1 10 ILL HEALTH OF RANJEET SINGH.
2 Notwithstanding the sickness of the Maha-
3 raja, Minute attention was paid by him to
4 every requisition. But the dilatory manner in
5 which his orders were executed caused some
6 delay. At length every preparation was com-
7 pleted, owing to the strict and constant -en-
8 deavours of the Lieut.-Colonel, to whose care
9 aud guidance the whole of the expedition on
10 the Peshawr frontier was entrusted. by the
11 British Government. _,
12 On the morning of the 12th inst., Sir
13 ‘Claude Wade, accompanied by the other offi-
14 cers attached to his Mission,* proceeded to the
15 * ¢ Lieut.-Colonel Wade, political agent and chief. of
16 the Mission; Lieut. Cunningham, Ist assistant to ditto;
17 P. B. Lord, Esq., Bombay Medical Service, an assistant
18 in the political department to Mr. MacNaghten (doing
19 duty); Lieut. Maule, artillery, assistant in the political
20 department; Lieut. Dowson, 5th regt. Native infantry,
21 ditto; Lieut. Barr, H. A., ditto, and commanding detach-
22 ment of horse artillery; Lieut. Hillersdon, 53rd N. I.,
23 assistant ine the political department; A. Reid, Esq.,
24 Bengal Medical Service, in medical charge of the Mis-
25 sion; Capt. Farmer, 2lst N. I., commanding British
26 troops; Lieut. Corfield, ditto; Capt. Ferris, 20th N.I.;
27 Lieut. Rattray, ditto, adjutant to British troops.”’—Barr’s
28 Journal from Delhi to, Peshawr to join Sir Claude
29 Wade, published in 1844, pp. 219, 220.