Mahratta army, at the time of Lord Auckland's
visit, was estimated at 35,000 men of all arms, including 15,000
irregular cavalry and 250 guns, besides the _Ekhas_, or body-guard of
500 nobles, privileged to sit in the sovereign's presence, who were
subsequently disbanded by Jankojee for disaffection. The infantry was
divided into four brigades, and consisted of thirty-four regular
regiments of 600 men each, and five regiments of irregular foot, or
_nujeebs_. A few of Dowlut Rao's French officers still survived; the
remainder were their sons and grandsons, and adventurers from all parts
of the earth. Not fewer than 25,000 troops, with nearly all the
artillery, were generally at headquarters in the _bushkur_, or camp, of
Gwalior.--See _Asiatic Journal_, May 1840.

[26] "We see much more of Toryism than of truth in this opinion,"
observes the _Eastern Star_, as quoted in the _Asiatic Journal_ for
December; "and we believe the man who entertains it, the last who should
ever be entrusted with power in this empire. It is as dangerous a
delusion as it would be to imagine we could do without an army at
all."--Pro-di-gi-ous!

[27] See an extract from the _Madras United Service Gazette_, in our
Number for Feb. 1843, p. 275, note.

THE FREETHINKER.

"With us ther was a DOCTOUR OF PHISIKE
In all this world ne was ther non him like
To speke of phisike and of surgerie:
* * * * *
He knew the cause of every maladie,
Were it of cold, or hote, or moist, or drie,
And wher engendered, and of what humour,
He was a veray parfite practioner--
* * * * *
His studie was but litel on the Bible."

CHAUCER.

It was in the year 18-- that I completed my professional education in
England, and decided upon spending in Paris the two years which had
still to elapse, before my engagement with my guardians would require me
to present myself for examination and approval at the Royal College of
Surgeons in London. The medical schools and hospitals of Paris were
then, as now, famous for their men of science, and for the useful
discoveries which clinical instruction--bedside ingenuity and
industry--is morally certain to carry along with it. Whatever may be
said of the French practitioners as a body--and my professional
brethren, I know, bring against them, as a national reproach, the charge
of inefficiency in the _treatment_ of disease, (remarkable for acuteness