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LETTER FROM SIR HENRY POTTINGER.

"TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE."

"SIR,-In the sketch of my life which you have published in your number for October, there is one point regarding which I must beg you to be so good as to insert a brief correction, because, as it now stands, it might convey a reflection which would be totally undeserved, and which, I am equally certain, has never occurred to you. I allude to that passage in which you speak of my leaving the two ill-fated brothers, Vaughans, in the Traveller's Bungalow, at Wargaon, and flying alone across the country to Poonah. Now, had I done so, under any circumstances whatever, and those poor young men afterwards suffered as they did, I should not only have never forgiven myself, but I conceive that I might have been justly reprobated for unfeeling and selfish conduct, espe. cially were it taken into consideration, that they were entire strangers to that part of the country, whilst, on the other hand, I was intimately acquainted with the people and localities. The facts were briefly these:-I quitted Panwell, at the head of Bombay Harbour, at midnight, on the 3rd of November, 1817 (having horses placed at different distances on the road), and passed the two Vaughans near the top of the Bhore Ghaut, about half way to Poonah, between three and four the next morning, but without speaking to them, or ascertaining who they were, it being then dark. On reaching Wargaon, after sunrise, my horse-keeper informed me, that patroles of Mahratta horse were all over the country; that during the preceding night he twice had to lead the horse he was in charge of outside the village, and secrete him in a hollow, and that it was reported, that a British officer had been speared (which proved quite true) the day before, close to the city of Poonah. I had neither servants nor baggage of any kind with me, and did not think of halting for a moment at Wargaon. I, therefore, hastily scribbled a note, with a pencil, on the back of a letter, warning the travellers I had passed, as well as all others, of the dangerous position of affairs, and advising them to go back towards Bombay. This note I left in the hands of the man who was employed to take care of the Travellers' Bungalow, mounted my trusty steed-long celebrated throughout the Deckan by the name of Bandicoot and galloped across the country, pursued (as I afterwards found) by some Mahratta horsemen, but whom my gallant Arab easily outstripped. . I got to the Residency, at Poonah (after having halted some hours at Dapoorie, where the Paishwa's regular brigade, commanded by British officers, was stationed), late in the evening of the 4th of November; the battle of Kirkee was fought the next morning, but neither the names nor fate of the poor Vaughans were known for several days. Had my local knowledge not enabled me to leave the road, I should doubtless have shared the latter with them, but why they did not act on my advice, it is now fruitless to conjecture: probably their cattle and servants, and they themselves, were fatigued from travelling all night, and they were seized, as you describe, when sitting at luncheon. Before I conclude, I may observe, that the heroic and distinguished Major Eldred Pottinger was my nephew, and not younger brother. "I remain, Sir, your obedient Servant, " HENRY POTTINGER.

"67, Eaton-place, London; November 2; 1846."

[We are glad to have Sir Henry Pottinger's account of this incident; but submit that our version of it hardly exposes him to the imputation he mentions. A soldier, however, may feel scrupulous on the point. The part referred to stands thus in the MAGAZINE, p. 432:"Captain Pottinger, from his knowledge of the feeling of the country at that time, and his acquaintance with the native character, suspected their intentions, and, having mentioned his strong impressions to the other officers, ordered out the best of his horses, and entreated them to do the same, offering to guide them across the country, which he assured them he knew well, as he had often hunted there. The brothers, however, declined, insisting on it that they were quite safe, and that the natives would not dare to injure them. Seeing that his appeals were unavailing, Captain Pottinger, taking an opportunity when the horsemen were at some distance from him, rode off across the country, and though pursued at once, and closely, for twenty miles, got safe into the camp at Poonah."]

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Bell, Robert, Life of the Right Hon.
George Canning, reviewed, 109.
Birthday, to on her, 550.
Blanchard, Laman, 509.
British Theatre, the, 525, 668.
Bürger's Leonora, from the German,
656.

