1 326 HISTORY OF THE SIXHS.
2 with regret that he had not been himself an exer
3 witness of them.
4 ‘Assumesggn»’ On his arrival at head-quarters, Sir Joaaph :
5 pac Thackwell was at once appointed to the command
6 of the cavalry division which had been under Brigas
7 weenie of dier Harriot at Feerozshuhur. Here we may again
8 cavalry at allude to the 8th light cavalry at the last named en-
9 gagement. On that day the regiment was on the
10 road toFeerozpore; but it halted repeatedly, with the
11 ostensible view of awaiting the result of the fight,
12 which was still being carried on; and it was only
13 when the firing ceased, and the battle concluded to
14 be at an end, that this regiment moved forward to-
15 wards Feerozpore, at the time when the several
16 troops of horse artillery were moving in the same
17 Captain Lum- direction. Our own impression is, that Captain
18 ue Lumley, before ordering Brigadier Harriot to Fee-
19 tozpore, was satisfied that the regiment was no
20 Yonger required; and he, therefore, merely com-
21 mitted an error of judgment. We have no other
22 interest in giving what may ‘be conceived a favour-
23 able opinion of the parties concerned, than the
24 earnest wish, natural to true historians, to place
25 the matter in its proper light; which our position,
26 while sitting under the shade of a tree waiting the
27 result of a battle, and with a view of lending our
28 aid to the wounded, enabled us todo. The feel-
29 ings of Sir J. Lumley, the gallant father of Captain
30 Lumley, on hearing of his son’s error, while holding
31 his own place as adjutant-general, may be more
32 easily conceived than described. To.Captain Lum-