CLINTON. 



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exportation of beans, peas, and bean cakes from 

 New Chwang and from Pang-chow (Chefoo) is 

 omitted, and foreign nations can thus rightfully 

 participate in this important branch of the 

 coasting trade. 



CLINTON", a village in Hinds co., Missis- 

 sippi. It is nine miles west of Jackson, on the 

 railroad to Vicksburg. It was the seat of Mis- 

 sissippi College. 



CLYDE, OOLIU CAMPBELL, Lord, a British 

 general, born in Glasgow, Scotland, October 

 20th, 1792, died in Chatham, August 14th, 

 1863. He was of humble parentage on the 

 father's side, but through his mother claimed 

 descent from an ancient Highland family. Re- 

 moved at an early age from Scotland, to be 

 educated in England, he was appointed in 

 1808, while a pupil in a military school at Gos- 

 port, through the influence of a maternal uncle, 

 ensign in the 8th regiment of foot, with which 

 in a few days he embarked for the Peninsula. 

 Within three weeks from the time he had quit- 

 ted the schoolboy's desk at Gosport, he stood 

 in presence of the French at Vimiero. His first 

 experiences in military life were gained in the 

 unfortunate campaign of Sir John Moore, ter- 

 minating in the glorious fight of Corunna, 

 where, with the remnant of the British army, 

 he embarked for England. Scarcely had he 

 landed from the transport, which bore him 

 home, than he was ordered off to participate 

 in the disastrous Walcheren expedition. A 

 fever, contracted in the marshy plains of Hol- 

 land, clung to him for more than 30 years, and 

 until he went to China in 1842. " Walcheren," 

 he used to say, " was with me every season." 

 In 1810 he returned to Spain, shared in the bat- 

 tle of Barossa, in 1811, and the defence of Ta- 

 riffa, 1812, and in the latter year was actively 

 employed in the Spanish corps. In 1813, hav- 

 ing meanwhile reached the grade of lieutenant 

 he rejoined the army of Wellington, took part 

 in the battle of Vittoria, was severely wounded 

 while leading a forlorn hope at St. Sebastian, 

 and at the passage of the Bidassoa received a 

 bullet in his thigh. In the succeeding year he 

 was transferred to America, fought at Bladens- 

 burg and New Orleans, and after the peace of 

 Ghent returned to England, where, for many 

 years, he rusted in inactivity. In 1823 he 

 was promoted to a majority, having for the 

 previous ten years been a captain, and, in 1832, 

 he purchased a lieutenant-colonelcy. 



The breaking out of war with China, in 1842, 

 restored him to active military duties, and in 

 command of the 98th regiment he participated 

 in the siege and capture of Chin-Kiang-Foo, 

 and other enterprises. From China he was 

 transferred to India, and, during the Sikh war 

 of 1848-'9, commanded with distinguished 

 bravery the third division of the army of the 

 Punjab. At Eamnuggar, at Chillianwallah, 

 where he was again wounded while directing 

 an important movement, and at Goojerat, he 

 added to his reputation for intrepidity that of a 

 skilful tactician ; and his conduct at the last of 



these battles obtained for him the title of Knight 

 Commander of the Bath, and the thanks of 

 Parliament, and of the East India Company. 

 After conducting some successful operations 

 against the Hill Tribes, in 1851-'2, he returned 

 to England, was gazetted a major-general in 

 1854, and in the same year proceeded to the 

 Crimea, in command of a Highland brigade of 

 three regiments, forming part of the division of 

 the Duke of Cambridge. His Highlanders con- 

 tributed materially to the victory of the Alma, 

 and at the succeeding action at Balnklava, 

 drawn up in line, they easily repelled an attack 

 of heavy Russian cavalry, eliciting by their 

 coolness the applause of the numerous specta- 

 tors of the fight. For many months after, Sir 

 Colin held the responsible, but comparatively 

 inactive, post of commander of Balaklava and its 

 works. His reputation as a soldier neverthe- 

 less stood high in the army, and after the dis- 

 graceful failures of Sir James Simpson and Sir 

 William Codrington, he was designated for the 

 chief command of the British forces in the 

 Crimea, but was prevented by the termination 

 of hostilities from assuming that office. He re- 

 turned to England with the army, was appoint- 

 ed a lieutenant-general in 1856, and prepared 

 to enjoy his much-needed repose. 



Short respite, however, was allowed him. 

 In 1857 occurred the dreadful mutiny of the 

 Sepoys in India, and. at twenty -four hours' no- 

 tice, Sir Colin embarked for that country to 

 assume the supreme command in Bengal, ar- 

 riving at Calcutta, August 14th, thirty-two days 

 after the issue of his commission. Organizing 

 his forces as rapidly as circumstances would 

 permit, he marched in October for Lucknow, 

 where Gens. Havelock and Outram were heroi- 

 cally holding out against an overwhelming force 

 of the enemy, commanded by Nena Sahib. On 

 November 21st, he forced his way into the city, 

 but the preponderance of the Sepoys over his 

 army and the garrison united, being too great 

 to admit of successful operations on the part of 

 the Europeans, he succeeded by a clever ruse 

 in withdrawing through the enemy's lines to- 

 ward Cawnpore, where, on December 6th, he 

 dealt the Nena a blow which may be said to 

 have broken the strength of the rebellion. 

 Making Cawnpore his centre of operations, he 

 organized a series of combined movements 

 which resulted in driving the rebels into Oude, 

 where, during, the succeeding year, they were 

 gradually dispersed and subdued, the contest 

 assuming, finally, the character of a guerilla 

 warfare. On February 1st, 1859, he was enabled 

 to declare the campaign in Oude at an end, and 

 having accomplished the pacification of a coun- 

 try which, at the time of his arrival, seemed 

 almost lost to British rule, he returned home to 

 receive the well-merited honors and congratu- 

 lations which his sovereign and country united 

 in bestowing upon him. 



During his absence in India, he had been 

 raised to the peerage as Baron Clyde of Clydes- 

 dale, and had received the thanks of Parlia- 



