| Show from the liverpool Liver pol albion I 1 delhi deihl an officer writes after the evacuation of delhi deihl by ay iy he 16 vou TOU can have no conception of the tile scene of confusion riflemen Goor khae kiklis and bees quarrelling quan over over their plunder and such buch plunder to quarrel about old counterpanes counter panes dirty blankets tin and arid copper pots and arid pans red coats bak baskets ets papers packets of tinsel bottles of rosewater robe roae water waler and otto of roses I 1 jug ug here there and arid everywhere and the tile whole place in ili a state of squalor and wretchedness passing all description on turning into tile trie gardens jn in front of douglass stables I 1 found myself alone I 1 cannot tel you what a scene siene of desolation presented itself to my iny eyes the tile garden pardon had lied been an ail encamping ground of the and everything even everi thin thing bore witness A it to its having been desei ted in hot haste the I 1 he tente tents were still standing standi nir but it seemed a as if everybody had taken lis ils 1 is is armful cut ol 01 the tile boxes and atul without caring for what might drop h id made the bet of his way out of the place tile te stillness too after lie lle tile tiie noice lioi 1101 e and arid riot that I 1 had lied just jest quitted quilted was really appalling and arid i 1 stood at he be foot of the stairs stupefied lu pined tiled as if willia wih a heated atmosphere and unable to move I 1 was roused by hearing three cheers from the apartments apartment above me an ali officer of the gist cist regiment writes oil on the saith september to his father on the it was prett pretty well known in camp I 1 that we were to assault the city oil on the following inori dugand we were ill all anxiety wondering how it was to be done true enough at two in the morning of tile the lelh we paraded and arid at three marched down to tile the assault there 1 I here wire w ere two b and we went at the tile left one cue beaw between een the me cashmere and arid water bastions the ditoh ditch was about thirty feet deep and arid fifty broad As we the walli we caught it from crom 9 giace taper rockets and musketry the air ling being literally alive w ath th bullets of all sizes oil on we rushed and quickly descended the ditch and rearing our bacalia bc aila alia ladders bial blai 6 against lai lal list ilie llie scalp scalp of the wall a aviah ay we went we soon forced ail an entrance into the M elace place leace and then a most terrible struggle ensued ei sued we had lied to charge up narrow streets and ianes lanes swept by b guns firing double charges of grape and here it was our losses for the most part occurred I 1 may mav as well weil at once sayi sayi hear about sixty five fi v e officers and arid 1 1200 men were put hois hols de combat I 1 have been in a good deal of rough and terrible work w ork myself mj self seif but I 1 was never neven in MY nii life under such a fire of grape as these rascals kept wept up we fought tili till dark some fifteen hours and by that time lime had reached readied the babul gate gale F from tho the lio llo lelh to the 1901 we were at it every day ay on the he our regiment stormed ille the magazine and aud on oil the tile I 1 commanded tile the storming party which wil wll 1 ich took the tha kings kinds ein kin einis elnis Is palace we klied i lied about twenty hive five nie insi insl inside and some escaped over ho tile walls and across the he river the gate being closed the tile engineer attached a be bag of powder er to tolt it and oil on its exploding we rushed rushe dibi ili iii polishing off ever we met in a quarter of an hour we had lied possession of the he place d in the meantime another part flarty wout went and took the tho th fort of Selim gbur and arid iio ilo the lie same night flight pickets were wera pushed forward in in all directions arld and by midnight the whole city was in our possession thus at las with the ilia help of the ilia almighty we have taken this blackguard place where so many I dieul deeds were committed the eln kin king eing has been caught and his two sons elan fia fla n also his grandon grandson abao backur their bodies nailed and bullof full of bullet holes hoTes were cast in in the tile Chandi chandl iJ chouk tiie tile the swell regent street of delhi before the police station tind hud weib visited by hun hundreds d reds myself inc int laded 1 two wo of these accursed palaces violated our women and th h if had thein them cut up in pieces es they timey are ill be bound I 1 11 i a warmer place than thau hidia eidia just juht now and arid one too where here bunkas and tattles are not available ava lable labie I 1 wis pis was on guard over tile the king and his wives and a concubines on the arid and and arid was obliged to be much on tue tile alert to present rescue cr er attempts at escape I 1 was to shoot him win if I 1 thias f I 1 I 1 came lame to the last extremity yesterday a y I 1 harai haral li a f d him over to a guard of goth will 11 II fles being precious glad to be I 1 