge. 1-le hereby demands
from them a rigid execution of their duty, and ob-,
serves, that even on the rumour of anY•disconient in al
corps, it is their particular duty to communicate it in-1
stantly to their European Officers, and to exert their ut
most endeavours to put down in the first instance any
appearance of combination. his Lordship in Council
further desires it to be distinctly understood, that
in failure of that line of conduct which is expected
from the native commissioned and non-commis-
sioned Officers of the Attny, they will be held per-
sonally arid collectively responsible for ail mis-
behaviour of the men, who are more immediately
under their eve and command in the lines, than they
can be under that of the Europeati OfliceLs ; and that
the most prompt dismissal front the'seivice will be the
inevitable consequence of any want of exertion and zeal,
or any abandonment of duty; in short, he warns them
to profit by the example of the 47th, who have draws
down on themselves a 1 unishment they justly merited.
" The (lovernor-General in Council, in order to make
known the sentiments of the Government to the Native
Army as fully and correctly as possible, is pleased to
direct that this Order shall be translated into the Hin-
doostanee language, and printed in the Nag, ee charac-
ter, for the purpose of transmission to corps respectively
through the Adjutant-General of the Army, under the
orders of the Commander-in-Chief, who will be pleased
to issue-such subsidiary orders as his Excellency may
consider necessary, drafting the privates of the late 47th
w hose fidelity remained unshaken, into such regiments
as may appear most expedient."
Tire following account of the suppression of the late
)utiny is from the liorkarn, Calcutta paper.
cALcurr,t, NOVEMBER 9, 1824.

The Government Gazette having published an ac•
count of the mutiny at Barrackpore, but by no means
either a full or correct one, we deem ourselves autho-
rized to lay before our readers the whole paiticu4irs,
which, from having been upon the spot, we can assure
the public are authentic. We shall give what we
know in as brief and summary a way as possible, but
what we do say our readers may rely upon as being
quite correct. The 26:h, 47th,- and 62d Regiments had
been, as weformerly told our readers, under marching
orders for bAMC time past ; and on the Ist instant, the
second named corps was to have prcceeded upon its
route. For several days before that, there had been
symptoms of discontent displayed by the Sepoys of
;t, but not of a nature that was thought likely to
ld in a serious m inner, and we shall accordingly

ing commissioned and noncommissioned native Officers)
on parade; the rest remained behind the bells of arms,
with their accoutrements on, and their muskets loaded.
On seeing this, the General rode up to them; where-
upon they immediately charged, and drove him back
to the parade, and followed 'the act by rushing upon
those who had already paraded, and driving them back
into the lines, all but the native commissioned and non-
commissioned Officers, who joined Colonel Cartwright,
and were sent to his house as a place of safety. So far
with the 47th for that day. After gun-fire in the even-
ing (of Monday) a body of the 62d Regiment suddenly
rose, in number about 150, rushed to the quarter-
guard, seized the colours, and carried them to a dis-
tance of 100 yards to the front. Captain Ashe and
-Ensign Boyd, being nearest to the spot, hastened to this
place (the Commanding Officer, Major Roope, and the
rest of the Officers, exerting themselves to preserve
order in the other ['arts of the cot ps), and the former
expostulated with the men upon the madness of their
conduct, and reminded them of their former good name.
He had the greatest hopes of persuading them to aban-
don their project, until a Sepoy rushed from beside the
colours, and told him to begone, or his life should be
taken. Captain Ashe declared his resolution not to
leave the colours, whereupon the Sepoy struck him
twice, and sought far a bayonet wherewith to assail
him. Upon this some of the other men held the rut%
fian, and said they would not suffer him to touch their
Officer, whom they entreated to go away, saying they
were mad, and knew riot what they were about. Be-
tween pushing and jostling, they drove him and Ensign
Boyd away, and immediately prcceeJed with the co-
lour and joined the 47th. Much about the same time
a small number (abeut teenty) of the 26th rose, seized
upon one colour, and likewise joined the original mu-
tineer', notwith eandirg all the endeavours of Lieut.-
Colonel D'Aereler to prevent them. By that time the
Royals. the King's 'l7th, and the Artillery, leid errived,
as well as the Commander-in-Chief, and day-light
alone was waited ler, to put into execution those prompt
and vigorous measures teron which his Exceileircy had
already deter mined. Accordingly, on 'Tuesday morn-
ing, the whole of the troops were drawn up in po,ition,
and the mutereers were lrkewi.e in a line of their own,
apparently Os reselete as ever. General Daizell was
then sent to de,i; e them to lay down their arms, and
to point out what would be the immediate conse•
quences of their refusal. They replied, that they had
sworn not to surrender, and that they therefore would
net, which being reported to his Excellency, two signal
guns were fired (the galloepers of the body guard), and
agreeably to pievieus orders, the-artillery, under Cap
tam Webb, opened en them from the rear. IVe believe
they returned this fire, in an irregular way, and then im-
mediately fled, receiving a volley from the Royals, who
afterwar its pursued, end continued sniping all the morn-
ing. The mutineers threw off their accoutrements as
quickly as possible, and endeavoured to conceal them-
selves in every direction. The number of killed it' is
therefore impossible to ascertain, bat it probably did not
exceed •100, including those who were drowned in at-
tempting to cress the river. Two of the Eody guard
were unfo•tunately killed by a shot horn the artillery,
supposed to have glanced off a tree, or some other sub-
I stimocwhich cheeged its direction. At 10 o'cloc k aCourt-
el art, el was convened, before ehich forty men of the
17t1r were art aigriee, fonird guilty, and adjudged to
suffer death ; in consequence of which, six ot the worst
of them were hanged, on Tlitusday morning, and the
remainder sent in irons to Fort Williem. • Since then,
about seventy more, from the different regiments, have
been taken arid tried, of whom live more were executed
ou Saturday, and the remainder sent to Fort William,
to be hereafter dealt with as the Commander-in-Chief
shall think fit. The above is a correct acceunt, as far
as it goes, but into any of the reported causes of the
mutiny we, of course, cannot enter. Suffice it, there-
fore, to say, that it is completely eradicated, and that
the several corps are anxious to be sent on service, in
order to wire off the (we trust) temporary disgrace
which their conduct has incurred ; and although we
are not given to flatter, and it may be even impertinent
to Fraise, we must say, that the decisive and vigorous
measures adopted by the Commander-in-Chief so effec-
tually put a stop to the riot, and rooted out every mu-
tinous feeling, that the Sepoys have since declared they
would undergo anything in the world to wipe away its
remembrance from the dof Government, and rather
suffer any kind of death than behave in a like manner
again. This per feet restoration of loyalty, and the firm
decided conduct of his Excellency, we think it particu-
lerly proper to make known—not for the information
of the army, to which we doubt not that general orders
will communicate the particulars, but for the informa-
tion of the people of England, among whom, no doubt,
the whole transaction will be commented on and exag-
gerated, in the ridiculous manner which characterizes
almost all their speculations upon eastern affairs. The
estimate we have made of the number of killed in the
attack of Tuesday, is a perfect guess, and perhaps ex,-
ceeds the actual amount ; but the very nature of the
exit :nple renders the precise number of sufferers exceed-
ingly difficult, if not quite impossible, to be ascertained.
Had treble the number been slain, however, we are of
those who consider that on suck an occasion it would
neither have been lamentable nor excessive, which is all
we shall at present remark on the subject.—Hurkaru.

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