| flank of the British position, while the bazaar of Huna Baee, in which there are many puckah houses, occupied the whole space between the city of Nagpore and the left front of the British line. The left flank of the residency compound was partially covered by the treasury, a solid building, surrounded by a wall; but the huts of the resident's escort also extended on this flank. The whole of the rear and right flank was uncovered and assailable; and it must, therefore, be obvious that the British detachment was placed in a perilous situation. Mr. Jenkins had left nothing undone to prevent the predicament in which he now found himself placed. He had despatched expresses to General Doveton, urging immediate assistance; and in the mean time he attempted to temporize, for the purpose of retarding the menaced blow; while the military arrangements made by Colonel Scott, were prompt and judicious. During the whole of the day and night of the 25th, the enemy, not having determined upon his mode of attack, re Appa Saheb having taken the field, and showed an evident design to seize the residency, the troops in the neighbouring cantonments were directed, on the morning of the 25th of November, to take up a position of defence. On the march of the British column the Nagpore horse, under Gunput Rao, were perceived advancing from their camp on the road leading to the city and residency. Colonel Scott, suspecting their intentions, immediately hastened the pace of his small force, and arrived in time to occupy the Seetabuldee heights, in full view of the Mahratta army; which not only enabled him to command the British residency, but put him in possession of the strongest ground in the vicinity of the capital. Mr. Jenkins had previously despatched his escort to forestal the Arab mercenaries, in the service of the Nagpore government, from attempting to possess themselves of so important a post. The British residency was situated within a quadrangular compound, 600 yards in length, and 300 in breadth, surrounded by a prickly hedge, which though offering some defence against the attack of horse-mained quiet; but about ten o'clock on men, could have been penetrated on foot in many places. The principal building consisted of a large flat-roofed house, and there were the bungalows belonging to the officers attached to the suite and escort, together with the out-offices, servants' tenements and tents, which are always to be found within such an inclosure. Immediately in front of this compound, and contiguous to it, on the eastern face, are the Seetabuldee heights, consisting of two distinct hills, about 300 feet high, connected by a low ridge of rocky ground, of 300 yards in extent. The southern hill, which formed the right of the British line, terminates in a platform of considerable extent, and being a Mahomedan burial-place, is thickly sprinkled with tombs; it is, however, lower than that to the northern extremity, which formed the left of the line, and which afforded but a small space upon the summit. Towards the base, an extensive natural terrace spread itself, overlooking the adjacent bazaar of Huna Baee. Unfortunately a range of mud huts was situated at the base of the Seetabuldee ridge, immediately in its front, and extending on the right لهم the following morning, the Arabs and the Nagpore infantry were seen to muster very strongly, appearing in large masses, and then closing in under cover of the huts on the front and flanks of the Seetabuldee heights. Guns were also brought up so as to enfilade the British position, masked behind the mud walls of the village of Seetabuldee, while numerous bodies of the enemy were crowding into the puckah houses of the Huna bazaar and contiguous huts, which afforded a ready lodgment close to the base of the British position. Our troops were thus kept upon the qui vive during the whole of the day, within pistol-shot of an enemy whose intentions could not be mistaken; but who, not having made the hostile declaration which would have justified an attack, were allowed to complete their preparations without remonstrance or molestation. At sunset, Colonel Scott observed the usual precaution of posting sentries in advance of his position. The Arabs, who, presuming upon their numbers, set all military regulations at defiance, though assured that no assault would be made upon them so long as they remained quiet, | pursued and driven back, all communication being apparently cut off; but a Navildar, named Roshun Ally, having volunteered to carry the mission at all hazards, or die in the attempt, it was intrusted to him, and he succeeded in delivering the message into the hands of Captain Pew. Before midnight the Arabs had made three attempts to dislodge the British troops from the small hill, and on two of those occasions were driven back by the 24th, at the point of the bayonet, the European officers leading on their men to the charge. In repulsing these attacks, Captain Sadler, the senior officer, was killed, and Captain Charlesworth being desperately