relieved of so responsible a position we daily find hidden in in the tha houses bouses who rho were unable to escape from sickness or wounds these are all put to death on the spot on an the I 1 caught a fine tali tall so war or trooper of bome some light cavalry regiment dragged him out into the street and arid shot him dead no inerny merc mere cn be shown to them we dont forget and wont for forget et the massacres of women and children and we kill every we catch the city is is quite deserted decried arid and all the oll cil iz e as have fled it is curious to see a large place like hla hib thib hia without a soul in in it we have havn plundered all the shops and all the valuables are being collected and end sold for prize our vengeance cannot be for we found several seve al of our ilien illen men who hud had been merely wounded on tile the will wili in in the assault and overlooked by us lying dead minus their heads and fearfully gashed sih wi ni nih h abre sabre cuts and so we spare pare no one elery eiery we catch patch shoot him aimis is the word wold im lym sorry to say our regiment reli ragi ment has much un and I 1 we have haie buried four officers ficera cf and api upi upwards ards of 2010 men since gince since it left Feroze pore our loss las from the lath to ha the september was four officers wounded and eighty one iren men killed and wounded oun ded out of less than a fo pretty r 1 I ty good test of the fire we were under our loss being one fourth there ar are al alco alzo 0 seven or eight men missing raising and aud who I 1 believe behee were put down as slain we have buried about from cholera and arid now the whole regiment musters about of whom some aae ale a e in in hospital hoap ital ilal cick alick and wounded and convalescent a nice cutting go up indeed As for me I 1 have by gods godys bessing preserve preserved my health and spirits wonder well taking into con cou consideration the heat beat and hardships to which I 1 have beon been exposed now low truly fortunate I 1 have haven been bep to es escape death in in this catar campaign aa aig alg up to tiie the momen 0 tand and how flow grateful we i ought all toU tob toneto to be eto to a merciful ul providence for havin havir having bavin thus shielded me from all harm an ali officer writing on the september says no one can have an art idea of such a scene seen but one who has hris been under fire the roar of cannon callnon tila the whistling of bullet grape c avei head is is at first uncomfortable but you vou von soon wet get at accustomed to this the coolness s of english solders solder if is is c extraordinary extra they regard legard the tiie whiz of a camion ball bali as little as a schoolboy chool boy does a snowball poor fellows fellow thiv have had lied very hard work since hince since ilie hie 9 gli h day 13 18 and 13 ight night 1 they have been engaged yet et vot voi vo oi I liever m vr hear them grumble crumble except when the grog is is dela deia delayed ed the tile duis days aie very warm yet el tile ilia excitement keeps thern thenn up I 1 and few have been admitted with coup de soleil it is i a curlan cunos thing flung what a temperate man can call undergo in lit hi this s country I 1 have ham been exposed to the tiie suil suii sull sun at ail all ali ho hours ursand and in in lie ilia trenches the ilia hoie hole whole twelve without any covering yet et I 1 never felt any bad effects efi eji acts we all take quinine as a preventive of fever ever and arid cerl cerla amly hily those who take lake it reg regu uarl arly the attack or merely haie have it ol 01 all an type we had a great loss ves e berday ill in captain caplain fagan of the tile killed ill in lle ile lie the butteries batte butte les ies les ies by a mu mus ket eket shot through the head poor mail be llad lied been more under fire than tian ally any other man ind and has beon been always on duty duly since lie iiii carne cattle dipre liar ile he ha bai left a widow and seven children to lament his ins loss such is war var a mail man is killed he be is is lamented for a day by lis ils 1 u friend friends other othar things come collie in in and only ohly a passing thought is turned to the tile depal ted led friend ill in fact it la is necessary we vie cou d never get oil on if we were continually broodno brood ivy ivr b over our lo 10 ses writing again oil on lle ile lie the lie says at two am oil on the 14 h jile tile he camp was aroused bv by lie hie I 1 wel wet delcoma c ence euce that the storming was to take place at su sunrise arise the tile no troops pa were maichel down by tho tile light of a crescent moon to th the rear year of the file advanced bat tries t ties for two hours they waved there until the tho right attack on oil a suburb outside out ide the tiie walls call cali called eishen Kishen was made this however proved itil the cashmere troops ran rant and our loss was severe tile the attack was now proceeded with the cashmere gate was blown open in the most gallant manner by the engineers and our troops matched in the ilia scaling parties on the