an
raving like a madman round the palace. Nothing could soothe or pacify
him. Every horseman was dispatched in pursuit of the delinquent, but he
was never found; and all the infuriated murderer could do, was to build
a temple to the memory of his favourite mistress. This he did, and a
most splendid edifice it is.

The unfortunate rajah, when I last saw him, which was in the year 1819,
was a perfect madman. After looking on his blood-stained hands, he would
wash them a hundred times a day; but neither water nor time can wash
away the guilt of murder. In the temple before alluded to is her effigy,
and two valuable diamonds occupy the place of her once smiling eyes.

We remained at Punnah some four or five days, waiting for instructions
from head-quarters. The left division was originally intended as an army
of observation, to watch the several ghauts on the frontiers of our
provinces, and to prevent the Pindarees from getting into our districts;
but they having taken another direction towards Candish, we received
orders to move on in the combined and general pursuit, and we stood
towards Serronge Bopaul and Burrowah Saugar, through a most wild and
desolate country, where tyrannic sway had driven far from their homes
the poor villagers. At one time, having lost sight of the Pindarees, we
began to be seriously alarmed about our families at the different
stations. At one of the principal stations (Cawnpore) there was scarcely
a soldier to be seen, and reports having reached them that the Pindarees
had descended the ghauts, the alarm of the women and their families
became dreadful. Their doors were barricaded with stones, bricks,
tables, chairs, drawers, beds, and so forth, and not one dared to
venture abroad. All was fear and consternation. Servants were dispatched
for information, who brought back the most unfounded reports, which
greatly increased their alarm. My wife's letters were filled with fears
and forebodings. Many ladies had hired boats for the purpose of going
down the river to a more secure place, when an event happened that, for
a time, confirmed all their alarms, and almost frightened them out of
their wits. A lady of the station, riding out early in her chair, or
_tonjon_, saw, on the race-course, an immense dust, raised by a number
of bullocks which were coming to the cantonment for grain, escorted by a
party of local horse. She inquired who these were, when the person of
whom she asked this question said "B