William Fitzpatrick, esq. of the Inner Temple, to Harriet, eldest dau. of Thomas Chandless, esq. of Gloucester-pl.--At Shropham, Norf., the Rev. Frederic Bignold, second son of Samuel Bignold, esq. of Norwich, to JaneMaria, youngest dau. of Henry D'Esterre Hemsworth, esq, of Shropham Hall. - At Chichester, John Geddes Cockburn, esq. of the London and County Bank, to Jane-Christiana, third dau. of William Charles Newland, esq. of Chichester.-At Preston-next-Faversham, J. Henry Venables, esq. son of the Ven. Archdeacon Venables, of Llysdinan Hall, Breconsh. to Sophia, dau. of Giles Hilton, esq. of Preston House, near Faversham, Kent. At Burnham, Norfolk, Horatio Girdlestone, esq. of Hanley, Staffordshire, great nephew of the late Viscount Nelson, to Ellen-Catharine, youngest dau. of the late Sir William Bolton, Capt. R.N.- -At Islington, Daniel Greenaway Porter, esq. of Great Tower-st. to Julia, second dau. of Joshua Reynolds Pugh, esq. of York-pl. City-road.- -At St. George's, Hanover-sq. Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, Bart. to Sidney, youngest dau. of the Right Hon. C. W. Williams Wynn, M.P., &c.—At Beverley, J. F. Brodrick, esq. of Hull, to Ann, only dau. of William Hodgson, esq. of Beverley.—At Cheltenham, the Rev. John Charnock, M.A. Incumbent of Aldfield-cum-Studley, Yorksh., to Harriet-Dorothea, dau. of the late ViceAdm. Sir R. T. Rickets, Bart. the Elms.-———At Nantwich, Oswald New, esq. of Evesham, Worcestershire, to Lydia-Ann, only dau. of Ralph Cappur, esq. of Nantwich, Cheshire.

-At Huddersfield, John Armitage, esq. of Paddock House, to Anna, eldest dau. of Joseph Kaye, esq.

14. At Dublin, Carden Terry, esq. of Prospect, Cork, to Emma-Conolly, widow, only sister of Sir John Conroy, Bart. of Arborfield Hall, Berksh.--At St. Pancras New Church, Sidney-R. Joseph, esq. of Upper Charlotte-st. Fitzroy-sq. to Fanny-Ellen, only dau. of Philip Goode, esq. of Howland-st. Fitzroy-sq.

17. At Kessingland, Lieut. Perceval Baskerville, R.N. to Jane-Burton, 4th dau. of the late Thomas Bowden, esq. At North Stoneham, Hants, Henry, third son of the late George Norman, esq. of Bromley-common, Kent, to Arabella-Matilda, youngest dau. of the Rev. Frederick Beadon, Rector of North Stoneham,

At Fermoy, T. Hamlet Taylor, esq. of Gray's-inn, to Helena-Gertrude, dau. of the late P. Waters, esq. of Fermoy. At Christ Church, St. Marylebone, William Hart, esq. of Woburn-pl. Russell-sq. to Grace-Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Alfred Daniel, esq. of Harewood-sq.-At Christchurch, Thomas Burdock, esq. of Whittlesea, to Phoebe, fifth dau. of the late Michael Macormick, esq. of Witcham, in the Isle of Ely.--At West Alvington, John Jesse Lloyd, esq. of Cranagh, eldest son of John Lloyd, esq. of Lloydsboro', county of Tipperary, to Mary, youngest dau. of the late Edmund N. W. Fortescue, esq. of Fallapit. At Southmolton, R. E. Tanner, esq. to Miss Elizabeth-Hester, only dau. of the late Rev. J. Hodgkin, of Northmolton.--At St. Pancras, William Timbrell Elliott, esq. of Kentish Town, to Margaret-Anne, eldest dau. of George Frederick Abraham, esq. of Great Marlborough-st.-- -At Tottenham, Henry New, esq. of Southwick, Sussex, to ArabellaMarianne, eldest dau. of the late John Holt, esq. of Tottenham, and grand-dau. of the laté John Eardley Wilmot, esq. of Bruce Castle, Tottenham.- -At Longparish, Hants, the Rev. Francis Edward Durnford, Fellow of King's College, Camb., to Frances- Isabella, youngest dau. of Capt. John Thompson, R.N.

-At Manse of Kiltarlity, Robert Gordon, esq. Rhynie, to Anne, second dau. of the Rev.

