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A LADY'S DIARY 
 
 SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 
 
 WRITTEN FOR THE PERUSAL OF FRIENDS 
 AT HOME. 
 
 NEW EDITION. 
 
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 LONDON: 
 JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 
 
 1858. 
 
 The right of Translation is reserved. 
 
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 LONDON PRIKTRD BT W. OLOWKS AND SONS, OTAMKORP RHR. 
 AND CHARING CROSS. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 The writer of the following Journal arrived at 
 Lucknow with her husband in March, 1857 — only 
 a few weeks before the Sepoy outbreak. The an- 
 nexed extracts from a subsequent letter point out 
 the precise circumstances under which this record, 
 of events so painfully interesting, was kept. As no 
 lady's diary has hitherto been given to the public, 
 the friends of the writer have thought that it might 
 interest others, beyond the family circle, to com- 
 municate additional information on a subject in 
 which the British nation feels so deep an interest. 
 
 " I have kept a rough sort of journal during the 
 whole siege, often written under the greatest diffi- 
 culties—part of the time with a child in my arms, 
 or asleep on my lap ; but I persevered, because I 
 knew if we survived you would like to live our siege 
 
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IV PREFACE. 
 
 life over in imagination, and the little details would 
 interest you ; besides the comfort of talking to you. 
 For the first month (July) we had so little hope of 
 escape, that I did not feel as if you would ever 
 receive it ; so you will find the records rather bare ; 
 but such as it is, I shall send it, if possible, by post, 
 for I know you will like to have it. I have found 
 in my desk two June letters also, which I will send 
 you." — Allahabad, December 14, 1857. 
 
 NOTICE TO SECOND EDITION. 
 
 Here and there a verbal alteration has been made, 
 and an inaccuracy corrected. One or two short 
 passages from the manuscript journal, omitted in 
 the First Edition, have been inserted; and an 
 extract from a recent letter of the Authoress, which 
 it is thought may be both of interest and service 
 to truth, has been added at the end of the book. 
 Otherwise this is amply a reprint 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 May 15 to 28, 1857. 
 
 Insurrection and murders in Delhi — Kising at Meerut — Alarm 
 at Lucknow — Insurgents repulsed at Meerut — State of 
 Delhi and Meerut — Assembling of European troops — Revolt 
 at Roorkee — Neglect of military authorities at Meerut — 
 King of Oude — Alarm for Cawnpore — Great heat — Fire 
 at Lucknow — Movements of troops — Removal from can- 
 tonments to the Residency — Rising at Allyghur — Suspense 
 concerning Cawnpore — Regimental mutinies — Arrests — 
 Continued suspense Page 1 
 
 May 31 to June 27. 
 
 Insurrection at Lucknow — Officers murdered — Atrocities of 
 Sepoys — Cawnpore besieged — Fugitives from Seetapore — 
 Outbreak at Secrora — Mutiny of military police — Life in 
 Lucknow — Massacre at Shahjehanpore — Conduct of native 
 servants — Bad news from Cawnpore — Murder of officers — 
 Massacre at Sultanpore — Murder by an English sergeant — 
 Refugees from Futtyghur murdered — State of Lucknow — 
 Cholera — Letter from General Wheeler — Injustice of the 
 annexation of Oude — Expected assault — Fear of treachery 
 — The Seikhs — Officers' precautions — Progress of siege of 
 Cawnpore — Rumoured fall of Delhi • — ■ Rebel camp — Suf- 
 ferings at Cawnpore — Escapes . . . . 30 
 
VI CONTENTS. 
 
 June 30 to September 25. 
 
 Siege of Lucknow commenced — Casualties — Sir H. Lawrence 
 mortally wounded — His deathbed — Blowing up of the 
 Muchee Bhowan Fort — Domestic arrangements of the Tye 
 Khana — Deaths from disease — Events and casualties of 
 the siege — Advance of General Havelock, and retreat to 
 Cawnpore — Prevalence of cholera and diarrhoea — Births 
 - during the siege — Great mortality among children — In- 
 formation from a prisoner — Expected relief by Sir J. 
 Outram — Numbers of the opposing forces . . . . Page 73 
 
 September 26 to November 9. 
 
 ge continued — Arrival of relief : its insufficiency — Massacre 
 at Jhansi — Mines discovered — Troops expected from Eng- 
 land • — Ruinous state of the town — Number of casualties — 
 Reduction of rations — Details of the Cawnpore tragedy — 
 News from England — Movements of troops — Submission of 
 a native rajah — Attack on the Alumbagh — Rebels defeated 
 at Agra — Arrival of Delhi column at Cawnpore — Further 
 relief confidently expected — Attempt to reach the Alum- 
 bagh 119 
 
 November 10 to December 1. 
 
 Siege continued — Arrival of Sir Colin Campbell at the Alum- 
 bagh — The approaching crisis — The Martinicre taken — 
 Communication established between the two forces — Orders 
 to evacuate Lucknow — Departure — Secunderabad — En- 
 campment at Dilkoosha — News from England — Engage- 
 ment with the enemy — March to the Alumbagh — Reports 
 concerning English prisoners — Bunnee — Encampment near 
 Cawnpore — Arrival at Cawnpore — The enemy in great 
 force — Condition of tho town 153 
 
CONTENTS. vn 
 
 December 2 to 28. 
 
 Cawnpore : Sir H. Wheeler's entrenchments — Futtypore — 
 Railway journey to .Allahabad — Comfort of rest — Kind- 
 ness of the inhabitants — The Relief Fund — School-keeping 
 — : Christmas — Statements of a Baboo concerning the 
 rebels Page 181 
 
 Supplementary Letters 201 
 
A LADY'S DIARY 
 
 THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 
 
 La Martini&re, May 15. 
 4 p.m. — Since writing to you this morning such 
 awful news has come, that I still feel paralysed with 
 horror. There has been an insurrection in Delhi, 
 and the Chief Commissioner (Mr. Fraser), Captain 
 Douglas, Mr. and Miss Jennings, have all been 
 murdered in cold blood. The news came by electric 
 telegraph. No particulars are known, nor even the 
 extent of the insurrection ; or who have risen, whether 
 people or Sepoys. They have cut the telegraph 
 wires between Delhi and Meerut, and destroyed a 
 bridge to prevent the passage of troops. At Meerut 
 there was a rising among the native troops, on 
 Sunday evening, when several Europeans were 
 
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 killed and wounded: the rebels showed fight till 
 they had received a volley from the Rifles, and then 
 they all ran away ; but there are no particulars, so 
 we know not how many English have lost their lives. 
 There has been no post for four days from up country, 
 and we are in complete ignorance of what horrors 
 may be going on. Poor ! poor Captain Douglas ! 
 — or rather, one's heart should bleed for his miser- 
 able wife, who little knows now that she will never 
 look upon his face again in this world. 
 
 May 16. 
 I was interrupted yesterday ; but you may well 
 fancy we can think of nothing but the dreadful 
 tidings. No post in from Delhi, nor any further 
 news by telegraph. I cannot describe our horrible 
 state of anxiety, alarm, and gloom. These are fear- 
 ful times, and it seems as if our tenure of India hung 
 by a thread ; for if the native army turns against us, 
 nothing humanly speaking can save us. We must 
 trust to God, and hope for the best We are for- 
 tunate in having such a man as Sir H. Lawrence 
 at the head of affairs here; and European artil- 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. o 
 
 lery as well as a Queen's regiment. The stoppage 
 of post is most alarming ; no one knows what to 
 think. Poor Miss Jennings ! she was by all accounts 
 such a very nice dear girl, the comfort and delight 
 of her father's life. I have heard it was beautiful 
 to see the two together. Mrs. Jennings is in Eng- 
 land, educating her younger children, and this poor 
 girl came out to be her father's companion about a 
 
 year and a half ago I do so wish we could 
 
 know about Mrs. Douglas : such a sweet creature, and 
 so fondly devoted to her husband : how I do grieve 
 for her ! he was such a noble-hearted Christian 
 gentleman, respected and liked by all ; his valuable, 
 useful life to be sacrificed to those bloodthirsty vil- 
 lains, it seems too dreadful. You must not feel over 
 
 anxious I don't think I should have told 
 
 you all this, only you will see it in the papers. 
 Every precaution is taken for our safety here, but at 
 present all is quiet ; and we trust such a due degree of 
 severity will be used, in time, as shall prevent further 
 mischief : the great mistake has been not overawing 
 the Sepoys at first. There have been three regiments 
 disbanded, and the men turned loose on the country 
 to foment ill-feeling ; whereas, if the first which 
 
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 mutinied had been annihilated with grape-shot, 
 there would have been an end of tumult, and many 
 lives saved. You can only rule these Asiatics by 
 fear : if they are not afraid, they snap their fingers 
 at you. 
 
 From the Writer's Husband. 
 
 Lucknow, May 18, 1857. 
 G. has I know written to you very fully as 
 usual, but I wish to send a few lines also, particu- 
 larly as I feel that the news probably taken home 
 must make you all anxious. I really have hope we 
 may ride over the crisis yet ; there does not seem to 
 be perfect combination amongst the alien troops, and 
 hence the chance for us. It is certainly fearful to 
 know that this, humanly speaking, is our only hope. 
 The number of European troops in this country 
 would, in case of a general insurrection, only go to 
 swell the death list; yet, as I said before, it is 
 hoped that this may be averted ; our great trust 
 i,< in prayer to the Almighty, who can help in time 
 of peril, and save by few as well as by many. 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. & 
 
 Every human precaution has been taken here, and the 
 troops are as yet firm ; we cannot say what these 
 horrible reports may do towards rousing their 
 enmity. I imagine a few days must, at all events, 
 put us out of this horrible suspense. We are con- 
 centrated as much as possible, and, being warned, 
 shall, at any rate, not be surprised. As communi- 
 cation with other stations is cut off, we have no 
 certain news of what is occurring elsewhere. I fear 
 everybody at Delhi is murdered. Poor Mrs. 
 Douglas! her being away has saved her child' 
 which else would not have been — for children, 
 women, and even half-castes were sacrificed. The 
 insurgents were repulsed at Meerut, but in the first 
 surprise many were cut off. You must all try and be 
 trustful, as we do ; God has given us a good chief 
 in Sir H. Lawrence, and I believe everything is 
 being done to avert peril. I shall try and get the 
 people to come to morning-prayer at church. I 
 went down to city church last night (Sunday), 
 leaving G. much against her will with C, but am 
 sorry to say the people congregated at the Resi- 
 dency did not come. I believe the Meerut massacre 
 began as people left church, so, perhaps, this had 
 
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 some effect in keeping them away, but there really 
 was no danger to them, as the church is within the 
 Residency compound, and there are one hundred 
 and fifty Europeans on guard. I had to go through 
 the crowded streets alone after dark, and met with 
 no molestation, but I thought it best to refuse a 
 guard which was pressed on me (and in whom, by- 
 the-bye, / had no confidence), and to sneak back to 
 cantonments. You may be sure I will not expose 
 myself to unnecessary danger, if only for dear G.'s 
 sake. She is, thank God ! well, and more resigned 
 about her great sorrow.* To-day ought to bring us 
 our letters from home, but this awful state of things 
 scarcely allows us to hope it. If the Europeans in 
 this country now survive the insurrection, I should 
 suppose the Government will at last see the necessity 
 of sending, at least, twenty thousand troops to keep 
 the alien army in check — these have now felt their 
 power, and can never be trusted again. God bless 
 you all, and may He mercifully preserve us through 
 this emergency, to meet you again in England ! 
 
 * Her Father's death. 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 7 
 
 Cantonments, Lucknow, May 18, 1857. 
 
 How I grieve for the heartsickening anxiety I 
 know you will all suffer on our account when the 
 terrible news this mail will take home reaches you ! 
 It seems so cruel to add to your great sorrow by 
 telling you of our dangers; but as you are sure 
 to see all that has happened and is dreaded in the 
 papers, we think you will like best to hear from us 
 the worst as far as we know. 
 
 At Delhi the people rose in the city, and it 
 seems were joined by the Sepoys ; so have murdered 
 every European there, Captain Douglas, Mr. and 
 Miss Jennings, Mr. Fraser (Chief Commissioner), 
 the Judge, the bankers, post-office and newspaper 
 people, shopkeepers, clerks, writers, even women 
 and children, and half-castes — all who had European 
 blood in their veins. Among the slain is a Mr. 
 Mocatta, a very great friend of F. F.'s, who we 
 met at Lahore, and who was staying with Mr. 
 Jennings on his way to England, to join his wife 
 and six children, whom he had sent home before 
 him. Poor Mrs. Jennings and Mrs. Douglas are 
 both in England, and we fear there will be nothing 
 
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 to soften the shock to them. Delhi is in the hands 
 of the insurgents, and no post could go out from 
 there, even if there were a survivor to write : all we 
 know is from electric telegraph by way of Agra, so 
 that if I were to write to Mrs. Douglas I could 
 tell her but the bare horrible facts; and there is 
 every aggravation to the horror of the awful afflic- 
 tion, for the dead bodies of our countrymen at 
 Delhi are being exposed to insult in the streets, and 
 there is no one to give them Christian burial. At 
 Meerut last Sunday night the 3rd Cavalry and 
 three native Infantry regiments rose, set fire to the 
 officers' bungalows, and murdered them with their 
 wives and children as they tried to escape : so ut- 
 terly unprepared were they for such a catastrophe, 
 that all the Native Infantry and Cavalry lines were 
 in a blaze before the Rifles, 6th Dragoons, and 
 English Artillery could be brought to the rescue. 
 At the first volley from the Rifles the insurgents ran 
 away to add to the horrors perpetrated at Delhi 
 only thirty miles off. There are rumours of risings 
 all over the country, at Benares, Allahabad, Feroze- 
 pore, Moultan, &c. ; but these are only reports, and 
 almost every hour we hear rumours of fresh horrors 
 
THE SIEGE OF LTTCKNOW. ' v 
 
 to add to our terror. God only knows what the 
 end will be, or if the lives of any English in the 
 country will be spared. All this discontent and 
 mutinous spirit among the Sepoys has been going 
 on some time, but Government has shut its eyes to 
 and laughed at it, till now it may be too late. As 
 yet everything here is -perfectly quiet, and every pre- 
 caution, as far as human means, has been taken for 
 our safety. The 32nd has been brought up to 
 garrison cantonments, and all the ladies and chil- 
 dren are come up here from the city; we came 
 yesterday morning and are with C* The Sepoy 
 regiments here are supposed to be faithful, and 
 everything is being done to secure their allegiance. 
 Sir H. Lawrence is a most able man — we could 
 not have a better head, and every one is on the 
 qui vive, but our best security is to pray that the 
 danger may pass, and that the troops marched to 
 the rescue of Delhi may take such signal vengeance 
 as shall overawe any attempt at further outbreak ; 
 but there is no doubt that this is a most fearful 
 crisis, and that the life of every European here is in 
 
 * Her cousin, Lieutenant Barwell, 71st N.I. 
 
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 great jeopardy : the city is quiet at present, but fears 
 of a rising are great. The natives have all such 
 a defiant, impertinent manner, as if they knew their 
 power, and turn round and scowl at us as they pass. 
 
 Oh ! mother, mother darling ! these are fearful 
 times. Pray for us, dearest. God only can help 
 us. It is very awful to feel this terrible danger 
 hanging over us ; it may come at any moment. It 
 would be impossible to describe the state of appre- 
 hension we are in and the gloom that hangs over us. 
 Do not be frightened for us, you dear ones, but, oh, 
 pray for us, that we be accepted for our blessed 
 Saviour's sake, when he sees fit. It is a great mercy 
 that we have warning. Darling mother, pray that 
 we may be spared to come back and see you ; but 
 in any case, and above all, commend us to God. 
 If it be His will, He can confound the devices of our 
 enemies, and we shall weather the storm. I am so 
 grieved for your anxiety — but you cannot be saved 
 from hearing about . . . I am so loth to leave 
 off writing and say good bye ; but what more can I 
 say ? We are all well, and in as good and brave 
 spirits as we can be. 
 
 Do not be very much alarmed if you do not hear 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. H 
 
 from us next mail, for communication is so uncertain, 
 I cannot feel sure that even these letters will reach 
 you. The insurrection has been put down at Allaha- 
 bad, and we have just heard the Calcutta mail is in. 
 [Then follow greetings to many loved ones, both 
 friends, relations, and servants, evidently thinking it 
 might be the last letter.] 
 
 Lucknow, May 20, 1857. 
 How anxiously will you all be looking out for the 
 next mail ! Thank God, all is still quiet, and the 
 Sepoys seem to be faithful and well behaved at 
 present, though, of course, no one can feel confidence 
 in them, the disaffection seems so general ; and their 
 plots have been carried on so secretly, that till they 
 broke out into open mutiny they were not suspected. 
 It is a great blessing that we have such a firm, well- 
 judging chief in Sir H. Lawrence, who is vigilance 
 itself, and is doing all that man can do to ensure our 
 safety : hitherto, by God's help, he has succeeded in 
 preserving calm here in the midst of great danger. 
 We are earnestly hoping now that the crisis may 
 pass and leave us unhurt. An army of eight Eu- 
 
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 A LADY'S DIARY OF 
 
 ropean regiments and a large force of artillery, with 
 the Commander-in-Chief at their head, was to 
 assemble on the 18th at Kurnaul, and will arrive at 
 Delhi to-morrow to take summary vengeance on the 
 miscreants who are now triumphant masters of the 
 city. 
 
 It is impossible to describe the horror of the last 
 few days, every hour bringing dreadful intelligence. 
 Poor young Campbell MacNabb was one of those 
 murdered at Meerut, on Sunday, 10th, in the 3rd 
 Cavalry ; poor fellow ! that was the first regiment 
 that mutinied. Captain and Mrs. Macdonald and 
 their children, 20th Native Infantry (we knew them 
 at Peshawur), were murdered ; the poor babies 
 snatched out of their parents' arms, and cut to 
 pieces before their eyes. This morning tidings 
 came of the revolt of the Sappers and Miners at 
 Roorkee, near Meerut, and of one of the officers, 
 Captain Fraser (husband to her of the Blenheim), 
 being shot through the head. Some of the officers 
 and their wives in the cantonments at Delhi, it is 
 hoped, have escaped ; but no hope of those in the 
 city. We saw a letter from an officer at Meerut, 
 giving an account of the insurrection. General 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 13 
 
 Hewett, who commanded the division, is under 
 arrest ; he seems to have done nothing to stop it ; and 
 with 2500 European soldiers in the place, atrocities 
 were allowed to go on from four o'clock Sunday 
 afternoon till Tuesday morning, without any effec- 
 tual opposition; and the insurgents actually per- 
 mitted to march off with flying colours to Delhi on 
 the 12th, where they went to the heir apparent, 
 proclaimed him king, and being joined by the city 
 people, and three regiments of Native Infantry, 
 proceeded with their massacre. Yesterday there 
 was a false report that the 71st had risen : the 
 32nd and Artillery were all under arms imme- 
 diately ; the Brigadier and Sir H. Lawrence went 
 down to the lines in the heat of the day, but found 
 all quiet. Overtures have been made from this 
 place to the King of Oude, offering to restore him 
 to the throne, but he very sensibly laid the whole 
 before Government, for which he deserves to be 
 well rewarded. If we can only hear in a few days 
 that the wretches in Delhi have been punished, we 
 may hope that, for the present, our fearful danger is 
 over : but all say that our Indian empire trembles 
 in the balance, and very, very nearly had we lost it : 
 
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 such a combination against us has never been known 
 in the annals of its history, and never again can a 
 native army be trusted. The native corps will have 
 to be reduced to a small number, and European 
 regiments raised to take their place, as the only 
 chance of retaining the country. Yesterday we had 
 the great happiness of receiving our home letters. 
 
 May 21st, Ascension Day. 
 There is terrible fear now that something is wrong 
 at Cawnpore. The 2nd Cavalry have been some 
 time suspected of disaffection ; and last night Sir H. 
 L. received despatches, which are kept a profound 
 secret. No one knows what has happened, which 
 makes us all the more anxious and nervous. Every 
 time we hear the slightest noise — loud voices, a horse 
 galloping by, a gun fired, or any calls to see C, 
 and they speak in an under-tone — one's heart is in 
 one's mouth. The excitement will be terrible if bad 
 news from Cawnpore should be confirmed. The 
 depot of the 32nd is there, and most of the women 
 and children ; and the poor soldiers would be frantic 
 if they suspected their families were in danger. 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 15 
 
 There would be no holding them. Their indignation 
 already is intense at the murders of helpless women 
 and children that have occurred at Meerut and Delhi. 
 They are frantic to avenge them ; so Sir H. L. is 
 quite right to be close ; but it greatly increases our 
 suspense being thus kept in the dark. No news has 
 come for eight days from Delhi ; but it is known 
 that several officers and ladies have escaped from 
 cantonments; two arrived at Meerut disguised as 
 natives. We saw a gentleman yesterday, Mr. 
 Martin, who knew Campbell MacNabb, and told us 
 every one liked him very much, and that at the 
 outbreak he did his duty nobly — he went down 
 at once to the lines to try and bring the men to 
 order, and was immediately shot. 
 
 This morning I went with J. to the Residency 
 church in the city. The congregation consisted of 
 two people besides myself, which just enabled J. to 
 administer the communion. Is it not dreadful that 
 in these times of terror and danger people will not 
 come for help where only it can surely be found ? 
 The church is inside the Residency compound, in 
 which all the Europeans of the city have taken 
 refuge, with a battery of artillery and 150 of the 
 
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 32nd to defend them, so that they could run no more 
 risk in church than inside the houses, and yet none 
 come. It was just the same last Sunday. At this 
 church there were not above a dozen people. It 
 does seem so very strange, and frightens one more 
 than anything ; for it seems almost daring the 
 Almighty to show us how utterly useless all our 
 human means of defence are, by thus trusting to 
 them, and neglecting to seek Him who alone can 
 succour us. The .prayer in times of War and 
 Tumult is now always used in church, as well as in 
 our private devotions, and is most applicable to our 
 present condition. It seems to come so much more 
 home now than at the time of the Russian war, when 
 I used to think it did not seem quite suitably ex- 
 pressed. Last Sunday James gave the Holy Com- 
 munion in the barracks, Colonel Inglis having made 
 an urgent request it might be administered there 
 once a-month. The regimental school is much re- 
 duced, owing to the absence of the greater portion 
 of the 32nd regiment. Mrs. Inglis took great pains 
 with it, and had the children at her own house on 
 Sundays. It is such a rare thing in this country to 
 find ladies interesting themselves about the poor 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 17 
 
 women and children ; but the Inglises, from what I 
 hear of them, must be excellent people. 
 
 This is frightful weather for Europeans to be 
 marching on service. How I pity the poor fellows ! 
 but they say excitement will keep them up, and 
 prevent them suffering much. All the regiments 
 from the hills are sent for, 75th from Kassowlie 
 amongst others. They had just settled themselves, 
 as they thought, for a three years' sojourn in the 
 Himmalayas, and now most likely will never go 
 back, as no regiments will be spared to recruit 
 themselves in the mountains, at all events till very 
 strong reinforcements come from England to keep 
 the peace in the plains. So perhaps there will be no 
 Dagshaie for us after all (supposing we are spared) ; 
 but, indeed, one does not look forward for ever so 
 short a time, much less months. Hour by hour none 
 can tell what may happen. Sir H. Lawrence has 
 been made Brigadier-General, so that in this emer- 
 gency he may possess full military as well as civil 
 authority. His post is a fearfully responsible one ; 
 he must be nearly worn out, taking no rest, and his 
 mind constantly on the stretch. Those who under- 
 stand them say that his conduct and all his arrange- 
 
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 ments have up to the present time been perfect, and 
 as yet not a sound of disturbance has been raised in 
 these parts. C. is nearly worked to death now as 
 acting Brigadier-Major. 
 
 May 22. 
 We were very much frightened last night by a 
 fire, so very close to this house, that it seemed as if 
 nothing could save it. The stables and outhouses 
 of Captain Green, of the 48th, were burnt down ; 
 but, providentially, the wind, which has been blowing 
 a gale this way all day, had subsided, and the flames 
 were prevented extending. The blaze was awful, 
 and it is supposed to have been done on purpose. 
 Several bungalows were in great danger. The 
 thatch is so combustible, the least spark sets it in 
 a blaze. At Umbala incendiarism has been going 
 on at a furious rate, and numbers of houses de- 
 stroyed. J. went to the Residency this morning in 
 the city : all the sick soldiers, the women and chil- 
 dren are there, in a state of great alarm, poor 
 things ! so many false reports get about and frighten 
 people more than there is cause for. There was a 
 
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 placard stuck on to the Residency gates last night 
 in Hindostanee, calling upon all true people to rise 
 and exterminate the Feringhees, and invoking 
 curses on those who should help us. A pleasant 
 sort of publication ! 
 
 Everything, however, in city and cantonments 
 continues outwardly quiet. The troops are expected 
 to be at Delhi to-day. Queen's 84th have been 
 sent up to Cawnpore from Calcutta in post-carriages, 
 and will arrive to-morrow. There is no news to-day 
 from any place. A company of the 32nd, some 
 guns, and an Irregular cavalry regiment, were sent 
 oif to Cawnpore in the middle of the night before 
 last ; so there must be mischief there, but we know 
 no particulars. We are hoping in a few days order 
 may be restored, and we able to return in peace to 
 our quarters in the Martiniere, and resume our quiet 
 life. But can you conceive the folly of having no 
 European troops at Cawnpore, and only one regi- 
 ment in Oude — a country of which we have so 
 lately taken unjust possession, and where a rebellion 
 might have been expected any day ? Again, at Delhi, 
 not a single European soldier within thirty miles. 
 However, I should think the lesson now given won't 
 
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 be forgot in a hurry, and that the defences of India 
 will not again be confided to native troops. 
 
 Tuesday, May 26. 
 Yesterday, at 3 o'clock a.m., we were roused by 
 C. telling us to get up and dress ready for flight at 
 the shortest notice. He had been sent for to the 
 brigadier's, and great alarm prevailed, as the dif- 
 ferent guards were going to be changed, and then 
 a rising was feared. Of course, we got up and 
 dressed as expeditiously as possible, waiting C.'s 
 return in fear and trembling. He came back at 
 five with the longest and gravest face, announcing 
 that it was Sir H. L.'s most peremptory order that 
 every woman and child should leave cantonments 
 immediately, and take refuge in the city Residency- 
 house, which is fortified, barricaded, and provisioned 
 for a regular siege. C. said the precaution was 
 most necessary, as we were in frightful danger, and 
 the horrors of Meerut and Delhi might at any 
 moment overtake us, so we were not to delay. Poor 
 Emmie was, as you may imagine, dreadfully upset 
 at the idea of being sent away, and leaving Charlie 
 
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 to encounter such peril. The officers of the native 
 regiments are to remain in the lines, and do all they 
 can to keep their men quiet ; but, if the outbreak 
 takes place, they are to retreat with the 32nd on 
 the Residency ; and here we are to try and hold 
 out as long as possible, till European troops come 
 to our rescue. I do feel so sorry for E. and C, 
 and so thankful that my dear husband's duty does 
 not separate him from me. We put together all 
 the things we had with us, and Emmie all her valu- 
 ables, as quickly as we could, and came down here 
 at once. On arriving we found all in such con- 
 fusion at the Residency, all the unfortunate ladies 
 and children hunting for quarters, that we were 
 most thankful to accept an invitation from kind Dr. 
 Fayrer to come to his house in the Residency com- 
 pound ; and here we are an immense party of un- 
 protected females, Mrs. Fayrer and I being the 
 only ladies who have the comfort of our husbands. 
 Besides E. and myself, there are here Mrs. Dash- 
 wood and her two children, Mrs. and Miss Halford, 
 Mrs. Germon, Miss Schilling, Mrs. Thomas and 
 child, Mrs. Anderson, and Mrs. Stanley Clarke. 
 There are two civilians, Mr. Gubbins and Mr. 
 
