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If their commend the work, as possessing many attrac- countrymen in Europe are styled phlegmatic, tions for our Indian friends, as well as being of what term can be applicable to their still more that miscellaneous and interesting nature which apathetic oriental brethren? I have met with is calculated to please readers of every class. many, but only in their own homes, who We cannot do better for a beginning than boasted that they had been thirty or forty give an account of the composition of the Com-years in the same house, and never went outpany's native army. It is "composed (says side of the place they were living in! They Colonel W.) of five distinct castes, or classes never complain, or inquire how others get on; of men, differing most essentially in manners, and as long as the mere necessaries of life are in religion, and in customs, who never unite, to be procured, they are contented." even at a meal or in marriage: the discipline In the Carnatic, Colonel Welsh mentions and harmony which have ever distinguished "Secundermallee, a mountain held sacred those native forces are truly wonderful. The by all castes, as supposed to contain the tomb more especially, when the bigotry of one class of Alexander the Great, has a temple on its and the superstitious prejudices of three others summit, the pavement of which is said to be are taken into consideration. First, the Mus- regularly swept by royal tigers with their sulman, of whom at least one-third of the tails. There is a beautiful little spring near army is composed. This class is again sub-it, full of small fish; and rude steps have been divided into four particular sect, viz. the made for foot-passengers from top to bottom, Sheik, the Syed, the Mogul, and the Puthaun some hundred yards in length." tricity. or Pattan, as they are usually called. They And at Ramnad, on the sea-coast (1795), he "Of all the hospitable men in the most hospitable country in the world, this extraordinary old gentleman stood foremost. He had a large well-furnished house, and received with a hearty welcome as his guests all who chose to come to it. He had a cellar, or go-down, as it is there styled, full of the choicest liquors, and among the rest, pipes of Madeira of various ages, slung by ropes from the roof, to which he decreed an Europe voyage,' as he called At this period our author assisted in the reduction of Ceylon; and on returning to India, took an active part in the Poligar war, the details of which (hitherto unknown to European readers) are given with uncommon effect. They create a deep emotion, which is not lightened by the tragedy with which our victory over the natives, considered as rebels, was consummated. We record this with pain: : "(1801.) What followed afterwards was, indeed, of little importance, the enemy no where making head against us; parties were sent to hunt them down in the different jungles; and I had the bad luck to be in full pursuit of one of the Murdoos, for whom a large reward was advertised, when a few of our ally Peons fired at, wounded, and took him, close to our party; thus depriving us of about ten thousand pagodas, or four thousand pounds sterling. In a few days both the Murdoos, with their families, Cátábómiá Naig, Dalawai Pilly, and the Dumb Brother, were all taken, and the men all hanged, except Dora-Swamy, the youngest son of Cheena Murdoo, and Dallawai Pilly, who, being of less consequence, were transported for life to Prince of Wales's Island, with seventy of their devoted followers; and thus ended this most harassing warfare, in which the expenditure of life had been profuse, and the result any thing but honourable to the survivors. Of the two Murdoos, so frequently mentioned in this narrative, the elder brother was called Wella, or Velli Murdoo; but he had nothing to do with the management of the country. He was a great sportsman, and gave up his whole time to hunting and shooting. Being a man of uncommon stature and strength, his chief delight was to encounter the monsters of the woods; and it was even said, that he could bend a common Arcot rupee with his fingers. Unencumbered with the cares or trappings of government, he led a sort of wandering life; and occasionally visited his European neighbours at Tanjore, Trichinopoly, and Madura, by whom he was much esteemed. If any one wanted game, a message sent to Velli Murdoo was sure to procure it; or if he wished to partake in the sports of the field, Velli Murdoo was the man to conduct him to the spot, and to insure his success, as well as to watch over his safety. Did a royal tiger appear, while his guest was valour could effect, was sure to be achieved to free him from his ignominious fetters, and surrounded by hardy and powerful pikemen, wherever he appeared; though poor Oomee separate him from the mass of his former Velli Murdoo was the first to meet the monster was at last doomed to grace a gallows, in reward menials. and despatch him. A life such as this, although for the most disinterested