This adventure served as a wholesome4 lesson to me to beware of meddling5 with the ways of strange peoples in a strange land. By dint6 of following Meer Jaffier’s wise and prudent7 directions I got over the rest of my journey without hindrance8, and as day was breaking at the end of the following night I rode down on to the shore of the Hooghley.
There the first thing that met my eyes was the pennant9 of my old commander, Admiral Watson, [Pg 213]flying from the main truck of his Majesty’s ship Kent, where she lay in the river, surrounded by a fleet, comprising the Tyger, Salisbury, Bridgewater, and a number of merchantmen. I gloated over this welcome sight almost with tears, as I realised that I was restored to my countrymen once more, after all my perils11 and wanderings. It did not take me long to reach the English camp on the edge of the river, where the spectacle of a turbaned Moor12 riding in on a white horse excited no small commotion13.
I inquired for Colonel Clive, and was quickly brought to the door of his tent, where my kind friend Mr. Scrafton came out to speak to me. I was on the point of offering him my hand, but observing that he had no suspicions as to who it was I merely told him in Indostanee that I came from Moorshedabad, with a message from the Meer Jaffier, and suffered him to bring me in to Mr. Clive.
The famous Sabat Jung sat writing at a small table, from which he looked up as we entered, and cast a sharp glance over me. Mr. Scrafton spoke15 in English.
“Colonel, here is a Moor from the Nabob’s capital, with a message from his general to you.”
Mr. Clive laid down his pen.
“Tell him to deliver it,” he said.
Before Mr. Scrafton could interpret this command, which he was about to do, I interposed, addressing Mr. Clive in English.
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“The Meer Jaffier bade me salute16 you privately17, sir. Is it your pleasure that Mr. Scrafton should be present?”
The Colonel and his secretary stared at each other, as they well might.
“Who are you, man?” demanded Mr. Clive. “And how do you know this gentleman’s name?”
“I know his name very well, sir,” said I, “and I think he knows mine, unless by this time he has forgot his former pupil, Athelstane Ford18.”
“By the Lord, if it isn’t my little purser!” exclaimed Colonel Clive.
And this great man was pleased to rise from his chair and shake me very warmly by the hand, declaring himself pleased to see me safe and sound again. Mr. Scrafton did the same, after which they made me sit down and tell the history of my adventures. They questioned me very closely about the character of Surajah Dowlah and the strength of his government, and after I had expressed my opinions, Mr. Clive told me that he believed he understood the Nabob’s character, and had written him a letter such as would send his heart into his boots.
“And that the whole of Indostan may know what I think of the young monster, I mean to send the letter open to his lieutenant19, Monichund,” he said. “These barbarous nations shall be made to learn the English are their masters, and that every outrage20 upon an Englishman shall cost them dear.”
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So at last there had come a man able to deal with the bloodthirsty savage21 Moors14 and their prince as they deserved; and a new page was turned over in the history of Bengal. And but for the anxiety that continually harassed22 my mind as to the fate of those two whom I had left in Moorshedabad, I mean Marian and my cousin, who, in spite of many crimes, had at last done something to atone23 for his past misconduct; but for this, the time which followed would have been full of satisfaction. For I was now to witness the closing acts of that great historic drama of which I have already chronicled the commencement. I was to assist at the execution of justice on a great malefactor24, and to see his victims repaid a hundredfold for the injuries they had suffered at his hands.
I had arrived in the English camp just in time to take part in the first of those celebrated25 operations by which the disgraceful surrender of Fort William was to be redeemed26, and the English name was to be so signally advanced throughout the East Indies. Colonel Clive had despatched the letter he spoke of, to demand redress27 from the Nabob, but its language was so high and peremptory28 that Monichund, the Nabob’s governor in Fort William, returned it, saying that he dared not transmit it to his master. Thereupon Mr. Clive, not sorry to have an excuse for hostilities29, ordered an immediate30 advance on Calcutta.
The total number of troops employed on this [Pg 216]memorable expedition was a little more than two thousand, of whom the most part were Telingies, or Sepoys, the English troops being between six and seven hundred. Most of these were Company’s soldiers, though we had about one hundred men of Adlercron’s regiment31 from Madras. We had also two field-pieces; the rest had been lost through the unfortunate grounding of the Cumberland outside the river. To this force was afterwards added a body of three hundred seamen32 from the ships, as I shall presently relate. This little army under Colonel Clive marched slowly up the bank of the Hooghley, while Admiral Watson followed and escorted us with his fleet.