wounded, the command devolved on Lieutenant Mac Donald, a highlander, who, with the indomitable courage of his country, cheered on the small band of soldiers to renewed efforts. insisted upon the removal of these sentries, and upon refusal fired upon them. The attack thus commenced, was vigorously followed up; the British force upon the heights maintaining a steady fire, which the enemy were not slow in returning, although their artillery, being ill-directed, did not at first so much execution. The evening was dark, but clear, and the roar and flash of the cannon, contrasted with the "silence deep as death," and the unbroken shade in which the adjacent country was enveloped, formed a scene equally striking and impressive. About eight o'clock, Captain Fitzgerald, who commanded the three troops of Bengal cavalry, was directed to take up a position on the left bank of the Naj Nullah, near its junction, with that which skirted the rear of the residency compound; and being well acquainted with the localities of the place, and concealed by the high cultivation, he was enabled to execute this movement without attracting the notice of the enemy. While employed in this noiseless march, the sound of columns moving heavily along to the foot of the Seetabuldee hills, was distributed very considerably to excite the tinctly heard; and in taking up the new ground, which was not exposed to the spent shot which sometimes, in consequence of the guns being too much elevated, had rolled over the hill, and fallen in the midst of the detachment, they obtained a good view of the heights, now crested with a blaze of light from the incessant firing of musketry. The rising of the moon gave a new character to the scene, and soon afterwards a desperate charge was made by the Arabs. The explosion of a tumbril on the large hill, set fire to a faqueer's hut, and, uttering loud cries, they rushed from their defences, and pressed forward with great animation, until, driven back by the incessant fire of the assailed, they withdrew, amidst the shouts of the British sepoys. A detachment under Captain Pew, which had been left at the cantonments, quitted the previous day; and it now became necessary to direct him to abandon his post, and join the force at Seetabuldee. Captain Fitzgerald was, therefore, ordered to acquaint him with the mandate. Two troopers, who were successively despatched on this duty, were Every individual was now fighting under the eye of Mr. Jenkins, who was present during the whole action; and Colonel Scott, in his dispatches, declares, that his animating conduct con troops to their duty. The fire of the British continued to preponderate until about two o'clock on the morning of the 27th, when no fewer than thirty-six guns, and about 5,000 matchlocks were brought to bear on their front and flanks, which gave the ascendancy to the roar of the Nagpore artillery. The 24th, exhausted by incessant service during the night, were now relieved, the defence of the small hill being chiefly intrusted to the resident's escort. Captain, now Sir William, Lloyd, the commandant, finding that he had not sufficient men to maintain the ground at the base, was compelled to occupy its summit, to which the guns were removed, a hasty breast-work of grainbags being thrown up, to protect the men from a murderous fire, kept up without the slightest intermission. Captain Lloyd was twice wounded while the defences were preparing, and during the action was struck by four balls, two of them inflicting severe injuries; but he refused to quit the field. The Arabs, encouraged by the withdrawing of the Madras sepoys, and the abandonment of the base of the hill, charged up with great resolution, and succeeded in overpowering the escort, and driving them away. They were soon re-formed, however, when Mr. Jenkins, sharing in the esprit de corps, which is the essence of military virtue, addressed them in a few energetic words, and after appealing to their best feelings, told them, that if they did not retake the post, they should no longer form his escort. This intimation had the desired effect; down they went like a torrent, and their success, and the numbers killed and wounded, showed their determination to conquer or die. The enemy's force, however, increasing hourly, it was impossible to maintain this position, and the hill was eventually lost. The dawn of day exhibited but too plainly the perilous situation of the British force. An immense body of Mahratta horse, with guns and elephants, had formed in the rear of the residency compound, on the left; while the right was occupied by two twelvepounders and twenty jumbouls, or swivels, mounted on camels, supported by a regiment of infantry, which formed itself within 800 yards of the compound. Large masses of horse, dividing themselves into goles, or bodies of 1,000 each, were spread over the whole plain; and between eight and nine o'clock the rear and right of the British position were completely hemmed in by swarms of cavalry, Gunput Rao's horse showing themselves occasionally