and purest patriotism. Never shall I forget the day when, on the it may appear idle and insignificant to those He had escaped, as it were, by miracle, in every wharf at Tutucorine, I consigned my charge accustomed to the safety of a well-regulated previous engagement, although every soldier in over to Lieutenant Rockhead. I still seem to country, was very far from being without its our camp was most anxious to destroy so noto- see the combination of affection and despair usefulness in a district overrun with jungle, rious and celebrated a chieftain. On the 24th which marked the fine countenance of my and infested by beasts of prey. The minor of May, when the fort was wrenched from them, young friend Dora Swamy, as I handed him game was, however, politely decoyed, or driven and the whole were retreating, pursued by our into the boat; and the manly and silent in front of his European friend, who might cavalry, poor Oomee fell, covered with wounds, misery which his companions in affliction disthus, with less danger, kill hogs, elks, deer, near a small village, about three miles from played on quitting their dear native land for pea-fowl, &c. in abundance. From this Orien- Punjalumcoorchy. As soon as our troops had ever. Here, to all appearance, our acquaintance tal Nimrod I had received many marks of atten- returned from the pursuit, Colonel Agnew in- was to end; but fortune had still another pang tion and kindness, when stationed at Madura, stantly ordered the Eteapooreans to follow them in store for me; for being forced to sea for my in the year 1795, and then one of the youngest till night, offering rewards for any men of con- health in the year 1818, and landing at Penang, subalterns in the place; a pretty certain proof sequence, dead or alive. Our allies, conse- I received a sudden visit from a miserable deof his disinterestedness. The Cheena Murdoo quently, set out with great glee, somewhat late crepit old man, who, when, without the most was the ostensible sovereign of an extensive and in the evening; and in the meantime, an ap- distant recollection of his person or countenance, fertile country, and his general residence was at pearance of quiet induced some women of the I demanded his name and business, looked for Sherewéle. Though of a dark complexion, he village to proceed to the field of carnage, in the some time in my face, the tears ran down his was a portly, handsome, and affable man, of the hope of finding some of the sufferers capable of furrowed cheek, and at length he uttered the kindest manners, and most easy access; and receiving succour. Amongst the heaps of slain word Dora Swamy! It came like a dagger though ruling over a people to whom his very they discovered the son of one of the party, still to my heart; the conviction was instantaneous. nod was a law, he lived in an open palace, breathing, and after weeping over him, they My poor young prisoner stood before me; without a single guard; indeed, when I visited began to raise him up, when exerting his little changed, dreadfully changed in outward aphim in February, 1795, every man who chose remaining strength, he exclaimed, Oh mo- pearance, but still with the same mind, and to come in, had free ingress and egress, while ther! let me die, but try to save the life of cherishing the remembrance of former days and every voice called down the blessing of the Swamy, who lies wounded near me.' The former friendships. The casual hearing of my Almighty upon the father of his people. From word he used fully justifies my assertion of their name had revived his affection, and, Ï much a merely casual visit, when passing through his adoration, as its literal meaning is a deity. The fear, the mistaken hope, that an advancement country, he became my friend, and during my woman, animated by the same feelings, imme- in rank might afford me the means of lessencontinuance at Madura, never failed to send diately obeyed her dying son, and speedily ing his misery. He even entreated me to be me presents of fine rice and fruit; particularly found Oomee, weltering in his blood, but still the bearer of letters to his surviving family; a large rough-skinned orange, remarkably alive; and these extraordinary matrons imme- but this I understood was contrary to the exsweet, which I have never met with in such diately lifted and carried him to the mother's isting orders, since, though I found the goperfection in any other part of India. It was house, where they were busily employed stanch-vernor, the late Colonel Bannerman, my former he also who first taught me to throw the spear, ing his wounds, when they were alarmed by a commanding officer, kind and considerate, it and hurl the collery stick, a weapon scarcely sudden shout from the Eteapooreans in pursuit. did not appear to rest with him, and I was known elsewhere, but in a skilful hand capable There is nothing like the ingenuity of woman at compelled to decline. Let me, however, in of being thrown to a certainty to any distance such a crisis. These miserable and apparently