Colin Fraser, Minister of Kiltarlity.--At Earlsgift, co. Tyrone, Ireland, Edward Prothero, esq. of 14th Regt. of Foot, second son of Thomas Prothero, of Malpas Court, co. Monmouth, esq. to Caroline, dau. of the Hon. and Rev. Charles and Lady Isabella Douglas, of Earlsgift.

18. At Hull, the Rev. Frederick Charles Carey, B.A. son of John Carey, esq. M.D. of Frogmore, Guernsey, to Anna-Maria, third dau. of William Collinson, esq. of Hull.- At Plumstead, Daniel Birkett, jun. esq. of Blackheath, to Emily, elder dau. of H. A. Soames, esq. of the Grove, Shooter's-hill, Kent. -At Luton, Beds. David Cole Noel, esq. of Worcester, surgeon, to Jane, eldest dau, of Thomas Waller, esq.At Rickmansworth, Herts. William Charles Belt, of the Middle Temple, barristerat-law, to Penelope-Avice-Anne, eldest dau. of Humphry William Woolrych, esq. of Croxley House, Herts.

19. At Loughton, Essex, Archibald Stirling Mathison, esq. Madras Civil Serv. to Caroline, youngest dau. of the late George Cooke, esq. of Carr House, Doncaster.--At Salisbury, Robert Joseph Phillimore, esq. D.C.L. second son of Joseph Phillimore, esq. D.C.L. to Charlotte-Ann, youngest sister of Evelyn Denison, esq. M.P. of Ossington, Notts.- -At Carlisle, William Lettsom Gronow, esq. eldest son of the Rev. Thomas Gronow, of Court Herbert, Glamorgansh. to Catharine-Anne, only dau. of the late William Norman, esq. of Carlisle. At Chollerton, Northumberland, John Hornby, esq. M.P. for Blackburn, to Margaret, youngest dau. of the Rev. Christopher Bird.At Marston Bigott, Spencer Boyle, esq. 48th Regt. youngest son of the late Vice-Adm. the Hon. Sir Courtenay Boyle, to Rose-Susan, second dau. of Capt. C. Alexander, Royal Eng.-At Kensington, George Leadbeater, esq. of Winchester, to Catharine, youngest dau. of the late Richard Henry Butler, esq. formerly of Egham. -At Eton College, the Rev. John Eyre Yonge, Fellow of King's coll. Cambridge, to the Hon. Catharine-Charlotte Lysaght, second dau. of Lord Lisle. At St. George's, Hanover-sq. William Brown, esq. of Chester-st. Grosvenorpl. to Hannah, only surviving dau. of J. W. Meredith, esq. of Stratton-st.

20. At Coolock, near Dublin, Sir Edmund Waller, Bart. of Knocknacree, Tipperary, to Rebecca, dau. of Arthur Guinness, esq. of Beaumont, Dublin.-At St. Mary's, Bryanston-sq. E. R. Northey, esq. of Woodcote House, Epsom, to Louisa-Mary-Ann, eldest dau. of the late Rev. Robert Hesketh.-At Minster, Thanet, J. Freeman, esq. M.D. of Cheltenham, to Sarah, eldest dau. of S. Collard,

esq.

21. At Richmond, John Berney Petre, esq. only son of Col. Petre, of Westwick Hall, Norfolk, to Caroline-Susan, second dau. of the late Right Hon. James Alexander Mackenzie.At Swansea, Edward Evans, esq. only son of the late J. Evans, esq. of Piodi, Carmarthensh. to Ann-Jane, youngest dau. of the late Rev. J. F. Grant, Rector of Wrabness, Essex. At St. Botolph's, Aldersgate-st. Michael William Jones, esq. of Prospect House, Sudbury, to Isabelia-Jane, eldest dau. of John Penrice, esq. Architect, of Colchester.

23. At Southwell, Notts. John Sutton, esq. eldest son of Sir Richard Sutton, Bart. of Norwood Park, Notts. and Lyndford Hall, Norfolk, to Emma Helena, eldest dau. of Col. Sherlock, K.H. of Southwell.

24. At Chatham, Thomas M. Philson, esq. M.D. 58th Regt. to Matilda-Wilmet, eldest dau. of the late Lieut. Anderson, R.N.-At Grangemouth, Capt. William Crawford, of Greenock, to Jane, youngest dau. of the late John Hardie, esq. of Port Glasgow.

