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loss. He fell at the head of the very regi- 

 ment to whose barracks in England he was 

 first marched, a raw boy, with the gay re- 

 cruiting ribbon on his hat. He had served 

 his country for half a century, rising from 

 the ranks, and had borne the burden and 

 heat of the day with the Duke throughout 

 his Peninsular campaigns. He had been 

 witness of that greatest of all Indian sieges 

 — Bhurtpore ; had triumphed over the fall 

 of Ghuznee ; had led his regiment through 

 all the battles under Lord Hardinge, which 

 ended in the reduction of Gwalior and the 

 occupation of Lahore. The tributes of deep 

 sorrow to his memory which fell from the 

 soldiers as they crouched round their cheer- 

 less watch-fires on that eventful night will 

 find an echo in the breast of every admirer 

 of true British valour. 



''Considerable anxiety is felt throughout 

 the country for the arrival of the next Indian 

 mail, which is expected to bring the news 

 of some very decisive movement on the 

 part of the British troops. The conduct of 

 Lord Gough in allowing his men to charge 

 the Sikhs, when there were no Sikh guns on 