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 Ommanney, whose houses attached to the Residency- 
 are also full to overflowing, and all the other ladies, 
 about thirty in number, with children innumerable, , 
 are in the Residency, which also contains the sick 
 and women and children of the 32nd. We have 
 two companies of the 32nd and a battery of artillery 
 to defend us, besides barricades erected at all the 
 entrances and guns mounted all round the walls. 
 E. and I have a small room together, and think our- 
 selves most lucky in being so comfortable. In the 
 Residency there are as many as eight and nine 
 ladies with a dozen children in one room, and the 
 heat is awful. J. sleeps in Dr. Fayrer's study. 
 The reason of our all being packed off here in such 
 a tremendous hurry was that the news from Cawn- 
 pore and other stations round was so alarming. An 
 outbreak was expected every moment, and the effect 
 of revolt at Cawnpore would be instantaneous 
 mutiny at Lucknow. Sir H. L. did not impart 
 all he knew, and we are kept in utter ignorance of 
 what is going on in other parts of the country, but I 
 believe our condition is frightful, and God only 
 knows what the end of it will be. The panic in 
 Calcutta they say is terrible. Native regiments 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 23 
 
 there and at Barrackpore* are mutinous to the heart's 
 core ; and if European troops do not soon come to 
 our relief, there will be none perhaps left alive to 
 tell the tale. Every station in the country is in 
 equal danger. At Allyghur the 9th Native Infantry 
 had the consideration to spare their officers' lives. 
 They were permitted to escape, leaving all their 
 property behind them. Lady Outram (the wife of 
 Sir James, who is in Persia) was staying with her 
 son at Allyghur, and obliged to run several miles, 
 fleeing for her life. We are all most anxiously 
 looking for news from Delhi : the army must have 
 arrived yesterday, and we trust such a signal ven- 
 geance will be taken on the desperate wretches who 
 have shut themselves up there as shall intimidate 
 any from attempting to follow their example. This 
 seems to be our only hope ; and if General Anson 
 does not act with vigour, we shall be at the mercy 
 of our enemies. Oh, my darling sister! you can 
 little imagine what an awful position we are in, but 
 God can help us. He only can. Since we left 
 cantonments there has been no disturbance. C. 
 came over this morning to see E., and reported all 
 quiet and news good from Cawnpore. They were 
 
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 in hope the rising there would not take place ; the 
 troops had not actually mutinied, though in a very 
 excited state. Part of the 84th (Queen's) will arrive 
 this evening, and that gives us fresh hope and 
 courage. The ladies at Cawnpore have taken 
 refuge in the church, which is the only stone build- 
 ing, consequently not so easily set on fire. Oh ! the 
 accounts of the massacre and burnings at Meerut are 
 something too horrible and make one's blood run 
 cold. The murder of the unfortunate women was 
 not enough ; they were made to suffer worse than 
 death, and numbers of little children were brutally 
 killed. The Punjab seems quiet, and no alarm felt 
 there, — at least so the papers say ; but we have not 
 had a line from any of our friends, and feel really 
 anxious about F. F. at Lahore, for I think he would 
 have written ; but then the posts are so uncertain, 
 his letter may be lost. I am in an agony of fright 
 that our last letters home may have been lost. I 
 shall send this by Calcutta. Nothing has been 
 heard of the harmoniums, which are very likely lost, 
 as neither property nor persons are safe travelling. 
 If they don't arrive we shall be out of pocket 100/., 
 but one really cannot think of pecuniary losses now, 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 25 
 
 when if we only save our lives we must be thankful. 
 Yesterday we were all a very sad, panic-stricken 
 party, besides being completely overcome with the 
 heat ; but as no bad news came to-day, all are better, 
 and the sound of the piano has been heard in the 
 drawing-room. It is thundering, and if only rain 
 would fall it would be a blessing, as if the thatched 
 roofs of the bungalows were well soaked it might 
 save the cantonment from fire. I shall never forget 
 the alarm we had on Sunday night in church. 
 Several shots were fired, and all felt sure the out- 
 break had come. Several officers left the church. 
 J. went on with the prayers in a firm voice, though 
 he thought, as we all did, that our last hour might be 
 near. Soon all was quiet, and the fright we had 
 was caused by the Mussulmans having seen the new 
 moon, which terminates their long fast the Ramazan 
 and commences a great festival. At the first 
 glimpse caught of the moon they fire off a feu de joie. 
 I hear such a storm now, the rain pouring ; never 
 was it more welcome. 
 
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 May 27. 
 Yesterday afternoon a telegraphic message from 
 Cawnpore. Still quiet there, and some of the 84th 
 expected that evening at Ferozepore. Two Native 
 Infantry regiments had mutinied, but were instantly 
 surrounded and overpowered by our old friends the 
 10th cavalry (Captain Harvey's regiment), who 
 behaved right loyally. At Lahore a regiment 
 mutinied and were marching off to join those at 
 Ferozepore, but were fired into and disarmed by the 
 other troops of the station, and no officers lost their 
 lives. This news is cheering, as it shows the dis- 
 affection is not universal. Yesterday Dr. F. and J. 
 rode to cantonments, and brought back news that 
 three wretches had been captured in the 13th Native 
 Infantry lines trying to incite the men to revolt. 
 One of the native officers invited them into his house 
 and kept them in talk while he gave warning to the 
 European officer on duty, who immediately came 
 and had them secured. They are emissaries from 
 Delhi. I think they are all to be hung to-day, but 
 there is some hesitation about it, for our position is so 
 weak that they hardly dare do anything which might 
 
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 THE SIEGE OF LTTCKNOW. 27 
 
 provoke a rising, and at Cawnpore, where a villain 
 was caught doing the same thing, they have not 
 ventured to put him to death, for they knew his 
 execution would have been the signal for an imme- 
 diate outbreak, and the life of every European there 
 would have been the forfeit. I think nothing speaks 
 so much for our defenceless state as this. No news 
 to-day — we are so anxious to hear of the fate of 
 Delhi. This morning Miss Schilling, J., and I 
 went to the top of the Residency to see the view, 
 which is wonderful. I never saw a more beautiful 
 panorama, — the whole of Lucknow spread out below 
 us, with its innumerable fine buildings, gardens, 
 gilded domes, and tall minarets — it was an enchant- 
 ing sight, and the air so fresh and lovely. Dr. and 
 Mrs. Fayrer, our host and hostess, are very kind 
 people ; they are quite a young couple and have one 
 cherub of a baby boy eleven months old, who is the 
 plaything of us all — he is the image of Murillo's 
 St. John the Baptist in the National Gallery. The 
 heat is so dreadful 1 cannot write more. The piano 
 has been going to-day a good deal ; several of those 
 here sing and play well ; I think I shall go and 
 listen. I forgot to tell you the harmoniums arrived 
 
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 this morning from Calcutta and are stowed away in 
 the church ; I am so glad they came safe. We are 
 awfully punished here by late dinners and noise ; 
 but the poor things in the Residency are miserably 
 uncomfortable compared to us. We are close 
 prisoners, cannot go beyond the walls, but as all 
 continues quiet still we are hoping to be allowed 
 this evening a drive to cantonments. It must be a 
 tremendous expense to those kind Fayrers entertain- 
 ing so many people. 
 
 May 28. 
 I must close this to-day, as I intend sending by 
 Calcutta, not being sure of the up country post. I 
 
 heard from this morning : she says the panic 
 
 in Calcutta is frightful : what would we not all give 
 to be safe in England ! We drove to cantonments 
 this morning, and took E. to pay C. a visit, but were 
 not allowed to stay long. Our danger is still most 
 imminent ; the city is in an awfully excited state, and 
 Sepoys ditto ; but at present no open outbreak. All 
 the officers and European soldiers are getting worn 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 29 
 
 out with the harassing duty, and as for Sir H. L. 
 it is little short of a miracle how he keeps up, for he 
 gives himself scarcely a moment's rest night or day. 
 His measures are all to gain time for European 
 troops to come up to our relief before anything 
 occurs. Messages were received last night contain- 
 ing good news from Cawnpore and other doubtful 
 places, which remain peaceful by the good provi- 
 dence of God, for no one can understand how it is 
 that the threatened rising at Cawnpore did not take 
 place. I grieve for your state of suspense and anxiety, 
 but we are all hoping now that the fearful crisis is 
 nearly over, and that He who has hitherto so merci- 
 fully preserved us will yet bring us safely through 
 the danger. No English letters ; we are beginning 
 to get anxious for their safety ; but there has been 
 no post from Lahore for twenty days. No news yet 
 from Delhi. The natives have a report in the city 
 that we have been beaten ; but this I doubt not 
 originates in their own hopeful imaginations : most 
 anxiously do we long for the real news. It is so 
 painful to see that poor dog Bustle panting — he 
 suffers dreadfully in this weather : poor old dog ! I 
 should be grieved to lose him ; he has shared all our 
 
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 joys, sorrows, travels, perils, and adventures the last 
 three years. 
 
 Whit Sunday, Lucknow, May 31. 
 I hardly know how to begin to tell you of the 
 horrors of the past night, knowing how anxious and 
 unhappy it will make you, but it is kinder, I think, 
 to conceal nothing. The insurrection, so long 
 dreaded, has taken place. Last night, at nine 
 o'clock, the three Sepoy regiments stationed in the 
 cantonment, the 71st (C.'s), 48th (Dashwood's), 
 and the 13th, flew to their arms, and attempted to 
 take the big guns, in which, however, they did not 
 succeed. Poor Brigadier Hanscombe was killed, 
 and Mr. Grant of the 71st, son of Sir Patrick, 
 quite a young man, who was on station duty at 
 the centre picket, was murdered — two bullets sent 
 through him, and his head cut off, by his own men ; 
 and Mr. Raleigh of the 7th Cavalry, a poor boy 
 who only joined two or three days ago — just out 
 from England — was cut to pieces. These are all the 
 deaths, but several officers are wounded : poor Mr. 
 Langmore, a great friend of Charlie's, is dan- 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 31 
 
 gerously wounded; they say he will die. The 
 whole of the cantonment has been burnt to the 
 ground; some few houses have escaped burning, 
 but every one ransacked and pillaged. The B.s 
 have lost every single thing they possessed in the 
 world, and our three large boxes containing all our 
 worldly goods, with the exception of my mourning, 
 and a dozen of linen we had with us, are all gone 
 too ; also 350 rupees, deposited by C.'s advice in the 
 regimental treasury for safety ; however, we cannot 
 think of our pecuniary loss — ours is less than so 
 many others. Poor C. is quite ruined, for they had 
 furnished their house so nicely, and had so many 
 beautiful things they brought out with them : but we 
 can think of nothing but his merciful preservation. 
 You know he 's been Acting Brigade Major for 
 some time, and his duty therefore was close attend- 
 ance on the poor Brigadier. Volley after volley was 
 fired at him, and he was close to the Brigadier when 
 he fell, but, by God's great mercy, escaped without 
 hurt. If Sir H. Lawrence had not sent all the 
 women and children out of cantonments, we should 
 inevitably, every one of us, have shared the fate of 
 our countrywomen at Delhi and Meerut; and it 
 
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 would have been scarcely possible for any of the 
 married officers to escape, hampered as they would 
 have been with the care of their families ; as it was, 
 a poor sergeant's wife, and her two children, who 
 happened to be in cantonments, were cut up on the 
 road. Oh, mother ! mother ! how dreadful it is ! 
 We have just heard there is a rising in the city. 
 God help us ! Last night we were at dinner when 
 the servants came running in to say there was firing 
 heard in the cantonments : we heard it distinctly, 
 and from the top of the Residency the whole place 
 was seen in a blaze. We were all told to be ready 
 to take flight if necessary to the Muchee Bhowan, a 
 strong place which has been fortified, and in which 
 we are to take refuge as our last resource, and try to 
 hold out till European relief can arrive ; but, oh, 
 when can that be ? There is scarcely an available 
 regiment in the country. The Governor-General 
 has sent to stop the troops, on their way to China, at 
 Ceylon, and bring them to India. There cer- 
 tainly is a disturbance in the city ; they have pro- 
 claimed the King's brother King. We sat up in 
 our clothes all last night ; E. in a dreadful state of 
 anxiety about C. ; messengers kept arriving from 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 33 
 
 cantonments with reports of what was occurring; 
 firing has been going on all the morning. The in- 
 surgents have all decamped and spread themselves 
 over the country ; the troops have been pursuing 
 them, but, having no cavalry, it was useless ; only a 
 few stragglers were caught. A poor half-caste has 
 just been brought into the Residency, cut to pieces ; 
 he went down to his house in the city, and was 
 murdered. Two companies of the 84th have arrived 
 at Cawnpore, and they sent back the company of the 
 32nd which was sent over there last week. Cawnpore 
 is almost sure to rise now. (Residency.) — I was inter- 
 rupted in this by the alarm of the rising in the city, 
 and we had all to leave Dr. F.'s house, and take 
 refuge in the main building of the Residency. Here 
 we all are — God only knows how it will end ! Do 
 not grieve very much, mother ; we are in His hands, 
 and He can take care of us, and preserve our lives if 
 He will. I do try and pray to feel resigned whatever 
 may happen. I know not if this will ever reach you, 
 very likely not. There is such noise and confusion, 
 and my hand trembles so I can hardly hold the pea 
 A gentleman is going to send all our letters to the 
 post at once, so I can add no more. . . . 
 
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 Lucknow, St. Barnabas' Day, 1857. 
 I sent off three letters to you and darling mother 
 on the 9th,* and have now little more to add, though 
 I could not bear not to write, this day of all others, 
 when we have so many thoughts and recollections in 
 common. Some news came in from Cawnpore this 
 morning, brought by two spies ; they said 500 Eu- 
 ropean soldiers arrived there the day before yes- 
 terday, and that the insurgents had been driven 
 back. They had been pounding into the unfortu- 
 nate Europeans inside their intrenchments for three 
 days with artillery and a twenty-four pounder : every 
 house in the cantonment has been burnt ; the blaze 
 has been going on for days. No official news has 
 come yet : the enemy has still possession of the road 
 and river, so we can't tell when we shall hear 
 anything positive. A letter came last night from 
 General Wheeler, but it was dated the 8th : he 
 described their position as nearly hopeless, but we 
 hope he has had reinforcements. They had under 
 two hundred European soldiers, and only a few nine- 
 pounders, which were of no use, as they could not touch 
 the enemy with them, whereas the insurgents were 
 * They never were received. 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 35 
 
 pounding into them with a twenty -four pounder: 
 the casualties are not known, but are probably con- 
 siderable, and what the poor women and children 
 must have gone through is horrible to think of; still, 
 if they are saved from falling into the hands of those 
 wretches, any amount of alarm and suffering will be 
 nothing. The bare idea of the fate of the unhappy 
 ladies at Seetapore is too horrible ; there was no 
 indignity that was not inflicted on all the women 
 the wretches got hold of. The children were mur- 
 dered, and thrown in a heap; one pretty little 
 woman, Mrs. 8., whom we knew at Peshawur, was 
 shot down as she tried to wade through the river. 
 Yesterday about six people, sergeants and their 
 wives, who had made their escape, arrived : they 
 contrived to creep into the jungle, where they 
 wandered about for two days, when a native rajah had 
 compassion on them, and sent them in here. One 
 poor woman is badly wounded in the hip, and they 
 are all in a dreadful state of illness and exhaustion. 
 J. went to see them all, and he says the accounts 
 they give of the dreadful scenes they witnessed, and 
 what they went through themselves, are too horrible 
 to be conceived. Many ladies and children have 
 
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 fortunately made their escape from different small 
 stations in the district, just in time to save their 
 lives, leaving all their worldly goods to be burnt and 
 plundered. I am sure we should not think of our 
 losses when there are such numbers here with 
 families of children who have not so much as a 
 change of clothes. A Mrs. Boileau, and her four 
 children, are in this house :* she came in yesterday 
 from Secrora on an elephant, and was from 4 p.m. 
 till 10 a.m. on the road ; half of their escort wanted 
 to murder them, but the other half was steady, and 
 persuaded the rest not to molest them, so they came 
 in safe. As the mutiny at Secrora had not taken 
 place when the ladies were sent away, the officers 
 were obliged to stay with their men, but on the 10th 
 (yesterday) the outbreak came. They have got away 
 in different directions : three officers came in here 
 yesterday, but Captain Boileau is supposed to have 
 taken refuge with a friendly (?) rajah, and his poor 
 wife is terribly anxious, as they can have no com- 
 munication, and she cannot even hear of Ins safety. 
 
 The fortifications here are now nearly complete, 
 and the engineers say that, if the insurgents keep 
 off only two days longer, they will not care how 
 
 * Fayrer's. 
 
THE SIEGE OF LQCKNOW, 37 
 
 many come against us, as we shall be impregnable 
 so long as provisions last, and we hope for relief 
 long before they are expended. I have just heard 
 of a lady, Mrs. Benson, who escaped with her hus- 
 band (a civilian) from Harriabad : they were dis- 
 guised in native clothes. She dressed as an ayah, 
 and had to walk seven miles, when they found 
 some ponies, which they mounted. Her feet, poor 
 thing ! are in the most dreadful state. They met some 
 Sepoys, who looked very suspiciously at them, and 
 followed them some way, but at last thought better 
 of it and turned back. We hear that most of the 
 insurgents here are making off for Delhi : it is to 
 be hoped they will meet with a warmer reception 
 there than they will like, but it is strange that 
 nothing has been known, or is known, of what our 
 troops are about up there ; we ought to have heard 
 something long ago : now all communication be- 
 tween us and the rest of the world is cut off, and we 
 know not what may be going on at other stations. 
 At Benares, at Allahabad, and indeed every station 
 in India, there seem to have been mutinies : we are 
 so afraid the Government at home will be difficult 
 to rouse from their usual state of indifference about 
 this country, and if there be delay in sending out 
 
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 A LADY'S DIARY OF 
 
 an army to our rescue, the native prophecy that this 
 year the English will be driven out of India is pretty 
 sure to come true. 
 
 If they will only let us depart with our lives, I am 
 sure I shall be thankful to quit. I have such a 
 dreadful cold I can hardly hold up my head, and 
 feel as stupid as an owl ; it is so odd to have colds 
 with the thermometer at 93°, but they are going 
 through the house. The Sepoys in cantonments are 
 not disarmed yet ; they tried to get rid of them by 
 offering them furlough, which they all refused. I 
 will leave this open to finish to-morrow. Oh ! how 
 I do hope you will receive it, and the others sent on 
 the 9th ! Sir Henry Lawrence has been very ill : he 
 was completely worn out in mind and body, and in 
 danger of breaking down ; but Dr. Fayrer insisted 
 on his keeping quiet, and having forty- eight hours' 
 entire rest, not even receiving a note, or being told 
 a single thing. He is now much better. J. has 
 been taking a census of all the people, European 
 and native, inside the walls of this house, and in- 
 cluding servants, punkah coolies, ayahs, &C, they 
 amount to 110. There are eleven ladies and six 
 children staying here. J., Dr. Fayrer, and a great 
 friend of his, Dr. Partridge, are the male portion 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 39 
 
 of the community. Dr. P. belongs to one of the 
 Oude Irregular Cavalry regiments, and very nar- 
 rowly escaped with his life when out in the district 
 on detachment duty the other day ; the men showed 
 such a mutinous spirit, that the officers expected 
 every moment to be murdered, but they succeeded 
 in getting back and bringing them in here ; and 
 after this you will hardly believe Sir H. Lawrence 
 ordered them out again last night, and was going 
 to send them to Seetapore, but, happily, changed 
 his mind, though they are still under orders to be 
 in readiness. 
 
 To her Sister. 
 
 Lucknow, June 13, 1857. 
 
 I sent a scrap of similar dimensions to this yester- 
 day in the hope of its going by the Calcutta mail, 
 but, as I hear of another messenger starting for 
 Agra this morning, I will not lose the opportunity of 
 writing you a few lines on this your wedding-day, 
 wishing you both many happy returns of it. You 
 little dream the state we are in here, and our pros- 
 pects seem to grow darker instead of brighter. I 
 hope you will receive this note ; I sent to dearest 
 mother yesterday, to assure you of our present wel- 
 
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 fare and safety, for I fear you will all be very anxious 
 about us. I pity poor Aunt Ellen with her three 
 sons in this horrible country. We are very anxious 
 about W. B. ; his regiment is at Bareilly, and 
 there is a horrible rumour that every officer there has 
 been murdered, as well as those at Shahjehanpore. Of 
 course C. can get no news of him, as all communica- 
 tion is cut off between ourselves and the rest of the 
 world : it is more than a week since any certain 
 intelligence has been received from Cawnpore, only 
 48 miles off. The insurgents are besieging the 
 Europeans there, who have less than two hundred 
 English soldiers to protect them, but they are sup- 
 posed to be still holding out bravely. Yesterday 
 there was a small disturbance here. The military 
 police mutinied and went off with their arms ; they 
 were pursued by a couple of our guns and two hun- 
 dred of the 32nd ; and I fear there never was a 
 more mismanaged affair : the poor soldiers nearly 
 died from exposure to the sun, and lost two men 
 from apoplexy, without ever getting the chance of a 
 shot at the enemy. Some Seikh cavalry went in at 
 them, and behaved splendidly, killing between thirty 
 and forty. One gentleman, a Mr. Thornhill (who 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 41 
 
 says he has often danced with us at Kew, but I don't 
 remember him), was wounded. I walked round our 
 fortifications yesterday evening with James ; they 
 are wonderfully strong, and the engineers say we 
 can hold out against any number as long as pro- 
 visions last, and long before they are expended we 
 hope for relief. As yet none of the insurgents have 
 appeared in the neighbourhood, and I expect they are 
 much too cowardly to make any attempt on a place so 
 well prepared : it is only when they can take you by 
 surprise and murder defenceless women and children 
 that they dare attack Europeans. When you hear 
 of all the atrocities which have been committed, and 
 the wholesale murderings and plunderings which 
 have been and still are going on all over India, your 
 blood will run cold. How it is all to end, God 
 only knows ; we do not dare look forward ; but 
 humanly speaking, all depends on an army being 
 sent to our assistance from home without delay. 
 We are quite well and keep up our spirits, trusting 
 that our prayers will be heard, and that we shall be 
 delivered from our dangerous position. I have very 
 long letters written to you, but there is no chance of 
 sending them at present. These notes have to be 
 
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 A LADY'S DIARY OF 
 
 concealed about the person of the man who is to try 
 and take them to Agra for the Bombay mail : it is 
 very doubtful if he will accomplish his errand. 
 Good bye. 
 
 June 13. 
 I have just got off a very wee note, darling, 
 though doubtful if you will ever receive it. I wrote 
 one to darling mother yesterday. They did not go 
 by post ; a messenger starts for Agra to-night with 
 small documents concealed about his person, which 
 he will try to convey to their destination in safety. 
 This is your wedding-day, dearest, and many happy 
 returns of it do I pray that you and dear Willie 
 may enjoy. Yesterday we had a great alarm : the 
 military police mutinied and made off with their 
 arms. The guns and 200 of the 32nd went in 
 pursuit, but never came near enough to get a shot. 
 Some Seikh cavalry behaved well, and did a good 
 deal of damage to the wretches, who fought well 
 and executed a most masterly retreat. The poor 
 European soldiers suffered dreadfully from their 
 bootless exposure to the sun, and two of them 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 43 
 
 dropped down dead. We have a most impos- 
 ing show of guns, and I cannot help thinking 
 the villanous wretches will be afraid to attack us, 
 for they are arrant cowards. There is no news 
 again to-day from Cawnpore or any place. They 
 say it is not true about the 500 European soldiers 
 having arrived there ; no firing has been heard in 
 that direction for twenty-four hours. There is 
 dreadful news, which is thought to be true, that all 
 the English at Shahjehanpore have been murdered, 
 without the escape of one, and that the mutineers 
 proceeded to Bareilly, the next station. I went 
 yesterday over to the Residency to see Mrs. 
 Polehampton, who is getting much better. Oh ! I 
 do feel so glad now I have no children. Fancy 
 the babies at Seetapore being dashed to the ground 
 and bayoneted— one has no words to express one's 
 horror and indignation. This house now swarms 
 with children. 
 
 J. had no less than five funerals this morning. 
 I am happy to say the church has not yet been blown 
 up, and we hope it will not be necessary. Mr. 
 Polehampton has lent us 12 vols, of Sharpe's Maga- 
 zine, which is quite an acquisition in our dearth of 
 
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 books, and it is delightful to me to meet such a dear 
 old friend. Our life, as you imagine, is extremely 
 monotonous. We get up at four and sit in front of 
 the house, where we have tea and biscuits ; at eight 
 we go to our rooms. When Emily and I are 
 dressed, we send for J., and read the Psalms and 
 Lessons together, and he says prayers. At ten we 
 have breakfast. We sit in the drawing-room work- 
 ing or playing with the children as the case may be. 
 We dine at four, and if it be cool enough when the 
 sun sets we go out again and sit in front of the 
 house, where we have tea and ices ; at half-past nine 
 we come in to prayers and go to bed. The only 
 change or excitement of any kind we have is in the 
 shape of bad news or horrible alarms. The heat is 
 greater than I ever felt it for so long together ; in 
 the drawing-room the thermometer is at 93, in our 
 bedroom 97. When we are sitting outside the 
 house we have many gentlemen visitors over from 
 the 82nd. * It is reported that one of those poor 
 JMiss Jacksons at Seetapore has been carried off 
 prisoner by the Sepoys. This, if true, is a worse 
 fate than her sister's, who fainted and was lifted up 
 and thrown bv the wretches into the middle of the 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKJSTOW. 45 
 
 burning bungalow. The poor girls were so much 
 liked and admired, I am quite glad I never knew 
 them. Their brother, Sir Mountstuart Jackson, is 
 supposed the first killed. 
 
