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the rains renders it impossible to do that, which alone, in my opinion, 

 will ever get the better of Kistnapah Naig." 



The deuce is in it, if this Colonel Montressor did not do enough. He 

 beats, burns, plunders, and destroys, in all parts of the country. Yet, 

 according to the opinion of the great military authority on the occasion, 

 nothing has been done ! What more, may we take the liberty of asking, 

 was intended to be done ? In our limited fancy, we cannot go much 

 beyond " burning, plundering, and destroying, in all parts of the coun- 

 try/' This, to be sure, is pronounced being very successful ! But what is 

 the grand measure behind unattainable by bloodshed, robbery, and 

 destruction, through a whole country ? We must wait for light from 

 some military authority. 



Again 



" My troops are in high health and spirits, and their pockets full of 

 money, THE PRODUCE OF PLUNDER. I still think, however, that a store 

 of rice at Hullihall will do us no harm, and if I should not want it, the 

 expense incurred will not signify. * * * 



" In the province of Bridnore we employed some of the Rajah's 

 cavalry ; with the support of our infantry some thieves were caught : 



SOME OF THEM WERE HANGED, AND SOME SEVERELY PUNISHED IN 



DIFFERENT WAYS : the consequence has been, that lately that country 

 has not been visited by them, and most probably, a similar operation in 

 Soonda would have a similar effect. I STRONGLY ADVISE YOU NOT TO 

 LET THE MAHRATTA BOUNDARY STOP YOU IN THE PURSUIT OF YOUR 

 GAME, when you will once have started it. Two or three fair hunts, 

 and cutting up about half-a-dozen, will most probably induce the thieves 

 to prefer some other country to Soonda, as the scene of their opera- 

 tions." * * * 



Such are Indian wars, grand manreuvres, glory, imperishable honours, 

 and the rest, that make the brilliant paragraphs of a Gazette Extra- 

 ordinary. Now, what are the maxims laid down in this simple extract ? 



Let our readers judge for themselves. We are not military enough 

 to see their true beauty. But this we must say that if the time shall 

 come, when Indians publish " Histories of the late Campaign" 

 " Recollections of the War" " Memoirs of a late Field-Marshal," 

 &c., &c., we shall probably understand that fine sentimentality which* 

 draws such tears down the cheeks of heroes and the " Honourable 

 House !" But we must also say, that we see no possible reason why 

 Napoleon, " Empereur des Fra^ais," should not be wept with. Poor 

 Nap ! he was an injured man after all. 



The news from the Continent is peculiarly romantic and animated. 

 The innkeepers must be in raptures ; there never was such a demand 

 for post-horses ; " every vehicle," as our Epsom histories say, " is in 

 full requisition," and kings, and princes, field-marshals and privy 

 councillors, are running neck-and-neck upon every highway and byway 

 from one end of Europe to the other. The King of France has at last 

 rested from his labours, and he now takes his natural Bourbon pastime 

 of shooting, confessing, regulating the texture of his hair-shirt, and 

 listening to his chaplain Jesuit's assurances of the imperishable attach- 

 ment of Frenchmen to the Son of Henry the Fourth ! 



But the bustle is still going on with hourly activity among his 



