Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-12-04


The following observations on the Brit
ISL power in India will be read with much
interest in France. Indeed the London
| Spectator, to which we are chiefly indebt-
ed for these extracts, seems TO consratu
late its readers upon the political effect Of
the whole work:
CHOW that the Company's army consists
| Of 100000 men, $4,000 OF which are
| Kings troops, 1000 or 5000 entirely En-
ropean corps in the Company's SERVICE
such as almost the whole artillery, aud
lastly, the native army is commanded by
numerous European officers it is dicipin-
| ed and drilled as well as the Kings army,
dressed like it, fights very nearly equal to
/ il, and is commanded by officers in whom
it has the greatest and justest confidence ;
| that in a country like this, intersected by
/ deserts, and in which the richest provinces
| with the exception of Bengal. which is ex
! tremely distant from Erzeroum, could not
support the smallest army, the smallest DO
dy Of troops, in order not 10 die Of hunger
and often OF thirst, would have 10 drag a !.
long with it an immense number Of Ella
| plants, camels, and wagons; that the
Company has three thousand elephants,
forty thousand camels, and naaierieL Of all
kinds in proportion +; that it is always
| ready to take the field; and ask yourself
/ if, from this place, Semla, at a distance Of
seven leagues from Runjet Sing. have
not reason to scott at HIM indefinitely
Quand meme; as well as at all the Afghans
Kaudaharians, kabulians, the brothers
! Mohammed and Purdile, the heroes, and
lastly at all the varieties OF vagabonds,
! brigands, aud inendicanis, both horse and
foot, who flourish on the right bank OF the
| Indus.
| laughed heartily at Cashmere, nor did
they laugh less at Semla, at the grand
| Oriental sentences of Gen. Lamarque,
| about Russia and the Balkan, the eau
casus, Persia, China, and the cruel oppres-
sion with which the periidlous islanders
| keep down hundred millions Of Indians,
| fipe for revolt lcould wish that legal or
| der went on as well at Paris AS it does
| from Cape Commorin TO the peaks Of the
1 Himalaya. Ii is enough to make one
| burst with laughter. abandon without
mercy, to the ridicule Of my English
/ Ciieuds, all my friends who gave way &c
such folly. do not know whether It IS
that | reao those things coolly at year:
| interval, but the bulletins OF the army il
Africa appeared to me quite ludicrous.-
Our soldiers on the AlIas were as great q
alias himself! This is Victor Hugo al
over. | believe nowadays people lapgl
heartily at the Emperor's hulietiDs--ever
their happiest claptraps Honor to com
mon sense!
What absurd tale is it OF which yo'
sneak. nv dear father, about Aighans lie
scending from Cashmere to conquer Ben
gal? In the first place, there is not SIN
gle Afghan left in Cashmere. kunJee'
Sing drove them oai twelve years ago
and il was no dif1iculttask for hun IN
last king Of Kabut whom ! saw at Loo
F, dseaaa. Shal Shoodjah el Molok, who
well acquainted with bis OLD SUBJECTS, iol
me. ti,at with regiment OF English 81
nots, it would be easy for him TO re po'
sess himself of his crown-and he sposs
the ruth. Al these people fight hui
h and fire from great distance their siio
= which kills nobody, and Immediately fu
4 away. II there be only little cavalry
+ oyeftske them, OF Sufficient numher
surround them, they are eAierminated''
Should Isunjeet Sing think he could pr
IDENTITY absent himself for some ume i1o
the Punjab, nothing would be easier !
him than 10 re conquer the whole OF a
) ghapistan. Runjeet Sings IS Tue on
! power which has stood with that Of Y
" British. But the respective revenues
= the two states viii give you their reiau
6 resources. That of The Company amour
10 twenty six millions sterling that
Runieet 10 three; and be can Only COZ