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(Diary) 2nd July.-Went to near Budlee Serai. On the road near the Garden saw lying the skeleton of a man, said to be the Havildar-Major of the Native troop, killed in the action on the 19th-his jacket still on him. Quiet all day, and no firing.

CAMP, DELHI CANTONMENTS, Friday, 3rd July.

I quite agree with you as to the absurdity of disarming people's servants unless the order can be carried out most stringently in the bazaar; but trust there is no fear of any disturbance at Simla, and, this being the case, it is of little consequence whether these have arms or not.

We hope you will not have much longer now to wait for the fall of Delhi, but no day is fixed upon yet for this happy consummation of our wishes. They are all quiet in the city again to-day, and the report is that the Bareilly people will only give up one lac of their treasure to the King (they are said to have seven), and fighting and disputes are going on amongst them in consequence.

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Our camp is very healthy, all things considered. There was heavy rain last night, but it is now clear and cloudless again. Not only was that man of the Sikh corps of whom I told you hanged yesterday evening, but also a Ressaldar, Jemadar, and Duffadar of Nicholson's party of Irregular Cavalry, for trying to get Coke's corps to mutiny and turn against us. They spoke to the Native Adjutant, who informed against them, and they were all tried by Military Commission for sedition-tried, found guilty, and executed; and the Poorbeahs of the detachment, some sixty or eighty, were sent away with the Poorbeahs of the Sikh corps, their arms and horses first being taken from them. It is hoped that the example will have a good effect on George Hall and Fenwick's corps; the latter came in yesterday.

Young Blair is getting on very well; Mactier went to see him this morning. I was surprised at his being so well; the doctors must have been mistaken as to the nature of the wound.

Colonel Baird Smith arrived last night, and with him our friend Robertson,† who has just been paying me a visit. He came across by Saharunpore. He gives an excellent account of the behaviour

* I think these men were shot by an execution party of the Carabineersnot hanged.-H. W. NORMAN.

†The late General Robertson, C.B., of the 8th King's.

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of the Nusseree battalion there, who are doing first-rate service, he says, in quieting the country, which was all upset again by those Jullunder mutineers. He mentioned an instance of the Goorkhas attacking a body of some two or three thousand Goojurs, and totally routing them.

It is nearly two o'clock, so I must say good-bye. Arthur Becher, Mactier, and Congreve all send kind messages.

(Diary) 3rd July.-Very muggy weather; all quiet again to-day. Commissariat baboos came in from city; lots of intelligence, and say King is anxious to make terms-the villain! About five large bodies of troops seen on right flank, said to be intending to attack us in rear and to plunder Alleepore.

CAMP, DELHI CANTONMENTS, Saturday, 4th July.

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No dâk in to-day, and I fear we can hardly expect one, as a party of the enemy managed to get to Alleepore last night and partially plundered it. All the plunder was, however, recovered from them this morning; but still the mail people will, I fear, hardly like to come on until they receive intelligence of all being right again. The miscreants belonged to the Bareilly Brigade, who came out in great force yesterday evening with the intention, they gave out, of annihilating us; but part of our little army (wing, Her Majesty's 61st, Coke's corps, six troops 9th Lancers and Carabineers, Guide Cavalry, some of 9th Irregulars, twelve guns Scott's battery, and Money's troop), at about 7 A.M., came in sight of the main body of the enemy, who had been joined by the Alleepore party. It seems they never allowed us to get very near them, and they very soon ran off into Delhi, taking, unfortunately, their guns (six) back with them. On our side there were only one Native officer (Coke's corps) and one syce driver killed; and two men, Carabineers, and one Coke's corps wounded. No European officer hurt. The enemy are supposed to have lost from two to three hundred; and amongst the killed were observed some men in the clothing of the 29th Native Infantry, from which it would seem that the story we heard of the 29th Native Infantry still being at Moradabad is untrue. So much for the valiant

* Four troops, not six: that is, one squadron (two troops) each from the 9th Lancers and the Carabineers.-H. W. NORMAN.

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Bareilly Brigade, who have proved the veriest cowards of any of the mutineers. Our men got lots of plunder this morning, and I saw Irregular Cavalry coming in just now, their horses loaded with all kinds of absurd things: one man appeared to be bringing in a small tent, another a Hussar saddle.

I have no news from any quarter to give you, and we are indebted to the Lahore Chronicle, of the 1st, for such information as we have of passing events below. The worst piece of news of the whole is that about the Sikh corps at Benares joining the mutineers; but it seems that Gordon, who commanded them, was very unpopular with his men, and both Daly and Coke, who know the Sikhs well, assure me that when they come up here there is no chance whatever of their remaining with the Poorbeahs, whom they hate most cordially; besides, too, the whole regiment didn't join, and it is said also that the majority of the corps were not Sikhs. I wish we had a few more Sikh corps in camp; they are first-rate, willing fellows, always ready for anything.