Burschen Life, Sketches of. Chap. I.-
Interior of the Student's Chamber-
his smoking Apparatus-the Poodle
and the Professor-the Stiefel Fuchs,
54; Chap. II.—The Verbindung or
Landmannschaft-the Mrs. Todgers
of Heidelberg, and her fighting son-
the University Prison-the Harmonic
Ball-the Auszug or marching forth,
58; Chap. III.-Cause of Duels-the
"Dummer Junge" the "Comitat" of
the departing Student "das Abs-
chied Lied," or the Farewell Song-
the Supper at Carlsruhe, 63.

Carleton, William, the Black Prophet,
a Tale of Irish Famine. Chap. IX.
-Meeting of Strangers-Mysterious
Dialogues, 75; Chap. X.-The Black
Prophet makes a disclosure, 79; Chap.
XI. Pity and Remorse, 84; Chap.
XII. Famine, Death, and Sorrow,
89; Chap. XIII.-Sarah's Defence of
a Murderer, 214; Chap. XIV.-A
Middleman Magistrate of the Old
School and his Clerk, 219; Chap. XV.
-A Plot and a Prophecy, 233; Chap.

VOL. XXVIII.-No. 168.

XVI.-Mysterious Disappearance of
the Tobacco-box, 229; Chap. XVII.
-National Calamity-Sarah in Love
and Sorrow, 334; Chap. XVIII.-
Love wins the race from Profligacy,
339; Chap. XIX.-Hanlon secures
the Tobacco-box-Strange Scene at
Midnight, 345; Chap. XX.-Tumults

-Confession of Murder, 350; Chap.
XXI.-Condy Dalton goes to Prison,
466; Chap. XXII.-Re-appearance
of the Box-Friendly Dialogue_be-
tween Jemmy Branigan and the Ped-
lar, 471; Chap. XXIII.-Darby in
danger-Nature triumphs, 478; Chap.
XXIV.-Rivalry, 484; Chap. XXV.
Sarah without hope, 578; Chap.
XXVI. The Pedlar runs a close risk
of the Stocks, 582; Chap. XXVII.—
Sarah ill-Mave again heroic, 588;
Chap. XXVIII.-Double Treachery,
594; Chap. XXIX.-A Picture for
the present-Sarah breaks her word,
717; Chap. XXX.-Self-sacrifice
Villainy defeated, 723; Chap. XXXI.
-A double Trial-Retributive Jus-
tice, 727; Chap. XXXII.-Conclu-
sion, 740.

Chambers, Robert, the Picture of Scot-
land, reviewed, 318.
Child of the Rhine, the, 572.
Church Reform, 366.

Commerce, Ancient and Modern, 413.
Coulter, John, M.D., Adventures in the
Pacific, reviewed, 127.

Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, Poems
by, reviewed, 383.

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Gallery of Illustrious Irishmen, No. XV.
William Magee, Archbishop of Dub-
lin, Second Article, 750.
German Poetry, Stray Leaflets from
the Oak of a Fresh Gathering-Se-
cond Garland, 164.

Gilfillan, Robert, Song by, 74.
Grace, Oliver, of Courtown, Elegy on
the Death of, by John Walter Walsh,
translated from the Irish, 748,
Greek Heroine, A, 457.

Grote, George, the History of Greece,
reviewed, 200.

Guernsey, its present state and future
prospects, 624, 703.

Heine, Heinrich, Barbarossa, 170.
Heriot, George, 68.

Horne, R. H., Orion, an Epic Poem, re-
viewed, 383.

Ibrahim Pacha and Wellington, oracu-
lar, from the Coptic, 96.
Ideal, the, of Imitative Art, 18.
Incubus, to an, Sonnet, 298.
Irish Landlords-the Royal Agricultu-
ral Improvement Society of Ireland,
448.

Irish Rivers, No. III., the Shannon, 25,
899, 601.

Kazink, Prince, and the Vaivodes, from
the Servian, 662.

Kenealy, Edward, LL.B., Three Son-
nets. I-Sir E. Bulwer Lytton. II.
-S. T. Coleridge. III.-Daniel Ma-
clise, R.A., 236.

