He was
----'s servant when I joined, and I was delighted at hearing the South
Devon dialect again, which he speaks with so much truth and native
elegance that you would imagine he had but just left his native village.
There were a great many Devonshire men in the regiment; we lost one, a
very fine young man in the Grenadiers, in coming down from Kelat to
Cutch Gundava, by the same chest complaint that carried off so many: he
was a native of Tiverton.
Well; it is twelve o'clock, and I am afraid I shall be too late for the
post; so good bye.
Your affectionate son,
T.W.E. HOLDSWORTH.
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APPENDIX.
FALL OF GHUZNI, & ENTRANCE OF THE BRITISH ARMY INTO CABOOL.
_(From the Bombay Government Gazette Extraordinary of August 29th,
1839.)_
SECRET DEPARTMENT.
Bombay Castle, Aug 29th, 1839.
The Honourable the Governor in Council has the highest satisfaction in
republishing the following notification issued by the Right Honourable
the Governor-General, announcing the capture by storm of the town and
fortress of Ghuzni, as also the general order issued on the occasion by
his Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir John Keane, K.
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