 June 16. 
 Day after day has brought only bad news. I 
 have really felt too downcast to write, having only 
 horrors to record. The Shahjehanpore massacre seems 
 worse than any one we have ever heard of yet. A 
 survivor, Captain Orr, has written to his brother 
 here. It seems the outbreak commenced on Sunday, 
 and a few people were murdered in church ; the rest 
 of the officers were told they might go away with 
 their families where they pleased, they did not want 
 their lives. They all started immediately in every 
 available conveyance, and had proceeded about six 
 miles when they were overtaken and surrounded. 
 The gentlemen were first bayoneted on the spot, 
 wives and children looking on ; resistance was use- 
 less, so they made none, and died praying with their 
 hands crossed over their breast, like noble English 
 martyrs. The ladies were equally calm and heroic ; 
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 praying, and as soon as their husbands were 
 slaughtered their turn came. Captain Orr is half a 
 native, was spared, and invited by the mutineers to 
 take the command ; but he put them off, and finally 
 escaped into the jungle, where, after wandering four 
 days, he met or heard of (I don't know which) Sir 
 Mountstuart Jackson and one of his sisters, with 
 a little child of Mr. Christian's. They were all in 
 the jungle, dependent for food on the Rajah, who 
 says he cannot protect them, but daily sends them 
 food. The sufferings of poor Miss Jackson and the 
 little child must be extreme. Sir H. L. has written 
 to offer the Rajah a handsome reward if he will 
 protect and send the poor creatures safely into 
 Lucknow, but one cannot tell if he will or can do it. 
 The idea that our rule in India is come to an end 
 seems firmly to have possessed all the natives. The 
 day before yesterday our bearer, who has been with 
 us almost ever since we came to India, and to whom 
 J. has been most kind, walked off, taking with him 
 all his goods and chattels, and one of our punkah 
 coolies to carry his bundle. We did not find out he 
 was gone till some hours after his departure. A 
 khitmutgar of Mrs. Boileau's, who had been sixteen 
 
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 years in her husband's service, walked off to-day in 
 the same manner. People's servants seem deserting 
 daily. We expect soon to be without attendants, 
 and a good riddance it would be if this were a 
 climate which admitted of one's doing without them ; 
 but if they all leave us, it will be difficult to know 
 how we shall manage. Their impudence is beyond 
 bounds : they are losing even the semblance of 
 respect. I packed off my tailor yesterday : he came 
 very late, and, on my remarking it, he gave me such 
 an insolent answer and look, that I discharged him 
 then and there ; and he actually went off without 
 waiting, or asking for his wages. On Sunday we 
 were able, thank God, to go twice to church, which 
 was a blessing we had scarcely dared to hope. 
 The artillery horses are picketed in the church- 
 yard, and stores stowed away in part of the church. 
 Vestries and outhouses are given up to refugee 
 families, so it looks terribly warlike, but we hope 
 to avoid the necessity of blowing up the sacred 
 building : it would only be done in case of the 
 enemy's getting possession of our outer defences — 
 which God forbid ! For some days it has been re- 
 ported by scouts that a large force of insurgents are 
 
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 within twelve miles of us, but they have not yet ap- 
 peared, and we hope they will not dare come. A letter 
 was received by Sir H. L. this morning, from Sir 
 Hugh Wheeler, brought in by a trusty native : it was 
 dated 14th. No reinforcements had come, and they 
 were sore pressed, but still holding out : many lives 
 lost ; and the top of their barracks blown off : the 
 enemy had possession of the magazine and one of 
 our 18-pounders. It is most despairing ; no troops 
 having yet been sent up, we cannot but fear that all 
 the country below must be in the same predicament ; 
 and if they have to fight every inch of their ground 
 on the way up, one does not see how we can escape, 
 as it will be months before any help can arrive. 
 There are great fears about Patna. Benares and 
 Allahabad are known to have risen. On Sunday 
 came the certain intelligence of the fate of those 
 officers who were supposed to have been carried off 
 to Delhi by their mutinous men : they were every 
 one of them murdered — Captain Burmester and 
 Mr. Farquharson of the 48th ; Captain Staples, Mr. 
 Boulton, and Mr. Martin of the 7th Cavalry. The 
 latter, such a gentlemanly nice handsome fellow, 
 who dined with us at the B.s' a few days before 
 
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 our flight from cantonments. His brother is a civi- 
 lian here, and has a pretty little wife : they are the 
 sons of Dr. Martin, the celebrated Indian physician. 
 Mr. Boulton was wounded, and rode for his life seven 
 miles, when he was met by another party, who sur- 
 rounded and cut him down. This morning brought 
 news to another poor lady, living over at the Resi- 
 dency, of the murder of her husband, poor Major 
 Galle : he started from here on the 12th, disguised as 
 a native, to try and carry information to Calcutta ; it 
 was such a perilous attempt, we all felt that it would 
 be miraculous if he succeeded : he was accompanied 
 by ten men from his own regiment (which since his 
 departure has mutinied and made off for Cawnpore) ; 
 he selected them himself, as those he felt confident 
 he could depend upon; but, alas ! people are being 
 now taught by sad experience that no trust can be 
 placed in one of the race. He was about eighty 
 miles from this, on the road to Allahabad, when his 
 faithful (?) followers betrayed him to some of the 
 enemy they met : he was murdered at once. Five 
 out of the ten men were Seikhs, and they came back 
 here and told of the fate of their master, pretending 
 they stood by him and were true ; but at all events 
 
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 they did not shed any of their blood for him, as 
 they were perfectly unhurt It is beginning to be 
 suspected that the Seikhs are playing a double game, 
 and, if so, it is a great pity Sir H. L. trusts them as 
 he does, and has brought so many inside this place. 
 The remaining Sepoys of the three regiments in can- 
 tonments have been disarmed and sent away on 
 leave ; they did not at all approve of going, but 
 made no resistance : all the officers, except the 
 Colonels and staff, are come down here, and the rest 
 are expected to follow in a few days ; there are one 
 hundred and fifty of the 32nd, and some artillery in 
 cantonments, as it is necessary to keep possession as 
 long as possible, for the sake of getting in supplies. 
 Charlie, being Quartermaster and Acting Brigade 
 Major, is obliged still to remain up there. 
 
 At Sultanpore, another of the Oude outlying 
 stations, the officers have been massacred, but the 
 ladies are safe in some fort. Colonel Fisher, one of 
 the most splendid old soldiers in the world, whom one 
 has always heard spoken of in India as quite a hero, 
 was savagely murdered by his men, whom he trusted 
 and loved like his own children. He was wounded 
 first by the Sepoys of another corps, upon which he 
 
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 rushed into the midst of his own lines, telling his 
 men he had come to them for protection, as he 
 knew they would stand by him to the last. The 
 words were scarcely out of his mouth when three of 
 his regiment rushed upon him with their spears and 
 killed him. 
 
 Such an awful thing happened here yesterday ! 
 Because there are not murders enough done by the 
 heathen, two Christian Englishmen quarrelled, and, 
 in the heat of passion, one of them seized a pistol 
 and shot the other through the body. James buried 
 the murdered man this morning. He was the 
 riding-master of the 7th Cavalry ; so respectable a 
 man that he was to have had a commission given 
 him. His murderer, the Sergeant-Major of the 
 same regiment, also bore the highest character, and 
 was liked and respected by every one who knew 
 him, and the two were bosom friends. It seems the 
 quarrel began with the wives disputing about the 
 drawing up of a curtain ; this trivial matter led to 
 words between the two husbands, and in an instant 
 the dreadful deed was done. The poor women are 
 perfectly distracted. The poor wretch who killed his 
 friend is a Roman Catholic, James was going to see 
 
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 him this evening, but found the Roman Catholic priest 
 with him. He was told that the poor fellow had 
 lain all day hiding his face, and would not speak a 
 word. The officers of the 7th Cavalry all went to 
 the funeral this morning; they are dreadfully 
 grieved about it — both men were such favourites, 
 and thought so very highly of by all — it is very 
 shocking. I earnestly hope when next I use my 
 pen I may have something more cheering to relate ; 
 tp-day has been nothing but horrors. The native 
 report is that Delhi is again in the hands of the 
 English. If we could only hear that this was true, 
 it would indeed be good news. Charlie has heard 
 that nearly all the officers effected their escape from 
 Bareilly to the nearest hill station, so we hope poor 
 Willie is safe. 
 
 June 18, Waterloo Day. 
 
 Emmie is in bed to-day, feeling poorly. 
 
 No enemy has appeared to attack us yet, though 
 we have daily rumours of their near approach, and 
 that a powerful Rajah has joined them, and is lead- 
 ing them on. From Cawnpore no good news. It 
 
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 53 
 
 was reported European troops had got in there, but 
 this was never confirmed. The last terrible piece of 
 news was that all the English at Futtyghur had 
 tried to make their escape, and that when they 
 arrived as far as Cawnpore they found the insur- 
 gents lining the banks of the river. They were 
 fired into, compelled to land, tied together, and 
 marched up to the parade-ground in front of the 
 barracks, where our poor people are intrenched, 
 and grape-shot fired into them before the very eyes 
 of their countrymen, who could not move a finger 
 to save them. I think Mr. Thornhill lost an aunt, 
 uncle, and two cousins, but I think it must be a 
 mistake that they were killed in front of the Eu- 
 ropean camp, for nature could never have stood it. 
 There must have been a rush to their rescue at any 
 sacrifice ; but such is the story that came here. 
 Yesterday brought the sad tidings of the murder of 
 Mr. Longueville Clarke and Mr. Cunliffe as they 
 were endeavouring to escape from Burrnitch ; the 
 
 latter was engaged to Miss , and the 6th of this 
 
 month was to have been their wedding-day; the 
 other sister was to have been married on the same 
 day : poor girls ! now all their happiness has been 
 
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 turned into mourning ; their engagements were an- 
 nounced about six weeks ago, when we none of us 
 suspected what a frightful time was coming upon 
 us. 
 
 Mr. Schilling and the Martiniere School were all 
 ordered inside the fortifications this morning, so the 
 Martiniere is abandoned, and I suppose we shall 
 lose all our remaining property, which we have been 
 obliged to leave there to its fate, as nothing more 
 can be brought in here ; we got our small remnant 
 of clothes, but furniture, harp, books, carriage, 
 horses, &c, are left at the Martiniere. The poor 
 boys are all stowed away in a hot close native build- 
 ing, and it will be a wonder if they don't get ill. I 
 am grieved to say there have been a great many 
 deaths, and some of them from cholera, among the 
 32nd, but I trust it is not increasing ; it is a great 
 mercy the garrison is as healthy as it is, considering 
 the immense crowd of human beings that are con- 
 gregated in this small space. In the Residency 
 alone there are upwards of one hundred ladies and 
 children ; there are, I think, sixteen hundred Eu- 
 ropeans here altogether, and, amongst these, nearly 
 one thousand fighting men. They have taken the 
 
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 church for stores, and nearly filled it with grain. 
 The top of the church is barricaded, and will be 
 used to shoot from in case we are besieged; we 
 shall have no more service in it, I grieve to say — is 
 not this a horrible, terrible state of things ? We 
 are a very melancholy party here, as you may well 
 imagine, and to-day that sweet little Bobbie Fayrer 
 is ill, which makes us worse. There are many sad 
 and anxious hearts here ; now scarcely a day passes 
 without bringing bad news to some one or other. 
 There is a poor lady at the Residency, a Mrs. 
 
 , whose brother, mother, and sister were all 
 
 murdered at Shahjehanpore. Oh, how my heart 
 aches to think of my darling mother's and all your 
 anxiety ! when you get no tidings of us, what will 
 you think ? If I could but let you know we are 
 safe now, — but even if we are spared, it will be so 
 long before you hear it ; and as to getting your 
 letters, we dare not hope for them for ages to come. 
 There, it does not do to think of these things, it 
 makes one too miserable. Good bye, my dear 
 sister, &c. &c. 
 
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 June 19. 
 I went yesterday evening with James to the 
 Begum's house to see the poor women who came in 
 from Seetapore, and gave them a few old dressing- 
 gowns and things of mine which I thought would be 
 useful, as they had lost all their own clothes. One 
 of them is expecting to be confined immediately. 
 They were very cheerful, and seemed quite to have 
 got over their troubles. It is wonderful how little 
 that class of people seem to feel things that would 
 almost kill a lady. After our visit to them, James 
 took me with him to see poor Mrs. Eldridge, the 
 widow of the riding-master who was murdered three 
 days ago by his comrade. I don't know when I 
 have seen such a nice well-spoken respectable woman ; 
 she spoke most kindly and charitably of the wretched 
 murderer, and seemed to pity him very much. I 
 hear that the poor wretch has never spoken a word 
 since he committed the deed, and will have nothing to 
 say to the Roman Catholic priest who visits him. His 
 wife, a most violent woman, who excited him to the 
 fatal pitch of fury, is perfectly distracted and wild. 
 Mrs. Eldridge has two children, a poor girl of thirteen 
 
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 who is half-witted, and a fine little boy of six years 
 old. She told me she had two daughters comfortably 
 married at Jellunder, and that if she could get to 
 them she should never want a home. All her things 
 were burnt in cantonments the night of the outbreak. 
 Dr. Fayrer has ordered us to-day not to go to the 
 Residency any more, as smallpox has broken out 
 there. Cholera, too, is raging in the city, and there 
 have been several deaths from it among the 32nd. 
 Intelligence reached this to-day that all the poor 
 ladies and children from Sultanpore, who were 
 thought to be safe in some fort under the protection 
 of a Rajah, have been turned adrift and fallen into 
 the hands of a party of the insurgents, and all been 
 massacred. 
 
 James went this morning to see the soldiers in the 
 Muchee Bhowan Fort : it is a very unhealthy place, 
 and all tumbling to pieces, so they would never be 
 able to hold it against an attack. They are moving 
 all the guns, stores, and ammunition down here, and 
 when that is done they will blow it up, and the 
 garrison, 150 strong, will come in here : they have 
 sent the baggage from cantonments down here, and 
 the force is held in readiness to come away at the 
 
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 first notice of the enemy's approach, but it is deter- 
 mined to hold the position there as long as possible ; 
 and also it is not advisable, till absolutely necessary, 
 to bring any more human beings into this already 
 crowded space. Charlie came down to see Emmie 
 this morning, and is looking quite well. The nearest 
 force of insurgents to us is said to be forty miles off: 
 it is the general opinion that we are too strong for 
 them to venture an attack ; of course the longer they 
 delay the stronger our defences will be. It is those 
 unfortunate women at Cawnpore one trembles for, 
 if aid does not speedily arrive. 
 
 The troops are to abandon cantonments at last, 
 and all come in here this evening. Two children 
 died of cholera at the Residency this morning, and 
 a lady who came in from Secrora, Mrs. Hale, is 
 dying of it to-night : James has been sent for to see 
 her at the Begum's house. 
 
 June 20. 
 
 I am extremely unhappy to-day at having been 
 obliged to send away our dear old Bustle. Poor dear 
 dog ! I expect he will break his heart, for never did 
 
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 I see such an attached creature ; he is always mise- 
 rable when James is out of his sight. An order has 
 been issued that all dogs seen outside the compound 
 are to be hung, and, as it would fret poor Bustle's 
 heart to be tied up, we have sent him down to the 
 Martiniere to be with the horses, and I trust the 
 Syces will take care of him till we are able to have 
 the fond old pet back again. Every child in the 
 house is at this moment screeching, and we are 
 all distracted : both the poor little D.s are ill and 
 wearing their mother out ; they will go to no one 
 else, so one cannot help her with them. I never 
 heard such a chorus of squalling in my life. The 
 heat seems to increase every day, and no signs of 
 the rains yet. Dr. Partridge read out loud to us in 
 the drawing-room this morning ' Guy Mannering/ 
 
 A letter came to-day from General Wheeler to 
 Sir H. Lawrence ; no reinforcements arrived at 
 Cawnpore up to the 18th, but the brave people still 
 holding out gloriously, and say they have provisions 
 and ammunition enough for another fortnight ; their 
 sufferings are extreme. General Wheeler says, "It 
 is useless to state the extent of our losses ;" by 
 which one fears they must be terrible. He says the 
 
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 sun is their worst enemy. Their consolation in their 
 distress is that their devotion may be our salvation. 
 Dear, brave, generous creatures ! how heart-rend- 
 ing it is that no aid can be sent them from here ! if 
 it were not for the river between us, it might be 
 
 done. was speaking at dinner to-day 
 
 of the iniquity of the annexation of Oude, and 
 thinks the tribulation we are now in is a just pu- 
 nishment to our nation for the grasping spirit in 
 which we have governed India ; the unjust appro- 
 priation of Oude being a finishing stroke to a long 
 course of selfish seeking our own benefit and ag- 
 grandisement. No doubt it is a judgment of God, 
 and that we have greatly abused our power ; and, 
 as a Government, opposed the spread of Christi- 
 anity ; while individually, by evil example and prac- 
 tices, we have made our religion a reproach in 
 the eyes of the natives. God grant that this heavy 
 chastisement may bring all to a better mind ! 
 
 June 21. 
 The poor church is converted into a storehouse, 
 so we had service in the drawing-room this morning 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 61 
 
 at 11 o'clock. James had a service at 9 in the 
 hospital. Mr. Polehampton went to cantonments 
 and gave the troops there an early service, and had 
 one in the Residency at 11. There is to be a 
 general one out of doors this evening at 7 in Mr. 
 Gubbins's garden, where every one who likes may 
 go. How little they are thinking at home how 
 intensely applicable to us are those petitions in the 
 Litany, From plague, pestilence, and famine, from 
 battle, murder, and from sudden death, good Lord 
 deliver us ! It seems as if they never came home 
 to one's heart before ; indeed the whole of the 
 Liturgy and the Psalms appear so wonderfully 
 suited to our present condition, as if composed ex- 
 pressly for the occasion, taking in all our necessities 
 and all our feelings. They are most comforting. 
 
 June 21, Sunday. 
 Charlie came down to see Emmie this morning, 
 and told us they had had an alarm in camp last 
 night ; some of the scouts came running in to say 
 that a body of cavalry were seen, so they all got 
 under arms, but no one appeared. Fifty of Captain 
 
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 Weston's men (the City Police) deserted last night, 
 with their arms. I wish every armed native would 
 go ; we should all feel much safer, for not one can 
 be trusted. It is three weeks to-day since the me- 
 morable Whit-Sunday when we fled in such alarm 
 to the Residency, expecting to be attacked imme- 
 diately. Captain Weston was saying yesterday it 
 was perfectly unaccountable why they did not molest 
 us that day, when our defences could not possibly 
 have stood an assault, but now we are so well pre- 
 pared we could hold our own against any number of 
 the enemy. What a merciful Providence it was 
 that withheld them ! Our great fear now is of 
 traitors in the garrison. Sir Henry L. will go on 
 trusting the Seikhs and a few others who have un- 
 fortunately not yet joined the rebels, and no one 
 but himself has the smallest confidence in them. 
 At Benares, Cawnpore, and other places, the Seikhs 
 have turned against us, and it is not likely these 
 will be better than the rest. At Cawnpore, where 
 the garrison was entirely composed of Seikhs, they 
 rose and murdered all the Europeans; amongst 
 the rest Mr. Fane, a cousin of the D.s.* The 
 
 * This report was untrue at the time. 
 
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 native artillerymen have been true, or rather stuck 
 to us as yet, and half the guns are manned by them ; 
 but one feels very uncomfortable at the idea they 
 are pretty sure not to fire on their countrymen if 
 they appear ; and it is impossible not to be afraid 
 of the mischief they may do us. But we have been 
 so mercifully preserved hitherto we ought not to 
 despond, especially when we remember those poor 
 distressed people at Cawnpore. 
 
 June 22, Monday. 
 Dear F. and G.'s wedding-day. Five years ago 
 now, and how fresh every incident is in my memory ! 
 I have been recalling every little circumstance, and 
 living it over again in my mind. What a sad anni- 
 versary for poor F. ! — the first he has passed alone 
 since his darling was taken away. Their dog Toph 
 died on their wedding-day last year, and they wrote 
 to tell us how grieved they were about it, little 
 dreaming of the great grief which was so soon 
 coming. What would I not give to hear of the 
 safety of F. and the children ! One trembles at the 
 idea of what may be going on in the Punjaub if the 
 Seikhs should have revolted. This uncertainty 
 
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 about the fate of one's friends in other parts of 
 India, and the impossibility of hearing of them, are 
 very hard to bear. Charlie is very anxious about 
 Teddie and Maggie ; * they are at Hansi, far from 
 any European troops or place of refuge. There has 
 been no news from any quarter to-day, except that 
 twenty gentlemen-volunteers with thirty Seikhs rode 
 out on the Secrora road last night to try and gain 
 some intelligence of the insurgents. They came 
 back about one to-day, having seen and heard 
 nothing at all, but there is a strong force at Se- 
 crora. We had a very heavy shower of rain early 
 this morning, and were in hopes it was going to 
 continue, but all signs of it very quickly departed, 
 and the heat is greater than ever. James took 
 Mrs. Boileau and me this evening to walk round 
 the fortifications of the P. O., which are very 
 strong. Mr. Brice, an old Peshawur friend, has 
 the command there. He told us half his native 
 gunners deserted last night. I wish they would 
 all go, we should be much safer. 
 
 * Edward Barwell and wife, murdered at Hansi. 
 
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 June 23, Tuesday. 
 James had fever on him all last night, and is very- 
 poorly to-day, but I hope will be better soon. A 
 great many people are suffering from boils. Mrs. 
 Dashwood's little boy and Mrs. Boileau's children 
 are covered with them. I hear they are very com- 
 mon at Lucknow. I am thankful to say there have 
 been no fresh cases either of small-pox or cholera 
 the last few days. Charlie came down this morn- 
 ing. I have got dear old Bustle back. Mr. Schil- 
 ling, who went down to the Martiniere yesterday, 
 told us such a touching account of the poor dog's 
 misery and pining that J.'s heart relented, and he 
 consented to his return. The order about the de- 
 struction of dogs has never been attended to, and 
 while I see so many pariahs allowed to run about 
 with impunity there is no reason for Bustle's exile. 
 Dr. Partridge has been reading * Guy Mannering ' 
 aloud to us the last three mornings, which passes 
 them pleasantly, and causes Chip's frock to proceed 
 apace. I wonder if the darling boy will ever have 
 it when finished. All the officers have had their 
 white jackets, trousers, and cap-covers dyed slate or 
 mud-colour, partly to save the washing and partly 
 
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 because that colour is so much less prominent a 
 mark for the enemy. They look such queer figures. 
 
 June 24, St. John the Baptist's Day. 
 Such terrible news from Cawnpore yesterday. It 
 has made us all miserable again. General Wheeler 
 writes to say the insurgents have got mortars, and 
 are shelling the besieged in their intrenchments. 
 They had thirty shells sent amongst them in three 
 hours, and have lost a third of their number. They 
 have retired under ground, and do not suffer so 
 much from the sun therefore, but unless relief comes 
 now in a few days they are lost. Oh God, help 
 them ! It is too agonizing to think of their perish- 
 ing after all their bravery and devotion. And the 
 poor women and children ; how heart-sick it makes 
 one to think of them ! It is certain that an enormous 
 force is gathering with the intent of coming down 
 upon Lucknow. There are 15,000 troops they say 
 now in Oude, independent of the Cawnpore force, 
 which numbers about 5000, and which will join the 
 rest if Cawnpore falls. They have eighteen guns, 
 but the shells are worse than anything. It was sup- 
 
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 posed, till General Wheeler's note came yesterday, 
 that the rebels had none, and, if they had, did not un- 
 derstand how to use them. But, alas ! they have proved 
 they know too well. They can shell from a distance 
 of two miles, where our guns cannot touch them, 
 which just suits the cowards. Poor Sir H. Wheeler 
 is much to blame for not having removed all the 
 guns and ammunition into the intrenched camp 
 when there was time. They had a good three weeks 
 after the first outbreak at Meerut before the troops 
 mutinied at Cawnpore, and ample time for every 
 precaution. We are indeed in an awful strait. It 
 may be God's will that we should all perish, and 
 that I should never see my darling mother and 
 sisters again in this world. . . . 
 
 Meanwhile I will strive to bear all we may have 
 to endure with patience and fortitude, and, as much 
 as I can, help and comfort my companions and 
 husband : he is still very poorly with a bad sore 
 throat, and extremely weak and pulled down ; but I 
 am thankful to say the fever has gone, so that I hope 
 to-morrow he will be much better. There is a report 
 among the natives that Delhi has fallen ; if this be 
 true, it will perhaps awe the insurgents, and prevent 
 
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 their venturing to attack us here. It is surmised 
 the cause of the delay at Delhi was waiting for poor 
 old General Eeid to come down from Peshawur and 
 take the command, as he is the senior General in the 
 Queen's service out here. We imagine something 
 terrible must be happening in Bengal which prevents 
 European troops from coming up. We expected 
 four regiments long ere this ; they will now be 
 obliged to wait for the China force, and send up a 
 large army, for there are thousands in arms between 
 Cawnpore and Benares, and two or three regiments 
 would hardly make their way through them. It is 
 all very, very dreadful, and one does not see a 
 glimmer of sunshine in the dark clouds. The rain 
 too is keeping off most unusually late : if that came 
 down in torrents it would very much discompose the 
 enemy, as niggers abominate wet weather. To-day 
 is very blowing and dusty : I hope it is a sign that 
 rain is not far off. 
 
 June 26. 
 
 Good news has cheered us up to-day, for we have 
 heard really and truly of the fall of Delhi from Sir 
 H. L., who received a letter this morning with the 
 
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 joyful tidings. Our army was in possession of the 
 city on the 13th — dear G.'s wedding-day. The 
 insurgents were still in the fort, so that had to be 
 taken, but no doubt they have driven them out long 
 ere this. A royal salute was fired from this place, 
 the cantonments, and the Muchee Bhowan, with a 
 view of impressing our triumph on the natives, and 
 causing their hearts to melt into water. Positive 
 news came yesterday too, that the 84th Queen's and 
 Madras Fusileers had driven away the rebels at 
 Allahabad and got possession of fort and canton- 
 ments ; they were to proceed towards Cawnpore as 
 soon as arrangements for carriage could be made. 
 God grant they may be in time to save the unfortu- 
 nates there. No news from Sir H. Wheeler for two 
 days past. There are 10,000 of the rebels with 10 
 guns camped at Nawab Gunge, twenty miles from 
 this ; but it is hoped that the news from Delhi will 
 deter their coming to attack us, and dishearten those 
 at Cawnpore. We hear the post goes regularly 
 between Allahabad and Calcutta, and that the tele- 
 graph is at work again and communication opened 
 from up country till within twenty miles of Cawnpore, 
 and telegraphs working between Agra and Delhi ; 
 
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 all this cheers us, and gives us great cause for thank- 
 fulness. Mrs. Boileau has heard of the safe arrival 
 of her husband at Goruckpore, where he has fallen 
 in with some European troops. The officers of those 
 regiments that have made themselves scarce are all 
 learning gun drill, that they may serve as artillery- 
 men in time of need ; there is also a volunteer cavalry 
 corps formed of a select few ; numbers had to be 
 rejected, from being such abominable riders. Captain 
 Weston told us this morning, to our extreme dismay, 
 that the little notes we sent on the 12th and 13th 
 did not get far ; those going up country were de- 
 stroyed, and those going down buried, and the man 
 cannot recollect where their grave is ; so all the dear 
 ones at home will be terribly anxious, not even 
 getting a line to say we are alive : I hope though 
 now we shall soon be able to write by post. Mr. 
 Schilling's bearer followed the example of ours the 
 other day, and decamped, robbing his master to the 
 tune of 150 rupees ; ours took nothing with him ; 
 fortunately the rest of our people are all behaving 
 very well, and have not even plagued us for money, as 
 some of them are doing. Our Syces come from the 
 Martiniere every morning and report the horses 
 
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 quite well. All the clouds are gone, and the weather 
 as hot as ever. I am making a flannel coat for little 
 Bobbie Fayrer. Dr. Partridge has done Guy Man- 
 nering, and begun Quentin Durward to us. Dear 
 James is much better, though his throat and chest 
 are still bad. 
 
 June 27. 
 It is dear old Ben B.'s birth - day : — many 
 happy returns of it do I wish her. Little Bobbie 
 Fayrer is a year old to-day. Sweet little fellow, 
 I never saw a more lovely boy than he is. A 
 letter from Sir H. Wheeler last night; they are 
 still holding out bravely ; but he says their suf- 
 ferings have exceeded anything recorded in his- 
 tory. Nearly all the children and most of the 
 women have died from the effects of the sun ; and 
 there is a fearful list of killed and wounded. The 
 General's son, Mr. Wheeler, of the 1st N. L, who 
 was our landlord, and lived next door to us the first 
 six months we were at Peshawur, was killed by a 
 round shot at his father's side as the poor old man 
 was finishing his letter. The enemy have two 24- 
 pounders, three mortars, and eight other guns, which 
 
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 they fire on the besieged night and day. Ten days 
 after the barracks were knocked down, the unhappy 
 people had no shelter whatever from the sun. Ladies 
 and children sat under tables and chairs out in the 
 open. The General says they can hold out till the 
 2nd, by which time they hope to obtain relief from 
 Allahabad. Two regiments of infantry and two 
 guns, and 200 Seikhs, were starting from there on 
 the 24th : oh, I trust they will be in time. They 
 say our salutes yesterday put the insurgents at 
 Nawab Gunge in a great state of excitement. News 
 has been received that 11 persons, ladies and gen- 
 tlemen, escaped from Seetapore, and are hiding in 
 the jungles, protected by a rajah, who is very civil 
 to them, and that the two Miss Jacksons and their 
 brother are among them ; it was positively asserted 
 that they had been killed at Seetapore, the natives 
 declaring they had seen their bodies, which leads 
 one to hope that others reported dead may be found 
 alive some day. There are 800 soldiers arrived at 
 Allahabad, and two of the Persian Gulf regiments 
 have returned and are started from Calcutta, so we 
 may hope soon to have a sufficient number for our 
 protection up here. 
 