in the rear. All retreat was, therefore, completely cut off, and the British infantry, greatly reduced in numbers and in physical powers, in consequence of a contest of fifteen hours duration, were "few and faint, but fearless still." The cavalry detachment, under Captain Fitzgerald, became now the object of the enemy's attack, and that officer, being fettered by his orders, despatched his adjutant, Lieutenant Hearsay, to Colonel Scott, to make a report and receive fresh instructions. The adjutant, on communicating Captain Fitzgerald's message, was directed by Brigade-major Taylor, to inform Capt. Fitzgerald, that it was Col. Scott's orders that the cavalry should be withdrawn into the residency compound, and shelter themselves from the enemy's guns by drawing up the three troops near Capt. Lloyd's bungalow. As the adjutant was returning down the hill to deliver the message, he was recalled by Col. Scott himself, who asked him whether he perfectly understood the orders he had received. Lieut. Hearsay repeated them, and Col. Scott being satisfied, he gallopped down the hill. Immediately afterwards the small hill was lost, a tumultuous host of Arabs rushing up the slope, and succeeding in putting all who opposed them to the rout; those who survived, fighting their way to the main hill, and leaving their guns in possession of the enemy, by whom they were immediately turned against them. An assault was now made upon the treasury by the Arabs, but it was repulsed by the steady fire of the small party who formed its garrison. At this juncture, Lieut. Hearsay came up, and reporting the disaster on the left hill, communicated the orders with which he had been intrusted. Captain Fitzgerald, upon receiving these instructions, expressed a doubt of the expediency of entering so crowded an area as the residency compound, where his men could not act in a body, the ground being encumbered with cattle, baggage, and camp-followers. During this brief conversation, the native officers, commissioned and non-commissioned, of the three troops, who had also been consulting together, advanced very respectfully to the front, and addressing Capt. Fitzgerald, said, "That having understood that orders had been sent for the cavalry to retire into the residency compound, they now came forward to assure their captain, that both the men and themselves would rather fall on the field of battle or in the plain, fighting sword in hand, than be knocked down by the enemy's shot; and that having from their youth eaten the company's salt, they were ready to die like soldiers." Captain Fitzgerald, on hearing such heroic sentiments expressed, did not hesitate; he determined to take upon himself the whole responsibility of a deviation from orders so precisely given, rather than check the ardour and enthusiasm of a gallant band, eager to signalize themselves or perish. He exclaimed, "We'll charge them, by God!" The soldiers now manifested their resolution to conquer or die, according to their native custom, the Hindoo's throw-| ing a handful of earth over their heads, while the Mahomedans shouted "Deen! Deen !" A tremendous charge ensued; on they came, like a thunderstorm, overwhelming the enemy, by the indomitable spirit which animated the whole compact mass: the foremost assailants, a picked battalion of horse, were overthrown, and tumbled headlong into the mullah, and encountering the choicest of the Mahratta cavalry, they rode over them and cut them down; those who escaped their sabres being pistoled as the resistless tide swept on. The native chief was shot by Lieut. Hearsay, each individual performing prodigies of valour. The attack was as unexpected as it was overpowering, and the front of the Mahratta body having been thus put to the sword, the rest turned and fled; the British cavalry rushing on in hot pursuit, and though as nothing, when compared to the still surrounding enemy, bore down everything before them. At this juncture, two twelve-pounders, which covered the infantry position, opened within grape-distance of the rear of the Bengal squadron. Lieut. Hearsay immediately halted with thirty men, charged directly on this artillery, which they carried, put the infantry regiment to the rout, and the troopers throwing themselves from their horses, manned the guns, which they turned against the enemy. The gallant conduct of a Rajpoot soldier, Chene Sing, saved the life of Lieut. Hearsay. This officer had received a severe cut in the neck from a two-edged sword, in personal conflict with a Nagpore golundauze, who was about to repeat the blow, when Chene Sing, darting forward, cut him down, and afterwards dismounting, presented the sword to his officer. Another trooper, Wahid Ally, also particularly distinguished himself, as being the first man who dismounted, and reloaded the captured guns. Capt. Fitzgerald, still engaged in pursuing the flying enemy, now found himself cut off by the cavalry of Gunput Rao, who, with a body of fresh horse, came up to the rescue. While attacking the Bengal troopers