conclusion, express a hope that this narrative within one hundred yards. Yet this very man, half- imbecile creatures conceived a plan in may fall into the hands of some kind-hearted I was afterwards destined by the fortune of an instant, which not only proved successful, director of that honourable company, which I war to chase like a wild beast; to see badly but most probably saved the lives of several have served so long, and be the means of allewounded, and captured by common Peons; others. They covered the body over with a viating, if not entirely removing, the sufferings then lingering with a fractured thigh in prison; cloth, and set up a shriek of lamentation pecu- of an innocent man; the country being now and lastly, to behold him, with his gallant bro- liar to the circumstances. The Eteapooreans, completely settled, and no chance of any ill ther, and no less gallant son, surrounded by on their arrival, demanded the cause, and being effects, as regards state policy, likely to accrue their principal adherents, hanging in chains informed that a poor lad had just expired of from such a compassionate measure.' upon a common gibbet! Of the Cat I have the small-pox, fled for their lives out of the To this melancholy finale we say Amen! already made mention, but I cannot close this village, without ever turning to look behind with all our hearts. account of horrors, without a few words in them. How he was afterwards preserved, I After the conclusion of the Poligar war, our memory of one of the most extraordinary mor- could never learn; but, certainly, he was pre-author served with General Wellesley (the tals I ever knew; a near relation of Cátábomiá sent, and as active as usual, on the 7th and Duke of Wellington), and was a participator in Naig, who was both deaf and dumb, was well 10th of June; and was taken alive at the con- the glories of Assaye and Argaum. His menknown by the English under the appellation of clusion of the campaign, and hanged, along tion of the hero, in these his earlier days, cannot Dumby, or the Dumb Brother; by the Mus- with his gallant and ill-fated relation, on the be passed without quotation, though we shall sulmans, as Mookah; and by the Hindoos, as tower we had erected in the plain before Pun- be very brief in our selection. " Oomee; all having the like signification. He jalumcoorchy; now the only monument of that "Our camp (he tells us) was pitched about was a tall, slender lad, of a very sickly appear-once-dreaded fortress, if we except the burying-four miles to the northward of the fort; and I ance, yet possessing that energy of mind, which, ground of six or seven hundred of our slaugh- joined my corps on the 22d of January, 1803. in troubled times, always gains pre-eminence; tered comrades, in its vicinity. No sooner was The Honourable Major-general Arthur Welwhilst, in his case, the very defect which would order again restored than the southern corps lesley, who then commanded Seringapatam, as have impeded another, proved a powerful auxi- returned to Pallamcottah; and I was detached well as our force, lived in the Dowlut Baugh, liary in the minds of ignorant and superstitious to command Tutucorine, whither all the rebels on the island; and in the short interval before idolaters. The Oomee was adored; his slightest destined for transportation were sent in the our march, he manoeuvred his future army, sign was an oracle, and every man flew to exe- first instance; and there I had the melancholy and taught us that uniformity of movement, cute whatever he commanded. No council satisfaction of lightening the chains of Dora which was afterwards to enable him to conquer assembled at which he did not preside; no Swamy, the younger and only surviving son of foes twenty times as numerous, and to acquire daring adventure was undertaken which he did my poor quondam friend Cheena Murdoo, a for himself a name which can never perish in not lead. His method of representing the En youth of about fifteen, condemned to perpetual the East. In the pursuit and annihilation of glish was extremely simple: he collected a few banishment. With a mild and dignified re- Dhoondia, the Sepoy general had already laid little pieces of straw, arranged them on the signation, this amiable young man bore his the foundation of his future fame; but little palm of his left hand to represent the English cruel fate without a murmur; but such was did any mortal at this time foresee the reforce; then, with other signs, for the time, &c. the melancholy expression in his fine counte- sources of that master-mind, which the aphe drew the other hand across and swept them nance, that it was impossible to see and not proaching campaign was destined to develop. off, with a whizzing sound from his mouth, commiserate him. As he was consigned to my Of Assaye he states:-"When our troops which was the signal for attack; and he was personal charge, to connive at his escape was had arrived at their ground, two horsemen generally the foremost in executing those plans impossible; but being under the same roof with were taken, who informed us that the comfor our annihilation. Whatever undisciplined me, in the large fortified factory, I was enabled bined armies of Scindiah and the Berar Rajah, week. ever, so it has ever been; and from the very Then, the fair guerdon when we hope to find, were encamped about five miles off, instead of one or more lingering on the bed of sickness,, sir.'