sitting with folded legs. The dexterity of the movement looked like the result of practice. He sat thus gazing before him without the slightest movement. Even his eyes did not move. His lips were compressed like one subduing internal agitation. His features, which were neither handsome nor unpleasing, wore the studied calm of resolute effort. A physiognomist would at once have pronounced him a barbarian ruler of mild disposition, but the sport of the gusts of passion. When he took his seat, a slave crept forward, and placing by him a golden beetle-box shaped like the Hentha, the national emblem, withdrew. The British officers thrice bent their heads respectfully to his Majesty on the throne.'

During the whole of this period Havelock steadily maintained the religious character with which his life commenced. On this important subject, we have the following statement in the sermon of Mr. Brock :

'Before he went to India in 1823, he had presented himself a living sacrifice to God, and resolved, whatever others might do, to serve the Lord. No sooner did he join the 13th Light Infantry than he began to devote himself seriously to the welfare of his fellowmen, assembling them together at every opportunity for the reading of the Scriptures, and psalmody, and prayer, and throughout the long period of his connexion with that regiment, that practice he religiously maintained. There came a time when they built a place for their religious accommodation, and had their own pastor, but Havelock was amongst them, as one that served them in the gospel and grace of the Lord

Jesus. When at Rangoon with the expedition under Sir A. Campbell, he exerted himself to the utmost to prevent the excesses of the soldiers after the place had been captured. He there obtained the permanent use of a large chamber in the Grand Pagoda, and converted that chamber, the walls of which were decorated with idolatrous images, into a meeting-house for the worship of the true God.

'One day a military officer, on approaching the edifice, heard the sound of psalmody, and entering therein, he found above a hundred soldiers seated around their officer, who was acting as the good minister of Jesus Christ.'

In another admirable funeral sermon, the preacher (the Rev. E. Paxton Hood) asks-' Have you not heard how, in the temple of Rangoon, when the city was taken, he was seen in the temple-the idol templefilled with the images and cross-legged infernals of that country? He placed the lamps in the hands of the idols, and by the light sat down to teach, to lead the devotions of the soldiers, and to open to them the Scriptures.'

'About that time a military emergency having arisen, the General in command thought not of his embarrassment. Having ordered out a particular troop, the reply was that they were intoxicated, and could not take a place of danger. Then, said the commanding officer, "Turn out Havelock's men; he is always ready, and his men are never drunk." They were immediately under arms, and the General's object was achieved. Not without much opposition was it that he has endeavored to walk humbly with his God. He was ridiculed and

persecuted for righteousness' sake. On the adjutancy in his corps becoming vacant, an application was made to the Governor-General to give it to Havelock. His lordship demurred on account of what had been said to Havelock's disparagement as being an enthusiast and a fanatic. Bitter was the hostility which beset him on that occasion, and only in this manner it was overcome: A return was ordered of the offences committed by the men of the several companies throughout the regiment; and having examined the return, the Governor-General said he found that the men in Havelock's company, who had joined in his religious exercises, were the most sober and best behaved men in the regiment. The complaint against the men, he said, was that they were Baptists, and he added that he wished that the whole regiment were Baptists, too. The result of the inquiry was, the bestowal of the adjutancy upon Havelock, and the entry in his memorandum-book simply mentions the fact, with the addition of the following words :-' Continue religious instruction to the soldiers, and do everything to promote temperate habits among them."

CHAPTER IV.

FROM 1827 TO 1838.

ADJUTANT TO THE MILITARY DEPOT AT CHINSURA.-STUDIES ORIENTAL LANGUAGES IN CALCUTTA.-MARRIES MISS MARSH

MAN.-DOMESTIC

CHARACTER.-CHRISTIAN

CATHOLICITY.

PROMOTION TO A CAPTAINCY.-INTERESTING TESTIMONIAL.

THE history of the Ava campaigns, in which Havelock records the story of the first active periods of his military career, was published in the year 1827, an epoch memorable in his private as well as his public life. Without any pedantry and affectation, the author gives ample evidence in these pages of solid scholastic acquirements, and but for the error of coming into print in Serampore, instead of London, his first production would have received its proper recognition, and soon have been followed by the labors of the accomplished military historian. Havelock had evidently a deep sympathy with Thucydides, whose qualities, as a military writer, characterise his own productions, and, like that distinguished historian, he evidently wished to use the pen in describing those scenes in which he had valiantly employed the sword. It is narrated that Thucydides wept when he heard Herodotus repeat his history of

the Persian wars at the public festivals of Greece, and it is not difficult-as our readers will perceive in the progress of this memoir-to trace in Havelock an admiration for the Attic historian perhaps equal to that which he entertained for the historian of Hali

carnassus.

It is our purpose that in these pages, as far as is practicable, the soldierly writer' shall be the narrator of those stirring scenes in which he took a conspicuous part, and it will be apparent that his style is marked by the vigor, purity, elegance, and energy, that distinguish the history of the Peloponnesian war. It is some concession to the claims we assert, that at one important period of his life Havelock was familiarly known among his friends by the soubriquet of Thucydides, a designation which was, we have no doubt, a pleasant gratification to the recipient, as it was naturally elicited from his intimate friends.

A season of rest from the active duties of the campaign was now afforded by the appointment he received from Lord Combermere to the post of Adjutant of the Military Depôt at Chinsura, an establishment for receiving recruits after the landing in India, and preparing them for service, and also for invalided and worn-out veterans on their return from the up country. On the breaking up of this establishment, Havelock returned to his regiment, but only for a short time, as we find him soon after in Calcutta, diligently engaged in the study of the Oriental languages, for which he had a remarkable aptitude and a peculiar taste.

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