1 ccH.mry. I'eja sing, v.limn ! attended at .Lahore, made to
2 ini', the candid concession, that, in circumM fences- like those to
3 which the country was reduced, no other remedy , • left for its
4 advntion out to surrender it to the English. It is- well known,
5 that on the £&nd oi December, 3845, Tejn Sing arrived on the
6 field of btttt.Ie with a reserve of twenty five to thivtv thousand
7 regular troops, after the English had fought a whole day and
8 nighr, and consumed all their ammunition, on account of which
9 they had been obliged to retreat. But the Sik1 1 *■ with whom
10 they had fought, believing themselves defeated, retired also, and
11 the English returned and re-occupied their abandoned camp
12 That was the critical moment in winch tiie reserve army, under
13 ♦be command of Teja Sing, arrived; ami lie, being in corres¬
14 pondence with the English, did what he could to check the ardour
15 of Ins troops by filling them with fear; and be \v >s the first who
16 turned his back in order to spare the English, he knowing their
17 critical position. The army followed his example, and retreated
18 also, That was the famous battle in which the confusion among
19 the British troops reached its highest pitch—to such a degree,
20 that they fired on each other. On this occasion, . Catholic
21 priest, the only or. ■ ii. the whole army, lost his life, his long
22 beard and turban causing the mistake. It is known, too, that
23 the Prince Waldcrnar of Prussia was in the English ranks us
24 a volunteer, and distinguished himself by his courage and
25 calmness Although he luckily escaped the peril, be was much
26 afllicted bv the sail accident of seeing his dear friend and travel¬
27 ling companion, Doctor Mofmeistcr, fall by his side, having been
28 killed by a shot fioin the Sikh camp.
29 On the 1 Oth of February, 18 Hi, the battle of Sobraon took
30 place, which decider! the fate of the -country. Teja Sing, the
31 traitor, took to his heels, and, on passing the Sutlej, he ordertd
32 (he bridge to be broken down, leaving the greater part of his
33 troops behind in n helpless state. The bet-rayed soldiers cried,
34 with their hands folded and grass in their mouths, making,
35 themselves emblems of their holy animals, tii oat He. It is iid,
36 fit some of them exclaimed “ We ‘-ulfer only the just reward