Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1815-12-07
E.4STM'DIES.
From he Iondon yoi;ot fs,,c Q

FROM he London Piiot Of .4ug. 25.
grossly exaggerated statement has ap-
peared IN some of the public pa pers in the
following terms:
thirty reg m nts are tn be se-t i'm
mediately to India, which are to be made
1000 strong each, by volunteering, which is
to be permitted from sereyimen's which
are not ordered. New regiments are also
10 he raised for India service, but whether
IN BritAin or in ladia, have not hsard"
Any body who is in the slightest dec,se
acquainted with the subject, hustle aNare
that TO send $4,000 men to India would be
an enterprise of greater magnitude than
sending 100000 TO america. The thing ia
in effect, quite imprscticable and aIlho'
as we have already more then once men
toned, considerable reinforcements VIII be
required tor the armies engaged i'm the Ma
paul warfare, which reinforcements being
drawn, in the FIRST instances, from the adj
lacent prssidencies and settlements, will MI !.
TIM ately create n necessity for considerable
additions from home, still the one third Of
the vast armament suggested III the nara
graph before US, is far NOR than can be re-
CURED or conveyed in any one instance
in ED We hope and believe, that the Total
amount Of requis;tioa that can b. necessary
to meet the eXigency, the reinforcenents
required to bring the Napaul war to q IA
vourHbie ard decisive issue, mus be locke
for from M2dras and Bombay, where pre-
par'iti ms are made To forward them from
java, whittier two OF TIE Company's Sims
OF the first class, the CufIncils and Row
Charlotte, each of 1900 tons. to bring all
that could be spared from Ceylon, where
the complete conqu st of the Ang of Canav
viii allow great part Of the existing militia.
o. n =, ha
next IRON the Isle of France end Cane of
Cool Hope. T call for troops from En-.
81 nj with a view to the Napaul war.
would be to look to a res URGE which
NIL not come to ction there till full two
years 2fter the call, Tn requ sition Of
troops from England, must, in fact, have
TOR its OBJECT merely the making good the
casualties II the forces no - emplnve in the
war, or to give 4 prudent add ii n of
strength to thu existing stabishments.-
Inc utmost amount required that we have
heard from any resp ctable source, is not
rated 1t above six b tall MS and even
that number completed to 1000 men each
bait lion. as is usual in regiments sent IN
Indie, w II be very rml able Armament
and by far tie most co1siderabl evr sert
at any one time from Europe to India. 1t
will, therefor, be fully sufficient to shew
the serious difficulties of the Napaul War.
The statements in our private commu-
cications respecting the unpleasant results
OF the war against Napaul, are Confirmed
by the following extract of letter from
Madeira, Mar 10, 1875:
The dispatches by the last and present
h,ets arc perhaps Of more alarming cha
racter than any that have been received in
lie adenhall street for the last twenty years.
In Bengal our armies have not ONLY been
repeatedly defeated, but obliged to act on
the defensive and tire moral effects of
this are never to be removed from the
minds OF the natives. The war against the
brave and hardy hghlanders Of N.paul
has been undoubtedly Commenced under An
ignorance OF their character and resources
and 1t has in consequence been conducted
with mad 'qutte means. The times are
rniserahly changed when (as is the Ct at
this monent,) our troops are forming en-
trenched camps within the Comp ny's an.
uent Possessions-Inace { az to r,Deat
he alarming reports which the post f each
day br.rS5 us. On this 81 of India. we
are on the eve ola Mahratt4 war. the cer-
tam consequence OF a failure n n paul
Dir l tiislop has taken the fisll, and is or
S'nizi an army Of 80 coo mea. The
eXpence Is enormous Thc government
? per IS at heavy discount. This is an un-
favourable view Of our situation, but unfor
cInately It IS TOO true a one.'