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 June 29, St. Peter's Day. 
 I think it must be ten years since uncle Augustus 
 
 was consecrated Bishop of , and M. first dined 
 
 at our house. They will be remembering this 
 anniversary at home. How sad all anniversaries 
 seem now ! But, alas ! how little they are thinking 
 at home that, perhaps, this is the last that we 
 shall ever see. I have no heart to write, for it 
 appears next to impossible that letters or journal 
 will ever reach the dear ones for whom they are 
 written. There are such terrible reports from 
 Cawnpore, I can hardly bear to put them down. 
 
 SIEGE COMMENCED. 
 
 Lucknow, June 30, 1 857, Tuesday. 
 A most disastrous day. Early this morning we 
 were awoke by the sound of guns passing the house, 
 and found that a small force of 300, with seven guns, 
 were going out to meet the advanced guard of the 
 enemy, which was reported to be at a place called 
 Nawab Gunge, in hopes, by driving them back, of 
 
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 preventing the rest from coming on. When they 
 reached the village of Chinhut, about five miles from 
 Lucknow, instead of a small force they found the 
 whole rebel army, amounting to between 12,000 
 and 15,000. Our unfortunate troops were taken at 
 a disadvantage, completely surrounded, and obliged 
 to fly back in terrible disorder, leaving nearly 200 
 killed and wounded, and five of our guns, one of 
 them a howitzer, in the hands of the enemy. It 
 was little less than miraculous that any of them 
 came back alive. Poor Colonel Case, Captain 
 Stevens, Mr. Thompson, and Mr. Brackenbury, and 
 Captain M'Clean, of the 71st N. I., were killed. Sir 
 Henry Lawrence and Colonel Inglis returned all 
 safe. At nine o'clock we were in a state of siege, 
 completely invested by the enemy, and tremendous 
 firing commenced. A very fierce attack was made 
 on the Bailee Guard Gate at the back of this house. 
 The enemy's guns opened upon our intrenchments 
 while we were dressing for breakfast ; and we were 
 shouted at to rush down to the underground room 
 before we were half ready : so I seized my hair 
 out of the hands of the frightened Ayah, and cut 
 it off just at the plaits. She instantly burst 
 
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 forth into piteous lamentations and decamped this 
 evening, thinking the loss of my hair was a sign 
 that all was up with us. And now the ladies 
 and children were all huddled together in the 
 underground room, called the Tye Khana, damp, 
 dark, and gloomy as a vault, and excessively dirty. 
 Here we sat all day, feeling too miserable, anxious, 
 and terrified to speak, the gentlemen occasionally 
 coming down to reassure us and tell us how things 
 were going on. James was nearly all the day in 
 the hospital, where the scene was terrible : the place 
 so crowded with wounded and dying men that they 
 had no room to pass between them, and everything 
 in a state of indescribable misery, discomfort, and 
 confusion. The Polehamptons have left the Resi- 
 dency, and got a little room in the hospital to live 
 in. Mrs. Folehampton will make herself useful 
 there in nursing. I wish I could go too, but there 
 is no room for us, and James says it is too great a 
 risk for me going backwards and forwards under 
 fire each time, so I must try to be of use here 
 instead. 
 
 July 1, Wednesday. 
 Poor Miss Palmer's leg was shot off this after- 
 
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 noon at the Residency. Sir Henry L. too had a 
 very narrow escape ; a round shot passed just 
 above his head through the room in which he was 
 sitting. The firing has been incessant the whole 
 day, and we have been close prisoners to the Tye 
 Khana. 
 
 July 2, Thursday. 
 
 Sir Henry Lawrence was mortally wounded about 
 half-past eight this morning, from the bursting of a 
 shell in the Residency. He was on his bed, and 
 Captain Wilson was reading some papers to him, 
 when he was hit by an enormous piece of shell, and 
 his left leg nearly taken off just below the thigh. 
 He was brought over to this house immediately. 
 James prayed with him, and administered the Holy 
 Communion to him. He was quite sensible, though 
 his agony was extreme. He spoke for nearly an 
 hour, quite calmly, expressing all his last wishes 
 with regard to his children. He sent affectionate 
 messages to them and to each of his brothers and 
 sisters; he particularly mentioned the Lawrence 
 Asylum, and entreated that Government might be 
 urged to give it support ; he bid farewell to all the 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 77 
 
 gentlemen who were standing round his bed, and 
 said a few words of advice and kindness to each. 
 His nephew, Mr. George Lawrence, he blessed 
 most affectionately, and told him he regarded him 
 as a son. He spoke of his wife, who died about 
 four years ago, most affectingly, and expressed the 
 deepest penitence and remorse for his own sins, and 
 most perfect trust and faith in his Saviour. James 
 says he never met with such a humble-minded 
 Christian, or attended a more truly beautiful and 
 edifying death-bed. There was not a dry eye there ; 
 every one was so deeply affected and grieved at the 
 loss of such a man, and we all felt as if our best 
 friend and support was taken from us. I shall never 
 forget the miserable feeling of despair which seemed 
 to take possession of us, as if our last hope were 
 gone. Poor Sir Henry's screams and groans of 
 agony ail day have been fearful to hear. He has 
 named Major Banks as his successor in the chief 
 authority. This has been a wretched day. Lieut. 
 Dashwood was severely contused by the falling of 
 bricks from the striking of a rotmd shot at the 
 Post-office battery. He was brought here soon after 
 Sir Henry L. ; and Captain Power, an officer of the 
 
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 32nd, was shot in the front verandah. The fire all 
 day has been more tremendous than ever. The 
 enemy seem to have found out that Sir Henry is 
 still alive and where he is, for they direct their fire 
 especially on this house. Last night we were very 
 much startled by the blowing up of the Muchee 
 Bhowan Fort ; the shock was terrific, and at first we 
 did not recollect what it was, though we had been 
 told what was to happen. The garrison arrived 
 here quite safely, not a shot having been fired at 
 them. 
 
 July 3, Friday, 
 I was up stairs all day, nursing Sir Henry, who 
 still lingers in extreme suffering ; his screams are so 
 terrible, I think the sound will never leave my ears ; 
 when not under the influence of chloroform, he is 
 quite conscious, and J. has been reading to him all 
 day psalms and prayers as he was able to bear 
 them. He several times repeated them after him 
 in quite a strong voice. Once we thought he was 
 going, but he rallied, and has taken an immense 
 quantity of arrowroot and champagne during the 
 day. Once when I was feeding him he looked at 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 79 
 
 me so hard, as if he was trying to remember who I 
 was. The firing has never ceased for a second the 
 whole day. 
 
 July 4, Saturday. 
 Sir Henry L. died at a quarter past eight this 
 morning. His end was very peaceful, and without 
 suffering. J. was with him. I came into the room 
 a minute after he had breathed his last : his expres- 
 sion was so happy one could not but rejoice that his 
 pain was over. Half an hour before he died, his 
 nephew, Mr. George Lawrence, was shot through 
 the shoulder in the verandah. I have been nursing 
 him to-day, poor fellow ; it was so sad to see him 
 lying there in the room with his uncle's body, 
 looking so sad and suffering. About twelve I 
 was obliged to ask J. to have the body carried 
 outside, so he called some soldiers to help carry 
 the bed into the verandah. When they came 
 in, one of the men lifted the sheet off poor 
 Sir Henry's face, and kissed him. Last night 
 nearly all the servants ran away: two khitmut- 
 gars, five punkah coolies, three sweepers, four 
 ayahs, and Mrs. D.'s baby's wetnurse, only re- 
 
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 mained behind. We are all obliged to put our 
 shoulders to the wheel and divide the work between 
 us. Mr. Schilling has sent us three little Mar- 
 tiniere boys to help. A soldier of the 32nd, called 
 Metcalfe, has taken charge of dear old Bustle for 
 us. He was so much in the way down in the 
 Tye Khana, and received such black looks from 
 
 and , we were afraid we should have 
 
 been obliged to condemn him to death as the most 
 merciful way of getting rid of him, when this de- 
 lightful man, who is on guard at this house, offered 
 to take charge of him for us till better days should 
 come. Mr. Ommaney, the Judicial Commissioner, 
 was shot through the head yesterday, and is not 
 expected to live. He came here to see poor Sir 
 Henry, and was wounded on his way home. 
 
 July 5, Sunday. 
 
 We had service, and all received comfort in the 
 Holy Communion downstairs in the Tye Khana. 
 Work was portioned out, to each of us who are 
 strong enough to do any, by James this morning. 
 My share is to act housemaid, and keep the rooms 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 81 
 
 we inhabit tidy and clean: I am also to nurse 
 Mr. Lawrence, and any sick or wounded who may 
 be brought to this house. We all sleep (that is, 
 eleven ladies and seven children) on the Ifloor of the 
 Tye Khana, where we spread mattresses and fit 
 into each other like bits in a puzzle, so as best to 
 feel the punkah. The gentlemen sleep upstairs in 
 a long verandah sort of room on the side of the 
 house least exposed to fire. My bed consists of a 
 purdah and a pillow. In the morning we all roll 
 up our bedding, and pile it in heaps against 
 the wall. We have only room for very few chairs 
 down there, which are assigned to invalids, and 
 most of us take our meals seated on the floor, with 
 our plates on our knees. We are always obliged 
 to light a candle for breakfast and dinner, as the 
 room is perfectly dark. Our usual fare consists of 
 stew, as being easiest to cook : it is brought up in 
 a large deckger, so as not to dirty a dish, and a 
 portion ladled out to each persoa Of course we 
 can get no bread or butter, so chapatties are the 
 disagreeable substitute. We have large stores of 
 beer, wine, tea, arrowroot, sago, &c, which will last 
 a long time. Our rations of meat, rice, wheat, 
 
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 dhol, &c. , we draw from the commissariat. We are 
 all kept close prisoners to the dismal Tye Khana, 
 only Mrs. D. and I go upstairs at all during the 
 day — she to see her husband and I to look after 
 Mr. Lawrence. For about half an hour in the 
 evening we are permitted to sit in the portico and 
 breathe a little fresh air. After sunset the firing 
 generally slackens considerably for a time, and it is 
 supposed the sepoys are engaged just then in cook- 
 ing their dinner. Mr. Ommaney died this evening : 
 what a dreadful blow it must be to his poor wife 
 and daughters ! 
 
 July 7, Tuesday. 
 Mr. Polehampton was shot through the body this 
 morning. He was in his own room, shaving, and a 
 musket-ball came through the window. I am 
 delighted to say the wound is not mortal. The 
 bullet entered his side and came out at his back, 
 but no vital part was touched, and he is going on 
 well. Captain Francis of the 13th N. I. had his 
 leg taken off by a round shot to-day. 
 
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 July 8. 
 Captain Francis died. A little girl at the Begum 
 Kotee was killed to-day by a round shot. James 
 has five or six funerals every night. He has very 
 hard work of it now Mr. Polehampton is laid up ; 
 and going down to the churchyard to bury, he is 
 exposed to a hot fire the whole time. I feel so 
 terribly heartsick and anxious till I see him come 
 back again safe ; but God will, I trust, protect him 
 in his perilous duties. 
 
 July 9, Thursday. 
 This has been a dreadful day. Poor Lieut. D. 
 died of cholera : he was taken ill about four o'clock 
 this morning, and before two he was dead. His 
 poor wife never left him from the time she was 
 first called, which was about five. At first Dr. 
 Fayrer was not alarmed, thought it a very slight 
 case, and that he would recover; but he never 
 rallied at all. James said prayers with him and 
 gave him the Holy Communion. His brother was 
 with him when he died. My patient, Mr. Lawrence, 
 
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 went back to his own quarters this morning, con- 
 valescent. 
 
 July 10, Friday. 
 
 Young Mr. Dashwood wounded himself in the 
 leg while cleaning his own pistol this morning. He 
 is likely to be laid up some time, as they cannot 
 find the ball. 
 
 July 12, Sunday. 
 
 We had service upstairs in the hall. Tremendous 
 fire kept up all last night. 
 
 July 13, Monday. 
 
 Mr. Charlton of the 32nd shot through the head. 
 
 July 14. 
 
 Very heavy firing all day : ten Europeans wounded : 
 five buried this evening. 
 
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 July 16, Thursday. 
 
 Poor Mrs. Thomas died of small-pox. She was 
 staying here before the siege began, and has since 
 been living at the Begum Kotee. Mr. Lester, who 
 was shot yesterday, died to-day. There were six 
 funerals this evening. 
 
 I finished a flannel " jumper " for Captain 
 Weston, and began a flannel shirt for Mr. Pole- 
 hampton ; his wife is so much engaged nursing him 
 and other sick in hospital, she has no time to work. 
 James had a most providential escape to-day. As 
 he was going down to the graveyard a round shot 
 fell between him and the dhoolie next to which he 
 was walking, and threw up the earth all over him. 
 Mr. Brice of the artillery, an old Peshawur friend, 
 was wounded to-day. Little Mary Strongways died 
 of cholera. 
 
 July 17, Friday. 
 
 Four round shot came through the house to-day 
 mercifully none of us were touched. 
 
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 July 19, Sunday. 
 
 Mr. Arthur of the 7th Cavalry was killed this 
 morning, and two officers wounded in the Resi- 
 dency. Poor Mr. Polehampton was seized with 
 cholera : James went over to see him, and found 
 him as ill as he could be, and frightfully altered ; 
 he would hardly have known him. There is no 
 hope of his recovery. 
 
 July 20, Monday. 
 Mr. Polehampton died at half-past eight this 
 morning. J. sat up all last night with him, and 
 was with him when he died. His poor wife is 
 stricken to the earth by this terrible blow. God 
 help her ! J. says she is wonderfully calm. This 
 evening he read the funeral service alone with her 
 over her husband's body, before taking it away 
 with the others for burial. She was extremely 
 anxious he should have a coffin, a wish it seemed 
 impossible to gratify ; but J. instituted a search, 
 and found one stowed away with some old boxes 
 under the staircase in the hospital ; and he also 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKWW. 87 
 
 had a separate grave dug for him. Since the 
 siege the bodies have always been buried several in 
 the same grave, and sewn up in their bedding, 
 as there are no people and there is no time to make 
 coffins. 
 
 The enemy made a very strong attack to-day ; it 
 began at 10 o'clock and lasted three hours, when 
 they gave it up. Two 18 -pounders came through 
 the room Em. B. and I used to sleep in, and 
 where we have since always gone to perform an 
 alarmed and hurried toilet; it was impossible to 
 wash and dress down in the Tye Khana, so we 
 have hitherto braved the danger. J. was in the 
 room this morning at his ablutions when the round- 
 shots came through ; he was quite smothered with 
 dust, as a great piece of wall and ceiling came down, 
 but was most mercifully saved from hurt. I was 
 dreadfully frightened when I heard the noise, for I 
 knew he was in the room. I really felt paralyzed 
 with terror, till I heard him call out he was " all 
 right !" He was obliged to creep out of the rubbish 
 almost in a state of nature, as he was just in the 
 act of bathing when the shot struck the room. 
 
 We have by degrees crept upstairs during the day 
 
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 and sat in the little entrance-hall, which is consi- 
 dered tolerably safe ; but this morning we were all 
 hurried down to the lower regions in double-quick 
 time. We dress now in a tiny barricaded closet out 
 of the dining-room, where no balls have come yet. 
 
 We had two killed and nine wounded this morning 
 during the attack. There were nine funerals to-night 
 — the largest number since the battle of Chinhut. 
 Mrs. Polehampton has left the hospital and gone to 
 a room at the Begum Kotee, which she shares with 
 Mrs. Barbor and Mrs. Galle, both widows, whose 
 husbands were murdered by the mutineers. 
 
 We have had no less than eight round-shot through 
 this house to-day. 
 
 July 21, Tuesday. 
 Three weeks since the siege begaa Poor Major 
 Banks was shot this morning on the top of the 
 Gubbins's house. There was a fierce attack made 
 on that side to-day. Dr. Bryden of the 71st was 
 wounded, but not mortally ; he was shot whilst at 
 dinner. 
 
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 July 22, Wednesday. 
 
 Mrs. Dorin, one of the fugitives from Seetapore, 
 was killed in the Gubbins's house to-day, shot 
 through the head in her room. Two shells burst 
 in the churchyard last night not forty yards from the 
 grave where J. was standing. 
 
 Now that Major Banks is dead, there is no Chief 
 Commissioner. Colonel Inglis of the 32nd is Bri- 
 gadier, and commands the garrison, which is entirely 
 under military authority. 
 
 July 24, Friday. 
 
 No casualties to-day, and only one funeral. 
 
 Mrs. D. is very poorly, and quite unequal to 
 the charge of her children ; so I am now head 
 nurse as well as housemaid, and find plenty to do, 
 which keeps my thoughts from dwelling too much 
 on the misery and horror that surround us. Ally 
 D. is a dear little boy of two, and Herbert, the 
 baby, is ten months old; their poor mother is ex- 
 pecting her confinement again before long. 
 
 I am making her a black dress. 
 
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 July 25, Saturday, St. James's Day. 
 
 Poor Mr. Polehampton's effects were sold to-day, 
 and realised 700 rupees (70?.) 
 
 Both the little D.s are ill with diarrhoea, and I 
 am up half the night with them. The Boileau 
 children and Bobbie Fayrer have it too ; our rest is 
 much disturbed ; what with the frequent night attacks 
 of the enemy, the crying and illness of the poor 
 children, the rats and mice which run over us, the 
 heat, and the sleepiness of the punkah coolie, un- 
 broken sleep is a luxury we have long been strangers 
 to. We take it in turns to watch during the night 
 for an hour each ; mine is the second watch, from 
 10 to 11. Mrs. Boileau takes from 9 to 10, and 
 wakes me just as I am in my first slumber. I don't 
 exactly know what is gained by these night watch- 
 ings, except that we are all very nervous, and are 
 expecting some dreadful catastrophe to happen, so 
 that the rest go to sleep more easily, if one of the 
 party is known to be awake. The ladies who are 
 delicate, as Mrs. D., Mrs. Fayrer, Mrs. Anderson, 
 and Emily B., are exempted from keeping watch. 
 
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 July 26, Sunday. 
 
 The first news that greeted us this morning was, 
 that a pensioner, Unget by name, who had been 
 sent to Cawnpore with a letter, had returned with a 
 despatch from Colonel Fraser Tytler, the Quarter- 
 master-General of the troops under General Have- 
 lock, who is advancing to our relief with a large 
 force, and hopes to be here in four days. These 
 joyful tidings put us all in the highest spirits. It 
 seems as if one could never be thankful enough for 
 the deliverance which is at hand. 
 
 Smith, one of our little Martiniere servants, was 
 shot through the leg this morning, running with a 
 note from Miss Schilling to her brother. 
 
 J. was sent for to see a lady at the Gubbins's house, 
 dying of cholera (Mrs. Grant) ; her husband was 
 on another bed in the same room, and one of their 
 children died yesterday. The husband and wife 
 partook of the Holy Communion together for the last 
 time on earth. Mr. Lewin of the Artillery was 
 killed at the Cawnpore gate ; his wife is expecting 
 her confinement ; she has one little girl, the age of 
 Herbert D. 
 
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 July 27, Monday. 
 There was an attack in the night which alarmed 
 us, but the enemy as usual were soon driven back. 
 Captain Shepherd was killed. Mrs. Grant died this 
 morning. 
 
 July 29, Tuesday. 
 
 Colonel Halford died this morning ; he has been 
 ill with a carbuncle ever since the siege began, but 
 we had no idea his end was so near. 
 
 J. said prayers with him this evening. . . . 
 
 The poor daughter is much to be pitied. . . . 
 
 There was great excitement in the garrison tins 
 afternoon ; firing was distinctly heard, and we all 
 came to the conclusion our much longed for relief 
 was near ; some of the soldiers began to cheer, and 
 sentinels on the top of the house declared they could 
 distinguish the advance of European troops in the 
 direction of the Martiniere park ; time passed, no- 
 thing came of it, a reaction took place, our spirits 
 fell to the lowest ebb, and at length we were told 
 the guns which had so rejoiced our hearts were 
 fired in honour of a puppet King of Oude, aged 1 1, 
 who was proclaimed to-day. I have finished Mrs. 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 93 
 
 D.'s black dress, and feel rather proud of it, as I 
 have done every stitch myself. Captain Grant died 
 of his wounds to-day : he has been unconscious the 
 last two days, and never knew that his wife was 
 dead ; the last time he spoke of her, he thought she 
 was better, and was too ill to be told she had pre- 
 ceded him. The doctors forbade it ; but I should 
 think it would have comforted him. 
 
 August 2, Sunday. 
 
 This is the Buckraeede, a great Mahomedan 
 feast, and a grand attack was consequently ex- 
 pected from the rebel forces, but it has been instead 
 an unusually quiet day, and we imagine therefore 
 that many of them have gone off to oppose the 
 relieving army. Poor little Bobbie Fayrer is very 
 ill ; I never saw such a sad change as there is in 
 him from the lovely cherub of a child he was some 
 time since ; he is now quite a skeleton, and looks 
 like a little old man. All the children are very 
 bad ; the want of fresh air and exercise, and the loss 
 of their accustomed food, have made them all ill. 
 Little Herbert D.'s wet-nurse is in such a bad 
 
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 humour, and always threatening to run away, and 
 declaring her milk is gone, so we have been trying to 
 wean the poor child, and I feed him with thin arrow- 
 root and sago mixed with a little milk, but he dis- 
 likes the change very much, and I fear it does not 
 agree with him, for he has had diarrhoea, and now 
 it has turned to dysentery. James has had some 
 correspondence with Brigadier Inglis about the state 
 of the churchyard ; the smell there became so hor- 
 rible, owing to the shallowness of the graves and the 
 want of workpeople to make proper arrangements, 
 that the medical men pronounced it positively dan- 
 gerous for the living to go there, and J. for two 
 nights read the funeral service over the dead in the 
 hospital porch, and did not accompany them to the 
 graveyard: having reported the state of it to the 
 proper authority, it ended by the Brigadier giving 
 orders that the graves should be dug the necessary 
 depth, and a plentiful supply of charcoal spread 
 over them. James considered that as he is the only 
 Chaplain here, he must think of his duties to the 
 living before the dead ; if he were made ill by the 
 noxious vapours rising from the graves, the former 
 would be the sufferers. 
 
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 One of the most serious inconveniences we endure 
 in consequence of the desertion of the servants is 
 the loss of a dhobee ; there is only one left, and he 
 has neither soap nor starch. James made an ar- 
 rangement with him to wash a few things occasion- 
 ally, but he merely dips them in water, and brings 
 them back no cleaner than he received them. I 
 have washed some myself, but it is such dreadful 
 hot work it half kills one. 
 
 Since Smith was wounded I have undertaken, in 
 addition to my other work, to wash up the cups and 
 saucers for the early tea ; and I find every hour of 
 the day fully occupied. It is a great comfort to have 
 so much to do, and to feel oneself of some little 
 use, and helps to keep up one's spirits much better 
 than would otherwise be possible under the circum- 
 stances. Dear James is very hard worked, and does 
 not spare himself the least, so we don't see much of 
 each other. 
 
 August 4. 
 One of the gunners was shot dead in the verandah 
 this morning. When I came up stairs to dress, I 
 saw the poor fellow lying there in a pool of blood. 
 
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 August 5. 
 A soldier of the 32nd was shot in hospital this 
 morning, while sitting on a comrade's bed. 
 
 August 6. 
 Mr. Studdy, a 32nd officer, had his arm shot off by 
 an 18-pounder. 
 
 August 7. 
 
 Unget returned last night with another letter. 
 General Havelock's force was obliged to return to 
 Cawnpore to oppose the rebels, who were gathering 
 in their rear, and will not be able to come to the 
 relief of Lucknow till they get more reinforcements. 
 Dear James is very poorly to-day, and indeed we 
 are none of us feeling well. Hard work and want of 
 fresh air, together with hope deferred, are beginning 
 to tell upon most people. 
 
 August 8, Saturday. 
 Poor Mr. Bryce died of cholera to-day, and also 
 Dr. M'Donald. Mr. Bryce had nearly recovered 
 
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 from his wound. He was ill a very few hours. 
 James was with him; but the poor fellow was in 
 such extreme agony until the collapse came on, he 
 could not speak or attend to anything. 
 
 Aug. 9, Sunday. 
 
 Dear J.'s 35th birthday ; and a little siege baby 
 cousin came into this stormy world. E. presented 
 Charlie with a small son and heir at eight o'clock 
 this morning. She felt very unwell all yesterday, 
 but until the evening we never suspected the cause, 
 as she did not expect herself to be confined for 
 another fortnight. I sat up with her all night, and 
 was with her till master baby made his appearance. 
 Dr. Partridge attended her, and was very kind. She 
 suffered very much, poor thing! but bore it most 
 bravely. Charlie went off at dawn of day, and got a 
 very nice 32nd woman (Mrs. Roberts), who only just 
 arrived in time. 
 
 Poor Mr. Studdy died to-day of his wound. Mrs. 
 Hersham's and Mrs. Kendal's babies died. It in 
 sad the number of children who are dying : they gel, 
 diarrhoea, for which there seems no cure. We have 
 
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 by mutual consent given up the night watchings. 
 I suppose we are grown braver, so we voted there 
 was no necessity for any one to keep awake, 
 and composedly resign ourselves to the arms of 
 Morpheus. 
 
 August 10, Monday. 
 I was called up in the night to attend to my wee 
 siege cousin. Charlie took Mrs. Roberts's place for 
 some time, but could not manage to pacify his infant 
 son, who was crying lustily, so at last came down to 
 call me. I went up and found the poor little thing 
 required dressing and feeding, both of which opera- 
 tions I successfully performed, and then put him to 
 sleep. Charlie went off at daylight to find another 
 nurse, and brought back a copper-coloured individual 
 of the name of Scott, who seems a good sort of woman; 
 and Emmie and baby are both flourishing to-day. 
 Captain Power has died of his wounds. He was shot 
 here the same day as Sir H. Lawrence. The enemy 
 made two heavy attacks on our intrenchments — one 
 in the middle of the day, and the second this even. 
 
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 ing: it began just as we were kneeling down to 
 prayers. 
 
 August 11, Tuesday. 
 Part of the roof of the Residency fell in this 
 morning, and buried six men of the 32nd : only two 
 were dug out alive. 
 
 August 12, Wednesday. 
 Major Anderson, our chief engineer, died: he 
 will be a great loss to the garrison. 
 
 August 14, Friday. 
 
 The smell in the churchyard is again so offensive 
 that it has made J. quite ill ; and when he came 
 back he vomited about two hours incessantly, and 
 frightened me very much. 
 
 Mrs. Fayrer is very ill. She had alarming chole- 
 ratic symptoms to-day. They have barricaded the 
 windows in Mrs. D.'s old room, and put her to 
 bed. 
 
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 August 15, Saturday. 
 Dear J. all right again to-day. Mrs. Fayrer 
 very ill, and little Bobbie too. I fear little Herbert 
 cannot recover : he seems to be sinking. It makes 
 one's heart ache to look at his little suffering face. 
 He is so weak he scarcely ever cries, and when he 
 does, it is such a little feeble wail it is pitiable to 
 hear. We are all coming to sleep upstairs in the 
 dining-room to-night. The Tye Khana is so damp, 
 every one is ill, and the dining-room is tolerably safe. 
 Mrs. Clarke and I have been busy arranging beds 
 under the punkah, and sewing on a good deep frill 
 to whisk away the mosquitoes. This is the first 
 night there has been no funeral. 
 
 August 16, Sunday. 
 
 Emily's baby a week old. A shell burst in the 
 verandah outside Mrs. Fayrer's room. She was very 
 much alarmed, and it is wonderful how she escaped 
 being hurt. Dr. Fayrer carried her bed into Em- 
 mie's room, which, being quite in the centre of the 
 house, is comparatively safe. Now the two invalids 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 101 
 
 are together in a sort of hospital. A letter was 
 brought in from Cawnpore last night. General 
 Havelock still waiting for reinforcements, and no 
 hope of relief for us at present. 
 
