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trol a restless and discontented populace. 

 For this well-performed service lie obtiined 

 (October 24., 1801) the Governor's " ear- 

 nest tluuiks and untiuidified approbation." — 

 Peace being completely re-established in 

 this quarter, Lieut.- Col. Ochterlony was 

 ai)pointed to the conmiand of Alluti:ibad, 

 in which he remained until the Nepaul 

 war called him into more active service. 

 He had teen promoted to a colonelcy in 

 January 1812, and was made a major-ge- 

 neral in June 181k The only part of the 

 plan for the invasion of the Ne])aulese terri- 

 tories completely successful was that en- 

 trusted to Gen. Ochterlony. He was 

 destined, however, to gain still brighter 

 distinctions in this war. Although a treaty 

 had been signed by the nijah's ileputies, the 

 rajaJi refused to ratify it, and the British 

 troops again took the field : the chief com- 

 inaiid was now given to Major- Gen. Och- 

 terlony. The succeeding ojierations are 

 still the theme of applause amongst military 

 men : the passage of the great Saul forest, 

 without the loss of a man — the turning of 

 the celebrated Cheeriaghautee ])ass, by a 

 rugged, precipitous, and frightful country, 

 not unaptly compared to the Aljis and Py- 

 rennees— and the total defeat of the enemy 

 in a desperate action on the heights of 

 Muckwanpore, which induced the Ne- 

 paulese rajah to accept with joy the very 

 conditions which a few weeks previously 

 he had rejected with disdain. Tlie treaty, 

 which had been signed 2d September 1815, 

 was ratified March 4, 1816. These services 

 were liberally rewarded. The General was 

 created, April 1815, a Knight Commander 

 of the Bath (one of the first Company's 

 officers wiio received that honour) ; in No- 

 vember 18)5, lie was raised to the dignity 

 of a baronet; the East-India Company 

 granted him a ])ension of .£1,000 per anmmi ; 

 in December 1816, he was created a Knight 

 Grand Cross of the Bath ; and in February 

 1817, he had the honour to receive the 

 thanks of both Houses of Parliament. The 

 Prince Regent was likewise pleased to 

 grant him certain honourable armorial aug- 

 mentations,* " in consideration of his 

 highly distinguished services during thirty- 

 nine years." Nor were the Indian princes 

 backward in testifying their admiration of 

 Sir David's talents. 



In the great Mahratta and Pindarry war 

 of 1817 and 1818, Sir David had a principal 

 command; the superintendence of the 

 fiftli division, under the immediate orders of 

 Brigadier Arnold, to whom he soon trans- 

 ferred the command in order to assume 



* " On an embattled chief, hvo banners in saltier, 

 the one of the Mahratta states, inscribed ' Delhi •/ 

 the other of the states of ' Nepaul,' inscribed Nepaul ; 

 the staves broken and encircled by a wreath of laurel ; 

 —with this motto to the arms ; viz. ' Pnulentia et 

 Animo:' the crest, viz. out of an eastern crown, 

 inscribed ' Nepaul,' an arm issuant, the hand 

 grasping a baton of command entwined by an olive- 

 bwDch.'' 



the difficult office of settling the distracted 

 province of Uajpootana, for which purpose 

 he was invested with large discretionary 

 powers. In December 1817 he concluded 

 a treaty with the Patau chief. Ameer Khan, 

 and gained over all the petty chiefs in this 

 quarter to the British interest. In April 

 1818, he was appointed resident at Ilaj- 

 |)Ootana, with the command of the troops. 

 In December, the same year, he was again 

 appointed to the residentship of Delhi, with 

 Jeypore annexed, and the command of tlic 

 third division of the grand army. He was 

 afterwards entrusted with the superintend- 

 ence of the affairs of Central India, as resi- 

 dent and political agent in Mahva and Uaj- 

 pootana. Towards the latter end of 1824., 

 the political disscntions in the state of Jey- 

 pore obliged Sir David Ochterlony to take 

 the field, but an adjustment of affairs took 

 place. 



His health, after nearly fifty years of un- 

 interrupted ser\'ice, at length became im- 

 paired, and he was constrained, in June 

 1825, to resign his political office, with the 

 intention of proceeding to Calcutta, and 

 afterwards to England. He went, for 

 change of air, to Meerut, where he died on 

 the 15th July. Sir David was never mar- 

 ried : the title is not, however, extinct, but 

 limited to Charles Metcalfe Ochterlony, 

 Esq., son of Roderick Peregrine Ochter- 

 lony, Esq. , deceased. 



M. DAVID. 



December 29. — This artist who had lonj? 

 stood at the head of the French school of 

 l)ainting, of which he may be regarded as 

 the restorer, if not the founder, died at Brus- 

 sels, the seat of his exile since the re-estab- 

 lishment of the Bourbon government. To 

 M. David, the art is greatly indebted ; al- 

 though, in this country, his talents were 

 estimated far less highly than in France. 

 At the period v.iien the development of 

 his powers commenced, the genius of the 

 French painters had fallen into the worst 

 possible direction. The style of the Italian 

 school, transmitted by Poussin and Lesueur, 

 had been abandoned ; and, under the idea 

 of returning to nature, they had adopted a 

 petty affected representation of nature, 

 which possessed neither the graceful, of 

 which they were in search — nor the ideal or 

 the grand, which they had voluntarily re- 

 nounced. David repaired to Rome : there 

 his mind was influenced by the two-fold 

 impression which it received from the nu- 

 merous, grand, and exact productions of the 

 Italian school, and from the statues of the 

 ancients — so chaste, so correct, so simply 

 beautiful. Thus impressed, he struck into 

 a new course, and produced his picture of 

 Andromache, which, by many, is regarded 

 as one of his master-pieces. His painting 

 had then something of the Italian gravity 

 and simplicity, and his pure and lofty de- 

 sign, like that of the ancients, had not at- 



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