RT. HON. SIR GORE OUSELEY. Nov. 18. At his seat, Hall Barn Park, in his 75th year, the Right Hon. Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart. of Claramount, Herts. G.C.H., Knt. of St. Alexander Newski of Russia, and of the Lion and Sun of Persia, a Privy Councillor, F. R.S., and F.S. A. &c. &c.

He was the younger brother of Sir William Ouseley, the eminent oriental scholar. They were the sons of Capt. Ralph Ouseley, a native it is believed of Connaught, who, after having served in the American war, settled at Limerick, where he possessed a large collection of antiquities, &c. and died in 1803. Captain Ouscley was one of the earliest members of the Royal Irish Academy, and is often mentioned in the works of Vallancey and O'Halloran. The two

brothers were the children of his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Holland, esq. of Limerick.

Early in 1787 Sir Gore Ouseley left his native city Limerick with an uncle. in-law, a Mr. O'Donnell (we think), for the United States, whither he proceeded from Bordeaux, in the month of March or April, with a cargo of wine, &c. From America they went to China, and thence to the East Indies, where Sir Gore obtained a situation, and rapid advancement, as he was a youth of most amiable manners, and considerable accomplishments.

when it was continued by Luigi Sebastiani, an Italian ecclesiastic; but Mr. Martyn found it necessary to revise or recast the whole, in which he was aided by a learned Persian, Mir Seid- Ali. On quitting Schiras, he left with Sir Gore an accurate copy of the version, in order to have it presented to the King, Feth-Ali-Scha, who acknowledged its receipt in a letter dated in April 1814, and expressed his satisfaction with the style, after having it read for him all through. The previous translations had only embraced the four Gospels. This sovereign, it is here observed, showed himself far more liberal than the Turkish Sultans. Sir Gore, on returning from Persia, gave a copy of the translation to the Biblical Society of Petersburg, where it was printed with this title, "Novum Testamentum Jesu Christi e Græca in Persicam linguam in urbe Schiras, nunc vero cura et sumptibus Societatis Biblica Ruthenicæ typis datum Petropoli," 4to. In the "Journal des Savants," for September 1816, may be seen a critical review of the work by De Sacy, who reproves the adoption of the Mussulman names of Isa and Yahia, &c. for Jesus, John (the Baptist,) &c. criticises several observations of the text, as different from the Vulgate, and makes various grammatical animadversions.

After returning home Sir Gore Ouseley continued his cultivation and patronage of

In 1810 he went to Persia as Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary; he consequently enjoyed a pension of 2,0091. From the Shah of Persia he received the order of the Lion and Sun, and a grant of supporters; and from the Emperor of Russia, in acknowledgment of his successful mediation of peace between Russia and Persia in 1819, the order of St. Alexander Newski, set in diamonds.

During the years 1811 and 1812, the Rev. Henry Martyn, chaplain of the East India Company, passed about twelve months at Schiras under the protection of Sir Gore Ouseley, in order to translate the New Testament into the Persian tongue, as he had already done into Hindostanee, though this version was not published, we believe, till 1815, at Calcutta. An Arabian convert, Nathanael Sabat, had previously undertaken the Persian translation, but left it unfinished,

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the council, of the Royal Society of Literature, as well as of other learned and scientific bodies.

Sir Gore Ouseley married, in 1806, Harriet-Georgiana, daughter of John Whitelocke, esq. by whom he had issue two sons and three daughters: 1. MaryJane; 2. Eliza-Sheireen, born at Schiras in Persia, who died an infant; 3. Wellesley-Abbas, born at Tabriz in Persia, who died in 1824, in his 11th year; 4. Alexandrine-Perceval, born at St. Petersburgh in 1814, and goddaughter of the late Emperor Alexander and the empress dowager Maria; 5. Frederick-ArthurGore, who succeeds to the baronetcy, godson of the late Duke of York and the Duke of Wellington.

The present Sir Frederick-ArthurGore Ouseley, born in 1825, was in his childhood remarkable for precocious musical talent, almost, if not quite, as extraordinary as any upon record. He produced the score of an entire opera at

an age when his contemporaries might be learning to spell. We are not aware whether or not he has continued to cultivate the science.

GEN. THE HON. FRED. ST. JOHN,

Nov. 19. At Chailey, Sussex, after a few hours' illness, aged 79, the Hon. Frederick St. John, General in the army, uncle to Lord Viscount Bolingbroke.