 August 19. 
 
 Dear little Herbert D. died at half-past three 
 this morning. Yesterday he seemed so much better 
 that Mrs. D. was quite happy about him ; but 
 fever came on in the night, and we were alarmed 
 at the way he gasped for breath. Mrs. Boileau 
 happened to wake, and heard him first. Directly 
 she looked at him she saw he was dying, and 
 woke his mother and me. I called up Dr. Part- 
 ridge, who ordered a warm bath ; and we sent the 
 " dye " down to prepare some water, but before 
 she came up with it the little spirit had fled. One 
 could not grieve ; he looked so sweet and happy ; the 
 painful look of suffering quite gone, and a lovely 
 smile on his dear little baby face. We closed his 
 pretty blue eyes, and crossed his little hands over 
 his breast, and there he lay by his mother's side till 
 daylight; then she washed the little body herself, 
 
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 and put him on a white nightgown, and I tied a 
 lace handkerchief round his face, as she had no 
 caps. Charlie D. came over to see her, and we left 
 her quiet with him and the dead baby till eleven, 
 when I was obliged to go in and ask her to part with 
 it. She let me take it away, and I sewed the little 
 sweet one up myself in a clean white cloth, and 
 James carried it over to the hospital to wait there 
 for the evening burials. Poor little Ally is so ill, 
 it prevents Mrs. D. thinking so much of the loss 
 of Herbert as she else would. She is so anxious, 
 poor thing, about her last remaining treasure. He 
 has fever and dysentery, and his life seems hanging 
 on a thread. Bobby Fayrer is just as ill, and his 
 mother also, but the poor little fellow has found a 
 most devoted nurse in Miss Schilling; and if he 
 lives, humanly speaking, the Fayrers will owe their 
 child's life to her unremitting care and attention. 
 She watches him night and day, and never leaves 
 his crib for a minute. The poor child is not allowed 
 to be moved or lifted up. The only fear is Miss 
 Schilling getting ill herself from over-fatigue and 
 anxiety, and I wish much I could help her; but 
 what with looking after Emmie's wants, and nursing 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 103 
 
 both Mrs. D. and Ally, besides my housemaid's 
 work and washing up cups and saucers, &c, I have 
 as much on my hands as I can manage. 
 
 August 23, Sunday. 
 We had service, with the comfort of the Holy 
 Communion, at half-past three. Emily and Mrs. 
 Fayrer came out to church, and lay on two sofas, 
 looking very interesting invalids. Mrs. Polehampton, 
 Mrs, Barber, and Mrs. Lewin came to the service. 
 It was very affecting to see so many newly-made 
 widows assembled together ; with Mrs. D. and Mrs. 
 Halford there were five in the same room. 
 
 August 26, Wednesday. 
 Mr. Webb, an officer of the 32nd, was killed in 
 Mr. Gubbins's compound by an 18-pounder. We are 
 reduced from this date to half rations. 
 
 August 27, Thursday. 
 A 32nd man badly wounded in the verandah this 
 morning. There was an auction held to-day of 
 
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 some stores which belonged to poor Sir Henry 
 Lawrence. The price things were sold for was 
 quite laughable. A dozen of brandy fetched 170 
 rupees; two small tins of soup 55 rupees; a 
 ham 75 ; a quart bottle of honey 45 ; beer 75 a 
 dozen, &c. 
 
 August 29, Saturday. 
 The pensioner Unget returned again from Cawn- 
 pore last night, bringing a letter from General 
 Havelock, still waiting for reinforcements. Oh ! 
 when will they come ? Sir Colin Campbell is ar- 
 rived in Calcutta. Delhi is not yet taken, but 
 expected to fall in twenty days. The Rajah Pat- 
 tiala has declared himself on our side, and sent a 
 large force to Delhi. THe Punjaub is all quiet ; 
 the Seikhs prove faithful. 
 
 August 30, Sunday. 
 
 This is the last day of the Mohurrum, and there 
 
 was a report that the enemy intended attacking us 
 
 in force, but they must have changed their minds, 
 
 for the firing has been less than usual. Our only two 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 105 
 
 kitmughars ran away last night, and great was the 
 dismay in the household this morning when their 
 desertion was discovered. No one to light the 
 kitchen fire or boil the kettle for tea ; we began to 
 think some of us should be obliged to turn cooks, 
 not at all a desirable office in such melting weather ; 
 but happily a friend indeed turned up in Mrs. Need, 
 a woman Mrs. Boileau engaged some time ago to 
 take care of her children, who volunteered her ser- 
 vices in the kitchen. The new chef de cuisine served 
 us up such a capital breakfast and dinner, we began 
 to think the departure of the kits rather a good 
 thing than otherwise, especially as we shall be saved 
 paying them a large amount of wages due for the 
 last two months. 
 
 August 31, Monday. 
 Mrs. D. was taken ill this morning and confined 
 in less than half-an-hour. I had just time to rush 
 into the gentlemen's room and wake up Dr. Part- 
 ridge, fly into Emmie's room and get a purdah, 
 which we rolled her on to carry her into her old 
 room where the shell had burst, before her third 
 
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 little son made his appearance. I was never more 
 astonished in my life. When we had set down the 
 bed I ran to ask Emmie for some baby clothes, as 
 there were none ready ; before I got back again I 
 heard a cry, and the first thing I saw was the little 
 new-born ; the very image of his poor father ; every 
 one who saw it remarked it instantly. Emmie's 
 nurse came in to wash and dress the poor little 
 thing, and James has been all day trying to find a 
 nurse, but has not yet succeeded, so I have been in 
 attendance when necessary ; but poor little Ally is 
 too ill to be left, so I hope we shall find some one to 
 come soon. 
 
 After breakfast Emmie vacated the hospital-room, 
 as she is now quite well enough to come out, and 
 we have moved Mrs. D. into her place opposite 
 Mrs. Fayrer's bed. I have not sat down to-day a 
 minute ; what with nursing and cooking for invalids, 
 I never was so busy in my life. 
 
 September 1, Tuesday. 
 I sat up with Mrs. D. and baby last night ; both 
 were very restless. The baby would not be quiet, 
 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 107 
 
 except in his mother's bed or my arms ; the nurse 
 came this morning, whom J. succeeded in getting 
 yesterday. Her arrival was a great relief to me, 
 little Ally requiring such constant nursing I could 
 not attend to his mother and him at the same time. 
 Two Martiniere boys have been taken away to 
 grind grain by order of the Brigadier ; so we are 
 again distressed for servants and obliged to work 
 harder than ever. 
 
 September 2, "Wednesday. 
 J. engaged Mrs. Weston, the sexton's wife, a half- 
 caste, to come and help in the kitchen, and wash up 
 plates and dishes. A very sad thing occurred this 
 evening : Mr. Birch was shot through the body by 
 some fatal mistake through one of our own loop- 
 holes. His wife was the daughter of Colonel 
 Brown, who commanded the artillery at Peshawur, 
 and whose death-bed James attended a year and a 
 half ago. She was only married last January, and 
 escaped with her husband in here from the massacre 
 at Seetapore a short time before the siege began. 
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 wounded, and James was with him when he died. 
 Mrs. Birch is expecting her confinement ; her father- 
 in-law, Colonel Birch, was murdered at Seetapore ; 
 it is altogether a sad story. 
 
 September 4. 
 Major Bruere, 13th N. I., was killed this afternoon 
 on the top of the brigade mess ; he has left a wife 
 and four children. 
 
 September 5. 
 Mr. Graham, one of the officers who escaped in 
 here from Secrora, committed suicide this morning ; 
 he was quite out of his mind. His poor wife was 
 only confined a few days ago, and has just* lost one 
 of her children. The enemy gave us an attack 
 to-day about breakfast time, but it did not last long ; 
 they blew up three mines, none of which did us any 
 damage. 
 
 September 6, Sunday. 
 
 It is four years to-day since we sailed from Ports- 
 mouth, and I looked my last on my own dearest 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 109 
 
 father's loved face; shall I ever see Mamma and 
 the other precious ones again ? God only knows, 
 and I pray that His will may be done. Baby B. 
 was christened this afternoon ; his name is Percy 
 Arthur. I stood proxy for his godmother, who is 
 Emmie's sister, Mrs. Fulcher ; Henry O'Dowda 
 stood for his godfathers, Uncle Will and a brother 
 of Emmie's. The dear little babe looked lovely ; 
 he is so fair and white, and has such pretty blue 
 eyes ; he should have been a girl. 
 
 September 8, Tuesday. 
 Captain Simonds, of the artillery, died to-day ; 
 he was wounded at Chinhut, and has been suffering 
 ever since ; his wife and children went to the hills 
 just before the disturbances began. Mr. Schilling 
 is staying here for a little change ; he is very 
 unwell. 
 
 September 10, Thursday. 
 Darling little Mary Farrer's fourth birthday; 
 God bless and keep the dear child ! I long to hear 
 she is safe and well. The enemy have been com- 
 
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 paratively quiet the last day or two. The report is 
 that many of them are departing towards Fyzabad, 
 which makes us hope that Delhi has fallen. Mrs. 
 Boileau's youngest child is very ill indeed ; the 
 others are all better — the two siege babies flourish- 
 ing. The weather is much cooler, for which one 
 can't be too thankful. I have the sole charge of 
 little Ally D., and now he is getting better, but is 
 not well enough to play about, nor ill enough to lie 
 down as he used to do ; I seldom have him out of 
 my arms, and feel rather as if he must be my own 
 child ; he is getting such a darling. 
 
 September 13, Sunday. 
 Poor little Ina Boileau died in the night ; she 
 was so very ill all yesterday, we knew she could not 
 live ; her poor mother, who had been watching her 
 all night, had fallen asleep quite exhausted, and 
 when she awoke she found the poor child quite cold 
 in her arms ; her cry of anguish awoke us all ; poor 
 creature ! she is distracted, and reproaches herself 
 with having gone to sleep ; but of course she could 
 not help it, and she would not allow any one else to 
 
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 watch with her. Captain Mansfield of the 32nd 
 was seized with cholera during the night and died 
 this morning. This day year we started for Cash- 
 mere from Murrie : what a contrast to our present 
 captive condition, and how little we then dreamt of 
 what was coming to pass ! The service here was at 
 half-past two, and we had the comfort of Holy 
 Communion. Mrs. Polehampton, Mrs. Barbor, and 
 a few outsiders came. James generally holds four 
 or five services on Sunday in different parts of the 
 garrison — this house, the brigade mess, the Tye 
 Khana of the Kesidency, the hospitals, &c. Besides 
 visiting the sick and burying, he administers the 
 Holy Communion at one place or another every 
 Sunday, taking the different houses in turn. A 
 prisoner was taken last night ; he was a grass- 
 cutter of the 7th Cavalry, found straying inside our 
 intrenchments ; he gave information that news had 
 been received in the city of General Havelock's 
 advanced guard having crossed the Ganges ; that 
 many of the Sepoys had gone off to their villages 
 with plunder, and that the enemy now surrounding 
 us consisted of the city people and zemindars of the 
 country; that the whole of Oude to a man was 
 
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 hostile to us, but they were very much disheartened 
 at not yet having been able to take us, and were of 
 opinion now that if they besieged us for twelve 
 years they should never succeed, which is satis- 
 factory for us to hear at all events. 
 
 September 14, Monday. 
 This evening, when James went over to the 
 hospital, he was dreadfully shocked to find poor 
 Captain Fulton had just been brought there killed 
 by a round shot at Mr. Gubbins's bastion ; his head 
 was completely smashed, and nothing but the mask 
 of the face left ; he was the chief engineer after 
 Major Anderson's death, and his loss to the garrison 
 is irreparable ; he has a widow and six children at 
 Simla — poor things ! Mrs. D. came out of her room 
 this evening for the first time; she has got on 
 famously. 
 
 September 15. 
 Captain Fullerton died last night ; he walked out 
 of the hospital window in the upper story, whether 
 in sleep or delirium is not known ; he was taken up 
 
THE SIEGE OF LTTCKNOW. 113 
 
 insensible, and never spoke again. A round shot 
 came through the hospital whilst James was there this 
 evening and passed from one end to the other two 
 feet above the men's beds, alarming the poor invalids 
 most terribly. 
 
 September 17, Thursday. 
 The eightieth day of the siege. We were all 
 sitting out in the verandah this evening when an 
 8-inch shell fell and exploded in a lane opposite, not 
 twenty yards off. No one was touched, but we 
 all flew into the house like frightened sheep. Mrs. 
 D. came back to the common sleeping-room to-day, 
 and Miss Schilling and Bobbie turned into the hos- 
 pital-room with Mrs. Fayrer. This entailed a fresh 
 arrangement of beds, which took up some of my 
 time this afternoon. 
 
 September 18. 
 There was a partial eclipse of the sun between 
 nine and ten this morning. The natives look upon it 
 as a bad omen, and predict a famine, which, as the 
 successor of war, is not unlikely to happen. 
 
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 September 19. 
 James was sent for last night to see a poor 
 woman, the wife of a writer, who was shot through 
 the lungs as she was sitting at work in her room 
 with her children round her, when a musket ball 
 came through the window. With this exception 
 yesterday was a white day in the siege — no funerals, 
 and no admissions into hospital. The season is 
 extraordinarily healthy for the time of year ; there 
 seems to be a special Providence guarding us from 
 the usual sickness prevailing this month. Dr. Fayrer 
 says, in his seven years' experience of India, he has 
 never known so healthy a September. We have 
 also been mercifully spared epidemics, which would 
 inevitably have destroyed us, and at one time both 
 cholera and small-pox seemed impending. There 
 were several fatal cases both in July and the be- 
 ginning of August, but they have since totally dis- 
 appeared. An auction took place this morning on 
 the property of a 32nd officer who had died. The 
 value of things has undergone a curious metamor- 
 phosis; three very old flannel shirts sold for 105 
 rupees, while a handsome new uniform went for 12. 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 115 
 
 A pair of old boots sold for 12 rupees, and a bottle 
 of brandy for 20. 
 
 September 20, Sunday. 
 I was made quite miserable this morning by the 
 loss of my dear little old Christian Year given me 
 by darling mother on my seventeenth birthday, and 
 which has been my constant companion ever since ; 
 I left it on the hall table for a minute, and when I 
 came back it had disappeared, and, upon inquiry, I 
 got out of Anna Boileau that Master Georgie had 
 walked off with it : the little wretch, however, denied 
 all knowledge of it, and after vainly endeavouring, 
 by scolding and coaxing, to make him tell where it 
 was, and searching every hole and corner of the 
 house I could think of, I gave it up as hopeless, and 
 felt quite unhappy all day. In the evening, just 
 after dinner, up comes Captain Weston with my lost 
 treasure in his hand. Something of his had fallen 
 out of window, and in picking it up he discovered 
 my dear little book among a heap of empty bottles, 
 where the magpie boy must have hidden and for- 
 gotten it. We had service here with the Holy 
 
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116 A LADY'S DIARY OF 
 
 Communion at half-past two to-day. It is little 
 Georgie F.'s first birthday — a sad anniversary for 
 dear Fred. James and I did not forget the pre- 
 cious little one. What would we not give to know 
 that both children and Fred are safe and well ! 
 
 September 21, Monday. 
 It began raining in the middle of the night, and 
 we have had quite an English wet day, delightfully 
 cool. 
 
 September 22, Tuesday. 
 
 Rain all day. Poor Mr. Cunliffe died. 
 
 September 23, Wednesday. 
 We were all awoke between one and two last 
 night by the arrival of Colonel Palmer with joyful 
 tidings that delightful old pensioner Unget, who has 
 always brought us in the only letters we received 
 from outside, has come back with one from Sir 
 J. Outram, dated the 20th, in which he states that 
 he crossed the Ganges on the 19th with a complete 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 117 
 
 army, and, by the blessing of God, will relieve us in 
 a few days. Mrs. Boileau and Mrs. Anderson hap- 
 pened to be awake, and heard Colonel Palmer tell- 
 ing the gentlemen in the next room ; they listened 
 anxiously to every word, and then woke all the rest 
 of us to impart the happy news. Oh, it seems really 
 as if one never could be thankful enough ! the looked- 
 for relief will come just as all hearts are beginning 
 to fail. There will doubtless be very hard fighting 
 before our brave friends are able to raise the siege 
 for us. The enemy seem as determined and active 
 against us as ever, and not one whit daunted by the 
 news they must have had that help for us was at 
 hand. May God in his great mercy grant us the 
 victory ! Heavy distant firing was distinctly heard 
 this afternoon. A round shot, 24-pounder, came 
 through the window of Mrs. D.'s room to-day and 
 filled our little dressing-room with dust, but did 
 no other mischief, though the poor bheestie who was 
 filling the water-jugs rushed out in a most awful 
 fright, and could scarcely believe he wasn't killed. 
 
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 September 24, Thursday. 
 Distant firing heard all the morning, and numbers 
 of Sepoys seen flying in disorder from the direction 
 of Cawnpore. The enemy round us have been re- 
 markably silent. The excitement in garrison is 
 intense. Dr. Partridge and Captain Weston went 
 to the top of the Residency and distinguished plainly 
 the smoke of the guns, which they fancied were 
 about four miles distant. Unget, the bearer of good 
 news, who has brought in all the letters, is to receive 
 500 rupees for each ; he will get 1500 for the 
 three. Well does he deserve it. We are indebted 
 to him for every scrap of news we have been able to 
 procure from the outer world during three weary 
 months, so closely have we been invested. He 
 stated in his last deposition that the number of the 
 besieging army was 15,000, and the force with Sir 
 J. Outram 6000, of whom 5000 were Europeans, 
 and the rest Seikhs. Among the former are 200 
 gentlemen volunteers, who form a body of cavalry. 
 Delhi has not yet fallen. 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 119 
 
 September 25, Friday. 
 
 The enemy made two attacks during the night. 
 Captain Ratcliffe of the 7th Cavalry was mortally 
 wounded at the Cawnpore battery by a round shot. 
 He will be a terrible loss to his wife and a very 
 large family. 
 
 Continued firing in the city all day. 
 
 September 26, Saturday. 
 Yesterday evening, on the eighty-eighth day of the 
 siege, our long-looked for and so often despaired-of 
 "relief" arrived. Never shall I forget the momen„ 
 to the latest day I live. It was most overpowering. 
 We had no idea they were so near, and were breath- 
 ing air in the portico as usual at that hour, specu- 
 lating when they might be in, not expecting they 
 could reach us for several days longer, when 
 suddenly, just at dark, we heard a very sharp fire 
 of musketry quite close by, and then a tremendous 
 cheering; an instant after, the sound of bagpipes, 
 then soldiers running up the road, our compound 
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 shaking hands frantically, and exchanging fervent 
 " God bless you's " with the gallant men and officers 
 of the 78th Highlanders. Sir James Outram and 
 staff were the next to come in, and the state of 
 joyful confusion and excitement is beyond all de- 
 scription. The big, rough-bearded soldiers were 
 seizing the little children out of our arms, kissing 
 them with tears rolling down their cheeks, and 
 thanking God they had come in time to save them 
 from the fate of those at Cawnpore. We were all 
 rushing about to give the poor fellows drinks of 
 water, for they were perfectly exhausted ; and tea 
 was made down in the Tye Khana, of which a large 
 party of tired thirsty officers partook, without milk 
 or sugar, and we had nothing to give them to eat. 
 Every one's tongue seemed going at once with so 
 much to ask and to tell, and the faces of utter 
 strangers beamed upon each other like those of 
 dearest friends and brothers. In the crowd I 
 suddenly found myself caught hold of by both hands 
 and warmly greeted by my old friend Walter Birch. 
 Two old Peshawur friends also turned up, Captain 
 Commeline and Mr. Battine. From the latter we 
 heard the terrible fate of poor Edward and Maggie B. 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 121 
 
 at Hissar. They were both murdered in May, soon 
 after the disturbances first began at Delhi. Ed- 
 ward was shot on the parade-ground, and Maggie 
 cut to pieces in the house. Willie B. has escaped 
 to the hills from Bareilly — he and a Mr. Hunter 
 of his regiment (18th N. I.). The Punjaub has 
 remained quiet — thanks, humanly speaking, to the 
 vigorous and stern policy of Sir John Lawrence. 
 Poor Mrs. Fayrer's brother was killed at Saugor. 
 Dr. F. has not told her the sad news, as he does not 
 think her strong enough to bear it. Mrs. Boileau 
 has letters from her husband, who is safe at Benares. 
 The enemy's fire was very heavy all yesterday, as 
 if in defiance, and just before dinner an 8-inch shell 
 fell and burst in this house ; the pieces were picked 
 up in all directions, several in Mrs. Fayrer's room, 
 yet wonderful to relate no one was struck. The 
 "reinforcement" — for alas! "relief" is the wrong 
 word — turns out to be very much smaller than we 
 were led by Unget's statement to expect. They 
 only started 3000 strong from Cawnpore. The 
 force consists of parts of the 78th and 90th High- 
 landers, Her Majesty's 84th, 64th, 5th Fusiliers, 
 and the 1st Madras Fusiliers, the Ferozepore regi- 
 
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 ment of Seikhs, 200 volunteer cavalry, and some 
 artillery. They had a tremendous day's fight to get 
 in here ; every inch of the ground through the city 
 was contended for, and the loss of life has been 
 terrible, some 30 officers and 500 rank and file 
 killed and wounded. The heavy baggage with 
 about 500 men and a couple of guns were left out- 
 side the city at a garden called the Alumbagh, so 
 that the force which reached us brought with them 
 no stores or provisions of any kind. Sir James 
 Outram has made this house his head-quarters ; he 
 and his staff occupy the long room, in which the 
 gentlemen sleep, and the drawing-room. 
 
 This morning a force was sent out to bring in the 
 guns which were left outside the intrenchments last 
 night, and Mr. Thornhill, who acted as guide 
 through the streets, was dangerously wounded. 
 Colonel Cooper, of the Artillery, one of the gentle- 
 men who was drinking tea here last night, was 
 killed. The guns, however, were safely brought in. 
 The enemy's fire still continues very annoying, 
 though it is now from a greater distance, as our 
 troops occupy the ground immediately round us, 
 and have taken possession of the Tera Kotee, and 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 123 
 
 one of the palaces at the back of this house, about a 
 quarter of a mile off, called Ferreed Bux. 
 
 Our prospects to-day look gloomy enough. The 
 disappointment is severe at finding the force which 
 has arrived, instead of being strong enough to 
 relieve, will in a manner increase our difficulties, by 
 giving us treble more mouths to feed out of the 
 scanty provisions left us. All at present is dire con- 
 fusion and dismay, and faces in garrison longer 
 even than before. Councils of war are sitting ; as 
 yet no line of action is decided on. Whether we 
 are to evacuate Oude, and attempt a retreat on 
 Cawnpore, or remain at Lucknow, and endeavour 
 to obtain provisions by force, has yet not been 
 determined — a retreat through the streets with so 
 many women, children, sick and wounded, would be 
 a terrible alternative, and I fancy would only be 
 adopted as a very desperate measure. There was a 
 little gleam, however, of sunshine in the shape of 
 good news of success at Delhi. An extraordinary 
 event happened to-day. Three prisoners were 
 brought in, and undergoing a summary trial by 
 drum-head court-martial, when a round shot struck 
 and killed the trio. We heard that fifty people, 
 
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 among whom were several ladies and gentlemen 
 and native Christians, were murdered in the city at 
 the approach of General Outranks force ; also that a 
 party of nine, four gentlemen and five ladies, tried 
 to join the force on the road coming in, but were 
 followed by some sepoys, and all cut up almost 
 within reach of our troops. J. had nineteen funerals 
 this evening. The hospital is so densely crowded 
 that many have to lie outside in the open air, with- 
 out bed or shelter. J. says he never saw such a 
 heart-sickening scene. It is far worse than after 
 Chinhut — amputated arms and legs lying about in 
 heaps all over the hospital, and the crowd and con- 
 fusion such that little can be done to alleviate the 
 intense discomfort and pain of the poor sufferers. 
 
 I heard last night for the first time the particulars 
 of the horrible tragedy at Cawnpore. (Then follows 
 an account, which is here omitted, being already so 
 well known in England.) 
 
 At Jhansi, where Louisa R. had been stationed, 
 not a soul escaped.* The account of that tragedy 
 is still more dreadful — children were burnt before 
 their parents ; wives insulted, mutilated, and mur- 
 
 * Yes, a few did, and Mr. Ryves was one. 
 
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 dered before their husbands, who were kept to the 
 last and then bayoneted. The Futtyghur people 
 were blown from guns, and those who escaped 
 butchered at Cawnpore. How shall we be thankful 
 enough for the mercy which has hitherto so miracu- 
 lously been shown to us ? I am very happy to hear 
 that Simla has been quiet ; so I hope the dear little 
 ones up there are safe. At Murrie there has been 
 disturbance, but it was soon put down. 
 
 September 27, Sunday. 
 A sortie was made to take some guns on the 
 Cawnpore side. The expedition was a failure-^-only 
 150 went out, not enough to do any good : lost 
 many lives, and only spiked three guns, which will 
 be unspiked as soon as their backs are turned. Our 
 position seems more precarious than ever, as there 
 is more danger now of starvation. The enemy sur- 
 rounds us again on all sides, so that retreat from 
 this dreadful place is next to impossible. One 
 great danger the arrival of the reinforcement, how- 
 ever, saved us from, for which we cannot be too 
 thankful. Three mines were discovered, which had 
 
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 not even been suspected by the old garrison, and 
 which, if completed, must inevitably have destroyed 
 us : one was under the Redan battery, and two 
 under the Treasury and Bailie Guard, close to the 
 back of this house. 
 
 Mrs. D.'s baby was christened this afternoon 
 Arthur Frederick ; Charlie D. was one godfather ; 
 I stood proxv. There were twenty-five funerals 
 this evening. 
 
 September 28. 
 
 Our siege is as close as ever. The enemy have 
 returned in great numbers and broken down all the 
 bridges leading from the city, so that retreat for us 
 is out of the question. A kossid arrived this after- 
 noon with a despatch from Delhi. We have been 
 victorious there, and taken every part of the city 
 but the palace, which was expected to fall in a 
 couple of days. The loss of life has been terrible. 
 Colonel Nicholson, who commanded a brigade, is 
 mortally wounded. It was only this time last year 
 we were dining with him, and feasting on the 
 delicious grapes he used to send us in Cashmere. 
 
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 He was such a splendid soldier I am sure his loss 
 will be severely felt ; and how the death of such a 
 very dear friend will grieve Colonel Edwardes ! 
 The troops have been resting to-day; they much 
 needed. The enemy has been tolerably silent. 
 
 Michaelmas Day, Tuesday. 
 Dear old B.'s wedding-day. God bless the dear 
 old thing ! I daresay she is anxious enough about 
 our fate. A sortie was made this morning by a 
 thousand of our men. They blew up four of the 
 enemy's guns, brought two inside, and spiked others, 
 besides blowing up about a dozen houses and kill- 
 ing many of the enemy. The loss on our side was 
 thirty killed and wounded, among whom I hear five 
 officers. We had the * Home News ' of the 30th 
 August lent us to-day. We were all ready to 
 devour it, so I read aloud all the morning to a most 
 attentive audience of ladies. It is a comfort to 
 know that there are 20,000 troops on their way out 
 from England. I was so delighted to see in a bit 
 of newspaper which came here, that both Mr. 
 Ryves and Mr. Tyrwhitt had escaped the Jhansi 
 massacre ! 
 
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 September 30. 
 
 Three months to-day since the battle of Chinhut 
 and commencement of our siege. I finished my 
 darling little nephew's frock to-day — oh, I wonder 
 if he will ever have it ! I have done a great deal 
 of work during the siege ; besides dear Chip's frock 
 I made a flannel-shirt for poor Mr. Polehampton, 
 two for Henry O'Dowde, a jumper for Captain 
 Weston, a dress for Mrs. D., ditto for myself, 
 besides baby-things for the siege babies born in 
 this house. 
 
