34 CAWNPORE.
pore had been the scene of a military tumult which had been repressed with timely severity. One of the ringleaders, a Brahmin sepoy, had been hanged in the presence of his comrades. This man was regarded as a martyr; the spot where he met his fate, on the edge of a Jarge tank, was still pointed out to each new-comer, and the brass implements with which he performed his acts of worship had been preserved in the quarter-guard as relics of the departed saint. Unfortunately the regiment was commanded by an officer who thus describes himself in honest and manly language: “I beg to state that ‘“‘it has been my invariable plan to act on the broad “line which Scripture enforces, that is, to speak ““ without reserve to every person. When I therefore ‘address natives on the subject of religion, whether “individually or collectively, it has been no question “with me whether the person or persons I addressed “belonged to this or that regiment, or whether he is “‘a shopkeeper, merchant, or otherwise, but I speak “to all alike, as sinners in the sight of God; and I “have no doubt that I have often in this way “Gndeed, am quite certain,) addressed sepoys of my ‘own regiment, as also: of other regiments at this “and other stations where 1 have been quartered. “..,.. As to the question whether I have en- ‘“deavoured to convert sepoys and others to Christi-