Sir Edward Campbell arrived yesterday, and came and paid me a visit. I was delighted to hear from him a good account of you and the dear Babas; the latter, he said, were the most sturdy, jolly little fellows possible. Campbell himself is looking jolly and well. I went in and sat with him and the other officers of the corps at their mess breakfast this morning; the short diet on which they are appears to have had no effect on their colonel.

I went to see Murray-Mackenzie this morning. He makes light of his wound; it is outside the knee, but it will be some time before he is well again. Mactier says he does not think young Blair can be hit in the liver, he is getting on so well. I have not seen Major Martin or George Hall for some days.

(Diary) 4th July.-Troops off very early under Coke, and it seems the enemy plundered Alleepore, driving away Younghusband with a small party of Punjab Cavalry. Coke's Column, however, got at the enemy about 7 A.M., but they scuttled away so fast that little harm was done them, and they succeeded in taking away all their guns; two on our side killed, and six or eight wounded. In the afternoon another alarm from them, and guns were sent out.

CHAPTER VI.

SIEGE OF DELHI (continued)—ILLNESS AND DEATH OF

SIR HENRY BARNARD.

Colonel KEITH YOUNG to his wife.

CAMP, DELHI CANTONMENTS, Sunday, 5th July.

We have been very quiet since I wrote to you yesterday, and are so now. I dare say you received at Simla a very exaggerated account of the attack on Alleepore, making out all kinds of misfortunes to us. It was bad enough our allowing the enemy to get there at all; but beyond their partial plunder of the place, and obliging a party there of the Punjab Irregular Cavalry (1st,* I think) under Lieutenant Younghusband to withdraw, no damage was done. It is supposed that the enemy went to Alleepore in the expectation of finding the 17th Irregulars there with treasure, some two and a half lacs, and lots of ordnance stores; but Lieutenant Hockin (whom we met at Shumsabad) had been warned from here to halt at Lussowlie, which he did, and he is now coming on with the Jheend Raja's force, whose guns have been manned by Europeans † coming down, and a large party of Lancers, &c., are going this evening to meet the convoy and bring it in. Some went so far as to say that the 17th Native Cavalry had sent on emissaries to Delhi to arrange with the mutineers to join them and bolt with the treasure. It is quite possible enough, for I have not the same faith in any of these men that Mrs Martin has; but if such were their intention it

The detachment belonged to the 5th-not the 1st-Punjab Cavalry.— H. W. NORMAN.

This is a mistake. No guns of the Jheend contingent were ever manned by Europeans, nor did the Jheend force come to Delhi until September.H. W. NORMAN.

SIR HENRY BARNARD ILL WITH CHOLERA.

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has now been effectually frustrated. The only unsatisfactory part of yesterday's business is our not getting possession of the enemy's guns. We got one or two of their ammunition carts, but the general impression appears to be that had we managed properly we ought to have secured their guns; but it is not perhaps right to say so, for our Artillery are a first-rate set of fellows, and Norman, who was out, did not blame them. I only tell you what they say in camp, and the truth is that when the enemy bring out guns and we go after them, no one is contented unless they are taken.

You ask me the particulars of Lieutenant Smith's death; there can be no doubt whatever of it, I fear. Dr Scott, whom Mrs Martin and Mrs Hall know, got a letter some days ago from Meerut saying that he was wounded by a Sowar, whether one of his own men or not was not known. He was put into a doolie; he was some distance from his house when this occurred, and on his way home. Some of his corps rode up and asked if it were the Adjutant-Sahib, and on hearing that it was they fired into the doolie and killed him. The letter did not, I think, say how this intelligence was received, but it was looked upon as the truth. Dr Scott comes across every morning to our tent for a cup of tea; he told me that George Hall was quite well, and Martin, he said, complaining a little as usual.

You will be shocked to hear that poor General Barnard is very ill with cholera, and from what Mackinnon and Mactier told me just now there is not the least chance of his recovery. Doctors Brown and Tritton are also in attendance on him, but they hold out no hope. The truth appears to be that the poor General has been ailing for the last ten days, but it has made no difference in his way of going on-always in a state of excitement, rushing about all day in the sun and exposing himself in everything. It is no wonder that he has been quite unable to bear up against the attack. He is the kindest, most amiable old man that ever was, but most utterly useless as a general, and altogether misplaced in his present position. Congreve is the next senior officer in camp, but it is arranged, I believe, that in the event of General Barnard's death General Reed will himself assume the command of the force-that is to say, Chamberlain will really command; and he is, perhaps, the