Obrázky stránek
PDF
ePub
[ocr errors]
[ocr errors]
[ocr errors]

394

418

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

NOTE TO THE MAHRATTA ARTICLE IN No. VII.

IT has been pointed out to us that in the following expression, used in No. VII. of this Review, we have done injustice to Colonel Wallace:-" He (Col. Outram,) arrived at Samangurh,-the fortress was carried forthwith." These words, taken by themselves, certainly are open to misapprehension but we may refer to our other notices of Col. Outram to shew that we never supposed him to have been the Military Commander at Samangurh; that previous to the 14th January, we referred to his official duties as purely political; and up to that date only gave him the credit due to a Diplomatic Agent and Military Volunteer, who had counselled wisely and had acted boldly. Our words, at page 227, were, "Col. Outram had joined General Delamotte's camp the day before the storm, in a political capacity, and, henceforward, &c."

We willingly, however allow that, when writing the Mahratta article, we were ignorant of the extent to which, as we are now informed, General Delamotte had devolved the conduct of operations at Samangurh on Col. Wallace; as also of the fact, that before Colonel Outram's arrival in camp, Colonel Wallace had made his arrangements for the storm. Nor were we aware that it was under Col. W.'s immediate orders that Capt. Græme of the 5th M. L. C., accompained by Mr. Reeves and Col. Outram, routed the covering party of the Kolapoor rebels.

Writers on contemporary history must reckon on being accused of malignity, one-sidedness, &c.; we may however, once for all, say that we are of no party, but to the best of our ability, are the advocates of truth. We may err from deficient or wrong information, but hardly from either malevolence or partiality. In the present instance, our assertion may be the more readily credited, in that we have no personal acquaintance with any of the Officers, employed in the S. M. Country, on whose conduct we have remarked. By their official acts, and by these alone, we have judged them.

THE

CALCUTTA REVIEW.

ART. I.-1. The East India College, Haileybury.

2. The East India Register for 1845.

ABOUT twenty-one miles from the Metropolis of England, in the rich and well-cultivated county of Hertford, is situated the College in which, according to Act of Parliament, young men are educated, who are destined to fill employments in the Civil Service of India. The locality and surrounding scenery, though of a kind not comparable with the romantic beauty of Devonshire, or the still wilder views of the west of England, may yet challenge competition with any of our midland or even southern counties. The country for some miles around, of a description truly English, exhibiting in a series of undulations, the shades of the forest, the well watered pasture land, and the rich waving of corn fields, may at times be termed almost picturesque. The college itself stands at the foot of a heath, and on a gentle declivity almost encircled with umbrageous woods! As a building it has nothing which can admit of a moment's comparison with the glance at any one college in the vista of High Street, Oxford, or with the great square in Trinity College, Cambridge,—nothing which can attempt to vie with those associations that crowd on us as we gaze on the distant towers of Granta, or on the Panorama which meets our view when standing on the heights of Shotover, or those of Bagley wood; but yet the scenery round Haileybury is of that kind to which either of the Universities, with all their proud and cherished recollections, must infallibly yield. On the heath above the college bloom in the early Spring months the varied flowers whose sweetness no "heart that loves the Spring" can well refuse: in the glades of its woods, and in the very gardens attached to the institution, may be heard on a Summer's evening the cuckoo's "wandering voice," and the ceaseless melody of the nightingale has cheered the labours of the student throughout the livelong night: the country for several miles is studded with gentlemen's seats: even the associations which History and noted characters alone can supply, though sought for in vain in the college, are not wanting to heighten the quiet beauty of the neighbourhood. The Rye House, notorious for the well known plot of that name, but now harmless as the resort of peaceful anglers, lies at the distance of a short

B

« PředchozíPokračovat »