ody drama will be found
in Osborne's _Court and Camp of Runjeet Singh_.

[17] A note of Grant Duff, (_History of the Mahrattas_, iii. 239,)
relative to this period in the life of the British hero, is worth
quoting--"I have had occasion to observe how well the Duke of Wellington
must have known the Mahrattas, from having read his private letters to
Sir Barry Close (then Resident at Poonah) during the war of 1803.
Without being acquainted with their language, and, one would have
supposed, with little opportunity of knowing the people or their
history, his correct views of the Mahratta character and policy are very
remarkable. As the letters in question were shown to me confidentially
in 1817, in the course of my official duties, I may be only authorized
to state that, in some instances, his opinion of individuals,
particularly of Bajee Rao, was correctly prophetic." These letters are
now before the public, in the first and third volumes of Gurwood's
_Despatches_.

[18] See _Asiatic Journal_, May 1834. P. 7, Part II.

[19] See Montgomery Martin's _British Colonies_, i. p. 49, &c.

[20] The Gwalior contingent was called into the field on the occasion of
the late disturbances in Bundelkund, and did good service.

[21] "The want of cordial co-operation on the part of the officers of
the Gwalior state, in the maintenance of order on the frontier, had long
been a subject of just remonstrance, and various orders had been issued
by the late Maharajah, in accordance with the representations of the
British resident. These orders had but too often remained without due
execution; but in consideration of the long illness of his highness, and
the consequent weakness of his administration, the British government
had not pressed for satisfaction with all the rigour which the
importance of the subject would have warranted."

[22] See _Maga_, Aug. 1841, p. 174; July 1842, p. 110, &c.; and Feb.
1843, p. 75.

[23] "Our action on the 23d Sept. was the most severe battle that I have
ever seen, or that I believe has been fought, in India. The enemy's
cannonade was terrible, but the result shows what a small number of
_British troops_ will do."--_The Duke of Wellington to Colonel Murray,
Gurwood's Despatches_, i. 444. "It was not possible for any man to lead
a body into a hotter fire than he did the picquets that day at
Assye."--_Letter to Colonel Munro_, _ib._ 403.

[24] See our Number for July 1842, p. 108.

[25] The strength of the