 We bought some very pretty cups and saucers 
 to-day from a soldier of the 90th. The Ferreed 
 Bux was full of china and all sorts of valuable 
 things, and the soldiers are constantly offering 
 articles for sale. I got a prize in the shape of 
 seven pairs of thread stockings, which I much 
 needed. 
 
 October 1. 
 
 The volunteer cavalry went out last night, with 
 orders if possible to cut their way back to the 
 Alumbagh, and on to Cawnpore ; but they were 
 
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 compelled to return before they had gone a quarter 
 of a mile. The fire which was opened upon them 
 made it impossible to proceed. The enemy are all 
 round us again in great force ; they attacked our 
 outposts in the middle of the night, and there was 
 tremendous firing for about an hour. There are 
 several officers here who were at Jellalabad, and 
 they all say that siege was mere child's play to this. 
 The investment of this place has been so complete, 
 that with the exception of the three letters brought 
 in by " Unget," we have had no communication 
 whatever with the outer world. Maun Singh, one 
 of the most powerful of the Oude Rajahs, with 
 whom Sir James Outram has been trying to nego- 
 tiate, has declared against us, and is heading the 
 rebels ; so no hope of aid from that quarter. We 
 have heard that all the servants who ran away from 
 the garrison and went into the city were shot, 
 because they had served Europeans, and they 
 offered a reward of five rupees for every servant's 
 head : so the poor creatures gained nothing by their 
 desertion. 
 
 Some troops made a sortie this afternoon to take 
 the guns on the Cawnpore side. They went very 
 
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 cautiously to work, first taking possession of the 
 houses which command the battery, and were very 
 successful : we only lost two men killed and two 
 wounded. A soldier of the Madras Fusileers was 
 discovered in a well, where the poor fellow had 
 been hiding several days ; he had fortunately some 
 tea-leaves and biscuits in his pockets, on which he 
 had managed to support life ; he had heard the 
 enemy all round him, and had not dared utter a 
 sound ; but his joy was great when he heard 
 European voices, and he shouted loudly for help in 
 spite of his exhausted state. 
 
 Both poor Mrs. Ouseley's children died to-day, 
 within ten minutes of each other; the baby was 
 born the same day as little Percy B. ; the other 
 was two years : they are first cousins of Sir Frederic's. 
 
 We made another sortie, took three more guns, 
 and blew up several houses. J. took me a little 
 walk this evening, and I saw for the first time what 
 terrible destruction has been wrought by shot and 
 shell on all the buildings round. The Residency I 
 should never have recognised: it is quite a ruin. 
 This house is so riddled with balls at the back and 
 one side, you could scarcely put a pin's head 
 
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 between them. I had a visit this evening from a 
 Captain Scott, 12th N. I., a great friend of Louisa 
 Ryves' ; he came to make acquaintance, having 
 heard her speak of me. I heard from him of her 
 safe arrival with her children in England, and her 
 husband's escape from Jhansi : he fortunately hap- 
 pened to be out of the station, and made his way 
 across country to Agra. 
 
 October 4, Sunday. 
 A year to-day since dear G. F. died. I was glad 
 the anniversary fell on a Sunday; and I had an 
 opportunity of attending service and receiving the 
 Holy Communion, and giving thanks for those dear 
 ones who we trust are gone to their rest. There 
 was a very large congregation at the brigade mess, 
 and they nearly all communicated. It is a great 
 blessing that now we can have a public service 
 every Sunday. They arrange the mess-room very 
 well, and it holds a good number of people. Walter 
 Birch came to speak to us after church, and told us 
 he was going out with a force this afternoon to try 
 and reach the Alumbagh ; and if he reached it in 
 
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 safety he would be able to send a letter home, and 
 would let dearest mother know we were alive and 
 well. The expedition however was countermanded. 
 A horrible report was published in Calcutta, that 
 Lucknow had fallen and we were all massacred : if 
 this goes to England it will be dreadful. I am so 
 anxious they should hear the truth as soon as 
 possible. 
 
 Afternoon service was held at this house at three, 
 and a great many came. In the evening I walked 
 with C. and E. to call on their regimental doctor's 
 wife, Mrs. Brydon, at the Ommaney's house, where 
 they have a snug little room to themselves, instead 
 of living in public as we do here ; they looked so 
 cosey we came home quite envious. 
 
 October 6, Tuesday. 
 
 The enemy attacked our outpost at the Ferreed 
 Bux this morning, but were repulsed with great loss ; 
 we lost ten, killed and wounded. The troops have 
 been withdrawn from the extended position they 
 occupied down the Cawnpore road — we were not 
 strong enough to maintain it. The loss in killed 
 
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 and wounded since the reinforcement left Cawnpore 
 was four days ago computed at 800 rank and file 
 and 50 officers — nearly a third of the force. At 
 the commencement of the siege there were 150 
 officers in garrison, out of which number there are 
 90 killed or wounded. The casualties at this post, 
 from the 30th of June to £5th of September, were 
 13 killed and 30 wounded. Weston s (our clerk) 
 child, Adolphus by name, was shot through the 
 head in the verandah of the church this afternoon. 
 
 October 7. 
 A 24-pounder came through the window of Mrs. 
 D.'s room this morning. It was a spent ball 
 thrown from a great distance, and did not penetrate 
 the opposite wall. Sir James Outram received a 
 letter from the Alumbagh this evening, with news 
 of the safe arrival there of 60 carts of commissariat 
 stores, escorted by 250 men with two guns. They 
 had found the road perfectly clear from Cawnpore. 
 The enemy have received reinforcements from 
 Delhi. It is now generally acknowledged, that but 
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 could never have held out against this tremendous 
 increase in the number of besiegers : and it is very 
 doubtful whether any natives would have remained 
 with us after the 1st if no troops had arrived. In 
 spite of excessively short commons, there is cause for 
 great thankfulness for their timely help. Our 
 rations are considerably reduced, and we often leave 
 off dinner as hungry as when we began. The 
 General has put out "an order,'* most lavish in 
 praise of the Lucknow garrison, which he terms 
 "more than illustrious." 
 
 October 8. 
 
 A house blown up to-day, and a large number of 
 the enemy destroyed. 
 
 October 9. 
 James engaged a Madras servant, a smart-looking 
 man in a very elaborate turban and yellow " choga," 
 and speaks English : his name is Choonia. 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 135 
 
 October 10. 
 
 News come of the complete fall of Delfei. King 
 and queen in our hands, and complete possession of 
 the place. It has been a dearly-bought victory — 
 62 officers and 1300 men fallen; and when the 
 news left Delhi there were 3000 wounded in hos- 
 pital. A rebel force of 6000, with 18 guns, had 
 escaped downwards, and are on their way to Luck- 
 now; but Colonel Greathed with 3000 men was in 
 pursuit on the left bank of the Jumna, and hoped 
 speedily to overtake them. 
 
 October 11, Sunday. 
 Service and Holy Communion at the brigade 
 mess this morning. Afternoon here at three. J. 
 also had service and Holy Communion at the 
 Begum Kotee, for the wounded officers : this, with 
 two services in hospital, besides visiting the sick and 
 funerals, is hard work for one day, and he is quite 
 tired out this evening. A letter came from Cawn- 
 pore this evening. Colonel Greathed's force had 
 encountered the rebels at Allyghur, and given 
 
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 them a thorough beating. We may look for his 
 arrival at Cawnpore in a few days, and other troops 
 from Calcutta are on their way ; so our hopes are 
 once more raised. The weather is getting quite 
 pleasantly cool, and it is wonderful how all the 
 children have improved the last few days ; dear 
 little Ally looks quite a different child, and is 
 getting fat and rosy again. 
 
 October 12, Monday. 
 Poor Mr. Thornhill died ; he was wounded the 
 day after the reinforcements arrived, and lost his 
 arm and his right eye ; his poor little wife only 
 lost her first baby about a week before : they were 
 married last January. Dr. Fayrer is ill with fever. 
 
 October 13, Tuesday. 
 
 The enemy made an attack on the 78th piquet 
 this afternoon, but were soon driven back. 
 
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 October 14, Wednesday. ' 
 Emily and I took possession once more of 
 the room we occupied before the siege. J. and 
 Charlie have been hard at work getting , the 
 rubbish cleared out and setting it all in order for 
 us ; it has had four round shot through it, and was 
 so knocked about I did not think it could ever 
 have been habitable again; we only use it as a 
 dressing-room, but it is a great comfort, having a 
 private retreat we can be quiet in sometimes ; the 
 windows are barricaded with boxes filled with earth, 
 to protect us from musketry, and all the guns on 
 that side are gone ; so we are supposed to be safe 
 from round shot at that end of the house. A Seikh 
 Sowar, who deserted from the garrison some time 
 ago, returned this morning : he reported that many 
 deserters in the enemy's camp wished to return to 
 their allegiance, but I hope we shall have nothing 
 to do with such double-distilled traitors. We had 
 nothing for breakfast this morning but choppaties 
 and boiled peas — very scanty fare. This evening 
 dear James was coming out of the churchyard, 
 when he saw a man in front of him tumble over, 
 
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 he ran to him and found that a round shot had 
 taken off the poor fellow's leg ; if it had come a 
 yard or two farther, it would have struck James 
 instead. There was an auction held to-day : cigars 
 sold for two rupees a-piece, and a very old flannel- 
 shirt of poor Captain Fulton's, which had seen 
 service in all the mines about the place, and was 
 covered with mud and dirt, sold for forty-five 
 rupees. 
 
 October 15. 
 
 James was told to-day the sad details of the fate 
 of the poor Moncrieffs at Cawnpore. They were 
 murdered down the river. Mr. Moncrieff begged 
 for a few minutes, and began offering up a prayer, 
 but before he had said many words the butchery 
 commenced. His wife, who had been dragged off 
 with the other ladies, rushed across to him and clung 
 to him so closely that the wretches could not sepa- 
 rate them, so they were both killed together. Their 
 little child had died before. We have provisions 
 enough, according to the present rate of rations, to 
 last till the 25th of November. Our store of wine 
 and beer is come to an end, and I have finished my 
 
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 last piece of soap, and am obliged to use some stuff 
 called "basin," which is a sort of oatmeal, as a 
 substitute. 
 
 October 16. 
 We had a visit this morning from Mr. Delafosse, 
 one of the two officers who escaped the massacre at 
 Cawnpore. He gave us a long account of the hor- 
 rible tragedy. . . . Out of 900 English at Cawn- 
 pore, 400 of whom were women and 200 children, 
 only four people survived; — Mr. Delafosse, Mr. 
 Thompson, and two soldiers, one of whom has since 
 died of cholera. Three boats succeeded in getting 
 away down the stream, but the enemy pursued them 
 with two 9-pounders, and they were all sunk before 
 they had gone a mile. Fourteen men saved them- 
 selves by swimming. They effected a landing, and 
 took refuge in a tower, but were soon surrounded, 
 and the enemy set fire to it and smoked them out. 
 They then made a rush, and charged through them, 
 but only four out of the fourteen reached the river. 
 They swam six miles, and at last landed on the 
 other side, in the territory of a friendly rajah, who 
 treated them very kindly, and under whose protec- 
 
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 tion they remained till they heard of General Have- 
 lock's advance, and joined his force. 
 
 October 17, Saturday. 
 Mrs. D. and her baby removed to the Om- 
 maneys'. Mrs. Ouseley persuaded her to come 
 and occupy a little room which was vacant just 
 above her's, which she will have to herself. Ally 
 is left in my charge, as she is anything but strong, 
 and one child is quite enough for her to take care 
 of at present. A letter was received this evening 
 from Cawnpore, giving little information though 
 about movement of the troops this way, and we are 
 still ignorant when we may expect relief. 
 
 October 18, St. Luke's Day. 
 We went to church at the brigade-mess this 
 morning and had service here at three. Since the 
 arrival of the reinforcements we have been able to 
 get a few more servants. James has got me a 
 bearer, who relieves me of the dusting, and now 
 we have our Madras man and the B.s have got a 
 
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 kit there is no need for ladies to wash up cups 
 and saucers, so I only superintend tha general 
 work and see that it is properly done. Ally takes 
 up a great deal of time and attention. Now he 
 is kept away from natives he begins to talk Eng- 
 lish and understand anything I say to him in his 
 mother-tongue. He is a dear little fellow, and 
 wonderfully improved. After he has gone to bed I 
 go down and make tea in the Tye Khana. Mrs. 
 Clarke makes it in the early morning, and Miss 
 Halford for breakfast; so we divide the labour 
 between us. It is a long time since we tasted milk 
 or sugar in our tea ; the goats have been dry for 
 months, but Mrs. Ouseley sends Ally a little every 
 day. I am quite used now to no sugar, and don't 
 mean ever to take to it again. 
 
 October 19, Monday. 
 The enemy gave us an attack last night, and 
 kept up a tremendous fire for some time. I went 
 to see Mrs. D. early this morning. She is very 
 comfortable in her little room, and looks better for 
 the change. An officer's servant found his way in 
 
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 from Alumbagh last night with the ' Home News ' 
 of the 25th of August. We had only a glimpse of 
 it here, and Captain Weston read out loud just the 
 heads of news — Interest about the state of India in 
 England intense — Troops started overland — A meet- 
 ing in London and subscriptions made for the suf- 
 ferers by the rebellion — The news of Sir H. L.'s 
 death and investment of Lucknow had been re- 
 ceived. The crisis of our fate is now approaching 
 awfully near. We have only provisions till the 25th 
 of next month, and no certainty yet of relief. The 
 good health prevailing in the garrison now is quite 
 extraordinary. This is generally the most sickly 
 time of year, yet there are no cases of fever, and the 
 wounded are the only invalids. Soldiers are all the 
 better for having no grog, and there is no grumbling 
 about the privation. They are all in excellent 
 spirits, and the poor 32nd improving every day. 
 
 October 20. 
 General Outram received letters from Cawnpore 
 last night. A large force is assembling there fast. 
 Sir Colin Campbell arrived as far as Allahabad. 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 143 
 
 The Delhi column was thirty-six miles from Cawn- 
 pore on the 17th. Maun Singh has been making 
 offers of submission. There was a report in garrison 
 to-day that the enemy intended making a desperate 
 attack at 3 p.m. The troops were all under arms, 
 but nothing came of it. 
 
 October 21. 
 Maun Singh sent a letter to Sir James last night 
 putting himself under his orders. He has been 
 desired to send in a vakeel, or accredited ambassa- 
 dor, to-night. Heavy firing heard out at the Alum- 
 bagh while we were at breakfast. A boy of the 
 32 nd was killed by a round-shot at the hospital to- 
 day, and a man of the 78th Highlanders at the 
 Residency lookout-tower. Three natives were shot 
 in Mr. Gubbins's compound. The enemy sprung 
 two of their mines, but did no mischief. 
 
 October 22, Thursday. 
 No vakeel from Maun Singh appeared last night. 
 Very heavy distant firing heard ; to-day some say 
 
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 at Alumbagh, others pronounce it to be much 
 farther off. 
 
 October 23, Friday. 
 
 No news in, and no explanation of the distant 
 firing. I had an escape this evening: a bullet 
 went through the leg of the chair I was sitting 
 on; it just glanced upwards and struck me on 
 the side, but having expended its force on the 
 chair, I was not hurt 
 
 October 24, Saturday. 
 A rumour is rife in the garrison that the English 
 troops at Cawnpore have given the rebels another 
 beating at Bithoor, the Nana's place, and also that 
 two regiments have arrived at Alumbagh, 
 
 October 25, Sunday. 
 A month to-day since the force which was sent 
 to relieve us arrived, and here we are as closely 
 besieged as ever. The distant firing we heard 
 
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 the other day was an attack on the Alumbagh, 
 but the enemy were easily repulsed. Maun Singh 
 sent a letter to the General to-day ; the purport of 
 it has not transpired. We went to church at the 
 Brigade mess, where we received the Holy Com- 
 munion. Service here at 3 p.m. 
 
 October 26, Monday. 
 Two letters were received from Cawnpore last 
 night, and news good. The rebels had been de- 
 feated at Agra, all their guns and ammunition 
 taken, and 1000 of them killed, with only the loss 
 of six on our side. The Delhi column, under the 
 command of Colonel Hope Grant of the 9th 
 Lancers, was to arrive at Cawnpore on the 1st. 
 An army of 6000 will be collected there on the 
 10th, and on the 15th we may expect relief here. 
 A large quantity of supplies have safely reached the 
 Alumbagh. 
 
 October 27, Tuesday. 
 Another letter from Cawnpore during the night. 
 Two officers wounded to-day — Captain Graydon 
 
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 shot through the lungs, and Dr. Darby hit on the 
 head by a piece of shell. Maun Singh's vakeel 
 really appeared this afternoon, and was closeted 
 for a long time with Sir James Outram's secretary, 
 Mr. Money, but the nature of their conference is 
 the profoundest of secrets. Captain Orr has had 
 news of his brother and wife, Sir Mount Stewart 
 Jackson and sister, and some other persons, fugi- 
 tives from Seetapore, seven altogether, have been 
 brought into the city loaded with irons, and are now 
 prisoners at the Kaiser Bagh. 
 
 October 28, Wednesday. 
 A letter from Cawnpore was received last night. 
 The Delhi column arrived on the 26th. After 
 Agra they had two fights with the rebels — Myn- 
 poorie and a place near Cawnpore ; at Mynpoorie 
 we captured two lacs and a half of treasure. Char- 
 ley Dashwood managed to get a small letter sent 
 out last night concealed in a quill. He mentioned 
 both of us in it, so if it ever reaches England 
 the D.'s will be sure to let darling mother know 
 
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 that we were alive at this date. I hope in less than 
 a month we shall be able to write ourselves. Captain 
 Graydon died to-day. 
 
 October 30. 
 We have been besieged four months to-day. 
 This morning an 18-pounder came through our 
 unfortunate room again, which we flattered ourselves 
 was so safe, and which we had made so comfort- 
 able. It broke the panel of the door, and knocked 
 the whole of the barricade down, upsetting every- 
 thing. My dressing-table was sent flying through 
 the door, and if the shot had come a little earlier, 
 my head would have gone with it. The box where 
 Emily usually sits to nurse baby was smashed flat : 
 fortunately she was spending the day with Mrs. 
 Bryden, or she would probably have been in the 
 room. There was a sale to-day of Colonel Hal- 
 ford's property, and James bought some plated 
 dishes a great bargain : they will be very useful to 
 us if we ever set up house again in India. 
 
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 Sunday, All Saints' Day. 
 Thought much of my dearest father and also 
 G. F. Church services as usual. Little Ally 
 has a slight fever. I went to see poor little Mrs. 
 Banks at the Brigade mess this morning ; she looks 
 very sad. Her baby is immensely grown, and the 
 picture of health. 
 
 November 2, Monday. 
 
 The enemy's fire was very severe all day. An 
 officer was mortally wounded at the Ferreed Bux. 
 A letter was received this evening from Cawnpore- 
 The Commander-in-Chief was to be there to-day. 
 
 November 3, Tuesday. 
 Little Ally D. has a rash which is said to 
 be chicken-pox. Dr. Partridge and Dr. Fayrer 
 both say there is no use in sending Ally out of the 
 house ; by this time the other children most likely 
 have taken the infection if they are to have it, and 
 the complaint is so trifling that it is of no conse- 
 
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 quence if they do get it. I have therefore not 
 urged Mrs. D. to take Ally away, and she thinks 
 he had better stay here. As there are so many 
 children in the Ommaneys' house, it would not 
 be fair to take him there with the complaint on him, 
 so the poor little man stays here. 
 
 November 4. 
 
 The anniversary of my own dearest father's birth- 
 day. This day year we crossed the Cashmere terri- 
 tory in our way back to Peshawur, and I wrote to 
 wish him many happy returns of the day, little 
 thinking he would never see another in this world, 
 and now it is nearly ten months since he was taken 
 from us. He has been spared all the grief and 
 anxiety I fear my darling mother must have suffered 
 all these weary months. 
 
 We have been more shocked and grieved to-day 
 than I can express. Poor Charlie Dashwood has 
 had both legs taken off by a round shot. He was 
 sketching in the Residency compound when the 
 fatal ball struck him. James has been with him 
 several times during the day. Mrs. 
 
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 D. went to him as soon as the sun was down. 
 He knew her, but spoke little, and was so low. I 
 fear he will not live through the night. He will be 
 a sad loss to her. Ever since his brother's death he 
 has been so good and kind to her ; he was such a 
 very nice boy, a favourite with every one, and such 
 a tall handsome fellow. He was in high spirits this 
 morning because he had heard of the safe arrival 
 of hjs home letter at Alumbagh. What a dreadful 
 shock it will be to his dear ones when they hear 
 what has happened since he wrote it ! 
 
 November 5, Thursday. 
 The enemy attacked last night, and kept up a 
 very fierce fire between nine and ten. Poor Charlie 
 D, is better to-day, and there is just a little ray of 
 hope that he may yetlive to go home. 
 
 November 6, Friday. 
 
 I went over to the hospital this morning with 
 
 Mrs. D. to see her poor brother, but he was having 
 
 his wounds dressed, and we could not see him, 
 
 poor fellow Mrs. D. is looking 
 
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 quite ill again ; she is so knocked up with going 
 to the hospital before breakfast, that J. has asked 
 Dr. Scott to lend his palanquin, which is to take her 
 over there in the middle of the day, which will be a 
 
 much better arrangement for her. 
 
 Capital news has come at last. A letter arrived 
 from Cawnpore this evening, and " by the 10th, at 
 latest" a force of 6000 men is to arrive at the 
 Alumbagh. 
 
 November 7, Saturday. 
 
 The weather has suddenly become quite cold. 
 A 24-pounder came through the house again this 
 morning, but did no damage, though Mr. Chamier, 
 the aide-de-camp, had a narrow escape. I have got 
 a little dressing-room to myself now ; it is a passage- 
 room, leading into Mrs. Fayrer's bedroom, but Ally 
 and I are very snug in it. Emmie is gone back 
 into our old room, which Charlie has doubly barri- 
 caded. They say that ball was a chance shot ; but 
 I did not like the idea of risking such a visitor 
 again. 
 
 I went this evening to see poor Charlie D. Oh, 
 
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 it was so sad to see him lying there with his two 
 poor legs gone. They were taken off just below 
 the knee. He spoke quite cheerfully, and is hopeful 
 about himself. The doctors say he has done better 
 than they could possibly have expected. 
 
 November 8, Sunday. 
 Service and Holy Communion at the Brigade 
 Mess; 55 communicants. After church we walked 
 home with Mrs. Polehampton ; she showed me the 
 little sketch Mrs. Barbor has done for her of the 
 church and churchyard, with her husband's grave. 
 She is having a marble slab put over it. There is 
 a stonecutter in the 90th, and he has got a bit of 
 marble from the palace, and is doing it for her. 
 She is so pleased about it, poor thing. Captain 
 Maclean has taken some first-rate sketches of dif- 
 ferent places in the garrison ; they are to be in the 
 Illustrated News. 
 
 November 9, Monday. 
 Poor C. D. took a bad turn in the night, and 
 was quite delirious when J. went to him this morn- 
 
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 ing. He has been wandering all day, but Dr. Boyd 
 does not yet consider his case quite hopeless. It 
 will indeed be wonderful if he lives, for not a 
 single case of amputation during the siege has re- 
 covered. 
 
 The enemy have been annoying us all day with a 
 9-pounder. Two Europeans were mortally wounded 
 close to our gate, and the compound and verandah 
 are thought so unsafe we are not allowed outside 
 the hall-door this evening. 
 
 Mr. Kavanagh, the head clerk in Mr. Cooper's 
 office, disguised himself as a native, and went out 
 to-night to attempt reaching the Alumbagh. It is 
 a fearful risk, for the poor man is almost sure to be 
 taken ; but he volunteered, and would not be dis- 
 suaded. Should he get there safe, he will be able 
 to give an exact account of our state, and show 
 them the best way in. 
 
 November 10, Tuesday. 
 Great excitement. Distant guns heard for several 
 hours this morning. At half-past two every ear was 
 listening for a salvo of artillery which was to be fired 
 
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 from the Alumbagh as a signal that the relieving 
 army had arrived. There was some mistake how- 
 ever about it ; and though guns were fired, we re- 
 mained in a state of uncertainty as to their mean- 
 ing till eight o'clock in the evening, when a bonfire 
 lighted on the top of the Residency was immediately 
 replied to by a blue light from the Alumbagh ; and 
 the General announced that his doubts were satis- 
 fied, and our friends really there. 
 
 A flag hoisted at the Alumbagh this morning, 
 which was the signal that Mr. Kavanagh had safely 
 arrived there. 
 
 November 11. 
 
 A very quiet day. No news from the Alumbagh, 
 but the arrival of the Commander-in-Chief seems 
 generally believed, so I hope it will be made certain 
 to-morrow. 
 
 November 12, Thursday. 
 There was a good deal of firing. A telegraphic 
 communication has been established with the Alum- 
 bagh by means of semaphores, and conversations 
 
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 have been going on continually all day. We have 
 ascertained that Sir Colin C. arrived this morning, 
 and intends advancing with the force on Saturday ; 
 that Mr. Kavanagh reached Alumbagh in safety; 
 and that the enemy were so bold as to make an 
 attack there this morning, and were repulsed, with 
 the capture of two guns. Our meat out of the 
 kitchen was stolen while we were at breakfast to-day, 
 so we had none for dinner ; but fared very well on 
 an extra quantity of rice and peas, flavoured with a 
 tin of salmon and a bonne louche afterwards in the 
 shape of a bottle of honey presented by Captain 
 Weston. Mr. Gubbins wrote to ask James for a 
 description of the Highlanders rushing in here on 
 the 25th September. I believe he is writing a book, 
 and an account of the gallant fellows' emotions at 
 the sight of the ladies and children will form an 
 interesting page of his volume, for it was indeed a 
 most striking and affecting scene. They telegraphed 
 from the Alumbagh just now that the force would 
 advance to-morrow " without fail" On to-morrow's 
 success, therefore, hangs our fate ! After the most 
 merciful — miraculous way we have hitherto been 
 preserved, it would be wicked to doubt for a moment 
 
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 that our relief will be accomplished ; and yet one 
 cannot think of the crisis, now it is so near, without 
 trembling ; and it is awful to remember, too, how 
 many precious lives must be sacrificed in order to 
 ensure our safety. Colonel Campbell of the 90th 
 died to-day. He was wounded very slightly the day 
 the reinforcements came in with Havelock and Sir 
 James Outram, but yesterday his leg was obliged 
 to be amputated. I fear poor Charlie D. is sink- 
 ing. Mrs. Ouseley is dangerously ill. The enemy 
 has been wonderfully quiet to-day. They blew 
 up a mine, and blazed away furiously for about 
 ten minutes this afternoon, but very soon subsided 
 into silence again. My dear husband had a merciful 
 escape this morning. As he was going into hospital 
 a round shot passed close over his head, and entered 
 the wall just above him. 
 
 November 14, Saturday. 
 
 A very anxious day. The Commander-in-Chief 
 
 advanced on the Martiniere, which he now holds. 
 
 There was no firing heard till about eleven o'clock, 
 
 when it continued very heavy for about three hours, 
 
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 and totally ceased in the afternoon. A great many 
 of the enemy have been seen from the " look-outs " 
 making off in various directions. This evening a 
 blue light was seen on the top of the Martiniere. It 
 is supposed that our force met with little opposition ; 
 but no messenger or news of any sort has come in. 
 Mrs. Ousel ey died this morning : she has been ill 
 only a few days, but she had no strength left ; her 
 two children died on the same day, 1st October ; 
 and her poor sister, Miss Palmer, was killed by a 
 round-shot at the beginning of the siege. Mr. 
 Ouseley is first cousin of Sir Frederick ; poor man ! 
 I pity him very much : his whole family has been 
 swept away in this cruel siege. Captain Weston 
 was telling me this evening, that of the garrison 
 of this house, maintained at 45, there had been 
 killed or wounded 47, that is the whole strength of 
 the garrison and two over. 
 