He was born Dec. 20, 1765, the second son of Frederick second Viscount Bolingbroke. He entered the army in August, 1799, and with the single exception of Sir G. Nugent, Bart., was the senior General, his commission being dated as far back as June 1814. In 1793, when Colonel St. John, he served throughout the rebellion in Ireland. He served with much distinction in India under Lord Lake; and in the two campaigns against the Mahrattas, being second in command, was engaged in seven sieges and two general actions, besides encounters with the enemy of minor importance. His commissions were as annexed:-Ensign, Aug. 31, 1779; Lieutenant, Feb. 1780; Captain, Dec. 12, 1780, Major, April 8, 1783; Lieut.Colonel, Feb. 23, 1791; Colonel, Aug. 21, 1795; Major-General, June 18, 1798; Lieut.-General, October 30,1805; and General, June 4, 1814.

He was married three times-namely, first, on the 8th Dec. 1788, to Lady Mary Kerr, third daughter of William filth Marquess of Lothian, who died in childbed Feb. 6, 1791; secondly, April 6, 1793, to the Hon. Arabella Craven, third daughter of William sixth Lord Craven, she died June 2, 1819; and thirdly, Nov. 14, 1821, to Caroline-Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Mr. J. Parsons, who survives him. By the first lady he had issue an only child, Robert William St. John, esq. now Agent and Consul-general at Algiers, who married Eliza-Maria, daughter of John Barker, esq. and has issue. By the second he has left three other sons and three daughters; viz. 2. the Rev. George William St. John, Rector of Stanton Lacy, Shropshire; 3. Frederick Berkeley St. John, esq. settled in Australia, who married in 1836, Henrietta-Louisa-Mary, third daughter of the late Rev. John Jephson, and has issue; 4. Maria-Isabella, married in 1832 to the Rev. Charles Goring, Rector of Twincham, Sussex; 5. Charles William George St. John, esq.; 6. Louisa-Diana; 7. Elizabeth, married in 1841 to the Rev. George Carter. By his last wife, one son, Welbore-William- Oliver, born in 1825.

GENT, MAG. VOL. XXIII.

THE HON. ROBERT OTWAY CAVE, M.P.

Nov. 29. At Bath, aged 48, the Hon. Robert Otway Cave, M. P. for Tipperary, only surviving son of the Right Hon. the Baroness Braye.

The deceased was eldest and only surviving son of the late Henry Otway, esq. brother of Admiral Sir Robert Otway, Bart., K.C.B., and Sarah now Baroness Braye, only daughter of Sir Thomas Cave, Bart., whose grandmother was eventually heiress of the first Lord Braye. In 1818 he took the name of Cave in addition to that of Otway by royal sign manual. He was returned to Parliament for Leicester in 1826 by a considerable majority over Sir William Evans and Lord Denman, and in 1830 was elected for Hastings. In 1835 he was elected, in conjunction with the Right Hon. Richard Lalor Sheil, for the county of Tipperary, and has continued to represent that county up to the present time. He was in his political conduct a zealous supporter of Liberal opinions.

Mr. Otway Cave married, Oct. 19, 1832, Sophia, eldest daughter of the late Sir Francis Burdett, Bart. M. P. but by that lady, who survives him, he has left no issue. The Barony of Braye, which was in 1839 called out of abeyance, (in which it had rested from 1557,) in favour of his mother, will, in consequence of his death, again fall into abeyance between her four daughters, of whom the eldest is unmarried; the second is the wife of J. A. Arnold, esq.; the third the widow (without children) of the late Henry Murray, esq. brother to the Bishop of Rochester; and the youngest is the wife of the Rev. Edgell Wyatt Edgell, Rector of North Cray, Kent.

The will of Mr. Otway Cave has been proved in Doctors' Commons by the widow of the deceased, and sole executrix. It is very short, and dated in 1839, giving his estates (subject to a charge of 20,0007.), and all his property of every description to his wife. There is no other legacy in the will. The personal property within the province of Canterbury has been sworn under 14,0007.; but this of course does not include the deceased's large estates in Ireland. It appears from the will that Mrs. Otway Cave received from Sir Francis Burdett, her father, a marriage portion of 30,0007, and his will contained a further legacy of 20,000l. to her.

SIR COLIN MACKENZIE, BART. Jan. 15. At Belmaduthy House, aged 62, Sir Colin Mackenzie, of Kilcoy, co. Ross, Bart. Colonel Commandant of the Ross militia.