he right tight and tile the left took look the tle wail wells but with great reat rest los lotis ios pandy ws was perfectly unc unconscious on of our movements un until it ia the columns rushed fort fori forward vird the tile ramparts rsm ism parts were now flow cleared alid and fh tiie tile gulls guns turned oil on the ilia lebel rebel city our troops advanced in different directions and und were succeeding better than expected when several stores of beer and brandy placed there by pandy lle lie he knowing knowlt ig too loo w well weil ea the c character placed jarac of the ariti h soldier were wele fallen failen in ill with and arid some of tile the european troops became bec itne line a di tiri fill unken rabble we were driven back bark some dis dig d stance where we made a stand G guns u lis were ere now brought up with niora mor arg ars rs and the fi fl ing m became beca me incessant against iho the magazine rodg azine the first stroll stronghold our troops fought well and took a gre bredt t many mall mail gulls guns every street had its one or two pieces which poured grape into inlo our ad vancill columns and could only be capluci ed by the life bayonet general Nic bodon boson received a mortal wound while on file the men to a second chal chai changeat geat a gulf on the I 1 lode rode down to see the ahe palace palce the wall wali and ci traice are the finest pai pas pait palt I 1 the interior is dirty filthy alid aid ald in I 1 great disorder ing revell reveled od in in its cool arch archways ways atie I 1 ne hall bell of justice and the he kings thione are built ot of white marble the ibe latter is is inlaid lnla inia d with sones ai and d mosaics I 1 went all over the state and the harem the latter is a curious place and had llad a remal liable ap ap 1 pear perance atice alice its floor covered with bangles bingles 1 ac and redolent of sandal wood tiie tile fuir fair daughters of cashmere had lied their swing in the centre of or the room they had left in ip a great hurry hurr dress dresses silks slipper 6 were aing g oil all ali hides bides on leaving the ilia palace I 1 met a dool doole e surrounded by some cavalry and arid a few falices natives oil on foot its inmate was a faced anxious look ing I 1 old man this thi was the tiie new king of hin the descendant of the great moguls enering entering his palace in iii the tile hands of his emmies he was war captured some distarce from I 1 ile the city be lug eighty give fite years of age his life is to be spared he will be bo keit heit kept hept a close prisoner for life ilfe A again a in on he me the same correspondent writ es weare left behind in a camp strewn with dead animals in all directions and arid with all the filth of three months mont lis ils encampment within yards ards of tent my is the churchyard a very ver yer small mall mail space but containing the remains of nearly 1000 men the graves are like molehills mole hills as close together as they the can pack and arid on digg digging illg a new lew one oue the stench that issues is re velling ting ling und ane wonder is that a plague has ties not broken broken out and taken us all off while le we a aie are exposed to these things chesick the sick gick included mcl mci aided we have about sick siok and wounded at present it will ra aridly d decimae decie eci ae now I 1 trost trust the weather lier iler becoming much enuch cooler cholera is still carrying off individuals here and arid there it has never neer entirely left us since june it is extraordinary fhe iho stillness now it is is in truth unpleasant for three months day and night the cu cannon ritson have been fi 6 i g biow now a musket shot is i larely rely heard do riot not suppose that I 1 like he the noise noise ill in preference to t the q I 1 do not wish ei ever er to see or hear heal another gun fired in antior waris certainly a scourge ard aid did when these rebels are cut up I 1 hope india may lun IUD long have peace our camp is B swarming sy arming 0 at present with old eien kien niena women and children without food or money they have lost loat everything and are obliged to be fed by our commissariat A famine fannue m raging his season all through I 1 lils pa part r t 0 of india no fields have been cultivated no money circulated so starvation must stare them in the face if it fell upon ahe god gurs purs chiefly no one would regret heiret it as they ibey have commit committed ted led more mischief than any other sect but the innocent will also suffer report s says 2 1 ys that when whan he ilia king was brought back he sai sald said l 11 1 I am no longer a king or a man roan I 1 will liow now ent eat pork A letter from sillah says fancy on the smoke clearing away at the fhe assault of delhi the first taing taino that met the horrified gaze of our brave traps troops was a european crucified cruci tied lied and a woman a european stripped naked sore from head to foot chained td tda ida a bastion a raving maniac two european wamen women were vere also found crucified A round shot ended the miseries of the poor maniac |