On the second afternoon we lay at a place called Mayapore, between which and Calcutta, on the river’s edge, stood the strong place of Budge-Budge, or Buz-Buzia as it is written by the learned. The Admiral had announced his intention of sailing up to attack this fort on the next day with the guns of the ships, and in order to prevent the garrison33 escaping Mr. Clive decided34 to march round during the night, and lay an ambush35 in the rear of the fort.
Accordingly we marched out of Mayapore about sunset, and were conducted by some Indian guides inland through a part of the country much broken up by swamps and watercourses, which made our progress so excessively tedious that it was not till the following sunrise that we arrived at the place appointed for the ambush. This was a hollow in [Pg 217]the plain, where there was a deserted37 village, the hollow being surrounded by banks covered with thickets38 which, it was supposed, would conceal39 our presence from the enemy. The troops by this time being quite worn out, Colonel Clive gave them leave to lay down their arms and repose40 themselves, and so eagerly was the permission availed of that not a single sentinel was posted to give notice of the enemy’s approach.
I was with Mr. Clive himself, who had allowed me to accompany him as a sort of military secretary, Mr. Scrafton not being a soldier. We lay down side by side, and I for one had no sooner closed my eyes than I fell asleep. But the very next moment, as it seemed to me, I awoke with a start, to the sound of a battle going on around me.
I sprang to my feet and took in the whole scene. A whole Indian army appeared to have surrounded the sleeping camp. The banks of the hollow were lined with swarthy troops, armed with matchlocks, from which they poured a steady fire upon our bewildered men, just roused from slumber41, and groping in confusion after their arms. On an eminence42 a short way behind I espied43 an officer, whom I took to be Monichund himself, seated on an elephant, issuing orders to his troops. Our two field-pieces stood deserted in the way of the enemy, who advanced to take them, while the terrified artillerymen ran for shelter among the troops of the line. Our position looked desperate, and I [Pg 218]turned anxiously to Colonel Clive to see what he would do.
Mr. Clive had sprung to his feet at the same moment with myself. For a moment he stood in an attitude of stern attention, his hands clenched45, his lips compressed, and his eyes darting46 from point to point over the field. The next instant his voice rang out like the sound of a trumpet47.
“Steady! Form in line! Face this way! Captain Campbell, form your men on the right. Captain Coote, take yours to the left. Where is Kilpatrick?”
He sprang forward among the disordered troops, rattling48 out commands and words of encouragement, and infusing a new spirit into them by his very presence and the air of cool resolution with which he moved and spoke. Like magic the little force disposed itself under his orders, and began to return the enemy’s fire. Astonished by this sudden transformation49, the Moors halted in their attack, and seemed contented50 to hold the rest of the ridge10. Colonel Clive instantly detected their hesitation51, drew up two small detachments opposite the points where the enemy seemed to be in the greatest numbers and ordered them to charge. They dashed forward with a ringing cheer, gained the bank, and drove the enemy back into the village.
Taking advantage of this success, Mr. Clive turned his attention to the two field-pieces, which had been surrounded by a party of Monichund’s force.
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“Go,” he said to me, “order up the volunteers, and rescue those guns.”
Elated by this commission I darted52 towards a little squad53 composed of some fifty of the Company’s civil servants who had volunteered before we left Fulta.
“Come on,” I shouted, “and take the guns!”
They responded with an answering shout, we charged on the Indians at the double and drove them off. The artillerymen came up, turned the guns on the village, and began to shell out the enemy. A minute afterwards a loud cheer announced a general advance of our whole force, and Monichund, turning his elephant, fled, followed by all his men.
While this was taking place the thunder of guns from the direction of the river told us that the fleet had come up, and was already at work silencing the artillery44 of the fort. Colonel Clive called back his men from the pursuit, and then, finding them utterly54 exhausted55, he deferred56 the assault on the fort till the next day, and we again betook ourselves to repose.
