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SCENES IN INDIA. 
CHAPTER XIII. 
INSURRECTION AT BENARES, CONTINUED. 
It was six days after the decisive issue of the 
struggle at Pateeta that the detachment sent by Co- 
lonel Morgan under the command of Major Crabb 
arrived on the opposite bank of the river, and relieved 
Mr. Hastings from the fearful apprehensions under 
which he continued to labour, notwithstanding the 
late brilliant success at Pateeta ; as he clearly saw 
that a single defeat would probably precipitate the 
overthrow of the Company’s dominion in the East. 
His confidence was from this moment restored, and 
after this we see nothing but a series of defeats ex- 
perienced by the rebel’s ill-appointed and dispirited 
troops. 
On the 13th of September, Major Roberts arrived 
with his regiment and a lac of rupees from Lucknow, 
whither he had been commanded to repair in order to 
receive Mr. Hastings, and for the protection of the 
Governor-General during the visit which he proposed 
paying to that city before his return to Calcutta. A 
few days after, a further supply of fifty thousand 
rupees was received from the native chief of Allaha- 
bad. This money was distributed among the troops, 
and the arrears paid up as far as could be prudently 
