formation, my collection of materials would still have been incomplete but for the generous interest of two gentlemen-one a friend of Havelock's family, and the other a man of high position and influence residing in India. They do not wish their names mentioned in connection with this memoir, but I cheerfully confess that but for them the book would not have been written.

LIFE OF GENL HAVELOCK.

CHAPTER I.

Havelock's Birth and Childhood-Early Training-His Courage and Daring-Gets a Black Eye-Military Tendencies-Called "Phlos" for his Grave Demeanor-His Religious Tendency and Love of StudyChooses the Profession of the Law-His Brother William serves under Wellington-Havelock obtains a Lieutenant's CommissionAfter Eight Years' Service at Home, embarks for India-Is converted on the way-Stationed at Fort William, in Calcutta-Commences Religious Instruction of his Soldiers-War with Burmah—Havelock's First Battle-The Baptist Missionaries-Is taken Sick, and returns to Hindostan-Rejoins the Army-Is engaged in Three separate Actions-Drs. Price and Judson-Bearer of Presents to the King -Receives a Patent of Nobility-Scene at Dinner-Religious Services in a heathen Temple.

HENRY HAVELOCK was born at Bishop Wearmouth, in the county of Durham, on the 5th of April, 1795, being the third of a family of seven children. Attempts have been made to trace his lineage back to an illustrious Danish family; but nothing definite is known of his ancestry beyond two generations.

His grandfather, who lived in Lincolnshire,

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removed to Yorkshire, where Henry Havelock's father was born. The latter being in moderate circumstances, went to Sunderland to improve his fortune by engaging in ship-building and commercial pursuits. Acquiring sufficient property to support a family, he married Jane, daughter of John Carter, a conveyancer. When young Havelock was four years old, his father, having purchased Ingress near Dartford, in Kent, Co., removed thither. Havelock's after religious character was, doubtless, owing much to the careful training of his mother, during the first six years of his life, while under the paternal roof. She was accustomed regularly to assemble her children around her, and after reading a portion of Scripture, converse and pray with them. The lessons she inculcated and the religious truths she implanted in his young heart remained there to bring forth their fruit in due time.

At the age of five, he, with his brother William, was sent to school at Dartford, three miles distant, and placed under the charge of Rev. I. Bradley, curate of Swanscomb.* These two lads ambling to Dartford on two ponies, and the gallant Colonel heading a charge

* It is possible there may be an error in this date, for Havelock himself makes a difference of a year in his age at this time. In his own memoranda, he says that "in January, 1801, William and Henry went to school at Dartford as parlor boarders," etc., but in a letter to his son, dated June 4th, 1853, he mentions: "In the month of January, 1800 (this is 1853), my brother William and I were taken on ponies away to school at Dartford," etc. If his memorandum is correct, he was six the April after he entered school, but in this letter he says he was five in April.

HIS MILITARY TASTE.

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of cavalry, and the great Commander leading his army to victory, present one of those striking contrasts, which fortune sometimes seems to delight in.

He remained here three years. At this early age he evinced great fondness for reading, and like all boys of an ardent temperament, took great delight in accounts of battles and sieges. This taste for military affairs was much increased by the wonderful career Napoleon was then running. The rapidity and boldness of his marches, the extent of his resources and the sudden aud terrible shocks with which he fell on the monarchs of Europe, were well calculated to inflame the imagination, and he carefully followed all his movements, and in the secluded places of the park marked out the various fields of action, remarshalled the battalions and fought his battles over again. In this way the natural tendency of the child to a military life became a fixed and permanent characteristic.

Naturally adventurous and daring, he excelled his schoolmates in those feats requiring courage and steadiness of nerve. The tree-top must be high and the limbs slender where he would not venture after a bird's nest. One day he lost his hold and fell to the ground. His father, who saw the accident, asked him as he got up if he did not feel frightened when he found himself falling. His reply was characteristic not only of the boy but of the after man. "No," said he, "I had too much else to do to be frightened. I was thinking about the bird's eggs.'

On another occasion, having been drawn into a quarrel by interfering for a schoolfellow who was not