Kennedy, Captain J. Clarke, Algeria

and Tunis in 1845, reviewed, 285.
Koerner, Carl Theodore, the Dark-
veiled Maiden, a Romantic Legend of
the Kynest, 164.

Kugler's Handbook of Painting. Part
II. The German, Flemish, and Dutch
Schools, edited, with Notes, by Sir
Edmund Head, Bart., reviewed, 18.

Lines, suggested by an Irish Mother
casting a bunch of Forget-me-not af-
ter a son going to sea, 465.
Love-Despair-Death-a Ballad, from
the Swedish, 623.

Miracle, a, of the Virgin, from the Span-
ish, by Senor Newman, 233.
Modern Painters, Vol. II., containing a
Treatise on the Imaginative and The-
oretic Faculties, by a Graduate of
Oxford, reviewed, 18.

Native Art, and National Advance-
ment, 360.

Newman, Senor, A Miracle of the Vir-
gin, from the Spanish, 283.
Night, to the, 281.

Our Portrait Gallery, No. XXXIX.—
Sir Robert Sale, 160; No. XL. The
Right Hon. Sir Henry Pottinger,
Bart., G.C.B., 426.

Pacific, Adventures in the, 127.
Painters, Modern, Vol. II., containing
a Treatise on the Imaginative and
Theoretic Faculties, by a Graduate
of Oxford, reviewed, 18.

Paris in 1846, 179.

Parker, Sarah, Lines on visiting Ireland
after a long absence, 107.

Pfeffel, Gottlieb Conrad, The Dervish
and the Vezeer, 176.

Planet, the New, 1846, Lines on, by E.
M. H., 702.

Poetry, Song, by Robert Gilfillan, 74;
The Wine Spilled, 95; Ibrahim Pacha
and Wellington, oracular, from the
Coptic, 96; On Visiting Ireland after
a long absence, by Sarah Parker, 107;
To the Thrush, 108; The Dark-veil-
ed Maiden, a Romantic Legend of the
Kynest, from the German of Carl
Theodore Koerner, 164; Barbarossa,
from the German of Heinrich Heine,
170: The Dervish and the Vezeer,
from the German of Gottlieb Conrad
Pfeffel, 176; Lines on St. Patrick's
Cathedral, Dublin, 186; Stanzas, 199;
To the Night, 231; A Miracle of the
Virgin, from the Spanish, by Senor
Newman, 233; Three Sonnets-Şir
E. Bulwer Lytton, S. T. Coleridge,
Daniel Maclise, R.A., by Edward Ke-
nealy, LL.B., 236; Flowers, 207;
Sonnet to an Incubus, 298; Lines
suggested by an Irish Mother casting
a bunch of Forget-me-not after her
Son going to Sea, 465; To

her Birthday, 551; The Child of the
Rhine, 572; Love Despair-Death,
a Ballad, from the Swedish, 623; On
the Death of Sir Aubrey De Vere, 647;
Poems from the North and the East
-Bürger's Leonora, from the Ger-
man, 656; Prince Kazink and the
Vaivodes, from the Servian, 662;
The Angel of Death, a Persian Le-
gend, 665; The New Planet, 1846, by
E. M. H., 702; Sonnet on an ex-
pected View of the Irish Coast, 747.
Political Prospects-the Late and Pre-
sent Administrations, 237.

Pope, Election and Adoration of the,
192.

Pottinger, the Right Hon. Sir Henry,

Bart., G.C.B., Ŏur Portrait Gallery,
No. XL., 426.

Pottinger, Sir Henry, Letter from, 768.