 James, in reading over my journal, is quite af- 
 fronted because I have omitted to record that since 
 the 30th of May, the night of the meeting in canton- 
 ments, he has gone to bed in his clothes, or rather 
 has not gone to bed at all. Ready for any emergency, 
 until a few nights ago he slept on the floor, with a 
 
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 wadded curtain or " purdah " to lie on. The gen- 
 tlemen have lately moved their beds into the front 
 verandah, and found "charpoys," or native bed- 
 steads, to sleep on, which is much more comfortable. 
 When we slept down in the Tye Khana the first 
 two months of the siege, we all used to lie down 
 ready dressed, in case of any alarm ; and it is only 
 lately that we have regularly undressed and 
 equipped ourselves for the night, as in ordinary 
 times. 
 
 November 15, Sunday. 
 
 We expected great things to have been done 
 to-day ; but the Commander-in-Chief seems to have 
 stayed quietly at the Martiniere, and very little 
 firing at all has been heard. There are various 
 conjectures as to the cause of his delay. One idea, 
 which seems probable, is that they have been throw- 
 ing a bridge over the river close to the Mar- 
 tiniere ; and a village on the opposite side was seen 
 to be in a blaze, so that it is not unlikely that part 
 of the force may have crossed this evening — but it 
 is very tantalising knowing nothing positive. The 
 enemy continues pertinaciously popping into us. 
 
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 An ayah was shot in the eye this afternoon in this 
 compound, and a shell burst on the roof of the 
 Residency. This evening there is a great deal of 
 firing going on all round. 
 Oh ! when will it all cease ? 
 
 November 16, Monday. 
 
 Our troops have had success to-day; but as I 
 cannot remember the names of the places they have 
 taken, and am quite ignorant of the localities, I 
 cannot attempt to describe the movements which 
 have taken place. A force went out from this 
 garrison and stormed some of the enemy's positions, 
 and I hear our loss was as small as could possibly 
 have been anticipated. The Commander-in-Chiefs 
 army is now within a thousand yards of our force ; 
 so to-morrow there will be a combination. 
 
 It was very exciting listening to the sound of the 
 battle going on so near us. The gentlemen spent 
 most of the day on the top of the house looking 
 out ; but could not distinguish anything clearly on 
 account of the smoke. They saw our horse artil- 
 lery and some of the lancers galloping about, which 
 
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 must have been a truly delightful sight. Our 
 artillery must have made tremendous havoc to-day 
 among the enemy. The big guns have been at 
 work incessantly. 
 
 November 17, Tuesday. 
 
 Communication established to-day between the 
 two forces. Sir Colin C.'s head-quarters are in 
 the old 32nd mess-house, which was taken this 
 morning. 
 
 We were astounded this morning after prayers by 
 the news that to-morrow night this place is to be 
 evacuated. We are all to leave it, with only as 
 much of our worldly goods as we can carry in our 
 hands. I feel utterly bewildered, and yet so re- 
 lieved to think we shall both be together, and the 
 dreaded separations between husbands and wives 
 averted, that I cannot realise the utter ruin it will 
 be to us all in the loss of property and money we 
 must leave behind. It is such a dreadful thing too 
 for the sick and wounded ladies, close to their con- 
 finement, like poor Mrs. Anderson, and little children. 
 It seems such an extraordinary step, after holding 
 
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 the garrison so long ; no one ever dreamed for a 
 moment of such a measure as evacuating Oude now. 
 I trust it is all for the best. If we live to reach 
 Calcutta, we shall be in a state of destitution. I 
 think the best thing will be to return to our re- 
 spective parishes. 
 
 November 19, Thursday. 
 
 Left the intrenchments. 
 
 Yesterday the sick and wounded were all moved 
 out to Dilkoosha, and to-day the women and 
 children departed from the scene of our long im- 
 prisonment. J. and I started in a carriage of 
 Dr. Fayrer's in company with Mrs. Anderson and 
 Miss Schilling. We had a pair of starved horses of 
 Mr. Gubbins's to drag us, but the wretched animals 
 had been on siege fare so long that they had for- 
 gotten the use of their legs, and had no strength, so 
 came to a stand-still every five minutes, invariably 
 choosing the most dangerous parts of the road for 
 their halt. At one place we were under so hot a 
 fire that we got out and ran for our lives, leaving 
 the vehicle to its fate, and two poor natives, who 
 
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 were helping to shove it on behind, were shot At 
 the Ferreed Bux we had to wait a long time, as 
 the carriage could not be got through a gateway till 
 some stores were cleared away. Some of the officers 
 of the 90th invited us inside, and gave us wine and 
 water, which was very refreshing. We walked after 
 that every step of the way to Secunderabad, where 
 we all had to wait several hours till doolies arrived 
 to take on all the women, and we proceeded under 
 a strong escort to Dilkoosha. The road to Secun- 
 derabad was frightfully dangerous in places. In one 
 place we were passing a 24-pounder manned by 
 some sailors of the naval brigade ; they all called out 
 to us to bend low and run as fast as we could ; we 
 had hardly done so when a volley of grape whizzed 
 over our heads and struck a wall beyond. At 
 Secunderabad we found the place overflowing with 
 women and children of the Lucknow garrison. We 
 met several gentlemen, friends, belonging to Sir 
 Colin's force — Captain Norman, Assistant Adjutant- 
 General, and Mr. Roberts (two Peshawur friends), 
 arid Mr. Ryves. They were all very kind to us. 
 Captain Norman gave me gingerbread nuts ; 
 Captain Ryves, biscuits; and Mr. Roberts, a 
 
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 delicious cup of tea, with milk and sugar, bread 
 and butter, and beef, all such long untasted 
 luxuries. We made a regular feast, especially 
 as we had not tasted anything since a scanty very 
 early breakfast, and were nearly exhausted. About 
 9 o'clock p.m. we started again in doolies. Mr. 
 Roberts lent me one, and J. walked by my side 
 the whole way. The crowd and confusion were 
 excessive, the enemy hovering round and firing oc- 
 casional shots, and we were borne along in the most 
 solemn silence ; the only sounds were the tramp, 
 tramp, tramp, of the dooly-bearers and the scream- 
 ing of the jackals. It was an awful time ; one felt 
 as if one's life hung in a balance with the fate we 
 had so long dreaded ; but our merciful Father, who 
 has protected us through so many and great dangers, 
 brought us in safety to Dilkoosha, where we arrived 
 about 2 o'clock in the morning. 
 
 November 20, Friday. 
 There were tents pitched into which we all 
 crowded, and found quilts spread on the ground, 
 into which we rolled ourselves for the remainder of 
 
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 the night. The officers of the 9th Lancers very 
 hospitably had a supper prepared for our refresh- 
 ment, and we very much enjoyed some tea and 
 bread and butter before going to sleep. We had 
 none of us tasted bread and butter since the 30th 
 of June till to-day, so it was indeed a treat. 
 
 This morning we went into a small tent with 
 Captain and Mrs. Edgell and their child, and Mrs. 
 Anderson, which is much pleasanter than being 
 crowded with such numbers of others in a large, 
 public, open tent, as we were last night. We drew 
 very liberal commissariat rations to-day, and Walter 
 Birch lent us his khitmutgar to cook our breakfast 
 and dinner, as Chunia did not arrive till late. Mrs. 
 D. and her children have been left behind in the 
 intrenchments, having no doolies to bring them on. 
 Poor Charlie D., I grieve to say, is very much 
 worse. 
 
 We had the inexpressible delight of receiving 
 our home letters this afternoon. It seemed almost 
 too much happiness. How can we ever be thankful 
 enough for all the mercies so lovingly vouchsafed to 
 us ? Dearest mother and all of them were quite 
 well to the 8th of September, the latest date. Of 
 
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 course their anxiety for us has been terrible, but 
 they have been, like us, mercifully supported 
 through their trials. We had a perfect feast of 
 letters, and felt regularly intoxicated before we had 
 got half through them. I have found out that 
 John Coles is with the 9th Lancers, and have sent 
 him word to come and see me. Emily B. has got 
 a nice little tent of her own, into which she has 
 taken Mrs. Germon. The air out here is so deli- 
 ciously fresh after the close unwholesome atmos- 
 phere inside the intrenchments, one feels like an- 
 other creature. 
 
 November 21, Saturday. 
 
 Mrs. D. and the children arrived in the middle 
 of the night. Dr. Fayrer found her wandering 
 about the camp not knowing where to go to, and 
 dreadfully frightened by a drunken soldier, who 
 would accost her. He brought her to our tent, 
 and James got up and took her to another one, 
 where she got shelter, as we are unfortunately quite 
 full in this one and could not possibly make room 
 for her with us, which I was very sorry for, as we 
 
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 might help her so much if we were together. I 
 wrote a short note home yesterday, as a post went 
 out in the night. We received another budget of 
 letters this morning, and besides English ones there 
 was one from dear old Fred, who is at Simla safe 
 and well, with both his darlings. Also letters from 
 Captain Harvey and Mr. Wale. They had just 
 seen the list of the survivors of the Lucknow garri- 
 son published in the papers. John Coles came to 
 see us to-day. He looks just the same as ever. He 
 intends to be useful in letting us have things from 
 the mess. There are two clergymen here with the 
 troops. J. found them out to-day. One a naval 
 chaplain, and the other belongs to the Additional 
 Clergy Society. The sick and wounded were all so 
 delighted to see James when he went among them 
 to-day. Poor Charlie Dashwood is as bad as can 
 be. Major Stevenson, a Madras Fusileer, has died 
 to-day. We have no news about moving from here, 
 but all the treasure from Lucknow was brought in, 
 and they have been blowing up guns in the intrench- 
 ments all day, which looks very much as if evacua- 
 tion was decided upon. There are terrible reports 
 that those unfortunate prisoners in the Kaiserbagh 
 
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 have been murdered, and that Sir M. Jackson was 
 hung. It is too horrible to think of their having 
 been so near, and yet the utter impossibility of 
 saving them. Mrs. Inglis came to tell me this 
 morning Lady Thesiger had mentioned mamma in 
 her letter, and desired her to let me know all my 
 loved ones at home were well. 
 
 Poor dear Bustle was lost on the road, and I 
 sadly fear we shall never see him again ; it is heart- 
 breaking after saving his life all through the siege. 
 
 November 22, Sunday. 
 
 Bustle made his appearance this morning; we 
 were so glad to see the dear old dog again ! 
 
 We had prayers in our tent with just our own 
 party, as there was no possibility in the utter con- 
 fusion to manage" a public service. 
 
 Dr. Darby died to-day. General Havelock is 
 very ill, and they fear Mr. Delafosse, who escaped 
 from Cawnpore, will not live. 
 
 There was a sharp engagement with the enemy 
 this morning not far off. The lancers and horse 
 artillery galloped off, and we heard a tremendous 
 
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 fire, but it did not last long. Ally D. came to 
 spend the day with me ; poor little man, he has 
 got diarrhoea again, and looks sadly ill. Poor 
 Charlie Dashwood died this evening. I went into 
 the tent with Mrs. D. to see him about two hours 
 before the end ; he was quite unconscious, and 
 did not recognise her ; only when James was 
 reading the commendatory prayer he opened his 
 eyes, and for a moment seemed struggling to speak. 
 I think he knew him, but it was only for an instant. 
 J. went again before bed-time and found him 
 just dead; he had his poor body prepared for 
 burial, and went to tell poor Mrs. D. It was a 
 mercy the poor dear boy was taken before the 
 march to Cawnpore begins, for he could not have 
 lived through the hardships he would have had 
 to endure, and his sufferings would have been so 
 terrible. 
 
 All the Lucknow garrison came out here to- 
 night. The intrenchments are evacuated. 
 
 November 23. 
 James found out this morning to his horror and 
 dismay that the box containing the church-plate 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 169 
 
 and registers had been left in the intrenchment 
 through the neglect and carelessness of Weston the 
 clerk, who was left in particular charge, with orders 
 to bring it out at any risk, if the place was aban- 
 doned. J. would not bring it away before, be- 
 cause, if Lucknow had not been given up, it must 
 have remained there, and he would have had to 
 return there himself, and stay there till relieved by 
 another Chaplain; he is so vexed about it. Re- 
 gisters of course are of great importance, and it is 
 shocking to think of the Communion-plate falling 
 into the hands of the heathen enemy. The rebels 
 went on firing as furiously as ever into the Re- 
 sidency till half-past eight this morning, before they 
 discovered the place was deserted. All the guns 
 were brought away, except the very heavy ones. 
 Poor Captain Waterman of the 13th was left be- 
 hind asleep in the brigade mess, and did not follow 
 the rest for more than an hour, but he got out all 
 safe. James and Mr. Schilling walked to the Marti- 
 niere this morning, Sir Colin's head-quarters for 
 the day. They thought they might discover some de- 
 bris of our property scattered about, but not a vestige 
 of anything was to be seen, not even the leaf of a 
 
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 book lying about. The clearance has been most 
 complete ; there is nothing left of the Martiniere 
 but the bare walls ; every bit of woodwork, such as 
 doors and window-frames, has been carried off, the 
 beautiful marble pavement has all been dug up, and 
 the place quite a ruin ; no trace of course of the dear 
 horses or carriage, or harp, to be found. General 
 Martins tomb has been broken to fragments, and 
 his old bones dug up and scattered to the winds. 
 I went with Mrs. Dashwood this evening to poor 
 Charlie's funeral; the boy lies, with several other 
 officers who have died out here, under a grove of 
 small trees near the Dilkoosha palace. 
 We are to march to-morrow. 
 
 November 24, Camp, Alumbagb. 
 Arrived this evening tired to death. We have 
 only come about four miles, but have been the 
 whole day on the road ; starting about eleven, we 
 did not get here till it had been dark some time. 
 The enemy did not fire a shot at us the whole day, 
 for which we cannot be sufficiently thankful ; it is 
 most surprising how they came not to molest us ; 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 171 
 
 no one expected we should get here without some 
 trouble. 
 
 Mrs. Anderson, Miss Schilling, and I, started in 
 the Fayrers' carriage drawn by bullocks, J. walk- 
 ing by our side ; the road was frightful, and poor 
 Mrs. Anderson very soon took refuge in a palan- 
 quin which somebody had lent her, or the jolting 
 would have made her very ill ; she is very soon 
 expecting her confinement. The confusion of the 
 march is perfectly indescribable ; such a crowd of 
 waggons, carts, camels, bullocks, elephants, loaded 
 with baggage of every description, sick and wounded 
 women and children, all moving along in one huge 
 mass, without the smallest appearance of arrange- 
 ment or order, could never be pictured by the 
 wildest flight of imagination. Every ten minutes we 
 came to a stand-still ; and waited perhaps an hour 
 before the mass was in motion again, without know- 
 ing what caused the obstruction ; the dust was suffo- 
 cating, the heat of the sun sickening, and when we 
 reached the place appointed for encampment, where 
 not a tent was pitched, and no prospect for the 
 weary and hungry body presented itself, one felt in- 
 clined " to lie down and dee " from fatigue and ex- 
 
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 haustion ; only it seemed ungrateful and wrong to 
 grumble now at any hardships after our merciful 
 preservation, and before long our circumstances 
 brightened ; the camels arrived, and we found our 
 tent, got it put up, and while that was doing re- 
 ceived an invitation to the Artillery mess, which 
 made quite new creatures of us ; and though the 
 ponies with our bedding had not found us out, we 
 were so tired that we slept very soundly on the 
 ground, and had quite wraps enough to keep us 
 from feeling very cold. Poor General Havelock 
 died this morning of dysentery ; he has been very 
 ill for some days. 
 
 November 25, Camp. 
 Breakfasted at the Artillery mess, where they are 
 most kind and hospitable, and asked us to dinner, 
 which, as there was a delay in drawing our rations 
 this morning, and we did not get them till very late, 
 we accepted. J. has discovered an old school- 
 fellow, a Mr. Bunney, who greeted him very warmly 
 last night at the mess. John Coles and Mr. Ryves 
 came to see me. We halt here to-day. The enemy 
 
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 continues marvellously quiet. I suppose they have 
 not recovered the punishment they got at Secun- 
 derabagh, the day the junction between Sir Colin's 
 force and the Lucknow garrison was effected. Our 
 brave troops surrounded the building, which was 
 full of the rebels ; the wretches resisted to the death, 
 and no less than 1600 of them were cut down, 
 fighting like demons. After they had buried 500 
 bodies, Captain Green told me the number seemed 
 not at all diminished. Among those who were 
 caught in the garden were sixty Sepoys N.I. They 
 were all made to stand up in a row, and a volley 
 fired into them ; twelve dropped dead, and then the 
 officers and men rushed upon them, shouting out, 
 " Cawnpore ! " " Cawnpore ! " and killed every man 
 of them. There are different reports about the unfor- 
 tunate prisoners in the hands of the enemy: — Sir 
 Mountstuart and Miss Jackson, Captain and Mrs. 
 Orr and their child, Mr. Burnes, and one of the poor 
 Christians' children from Seetapore. One report 
 says they have all been beheaded, and Sir M. 
 Jackson hung. Another rumour, which I pray may 
 be the true one, is, that they are still alive, and re- 
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 Mr. Jackson, the uncle of Sir M. J., and his sisters, 
 has come out from England, and is with the force to 
 try and recover them ; but he is very out of heart 
 about it, and fears the worst. The eldest Miss 
 Jackson, who escaped from Seetapore with Captain 
 John Hearsay and party, has never been heard of, 
 and they can get no trace of her whatever. 
 
 November 26, Thursday, Camp, Alumbagh. 
 We halt here again to-day. Breakfasted, by Cap- 
 tain Green's invitation, at the mess of the Punjaub 
 Infantry. Mrs. Polehampton, Mrs. Gall, and Mrs. 
 Barbor have a beautiful tent lent them by Mr. 
 Fisher, the second in command ; so I spent the day 
 with them, and we dined with the Punjabees again 
 in the evening. Their mess is a very good one ; 
 they have everything of the best. 
 
 November 27, Friday, Camp at Bunnee. 
 
 We were warned to start this morning at seven. 
 I got up at five, made every preparation, as in duty 
 
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 bound : when we were nearly ready comes an order 
 that we don't move till eleven — so we had time for 
 a second breakfast at the Artillery mess. Our 
 carriage, by James's capital pioneering, got at the 
 head of the ladies' column, immediately behind the 
 advance guard of the infantry. We had a very 
 tedious march ; our progress necessarily so slow. 
 We crossed the Bunnee bridge, and reached our 
 encamping ground at sunset. The road, for India, 
 was pretty. Oude is certainly much more fertile 
 and pleasant-looking than any part of the country 
 between Calcutta and Peshawur. 
 
 November 28, Saturday ; 4 miles from Cawnpore, 
 Camp near the Ganges. 
 
 Started at seven this morning, and did not reach 
 our place of encampment till nearly midnight. Our 
 pace can have been little faster than two miles an 
 hour. We were obliged to make a forced march of 
 nearly thirty-eight miles to-day, as the Commander- 
 in-Chief got news on the road of the Gwalior rebels 
 being in force at Cawnpore. We have heard 
 heavy and continued firing the whole day. A part 
 
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 of our force has been sent on across the river to the 
 assistance of Brigadier Wilson at Cawnpore. The 
 enemy are in possession of half the city. There 
 must have been a great deal of hard fighting to-day, 
 to judge by the tremendous firing. This has been 
 a very weary march : if James had not galloped off 
 to the Commissariat and seized some loaves, we 
 should have starved. Mrs. Inglis gave us a tin of 
 oxtail soup to-night when we arrived, so we did 
 very well. 
 
 November 29, Advent Sunday, Camp near Ganges, 
 opposite Cawnpore. 
 
 After breakfast this morning we were ordered to 
 strike tents and move on a mile and a half nearer 
 Cawnpore. The firing is horribly close — we see the 
 smoke of the guns plainly just across the river. All 
 the troops have gone on, with the exception of one 
 brigade, under Brigadier Inglis, left for our pro- 
 tection. 
 
 In the action yesterday poor Brigadier Wilson 
 was killed, and we lost five officers and ninety men 
 of the 64th: we took five of the enemy's guns. 
 
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 This encamping ground is very nice, on some 
 beautiful soft turf. We are near the 9th Lancers' 
 mess ; so I mean to invite myself to John Coles for 
 some dinner to-night. 
 
 November 30, Monday, St. Andrew's Day, 
 Cawnpore. 
 
 Here we are in this fatal place ; and most thank- 
 ful must we be to have arrived so far on our perilous 
 journey in safety. We got the order to move 
 onwards between 7 and 8 p.m. yesterday. The 
 distance was not great, but it was past midnight 
 before we reached the place of refuge appointed for 
 us in the old dragoon barrack-yard, where we 
 were so fortunate as to find our little tent pitched 
 and ready, our servants having most cleverly 
 managed to push on and get in advance of the 
 rest of the baggage. We had great trouble on the 
 road; our carriage stuck fast in the sand; the 
 bullocks lay down, and seemed as if they were 
 going to die ; and we were left miles behind every 
 one else, and were contemplating abandoning the 
 turn-out altogether; but at last, with the help of 
 
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 some sailors of the naval brigade, we contrived to 
 get into motion again, and by a short cut rejoined 
 the line, and by great good luck found Miss Schil- 
 ling and Bobbie, whom we had lost in the confusion 
 when we had to get out of the carriage. Just as 
 we were crossing the bridge of boats over the 
 Ganges, a tremendous fire opened on the Cawnpore 
 side. We were told it was principally our own 
 men firing at the enemy afar off; but it sounded 
 most awful, and I never, during the whole siege, 
 more thoroughly realised such an extreme sense of 
 nearly-impending danger, and how very close death 
 might be : one felt as if the very next instant per- 
 haps might be one's last. I shall never forget the 
 crossing that river. The firing ceased as suddenly 
 as it began. I suppose it did not last a quarter of 
 an hour, though it seemed an age to us. The 
 enemy is all about in great strength : they say 
 there are 17,000 in this Gwalior force, and an 
 immense number of guns. They are in possession 
 of the city and great part of the station, and there 
 is no disguising the fact that our troops got the 
 worst of it on Saturday. We have heard great 
 guns and heavy firing all day : a round shot 
 
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 whizzed just over our tent this morning, — it is 
 dreadful being again in the midst of war and 
 fighting. This place, with all its horrible asso- 
 ciations, is a very painful one to be in. I trust we 
 shall soon be sent off to Allahabad ; but at present 
 the enemy occupies the road, and posts are stopped 
 both up and down, so I fear my letter to dearest 
 mother I posted at Dilkoosha is lost.* There is 
 not the faintest hope of our being able to get up to 
 Dagshaie for ages to come. 
 
 December 1, Tuesday, Cawnpore, 
 Artillery Barracks. 
 
 We were all transferred from the dragoon to 
 these barracks this morning at daybreak. Mrs. 
 Edgell, Mrs. Anderson, and I, have a little corner- 
 room, besides the tent ; and I suppose we are likely 
 to be here some days, as they will not send us on 
 till the road is safe. We still hear constant firing, 
 but no news of what is going on has reached us. 
 Yesterday there was a report that Sir J. Outram's 
 
 * No, only delayed a mail. 
 
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180 A LADY'S DIARY OF 
 
 force from Lucknow had arrived, but it has not 
 been confirmed. J. tried to make his way this 
 morning to the entrenched camp to see Mr. Moore, 
 the chaplain, and inquire for letters at the post- 
 office ; but so many round shot were flying about, 
 he thought it advisable to turn back. I never saw 
 such a sad scene of desolation as this station. There 
 is not a house left standing ; it is enough to make 
 one cry to look at the blackened ruins of what once 
 were beautiful bungalows, and then to think of the 
 awful fate of all those who so lately inhabited them 
 — a fate too which we so narrowly escaped, and 
 which even now we can hardly feel safe from ; for 
 with the enemy in such overwhelming numbers so 
 close to us, there can be no safety until we reach 
 Allahabad. It is quite uncertain when we shall 
 leave this, but the Commander-in-Chief is sure to 
 get rid of us as soon as he can, for we must be 
 greatly in his way. I went to see Emmie B. this 
 morning. Charlie has been appointed Brigadier- 
 Major to Brigadier Walpole. We have received 
 no more letters since we came here, which is a 
 dreadful disappointment. 
 
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 December 2, Wednesday, Cawnpore. 
 
 James rode to the entrenched camp before break- 
 fast, and came back with beer, soap, ink, and other 
 prizes he succeeded in getting there. We had to 
 draw eight days' rations for the road, which looks 
 as if we were to start soon. I wrote a few lines 
 to-day to dearest mother in the faint hope of its 
 ever reaching her. J. and I walked this evening 
 with Mrs. Case and Miss Dickson to see poor Sir 
 H. Wheeler's entrenchments, where he held out 
 twenty-one days against the enemy. The only 
 wonder is how a single person came out of them 
 alive ; and far better would it have been if they had 
 all died there instead of suffering as they did a 
 worse fate. The barracks in which they took refuge 
 are perfectly perforated with round shot. The un- 
 happy creatures could have had no possible shelter 
 either from the sun of an Indian June, or the mur- 
 derous fire which never ceased day or night. It 
 made one shudder with horror to think what their 
 sufferings had been ; and yet they were nothing in 
 comparison of what the hapless survivors who left 
 the entrenched position afterwards endured. I 
 
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 picked up the leaf of a Bible, and brought it away 
 as a relic. We saw some writing in pencil on some 
 of the walls. In one place there was a cross drawn 
 with a great number of initials underneath, and the 
 date June 16th. On another part a poor fellow had 
 written, " Dear Jesus ! have mercy on us, and de- 
 liver us not into our enemy's hands," and signed 
 "James Tyrrel." The entrenchments by way of a 
 defence are quite laughable : a very narrow ditch, 
 not knee-deep, and a low bank of earth, over which 
 we stepped with the greatest ease, was all that 
 divided them from the enemy, and yet the cowards 
 never attempted to come over. We had a visit 
 from J. Coles after we came home ; he very kindly 
 brought us some sherry, and James a few cigars, to 
 console us on the march. The B.'s got some 
 English letters to-day, and Emmie sent me one 
 from Aunt Ellen to read, in which she mentions 
 dear mother and all at home being well. I cannot 
 think where our letters can be. 
 
 December 3, Cawnpore. 
 We were warned last night that we should pro- 
 bably get the order to start before morning ; how- 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 183 
 
 ever, none came, and here we are still, but may 
 have to start at any moment. There seems to be a 
 good deal of fighting going on to-day. The Gwa- 
 lior force still holds the town, and the Nana is said 
 to be with them. Yesterday three English officers 
 were seen hanging outside one of the enemy's bat- 
 teries, near the place where the women and chil- 
 dren were massacred. J. Coles came to see us this 
 morning, and brought us some delicious fresh butter. 
 I have got my child Ally back. Mrs, D. sends him 
 to spend the day with me whenever we halt. 
 
 December 4. 
 
