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residence, when ball after ball had riddled 

 its walls and destroyed its contents, even to 

 the very hangings worked by her fingers, 

 that the husband of her most intimate 

 friend, seeing the straits to which the gar- 

 rison was reduced, nobly volunteered an 

 undertaking, that for sagacity, spirit, and 

 daring, has eclipsed anything known in 

 Indian or European warfare. 



The relief of the garrison of Lucknow, 

 and the saving of its inmates, male and 

 female, from indiscriminate slaughter, must 

 be attributed to the self-devotion of one 

 man,* who in the night sought the camp 

 of Sir Colin Campbell, now Lord Clyde, 

 a distance of twenty miles ; and, after facing 

 perils the most imminent, either in deceiv- 

 ing the pickets and passing through the 

 lines of the rebels, or by secreting himself 

 in what appeared impassable morasses, 

 and in fording or swimming rivers 

 succeeded, in the nick of time, footsore, 



* T. Kavanagh, Esq. 



