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there were noble examples of fidelity and 

 devoted attacliment to certain officers and their 

 families, even at the very height of that 

 frantic excitement which led to the committal 

 of such frightful atrocities in the Bengal army. 

 I believe, moreover, that those atrocities were 

 committed very generally by fanatics inflamed 

 with religious phrensy and drunk with blood. 

 Yet even those very atrocities were scarcely 

 more sanguinary than some committed, after 

 the storming of cities in the Peninsula, as 

 recorded by that great military historian whose 

 death we have had so recently to deplore. For 

 my own part, too, I do not believe that any 

 army in the world contains men possessing 

 more highly chivalric feelings than some of 

 those in Her Majesty's Indian army. As an 

 instance I shall here relate an anecdote of the 

 devoted conduct of three brothers, as nearly 

 as I can recollect, in the words of my inform- 

 ant. Colonel Cavenagh, a distinguished officer 

 of the Bengal army, and now Governor of 

 the Straits' Settlements : — 



'''■ In the regiment of Irregular Cavalry to 

 which I belonged we had three brothers, 

 the eldest was a Jemadar, the second standard- 



