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3 attached to the artillery, hut from a notion
4 .of,..or as some assert, a piece of advice given to
5 ll.imj.eet on the subject, the chief command of this
6 important branch of his service is always invested
7 in. fcli p hands of Natives. General Court has done General Court,
8 everything which the means placed at his disposal
9 could accomplish for the artillery. The general is
10 a .well-educated man, and was formerly, I believe,
11 in the French-service as captain of artillery, His
12 researches in the Punjab in antiquities and coins,
13 have frequently adorned the pages of the Asiatic
14 ►Society’s Journal; and his cabinet of coins and
15 antiquities is a superb one. He is at all times
16 ready to exhibit these, with a politeness which re¬
17 flects equal credit on him as a gentleman and
18 savant. Monsieur AvatabiK, an Italian by birth, ( > ene ™},.
19 . ' J Avatabih.
20 is employed in the civil department, anti is, by all
21 accounts, an active and zealous officer. Mr. Mr. Foulkcs.
22 Foulkes,* an Englishman, proceeded to the Punjab
23 in 1835, and has since that time been employed in
24 the Sikh army. He is a gentleman of pleasing
25 manners, and being determined to surmount every
26 difficulty, he will ultimately succeed to some im¬
27 portant command, though the delays and dis¬
28 appointments he has already experienced, would be
29 sufficient to daunt the prospects of a less zealous
30 soldier. These are the principal foreigners now in
31 the service of Runjeet; but. there are others in
32 subordinate .employments, whose prospects have
33 * Cruelly murdered and roasted alive by the Sikhs l
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