-A. Two! eh! two hundred I presume twelve, as was supposed; and that the cavalry and pierced with wounds." you mean? B. No, sir, two! one: two: were actually preparing to move. Almost any The total killed was 649, wounded 1,610, man and wife, sir. The curate, good man, other man would have hesitated to give battle and missing 18; total rather more than half was my handsel; and Mr. Gripe, the apotheto so very overwhelming a force, at the head of of the whole number engaged, viz. 2,277. cary, purchased the second copy, out of respect only four thousand five hundred men; but that "The general had two horses killed under (as he said) for the family.'A. Most mardecision of character which, by a series of him, and his staff four more. Of one thousand vellous! couldn't have believed it, if you hadn't immortal and increasing triumphs, has so pre-two hundred horses, which the cavalry carried told me so yourself, Mr. Jones. In what a eminently marked his after-career in Europe, into action, one hundred and thirteen were deplorable state is the world of letters! Howwas here displayed, to the extreme dismay of killed, and three hundred and twenty-five the enemy, and the utter astonishment of all wounded; leaving only eight hundred and India. General Wellesley immediately ordered sixty-two mounted in the whole brigade, at the the rear-guard, strengthened by the 1st bat-end of the day." talion of the 2d regiment, under Lieut.-Colonel Here we must pause for the present; but Chalmers, to halt, and cover the whole of the shall return to those amusing volumes next baggage at the adjoining village; when moving on himself, with his staff, and Captain Johnson in the shape of brutish ignorance, stubborn of the Bombay engineers, he ordered the picprejudice, or false taste; quashes all our hopes, quets to follow, and the line to come up as soon and leaves us always disappointed, and too as formed. After marching about three miles, often pennyless. Good morning, Mr. Jones.' he suddenly came up in sight of the enemy's THIS is one of those amusing and interesting The debtor and creditor account of my Tour' army, drawn up in order of battle, on a small works with which men of letters in the leisure was made up in about eighteen months; and peninsula, formed by the rivers Kaitnah and of retirement now and then favour the world. on its settlement, I, with some difficulty, Jooee; the cavalry being on their right, and The lucubrations of such a person as the rev. scraped together twenty-two pounds seventeen the infantry and guns on the left; the river author of these volumes, who now calmly looks shillings, to discharge the balance against the Kaitnah half a mile in their front, and the out from his loop-hole of retreat, must, from concern. This omen, it must be confessed, Jooee, with very steep banks, about three- their very nature, afford a high gratification to was not a very encouraging one; and ought to quarters of a mile in their rear. The general the reader; and, whether we trace him back to have cured my disease in its commencement immediately determined to turn their left flank, the first little tome which introduced him to but, as the sequel will shew, it did not quench a movement which would necessarily reduce the ocean of authorship, follow him when my clear spirit;' nor make me their operations within a narrow space, and fairly embarked, or see him coming into port more effectually secure the flanks of his own with all his works" thick about him," we I determined to still bear up and steer little force, during the action." Literary Recollections. By the Rev. Richard must derive both pleasure and instruction from 'bate a jot Of heart or hope'. right onward;' fully satisfied, that on my second voyage I should be favoured with more propitious gales than had hitherto attended my bark; and return to port, laden with an ample freight of reputation and profit." From such small beginnings, we accompany with pleasure our worthy divine to his more finished productions, which have long held a high rank in the republic of letters, distinguished alike for the research they evince, and the ability displayed in their composition. The battle is described in a most interesting manner. At eight o'clock in the evening, the British were in "quiet possession of the dearbought field, with one hundred and three cannon, most of which were brass, and twelve "It was in the month of May, 1789, that howitzers, all beautiful guns, an immense my work issued from a printing-press at Southquantity of ammunition, and one thousand two ampton. That the immediate wants of a pubhundred dead bodies. Amongst the spoils of lic might be supplied, I