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He was the son and heir of Charles Mackenzie, esq. of Kilcoy, by Jean Gordon, third daughter of Patrick Grant, esq. of Glenmoriston, son and heir of Colin Mackenzie, of Kilcoy, by Martha, sister and co-heir of William Fraser of Inverallochie, and daughter of Charles Fraser of Inverallochie, who was grandson of Simon Fraser of the same place, by Lady Mary, 2d daughter of James Erskine, 7th Earl of Buchan, who was son of James Erskine, 6th Earl, by Mary Douglas, daughter and heir of James Douglas, Earl of Buchan, in right of his grandmother Christian Stewart, Countess of Buchan, who died 1580.

In 1839 the deceased claimed the dignity of Earl of Buchan as eldest heir of line of James Stewart, first Earl of Buchan, and submitted a very elaborate case, in proof of his descent, to the consideration of the Lords' Committee of Privileges, with every prospect of success, according to the opinion of very eminent advisers; when it was discovered that the eldest daughter of James Erskine, seventh Earl of Buchan, who it was always supposed had died without issue before the year 1725, had in fact married and left issue. Sir Colin Mackenzie immediately made this discovery known, and abandoned his claim, as whatever right existed as heir of line was vested in that lady's representative in preference to himself, who was heir of line only of Lady Mary the second daughter of the said seventh Earl of Buchan.

By patent dated 15 March, 1836, the deceased was created a Baronet, with remainder to his second son Evan and his heirs male, failing whom to his third son Colin John and his heirs male. This arrangement was owing to the mental alienation of Sir Colin's eldest son.

Sir Colin Mackenzie married 1805 Isabella, second daughter of Evan Cameron, of Glenevis, Invernessshire, esq., and is succeeded by his second son, Evan,

born in 1816.

SIR JAMES BROUN, BART. Nov. 30. At Moffatt, Dumfriesshire, Sir James Broun, the sixth Bart. of Colstonn, co. Haddington, (1686.)

Sir James was son of the Rev. Broun, by the daughter of Col. Hugh M'Bride, of Beadland, Ayrshire. He was formerly an officer in the army, and served for ten years in the West Indies during the Carib insurrection. He raised in 1799 the Lockesley Volunteers. He assumed the title of Baronet in 1825, on being served heir by a jury of Dumfriesshire (of which the Marquess of Queensberry was Chancellor) to Sir Alexander

Broun, the fifth Baronet, who died in 1775.

He married first, in 1795, Marion, eldest daughter of Robert Henderson, esq. of Cleugh-heads, a Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Dumfries, and had issue four sons, Sir Richard, RobertHenderson, R.N., William, the Rev. Hugh M'Bryde Broun, and one daughter, Janet. Sir James married secondly, in 1835, a daughter of R. Watson, esq.

His son and successor is the author of a Baronetage, in which he has styled himself "Sir Richard Broun, Eques Auratus, Hon. Secretary to the Committee of the Baronetage for Privileges, a Knight Commander of the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and Grand Secretary of the Langue for England."

It appears that Sir Richard Broun, in the year 1836, applied to the Lord Chamberlain to be presented for the honour of Knighthood, in pursuance of a clause of the letters patent of 14 Jac. I. founding the dignity of Baronet, which granted that privilege to the eldest sons of Baronets, which was occasionally claimed up to the year 1827, but was then withdrawn by King George IV. The Lord Chamberlain having declined to present him, "the Committee of the Baronetage for Privileges," at their anniversary meeting in June 1842, required him to assume the ancient chivalrous dignity of a Knight, (Eques Auratus,") in order to "vindicate this fundamental and inalienable privilege of the eldest sons of Baronets."

MAJOR-GEN. SIR WILLIAM NOTT,
G.C.B.

Jan. 1. At Carmarthen, in his 63d year, Major-Gen. Sir William Nott, G.C.B.

This distinguished commander was born at Neath, in Glamorganshire, on the 20th Jan. 1782, the son of a highly respectable inhabitant of that place, who is said to have been maternally descended from the Harveys of Norfolk. His father removed to Carmarthen, where he kept the Ivy Bush inn, and was also a mail proprietor there. Young Nott was educated at Cowbridge, in Glamorganshire; and it is believed gave no promise in early youth of those abilities by which he was distinguished in after life. It is said that when the French landed at Fishguard, in 1798, William Nott, then in his sixteenth year, joined the Carmarthen militia as a volunteer; but that statement is disputed, because the Carmarthen militia, it is said, was then quartered at Winchester.