The result of this affair was greatly to encourage us, while we afterwards learned that it had as much disheartened the Moors. That presumption57 which they had felt ever since the fall of Calcutta was now exchanged for a different feeling, so much so that it may not be too much to say that the fate of Bengal was decided by that morning’s work. The admiration58 [Pg 220]which I felt for Mr. Clive’s conduct on this occasion emboldened59 me to offer him my congratulations on his victory, but he rebuked60 me for doing do.
“I will tell you what it is, young gentleman,” he said to me, “I deserved to have been defeated for my carelessness in letting the beggars surprise me. It is true we beat them off, but that is no defence. A general should not allow himself to be caught napping in that fashion, and you may depend on it I shall say as little as possible about this day’s work in my despatches to the Directors.”
In this confidential61 way he was pleased to talk with me, a freedom which it was his habit to indulge in with all those of his subordinates whom he really liked. For this hero, as I must have leave to call him, was not one of those little great men who find it necessary to keep up their authority by a show of reserve and pompousness62, but feeling that confidence in himself which would enable him to rely upon his actions as the proofs of his greatness, he despised the arts of inferior minds.
And now there happened an event, not only singular in itself, but interesting to me as bringing me back the company of an old friend whom I had never looked to see again. In the evening of this same day, while the soldiers were at supper, a party of sailors were landed from the ships, being the force I have already mentioned, to be ready to take part in the assault the next day. Thinking it possible [Pg 221]that some of my old comrades from the Talisman63 might be among them, about eight o’clock I strolled down to their quarters, where I found them all drinking together, without much appearance of discipline.
I walked past several groups without recognising any face that I knew, and was about to give up the quest, when I noticed a group of half a dozen who were straying in the direction of the silent fort. This seemed to me a very dangerous proceeding64, and as I could see none of their officers near, I determined65 to follow and remonstrate66 with them. Accordingly I hastened after them as fast as I could go. By the way in which they walked, or rather staggered along, I saw they had been drinking pretty freely. Presently they set off at a run, paying no heed67 to my shouts, and I was obliged to follow till they stopped on the very edge of the ditch which went round the fort. Here I caught up with them, greatly surprised that the garrison had shown no signs of life. But before I could speak, or even distinctly see their faces, the tallest of the party, a man of great frame, began rolling down into the ditch, which was nearly dry.
I dared not call out for fear of drawing the attention of those in the fort, and watched him breathlessly as he plunged68 through the mud at the bottom of the ditch and scrambled69 up the opposite side.
“What is he doing?” I demanded in a whisper [Pg 222]of the man who appeared to be the most sober of the group.
“It’s a bet,” he answered; “we bet him a quart of rum he wouldn’t get to the top of the wall.”
I stared at the fellow, hardly able to believe in such recklessness. Then I turned my eyes to the huge seaman70 on the opposite side of the ditch. He had just made good his footing on the top of the bank, and now he began climbing up the masonry71 like a cat, till at last his herculean figure stood out clear on the summit.
The next moment we saw him draw his cutlass and brandish72 it over his head, and a loud shout came across to us in a voice I knew full well.
“Come on, you beggars, I’ve taken the —— fort!”
It was old Muzzy, the boatswain of the Fair Maid.
Not for long did we hesitate, but rushing down into the ditch after him we were speedily in the fort. There our shouts roused first a company of Sepoys, and finally the whole force, who came trooping in, to find the place deserted, and the garrison fled secretly under cover of the darkness to Calcutta.
While this was going on I had approached my old friend, for so I cannot but call him. Indeed, in spite of his evil character and manifold breaches73 of the laws of God and man, the old fellow had shown me much kindness, for which I was not ungrateful, and this perhaps inclined me to look [Pg 223]with an unduly74 lenient75 eye on his misdeeds. Going up to him, I clapped him on the back, and cried out—
“How goes it, old Muzzy? and what of the Fair Maid and the rest of her crew?”
The boatswain gave a great start, and turned round to me with a look of astonishment76 which quickly passed into one of delight.
“Why, drown me, if it ain’t that young cockerel again!” he exclaimed.
And before I knew what he would be at, he cast his arms around me, and gave me a most evil-smelling kiss, fragrant77 of rum and tobacco. Then, still holding me firmly with his great hairy hands, as though he feared I should vanish into air, he put me back far enough for him to gaze at my face.