had ordered an imthis memorable day were many standards, and pression of one thousand copies to be struck a number of orderly books, kept by European off; and requested the printer to keep the officers; by which it appeared, that they had matter standing, (every author will understand ten thousand eight hundred regular infantry, the phrase,) to furnish, with greater celerity, But to the present Recollections. Mr. Warand thirty thousand cavalry in the action. and at less expense, that second edition, which, ner, in his earlier history, refers to all the then Some of the prisoners said it was gene- I had no doubt, would be required in the celebrated residents of Lymington and Christrally understood, that when Colonel Steven- course of a fortnight from the appearance of church. And his short but happy sketches of son's and our force had united, we intended to the first. A large hamper of copies, as speedily their various inhabitants seem like a moving offer them battle; but when they first disco- as they could be boarded, was sent to a worthy panorama of life, giving a vivid picture of each vered only one body advancing, they thought little bookseller at Lymington, the literary once familiar face, and throwing around them them actually mad, as it was their own inten-caterer for the town; who had already re- that indescribable grace which at the same time tion to have attacked our little camp the same ceived strict injunctions to notify, in every renders them in the highest degree pleasing, day. Here may be seen the advantage of that possible manner, the sale, on a specific day, of and gives assurance to the reader of their prompt and energetic decision which so early Warner's Companion in a Tour,' &c. Burn- faithful resemblance. He has a tale or aneccharacterised the hero of Assaye as the first ge- ing with curiosity, as to the impression made dote of every one; and whether he celebrates neral of the age. He not only gained a splen- on the public mind of the Lymingtonians by" the honest chief magistrate of Crischurch," did and important victory, but by anticipating my work, and the success of its sale, I dropped, who gives his civic toast of "prosperation to this his enemy, cramped and confined his enormous as if by accident, into Mr. Jones's shop, on the corporation," or relates the short but eventful force within such narrow bounds, that they third day of its exposure on the counter, (for history of Nancy Bere, he is alike lively and could not form a larger front to oppose his no longer could I contain); when a dialogue, amusing. We give the latter in his own handful, nor turn his flanks in the action: much to the following effect, took place be- words. whereas, had they been permitted to assail his tween the writer and the vender of the book. "Once, and only once (for her opportunities camp on the plain, defendants being always Author. Good morrow, Mr. Jones. De- of recreation were but few), I remember to somewhat dispirited, they could have entirely lightful weather this. A glorious May. Quite have seen at a fete champêtre a beautiful surrounded it, and employed every man in the tempting for a little tour.' Bookseller. Yes, young female, the real incidents of whose assault. As soon as all the remains of our sir; every thing alive, except trade. But it's singular story were as far removed from the army were collected on the ground, the cavalry still winter with us. Dead, sir, very dead!'occurrences of every-day life, as the advenwere ordered back, to bring on the camp equip-A. Sorry to hear it, Mr. Jones. However, tures of the heroine in any of the less exage, baggage, &c. ; but did not return till the you mustn't be disheartened: when you get travagant novels of modern days. Her name next morning. The night after this victory, the spring publications from town, your shop was Nancy Bere. She resided in Lyming even to those few who had escaped unhurt, can- will be crowded like a bee-hive. By the by, ton; mingled, occasionally, in private parnot be supposed to have passed very agreeably; has the printer sent you a few copies of my ties; but very rarely appeared in any of an what then must it have been to the numerous little work?' B. Yes, sir, a hamper full of indiscriminate kind. Her home was with a wounded, who lay on the cold ground without them; 250 in boards. The carriage came to Mr. and Mrs. Hackman, who lived in the best shelter, and many even without any kind of 4s. 3d.'-A. Only 250, Mr. Jones! Will house in the town, and had adopted Miss Bere succour? The dawn of the 24th of September they be sufficient for a present supply?' as their daughter, under the following circumwas hailed by the victors with a mixed feeling B. Quite enough, sir.' (With a true sar-stances. Mr. Hackman, an eccentric, lively, of exultation and regret; for few, if any, donic grin.)-A. Allow me then to ask you, and improvident character, had originally, as I of the survivors had not lost a friend, or had how many you have already sold ? B. Two, have understood, been bred to, and followed |