Reviews-Kugler's Handbook of Paint-
ing, Part II.; the German, Flemish,
and Dutch Schools, edited, with
Notes, by Sir Edmund Head, Bart.
18; Modern Painters, Vol. IL, con-
taining a Treatise on the Imaginative
and Theoretic Faculties, by a Gra-
duate of Oxford, 18; History of the
Reformation, by J. H. Merle D'Au-
bigné, D.D., Vol. IV., 38; Memoirs
of George Heriot, with the History
of the Hospital founded by him in
Edinburgh, &c., by William Steven,
D.D., 68; The Life of the Right
Hon. George Canning, by Robert
Bell, 109; Adventures in the Pacific,
by John Coulter, M.D., 127; Narra-
tive of a Residence in a Valley of the
Marquesas Islands, by Herman Mel-
ville, 127; The History of Greece,
by George Grote, Esq., 200; Das
Leben Jesu kritisch bearbeitet von

Dr. David F. Strauss, 268; Algeria
and Tunis in 1845, by Captain J.
Clarke Kennedy, 285; Scotland, its
Faith and its Features, or a Visit to
Blair Athol, by the Rev. Francis
Trench, 318; A Voyage round the
Coast of Scotland and the Isles, by
James Wilson, 318; The Wrongs
and Rights of the Highlanders of
Scotland, by John Steel, 318; Scot-
land and the Scotch, by Catherine
Sinclair, 318; Shetland and the Shet-
landers, by Catherine Sinclair, 318;
Picture of Scotland, by Robert Cham-
bers, 318; Poems, by Currer, Ellis, and
Acton Bell, 383; Poems, by Camilla
Toulmin, 383; Orion, an Epic Poem,by
R. H. Horne, 383; The Philosophy of
Trade, or Outlines of a Theory of Pro-
fits and Prices, &c., by Patrick James
Stirling, 413; The Industrial History
of Free Nations considered in relation
ut to their Domestic Institutions and Ex-
ternal Policy, by W. Torrens M'Cul-

lagh, 413; Annual Report and Trans-
actions of the Royal Agricultural
Improvement Society of Ireland, 443;
Life and Correspondence of John
Foster, edited by J. E. Ryland, with
Notices of Mr. Foster, &c., by John
Sheppard, 491; Madden's United
Irishmen, Third Series, 536, 681;
Ryland, J. E., The Life and Correspon-
dence of John Foster, reviewed, 491.

Sale, Sir Robert, Our Portrait Gallery,
No. XXXIX., 160.

Scamper, a, in the Long Vacation, by
Geoffrey Briefless, Barrister-at-Law,
613, 648.

Scotland, its Faith and its Features, its
Farms and its Fisheries, its Politics
and its People, 318.

Shannon, the, Irish Rivers, No. III., 25,
399, 601.

Sinclair, Catherine, Scotland and the
Scotch; Shetland and the Shetlanders,
reviewed, 318.

Sonnet to an Incubus, 298.
Sonnet on an expected view of the Irish

Coast, by W.R. H., 747; Elegy on
the Death of Oliver Grace, of Cour-
town, by John Walter Walsh, trans-
lated from the Irish, 748.
Stanzas, 199.

Steel, John, the Wrongs and Rights of
the Highlanders of Scotland, reviewed,
318.

Stepson, the, from the Papers of G. G.,

sometime Assessor of the Provincial
Court of Civil and Criminal Justice
in Zell, 1.

Steven, William, D.D., Memoirs of
George Heriot, with the History of
the Hospital founded by him in Edin-
burgh, &c., reviewed, 68.
Stirling, Patrick James, the Philosophy

of Trade, or Outlines of a Theory of
Profits and Prices, including an Ex-
amination of the principles which de-
termine the relative value of Corn,
Labour, and Currency, reviewed, 413.
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Lines
on, 186.

Strauss, Dr. David F., das Leben Jesu
kritisch bearbeitet, reviewed, 268.

Theatre, the British, Part I.-Garrick,
Kemble, Mrs. Siddons, Miss O'Neill,
525; Part II.-Talma, Mademoiselle
Georges, Mademoiselle Bigottini, Ma-
dame Pasta, Kean, Fanny Kemble,
Young, Macready, Miss Helen Faucit,
Mademoiselle Rachel, 668.

Thiers, Adolphe, 553; Second Article,
635.

Thrush, to the, 108.

Trench, Rev. Francis, Scotland, its
Faith and its Features, or a Visit to
Blair Athol, reviewed, 318.

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