“Stab my vitals if I didn’t think as you was suffocated78 in that there Black Hole!” He garnished79 his speech with many other expressions which I am ashamed to remember, far less to write here. “So we all heard aboard the ship. But you’re alive, ain’t ye now?” he added. “It’s not the rum as makes me think I sees you?”
“I am Athelstane Ford,” I answered, trying to shake myself free from his grasp, “and not a little glad to meet you again. But how did you come to be on a King’s ship? Is the Fair Maid——”
“Hist!” He interrupted me with a warning frown, and cast an apprehensive80 glance behind him. “Not a word about her! It might be a hanging [Pg 224]matter if it was known I had been in the boat that escaped from Gheriah. I’ll tell you all about it by our two selves.”
I took advantage of this offer to lead the way out of the fort. We walked back to the British lines together, old Muzzy still clutching me with one hand, and as soon as we had reached a quiet spot out of earshot we sat down and he commenced his tale.
“You see, it’s this way. Arter what happened when we was coming out of the river, where we lost you overboard, I come to the conclusion that that cousin o’ yours warn’t what I calls a honest man. Nobody can’t say as how I’m one of your squeamish sort, ’cause I ain’t. As fur as a bit o’ smuggling81 goes, or a bit of privateering, or even a bit o’ piracy82, in a general way, I don’t say nothin’, but when it comes to taking and firing a culverin at your own ship, with your own mates aboard of her, why, d’ye see, I don’t call that honest. And when I find out as a man ain’t what I calls honest, I don’t sail in his company. Mind you, I’m not the man to deny that Captain Gurney has his good points; he ain’t no lawyer, that I’ll admit, and he’s as free with his rum-cask as any man I ever wish to sail under. But arter that business what I’ve mentioned, me and my mates swore we wouldn’t have nothing more to do with him.
“Well, when we got outside the river, we pointed36 her head for the nor’ard, and by keeping pretty [Pg 225]close along the shore, though we hadn’t a soul on board that could navigate83, we managed to bring the old Fair Maid safe into port—that’s Bombay. You may strike me blind as I set here, when I tells you that no sooner did we bring up in the harbour than who should we see carmly settin’ on the quay84 a-waiting for us but that eternal cousin of yourn! How on earth he got there’s a mystery, but there he was; and as soon as he sights the Fair Maid he comes off in a boat as cool as you please and takes the command again.”
“Why did you let him?” I asked, with a touch of my old resentment85 against Rupert. “Why didn’t you refuse to take him on board?”
Old Muzzy gave me a reproachful look and shook his head gravely.
“No, no, boy, we couldn’t go for to do that. That would ha’ been flat mutiny; and remember his name was on the ship’s books as first officer, and he might have pistolled us every one and had the law on his side. We didn’t dare leave him neither, ’cause that would ha’ been desertion, d’ye see, and he might have got out a warrant and had us brought on board again in irons.”
“What did you do, then?” I demanded as he paused, and a smile of deep cunning slowly overspread his face.
“I’ll tell you what we did, Athelstane, my hearty86. We got ourselves pressed!”
“Pressed?”
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“Took by the crimps, you understand, and pressed to serve King George. Oh, but it was a rare spree to see them crimps a-laying in wait for us, and enticing87 us into their dens88, and filling us up with rum till we nearly bust89 where we sat, so that they could go and bring the pressgang down upon us. And us all the time asking nothing better, and ready to serve of our own accord, only it might ha’ looked suspicious, d’ye see, it being agin natur for a honest seaman to want to go on board a man-o’-war.”
The boatswain began to quiver and roll to and fro with spasms90 of inward laughter at the recollection of his strategy.
“And you should ha’ seen your cousin’s face when he stood all alone on the deck of the Fair Maid, and saw a boatload of us being rowed past him to the Tyger, every man jack91 of us in irons, and laughing in his face as we went by! And so that’s how it is as I’m in King George’s uniform, and right glad I am to find you in company again. For if ever I took a fancy to a young feller, I took one to you from the moment I first clapped eyes on you, and says I to myself, ’I’ll make that lad a tight sailor yet,’ I says, and I’d ha’ done it, my boy, but for that scrub of a cousin of yours. And I’ve taken a blessed fort to-night for King George; and I’ll tell ’em you was with me, and in command of the party, and they’ll put your name in the despatches, and make you an admiral yet, or my name ain’t Muzzy!”
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