He entered the East India Company's

service on the 27th October, 1800, and at a very early period of his career, gave promise of future eminence. In July, 1804, four years after his arrival at Calcutta, Lieutenant Nott sailed in command of a detachment of Bengal Volunteers, despatched with the expedition under Commander Hayes to Muckie, to chastise the natives of that port for their barbarous treatment of the crew of an English ship, the Crescent, and the subsequent attempt made by them to assassinate the deputation sent from Fort Marlborough, to demand satisfaction for the original outrage. Lieutenant Nott was specially mentioned by Captain Hayes, in his despatch announcing the capture of this place, who remarked that this important service to the Government and the British interest in general was performed in forty hours by a handful of men, in opposition to a numerous host of daring and ferocious banditti, well equipped, and secured by a succession of works rendered so strong by nature and art, as to set at defiance the attempts of every other nation, if defended by Britons."

On the return of Lieutenant Nott to Calcutta, he continued in the performance of regimental duty until the year 1811, when he was appointed Superintendent of Family Payments, which office he resigned in the year 1822. In 1826, he returned to Wales with injured health, the rank of Major, and a fortune, which enabled him to buy an estate near Carmarthen, named Job's Well. And here his career might have closed, but for one of those accidents which have from time to time brought forth great men in spite of themselves; the failure of a bank at Calcutta seriously impaired his means, and obliged him to sell Job's Well. He returned to the East, and in 1837 was appointed to the command of the 38th Native Regiment. In 1838, he was appointed a brigadier of the second class, and selected to command the second division of the army of the Indus; and soon after he was highly commended by Sir W. Cotton for the admirable manner in which he had conducted a march of more than 1,000 miles. In 1839, he was invested with the command of the whole of the troops in Scinde and Lower Affghanistan, in which command he displayed, at a most critical time, great firmness, decision, and ability. The first important service which he performed was the capture of the town and fortress of Khelat.

In January, 1841, he established his bead quarters at Candahar, and during the greater part of that year everything went on pretty smoothly; but, towards its close, the insurrection broke out at Cabool, the

result of which was to give spirit and confidence to the disaffected throughout the whole country. A large hostile force assembled in the neighbourhood of Candahar, and made their appearance on the 12th Jan. 1842, at the distance of about eight miles from the town, commanded by Prince Sufter Jung. They took up a strong position, with a deep morass in front, which rendered it extremely difficult for our troops to reach them. Sir William Nott, however, with the utmost gallantry, marched out, attacked, defeated, and put them to flight. But unfortunately he was deficient in cavalry, and could not follow up his success as he otherwise would have done. On that occasion he had to contend with 12,000 of the enemy, to oppose whom he had only 5,000 men, his whole force consisting of 7,000 of all arms. He had only 700 cavalry, and the consequence was, that, though the victory was complete in some respects, it was not so in others. In the month of March, the enemy once more approached Candabar. General Nott, anxious to bring them to a decided action, marched out, on the 7th of March, and was led in pursuit thirty or forty miles from Candahar. On the 10th of March, a part of the enemy's army, taking advantage of that movement, made a dash on Candahar, and succeeded in getting possession of one of the gates of the city; but the garrison, under Major Lane, though very much reduced in number, successfully withstood the enemy. that attempt 500 of the enemy were slain, and our troops were completely successful.

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About this time Sir William Nott received instructions from the GovernorGeneral of India to retire from Candahar. He was greatly embarrassed on the receipt of those instructions, which, however, it was his duty to obey. He was ordered to withdraw the garrison of Khelat-iGhilzie, and he despatched Colonel Wymer with the greatest portion of his force, to accomplish that object. The enemy, discovering that his forces were weakened, determined to make another desperate attempt to overcome him. Prince Suftur Jung, being joined by a reinforcement of 3,000 men, under Akbar Khan, chief of Zemindawur, on the 29th of May advanced within a mile of the city, confident of success. Sir William Nott, ready for every exigency, marched out and attacked them, and drove them in confusion from the field. Speaking of this action, he thus expresses himself in a letter to MajorGeneral Pollock :-" Candahar, May 30, 1842. Our troops carried the enemy's positions in gallant style; it was the finest thing I ever saw. These 8,000 Affghans,