126 WESTERN HINDOOSTAN. 



is the account given on the authority of the Eajl India Com- 

 pany. The author of the War in Afia^ i. p. 483, makes our 

 General a ^.ixote^ who, rather than be carried into Gheriah for 

 a Tingle day, was above coming to an explanation, and madly 

 fought the unequal force of the barbarians. Hujnberjion died of 

 his wounds on yipril 30, of whom the author * gives a cha- 

 rafber that (liould not be fupprefled. *' He died in the twenty- 

 " eighth year of his age. An early and habitual converfancy 

 " with the heroes of antient, as well as modern times, nDurilhed 

 " in his mind a paffion for military glory, and fupported him 

 *' under unremitting application to all thofe ftudies by wdnch 

 " he might improve his mind, rife to honorable diftindtion, and 

 " render his name immortal ; he being not only acute, but pro- 

 " found and fteady in his views, gallant without ollentation, and 

 " fpirited without temerity and imprudence." At .his early age 

 he was great in the cabinet as in the field t. He laid the fineft 

 plan for the overthrow of our great rivals, Ayder and his fuc- 

 ceffor: and as far as they were attempted, they fucceeded. He was 

 honored with the command of a fmall body of troops, oppofed 



• This youthful hero was di.fccnded from a younger brother of the Seaforth family. His 

 father, Col. Mackenzie, married the only daughter of a Mr. Humberfton, of a rich old family 

 in Lincolnfhire, feated at Humberfion, once a Benedictine abby, not remote from the moutii 

 of the Humber. Old Humberfton left his daughter five hundred a year : the reft of his eflate 

 to a brother's fon, who dyin^, was fucceeded, as next heir, by the young Colonel, then in India. 

 He added the family name to that of his own. His brother, Francis Humbcrfton Mackenzie, 

 of Seaforth, as I am informed, fold, by his mother's confeut, the Humberftoa cftate, and 

 bought the Seaforth. 



t Hon. Charles Grcvfle's Britifh India, iii, p. 824 to 84S. 



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