in front, however, he was galled by the twelvepounders, which opened a steady fire behind him; and Capt. Fitzgerald, taking advantage of the momentary pause which ensued, charged through, and rejoined the gallant detachment at the guns; but being further reinforced by twenty-five men of the Madras body-guard, the whole now advanced, and put the confused, disordered, but still numerous, enemy to flight. Although the Nagpore horse had now abandoned the plain, the Arabs still held possession of the small hill, where they were thickly crowded; but the escort, together with three companies of the 24th regiment, reanimated by the success of Capt. Fitzgerald's charge, and re-formed under their gallant officer, Capt. Lloyd, giving a simultaneous hurrah, rushed up the hill, and drove the Arabs, at the bayonet's point, over the crest towards the plateau at its base; while a party of the 6th cavalry, under Cornet Smith, opportunely arriving, pursued the Arabs into the Huna Baee bazaar, pistoling numbers of them. Capt. Store and a detachment of the Madras infantry coming up, spiked the guns, and drove the enemy from the huts, though the distant guns did not cease to fire on the British position until noon. Thus ended, after eighteen hours incessant fighting, the battle of Seetabuldee; an action which, for bravery and determination on the part of the few, who made up in courage for the want of numbers, has seldom been surpassed. The loss on the British side was severe, including several officers, and Mr. George Sotheby, a young civilian, the assistant of Mr. Jenkins, who fell gallantly on this occasion. In fact, nothing could exceed the heroism displayed by every person present, both natives and Europeans, military and civil; and even the ladies evinced a degree of fortitude and resolution seldom equalled. The sepoys, though assailed by all the arts of seduction, and though they saw their wives and children exposed to dangers from which they would be relieved if they abandoned the British cause, stood firm; not a man quailed or quitted his ranks, even to see how it fared with those he loved; nor did the wailings of the widowed and fatherless produce any other effect than to stimulate and confirm their courage and constancy. Two British officers, Capt. Sadler and Lieut, CHASE AND CAPTURE OF A FRENCH WE were within a few days of our All Clarke, were killed, whose ladies were at the residency. Surrounded on all sides, there was no place free from danger; the walls of the house where the English ladies were placed for security, together with as many of the native families as its outbuildings would contain, were pierced with several cannon shots. Threatened every instant with death, the native servants vied with the sepoys in steadiness and resolution, bringing, with perfect coolness, the meals of those who were engaged in the field, under a heavy fire. The hooka-burdar, in particular, attached himself to Mr. Jenkins during the hottest of the fight, carrying his sword and double-barrelled gun with the greatest sang froid, while on all occasions men were to be found ready to volunteer on the most perilous services. Mr. Jenkins, when addressing the troops, and thanking them for their steadiness and good conduct, which he assured them would be reported favourably to the governor-general, was struck by a fine trait in the character of a native sepoy. The senior subahdar of the Madras 24th infantry stepped forward, and said, "All we ask is, to have our number restored." They had lost it in consequence of the participation of the other battalion in the mutiny of Vellore, and from the second regiment, were marked lower down in the list as the 24th. Their request was granted, and they are now the 1st regiment. The honours conferred upon men who, in general orders, were said to have" covered themselves with glory," were few and inadequate. Capt. Fitzgerald was rewarded by being nominated honorary aid-de-camp to the governor-general. The subahdar-major of the 6th cavalry, Bhugwunt Sing, received a small jaghire and a gold medal. Chene Sing and Wahid Ally were promoted to the rank of naicks (corresponding to that of cored; not the vantage ground of a hair's poral) and an honorary standard was given to the 6th cavalry. Captains Hearsay and Smith are distinguished | merely by the scars of their wounds," and Mr. Jenkins, the president, has only just received those honours which ought assuredly to have been bestowed at the time, since the eminent services rendered upon the occasion were acknowledged both in public orders and private testimonials. The little craft was clearly overpress breadth was lost on our side. In one of the heavy squalls her lee main-top-sheet, was carried away, and the sail flutterec in ribbons. We made sure of our pre "She is our's to a certainty," whe that certainty vanished by the smartness of the Frenchman, who, in double-quick time, bent another main-topsail. The Pompée's men had scarcely taken in another reef, when our skilful foe was observed sheeting home and hoisting |