 We are 24 miles from Cawnpore, on our road to 
 Allahabad. The order to march came last night, 
 and we started at ten, and did not reach this place 
 of encampment till between twelve and one in the 
 middle of the day. We are to get to Futtypore 
 (48 miles) in two marches ; but how the poor tired 
 animals will ever manage another journey of 24 
 miles to-night I know not. Our escort consists of 
 the 34th regiment, two guns, and some native 
 cavalry. We breathe more freely now we are out 
 
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 of that mournful place, Cawupore ; and as the 
 whole road between it and Allahabad is lined with 
 our troops eoming up country, I trust it is pretty 
 safe. We met the 42nd Highlanders, the 38th, 
 and some of the Rifles this morning, and yesterday 
 the 85th and some artillery arrived at Cawnpore. 
 C. Barwell is left behind as Brigade Major to 
 General Walpole. It is very sad for him and Emmie 
 being separated. I can't be thankful enough my 
 dear J. is able to come with me. We were all 
 very tired and knocked up when we arrived to- 
 day, especially the gentlemen who had been riding 
 all night and had no sleep ; but after some break- 
 fast, a wash, and a snooze, we are considerably 
 better. We have picked up another Madras ser- 
 vant, Peter by name, to help Chunia, who has 
 turned out a regular trump on the march, and 
 cooks and works most willingly for our whole party. 
 J. has mounted himself on a lean old grey mare, 
 about 100 years old, which he bought at Dilkoosha 
 to carry baggage. It is a wretched old beast, but 
 saves him walking. Dr. Fayrer has bought a 
 buggy : so Miss Schilling goes in it now with Mrs. 
 Fayrer; and Mrs. Anderson, who was obliged to 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKXOW. 185 
 
 give up her palanquin at Cawnpore, comes in the 
 carriage with me. I make room for J. to squeeze 
 in between me and one corner to get a sleep when 
 he gets very tired. We start again to-night at nine 
 o'clock. 
 
 December 5, Saturday. 
 We came a march of 13 miles last night, and 
 got here about eight o'clock this morning. The 
 camping-ground* is very pretty, with a great many 
 trees round it, which, as many people are without 
 tents, is a great advantage. We have been merci- 
 fully protected on the road so far ; not a shot has 
 been fired, or an alarm of any kind given, since we 
 left Cawnpore. If it were not the fear of enemies, 
 which we cannot help feeling, I should enjoy this 
 out-of-door, picnicking-life excessively, in spite of 
 all the inconveniences and roughing it we have to 
 put up with. The fresh air and open country, and 
 feeling of liberty, are so intensely delightful, after 
 our six months' close confinement to Dr. Fayrer's 
 small narrow strip of compound, with nothing to 
 look at but a high stone wall, to remind us still 
 
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 more that we were prisoners. If it had lasted much 
 longer, and I had not had plenty to do, I should 
 have gone melancholy mad. 
 
 December 6, Sunday, Camp. 
 We started last night at seven, halted this morn- 
 ing at ten; no adventure to record. Captain 
 
 chose a horrid place for our tent — on rough 
 
 dirty ground, with no shade. Every one else is 
 under beautiful trees, on turf, at a little distance ; 
 but when we arrived all the camels were unloaded, 
 so we could not move. The marching arrange- 
 ments are very bad. J. found some wounded to- 
 day, who said that they had not seen a doctor or had 
 their wounds dressed since leaving Cawnpore. Then 
 he met two doctors, who had been, they said, hunt- 
 ing the camp for two hours in search of their patients 
 and could not find them. The sick are scattered 
 about in all directions instead of being together in 
 one place, and the confusion is extreme. We hear 
 that the Gwalior rebels evacuated Cawnpore and 
 made off for Bithoor the day after we left. We met 
 more troops this morning on their way up. Sir 
 
THE SIEGE OF LIJCKNOW. 187 
 
 Colin will soon have 14,000 with him, and be able 
 to do great things. 
 
 December 7, Monday, Fort Allahabad. 
 We reached the railway station at Lohunda 
 this morning at sunrise, and were immediately re- 
 quested to take our places in the train, where we 
 sat in very uncomfortable 2nd-class carriages crowded 
 to suffocation (with ten people in a place for eight) 
 for at least two hours before starting, having had no 
 breakfast or refreshment of any kind. When once 
 we were off, however, it seemed delightfully home-like 
 and natural to be once more on a railroad, and we 
 came along at a good rate, arriving at Allahabad 
 (40 miles) in about two hours, which was very quick 
 for India, and the train was tremendously long and 
 heavy. When we arrived at the terminus we found 
 it crowded with gentlemen and soldiers, who all 
 cheered the poor Lucknow garrison most enthusi- 
 astically ; and indeed the kind and hearty welcome 
 we received at Allahabad — the first place of safety 
 we have rested in for many a month — will not soon 
 be forgotten by any of us. We found beautiful 
 
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 tents pitched in the Fort for our accommodation. 
 They are the Governor- General's own tents. We 
 share ours with the Edgells, but it is large ; we 
 have each a private bedroom, and large centre 
 room to sit in. We were regularly knocked up when 
 we arrived ; we had had nothing to eat since the 
 night before ; but Mr. Spry, the chaplain here, took 
 us off to his quarters in the fort, where we were 
 regaled with a luncheon that revived us consider- 
 ably. To-night, for the first time since the 24th 
 May, J. and I enjoy the luxury of a room to our- 
 selves. Nothing can exceed the kindness and hos- 
 pitality we meet with here. Furniture, in the way 
 of beds, chairs, and tables, is provided for our tents, 
 and there is a table-d'hote, at which we may all take 
 our meals, furnished by the relief fund. Mr. Spry 
 is the manager. There are no steamers here yet 
 to take us down to Calcutta, so we may be detained 
 here some time, and the idea of rest in a place of 
 security is very pleasant. Mr. Spry is very hard- 
 worked here, and has applied for a second chaplain ; 
 we may be ordered to stay here till we can pro- 
 ceed to Dagshaie in safety. Mrs. D. and Emily 
 B. are gone to Dr. Irvine's in cantonments; they 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 189 
 
 are the only ladies not in the fort. Nearly all the 
 bungalows in cantonments here were destroyed. 
 The Sprys lost the whole of their property. TJiere 
 has been telegraphic news of great successes at 
 Cawnpore since we left; no particulars yet. No 
 English letters for us here. 
 
 December 8, Allahabad, 4, G.-G.'s Tents, Fort. 
 Mrs. Spry kindly sent her dhobee over to me this 
 morning, and we gave him an accumulation of un- 
 washed clothes. We breakfasted at the Sprys', 
 and found Mrs. Forbes and Mrs. Polehampton 
 there ; after breakfast we assisted Mrs. Spry in dis- 
 tributing shoes, stockings, pocket handkerchiefs, 
 combs, and hair brushes, &c, sent up by Lady 
 Canning for the ladies of the Lucknow garrison. 
 We dined at the table-d'hote at three o'clock, and 
 had tea in our own tent ; our camp is really very 
 pretty, beautifully pitched in a square, with the 
 large dining-tent in the centre, on a lovely piece of 
 turf, with trees all around. Allahabad Fort is very 
 strong, overlooking the Jumna. The station looked 
 very pretty indeed as we saw it yesterday from the 
 
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 railway. J. telegraphed to Sir J. Colvile this morn- 
 ing to write home by the mail which leaves to- 
 morrow, to tell dear mother of our safe arrival 
 here. 
 
 The luxurious feeling of rest and peace and 
 safety here is perfectly indescribable; one can 
 scarcely realise it or know what to make of it after 
 the excitement, anxiety, and turmoil of the last six 
 months. 
 
 December 9. 
 
 Mrs. Spry asked me and Mrs. Polehampton to 
 assist her in the distribution of Lady Canning's gifts, 
 so we were busy all morning going round to different 
 tents and supplying people's wants. We dined to- 
 day in our tent : the table-d'hote is given up, the 
 Khansamer having struck work, so people are now 
 requested to cook for themselves. 
 
 J. walked to the post-office this evening and found 
 the English mail just arrived, and coaxed the post- 
 master to let us look over all the Lucknow letters, 
 but alas, alas, in vain ! After diligently inspecting 
 two large packets we found not a single letter ad- 
 dressed to one of the Lucknow garrison : they were 
 
THE SIEGE OF LTJCKNOW. 191 
 
 all to officers belonging to General Havelock's force. 
 It seems evident that we have been given up for lost 
 by those at home. 
 
 The kind way we are treated here is most touch- 
 ing. People seem as if they could not do enough 
 for us : we have the most beautiful flowers, and 
 vegetables and milk, and all sorts of good things 
 sent us every morning. 
 
 Mrs. Fayrer had a little son this morning — pre- 
 maturely. 
 
 James has undertaken to superintend giving out 
 the rations, and was very busy this morning. We are 
 fed at present entirely by the Relief Fund, but it is 
 too heavy a pull on the charity, and I believe the 
 Commissariat is to take us back again. 
 
 December 10, Fort Allahabad. 
 Mr. Schilling dined with us. We luxuriated in 
 a table-cloth, and presented such a wonderfully 
 civilized appearance he was quite struck. The rest 
 and comfort here is something too delightful; we 
 seem as if we could not be thankful enough for the 
 great mercy which has placed us once more in 
 
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 safety and peace. We only now seem realising all 
 we have suffered If only now I could bear from 
 home I should be so happy. 
 
 Two people of our old garrison died to-day. 
 Mr. Gubbins has been dangerously ill, but he is 
 better. 
 
 The news from Cawnpore is capital — 27 of the 
 enemy's guns taken. 
 
 December 11, Friday. 
 
 Mrs. Polehampton and I went round the bar- 
 racks and took down the names of all the widows 
 belonging to the Artillery and 32nd, for Mrs. Spry, 
 who is going to give them each a black dress from 
 the relief fund. Some of the poor things are in 
 great distress, having come out of Lucknow with 
 only the clothes they wore. Such numbers of chil- 
 dren were running about wild, Mrs. Polehampton 
 and I thought it would be a good plan if we could 
 get them together and keep a sort of school 
 while they are detained here. We are going to ask 
 Mr. Spry about it. Mrs. Fayrer's little baby died 
 this afternoon. Mr. Schilling started for Calcutta 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 193 
 
 by mail cart. We engaged Ramsay, Mrs. D.'s 
 African servant, as she does not want him any 
 longer ; he attended Mr. Polehampton and poor 
 Charlie Dashwood in their last illness. Dear old 
 Bustle has arrived with the sweeper quite safe. 
 We left him to come by the road when we took 
 train. 
 
 December 13, Sunday. 
 At eleven o'clock this morning we had service in 
 the garrison chapel, where all the Lucknow refugees 
 attended and returned public thanks to God for our 
 merciful deliverance. The appropriate psalms were 
 34th, 71st, and 92nd ; lessons Exodus 15, Eomans 12, 
 and a special thanksgiving prayer. Nearly 100 
 partook of the Holy Communion. The offertory 
 was given to the asylum founded by Sir H. Lawrence 
 for soldiers' children in India. The collection was 
 250 rupees. After church I went with Mrs. Pole- 
 hampton to the barracks and collected between thirty 
 and forty children in a large empty room where we 
 opened our school. We have no books or any school 
 appurtenances to help us, so it is rather difficult to 
 manage. We divided the scholars into two classes, 
 
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 those who could read, and those who could not. I 
 took the big ones, Mrs. P. the little ones. Consi- 
 dering how long they have been running wild, they 
 are more tractable than one could possibly have 
 expected. In the afternoon we drove down three in 
 a buggy to the cantonments, which are extremely 
 pretty. There are only about a dozen houses left. 
 The bungalows were all destroyed by the mutineers, 
 and no less than thirty-six officers murdered. The 
 church is left standing, and is used for divine service, 
 but all the interior fittings are destroyed. 
 
 December 14, Monday. 
 J. has been on the sick list to-day. Mrs. P. and 
 I kept our school and got on very well — began a 
 home letter. Mrs. Birch confined last night of a 
 boy. 
 
 December 15, Tuesday. 
 
 The Sprys lent us their buggy, and we drove out 
 
 to see Emily B. and Mrs. D. Poor darling 
 
 little "Chota Loll" is so dreadfully ill, I am 
 
 sadly afraid he will not live; he is the colour of 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 195 
 
 an orange, constantly sick, and no bigger than when 
 he was born. 
 
 It is settled that we stay here till the roads are 
 safe for us to go to Dagshaie. 
 
 December 18, Friday. 
 Sent off our English letters. The steamer Ma- 
 dras started with a large number of wounded, and 
 seventeen ladies, for Calcutta. Mrs. Dashwood 
 came to see me this afternoon. The dear baby is 
 better. 
 
 December 20, Sunday. 
 
 Church in the garrison chapel at ten a.m. Mrs. 
 B.'s baby baptised Frederic William. We dined at 
 two. At half-past four went to church in canton- 
 ments. The interior was entirely destroyed by 
 mutineers — seats, pulpit, altar, rails, &c, all torn 
 up and smashed, and windows broken. 
 
 J. had the kindest letter I ever read from 
 
 this morning. He begs us to make him our banker 
 if we want money, and offers to do anything he pos- 
 sibly can for us. He says Dr. Leckie, secretary to 
 
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 the relief fund, has portioned me 1000 rupees to 
 enable me to refit. I shall come out like a butter- 
 fly some fine day ! 
 
 Thursday, Christmas Eve. 
 
 We have given the school children a holiday till 
 Monday. I walked round the ramparts this evening. 
 Mrs. C. told me that the last news which had been 
 heard of those unhappy prisoners at Lucknow was 
 that Maun Singh had planned their escape, and had 
 the ladies dressed as native women, and the gentle- 
 men disguised in the same manner. They were on 
 the point of getting away, when some Sepoys dis- 
 covered them, and they were carried off again to the 
 Kaiser Bagh ; and nothing has since transpired, so 
 whether still alive or not is unknown. 
 
 Christmas Day, Allahabad. 
 The services of the Church are all we have to re- 
 mind us of this joyful season. It is less like Christ- 
 mas time than any I have passed even in India — not 
 the least cold, and not even the ghost of a mince- 
 pie. That we should have been spared to see 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 197 
 
 Christmas in safety is a great cause of thankfulness 
 and joy ; but it is good to fix all our thoughts on 
 the real cause we have for rejoicing at this season, 
 and one must do so to feel in any degree glad. 
 The church was very full. Emmie and Mrs. D. 
 came from cantonments. The poor widows all 
 looked so sad and tearful, there will be little mirth 
 anywhere this Christmas, I fancy. 
 
 We had a narrow escape from great danger 
 coming home this evening from the cemetery, where 
 J. had been for a funeral. The horse shied at 
 something going over the drawbridge ; his feet 
 slipped on the iron nails, and he fell, with his head 
 and fore-legs over the side of the bridge. Had he 
 been a few inches more forward, his own weight 
 must have dragged buggy and all down to the 
 bottom of the moat. We jumped out at once, and 
 some European soldiers came to the rescue. With a 
 good deal of trouble, the poor horse was got on his 
 legs again. 
 
 December 28, Monday. 
 
 The band of the 79th Highlanders played this 
 evening in front of the barracks ; it was quite a 
 
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 treat. Emmie and Mrs. D. came from the can- 
 tonments, and we walked together. A flaming 
 order about J. has come out in General Outram's 
 despatch, and he has received the warm thanks of 
 the Governor-General for the second time, which is 
 very gratifying. 
 
 A writer of Dr. Fayrer's has made his appear- 
 ance here ; he says he has been a prisoner with the 
 rebels during the siege, and just made his escape ; 
 his account of what went on outside among the 
 enemy is very interesting ; he says every single 
 thing which occurred in the Residency was known 
 outside ; the rebels were thoroughly acquainted with 
 all that occurred among us by our faithful (?) Seikhs 
 and servants in the garrison. They knew every- 
 thing about Sir H. Lawrence, and the exact moment 
 of his death, and about Miss Palmer and Mr. Om- 
 maney, only they mistook the latter for Mr. Gubbins. 
 The Baboo says rewards were offered for every 
 European head; 100 rupees for an officer, and 
 16 for a soldier ; and that a head which the wretches 
 gave out was that of Captain Carnegie (the canton- 
 ment magistrate), who is alive now and well, was 
 
THE SIEGE OF LIJCKNOW. 199 
 
 hung up in one of the public gateways for a long 
 time. There were strict orders to slay every man, 
 woman, and child who fell into their cruel hands, 
 and every servant caught was immediately killed. 
 Every native Christian, or person connected in any 
 way with us, was murdered in the city. The 
 wretches did not find out for many hours that we 
 had evacuated the Residency. They have levelled 
 it, houses, church, and all to the ground, and are 
 preparing to make a tremendous stand there ; but I 
 think they will find we shall retake it very much 
 sooner than we lost it, strong as they may make it. 
 If they had had the smallest particle of courage, 
 they could have walked in with the greatest ease ; 
 but God turned their hearts to water for our deli- 
 verance. 
 
 By the last accounts, Miss Jackson and Miss 
 Orr were still alive, confined in a small den, 
 where they could not stand upright; but Sir M. 
 Jackson and the other gentlemen had been put to 
 death. 
 
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 Jan. 1858. 
 Postscript. — The man in the 7th cavalry who 
 murdered his comrade was allowed his liberty during 
 the siege, and behaved most gallantly ; he was killed 
 by a round shot at the Redan battery. One of his 
 children was also killed, and poor Mrs. Eldridge's 
 idiot daughter had her leg taken off by a round 
 shot, and died in great agony. The D.s' cousin, 
 Mr. Fane, whom I mentioned in a letter as killed, 
 escaped, and is alive and well. Only one of the 
 Miss Jacksons escaped, with her brother ; the other 
 was taken by a rajah, and has never been since 
 heard of. Sir Mountstuart Jackson and his poor 
 sister are still prisoners in Lucknow. 
 
 Here the Journal ends. 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 201 
 
 [The following letters — by the husband of the 
 writer — are added with a view of completing the 
 narrative.] 
 
 Allahabad, December 17. 
 
 A short time since I had little hope of ever 
 writing to you again, but here we both are safe 
 and sound, mercifully preserved through innumerable 
 perils, and enjoying such rest and peace as has been 
 
 unknown to us for six months past My 
 
 duties, as you may imagine, were never-ceasing ; 
 and the trying part of all was that we got so little 
 rest though so sorely fagged, until I reached this. 
 I had slept in my clothes (rolled in a rug on the 
 ground) for more than six months, and subject often- 
 times to be roused two or three times in the night 
 by a general call to arms, when an assault was 
 either made or threatened by our fiendish foes. In 
 our small and open position no soul was safe from 
 shot, shell, or musketry fire ; and those whose 
 duties took them out of their several posts and 
 garrisons had to run the gauntlet of as murderous 
 a shower of all as can be conceived. Mv preserva- 
 
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 tion I look upon as miraculous, for I was more 
 exposed than almost any one in the place ; but it 
 must have been rather for the sake of others than 
 my own deservings. I buried some five hundred 
 during the siege : many will, I fear, be bitterly dis- 
 appointed who think their dear ones preserved. 
 The list first published was painfully incomplete, 
 and numbers have fallen since Outram and Have- 
 lock forced their way in and were shut up with us. 
 My poor brother chaplain was shot through the 
 body, and died of cholera, just at the commence- 
 ment of the siege. I was then left single-handed in 
 my most painful duties. We stay here until the 
 roads leading up country are safe enough to travel. 
 Allahabad is a nice place for the plains : the chap- 
 lain requires help sadly, owing to the number of 
 wounded coming in, and the increased amount of 
 duty arising from the accumulation of troops. It is 
 not time to speak of losses, though ours have been 
 heavy indeed — everything gone but a few clothes : 
 carriage, horses, furniture, books, all. Our losses 
 could not be repaired at the least under 1,200?. 
 1 grieve for my books : they are things one gets to 
 love from old associations. 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 203 
 
 My DEAR MOTHER, Allahabad, January 2, 1858. 
 
 It never was intended that last mail should 
 leave without a few lines from me to you. Dear G. 
 promised to leave me room in her letter, but finished 
 and sent it off before I knew of it. We had just 
 arrived, and I was at the time incessantly employed 
 with our poor wounded, and in distributing imme- 
 diate and necessary relief from the fund available in 
 this place. Thus it came about. But I am sure 
 you will have attributed it to some such reason as 
 this. I rushed to the telegraph as soon as we 
 arrived, and sent you a flitting message through Sir 
 J. Colvile, which it is a comfort to us to know will 
 have gladdened your anxious hearts long before you 
 had a real letter. We have so constantly grieved 
 about your imaginary trouble. What a mercy it is 
 that we have been preserved amongst the few who 
 lived to see the triumphant end of that dreadful 
 siege ! I do pray it may have been so ordained in 
 great mercy to both of us, and that we may hence- 
 forth be more earnest and faithful. It would be 
 very dreadful if the lesson should be lost to us. 
 My dear G. behaved splendidly — never gave in — 
 
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 and constantly occupied herself in doing acts of 
 kindness to others less able than herself. It pleased 
 God to give us both good health : thus we were 
 able to forget ourselves very much in going about 
 our several duties. It was a painful thing that we 
 never could be alone together all those weary months ; 
 but we managed to read the Psalms and Lessons 
 together daily in a comparatively retired corner, and 
 that was a great thing, for of course I was one of 
 the few who had constantly to go about the position, 
 leaving the cover, such as it was, of our several 
 posts. I never did so without the chances being 
 many against my ever coming back to her again. 
 But God's mercy has been great, and here we are 
 safe and sound, and very happy, inasmuch as New 
 Year's Day brought us a budget from all our dear 
 ones. G. kept a sort of scrambling journal during 
 the siege, which I hope to send you soon ; it was 
 written under difficulties, with little hope that you 
 would ever see it. Not that we ever utterly de- 
 spaired, for a protecting Providence was in so many 
 things apparent that we felt it wrong to be distrust- 
 ful ; though as our garrison daily diminished, and 
 help seemed ever farther off, the last resource of 
 
THE SIEGE OF LITCKNOW. 205 
 
 blowing up the magazine was talked of and tacitly 
 resolved on in case we could no longer protect our 
 women and children. They never would have 
 boasted of another Cawnpore. I rejoice now very 
 much that I never took one of their wretched lives, 
 although constantly under arms. I resolved not to 
 shed blood unless in extremity ; that is to say, un- 
 less the enemy actually got a footing in our position. 
 This they never did, so they had their practice at me 
 gratis. You may imagine what work it was, w r hen I 
 tell you that many of our little garrison have each, 
 during an assault, to their own knowledge, killed 
 their ten and fifteen men. Well, it is over now, and 
 I think the neck of the mutiny is broken. Retribu- 
 tion is now the thing ; and I trust the punishment 
 dealt will be severe, but not merciless. The garrison 
 of Lucknow are, here in India, perfect lions ; and, 
 really, it was a gallant defence. We have been 
 stripped pretty bare, but shall no doubt be able to 
 get on. They talk of distributing lots of rewards, 
 but that can't come to me. I cannot look for more 
 than the satisfaction of having tried to do my duty 
 — imperfectly at best — but it was hard work single- 
 handed. General Havelock's reinforcement re- 
 
206 A LADTS DIARY OF 
 
 lieved almost all but me, who had some 300 
 wounded added to my former cares. The appoint- 
 ment to Dagshaie is the best thing for us now ; 
 and if it please God to spare us, we shall, after 
 service there, be brought close on our furlough, 
 and hope to see you all again. Will you tell the 
 rector of W. that I received his kind letter in the 
 middle of the fight at Cawnpore, and was quite re- 
 freshed by his mention of old times and people, of 
 which we had so often talked in our troubles. I 
 will write to him soon. 
 
 Kindest love, &c., 
 
 James P. H. 
 
 To my Sister. 
 
 Allahabad, January 3, 1858. 
 Who would ever have thought six weeks ago that 
 I should now be wishing you a Happy New Year ? 
 Poor girl ! I am so distressed to find by your letter, 
 dated Oct. 17, that you have been so miserable 
 about us. Well, indeed many a time did we despair 
 of ever seeing any of your dear faces again ; we used 
 to wonder whether you really knew and understood 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 207 
 
 what a position we were in ; and now we gladly find 
 you did not realise it. Dear Aunt G. says it " was 
 a comfort to you all to know that, although closely 
 beset, we were in an impregnable fort !" We were 
 in no fort at all ; we occupied a few houses in a 
 large garden, with a low wall on one side, and only 
 an earthen parapet on the others, in the middle of a 
 large city, the buildings of which completely com- 
 manded us, and swarming with thousands of our 
 deadly foes, thirsting for our blood. God gave us 
 protection and pluck, the former in a wonderful de- 
 gree, or not one of us would be here to tell about it. 
 This you will see when you get G.'s journal. It is 
 short, written under difficulties, but will give you 
 some idea of our position. She put down what she 
 could day by day as it occurred, just on the chance 
 of its ever reaching you. The Engineers calculated 
 that all those months never one second elapsed 
 without a shot being thrown in at us, and at times 
 upwards of seventy per second, besides round-shot 
 and shell. Every house was shattered ; every single 
 building seemed to be marked with severe small-pox ; 
 and yet, notwithstanding this, and the number of 
 killed and wounded, the brutes never dared come 
 
208 A LADY'S DIARY OF 
 
 and fight us hand to hand. They tried hard a few 
 times, but were killed round our earthworks by 
 hundreds ; so they took to shooting us down by de- 
 grees, and this they would have done, humanly speak- 
 ing, if those brave fellows under Havelock had not 
 come in. Even then, after losing 1000 out of 2800 
 in doing it, the rest were shut up with us for six 
 weeks, fighting with us day and night, till old Sir 
 Colin came with 10,000 more, and with great diffi- 
 culty and loss got us out of it. Well, thank God ! 
 now we are all right. 
 
 We got your letter New Year's Day — a de- 
 lightful gift — and truly thankful are we to find that 
 my dear father and all of you were pretty well, 
 except being bothered about us. Fred Baily came 
 to Lucknow with Havelock's force, not looking well, 
 poor fellow ; he stayed with Sir J. Outram's force 
 in the district of Oude — at the Alumbagh and the 
 open plain — about 4000 men, and they have not been 
 molested to speak of. He had left his property in 
 Cawnpore. I meant to have got it sent to him ; but 
 on getting there we just came in for the battle in 
 which General Windham was defeated ; and though 
 Sir Colin's force soon set him right again, all the 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 209 
 
 baggage, stores, &c. — amongst them poor Fred's 
 belongings — had gone to the natives or been burnt. 
 Your letter, and R.'s and W.'s, have just reached 
 us. Poor things ! how sad it was for you to hear, 
 after all, that the relief of Sept. 25 was no relief at 
 all ! They did relieve us, though, of incessant work 
 and watching by bringing more to take the duty ; and 
 they also brought us some meat — precious tough 
 too — for we eat all the old bullocks that dragged 
 in their heavy guns. We had scarcely any provision 
 left when Sir Colin came. Had he delayed a fort- 
 night, we should have had to cut our way out, to 
 the probable loss of all the lives of women and 
 children, if not men : we were however saved that 
 terrible alternative in God's great mercy. 
 
 [Extract of letter from the Authoress.] 
 
 Allahabad, March 7. 
 
 It is too bad of people to raise such wrong impres- 
 sions as that man must have done, who wrote about 
 the ladies being so well dressed when they came out 
 of Lucknow. How could people be well dressed 
 
 P 
 
210 
 
 A LADY'S DIARY OF 
 
 who had not seen the sight of clean clothes for five 
 months, and nearly all of whom had lost or left 
 behind almost everything they ever possessed ? 
 
 There was one lady, and only one, who certainly 
 did come out dressed beautifully, as if she had been 
 equipped for a drive in Hyde Park in the height of 
 the season. She laughed about it herself, and it was 
 a joke with us all. She had but one good gown 
 saved in the world, with shawl and bonnet equally 
 handsome ; and said she did not see why she should 
 not come out in them, rather than leave them 
 behind : they had the advantage too of being warm, 
 and we all thought her very wise. 
 
 There were three or four ladies who lived in the 
 Residency houses, and, therefore, their property was 
 not destroyed at the cantonment mutiny : so of 
 course they saved their clothes; but I do not 
 remember that any of them had anything on the 
 least smart. As for me, on Mrs. Cowper's principle, 
 I came forth in the only respectable dress I had, 
 which had lain by, as too good and too warm, during 
 the siege, — a black barege, trimmed with crape, and 
 black silk jacket. Every one, for the same reason, 
 wore the best they had. One lady from our garrison 
 
THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. 211 
 
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 We were told at first that we must go out with 
 as much only as we could carry, and it was only 
 about an hour before we started that we knew we 
 should be allowed carriage for any baggage : then 
 those who had anything to bring away had scarcely 
 time to get ready. 
 
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