could not control their ardour, they still rushed forward in pursuit, but fortunately the eagle eye of the young Commander glanced over every part of the field, and soon the noble 78th Highland regiment stood cool, steady, in perfect formation, and offering an imposing front on the left, where a cloud of the enemy's cavalry hung portentous on the high ground there, but dared not to dash itself against the adamantine front of this redoubtable Scotch regiment. Though, in much confusion, a part of the enemy collected in front of the village of Assaye, and were joined by a strong corps which had been but partially engaged, and by those gunners who had avoided the shot, the bayonet and the sabre, by feigning to have been killed; they attempted an imperfect formation, and a new hope flashing upon them they turned the cannon upon the victorious army while rallying at the sound-a strong body of Schindiah's troops, which was in full retreat, turned and renewed the combat. But Maxwell having re-formed his ranks and breathed his horses, charged the Mahrattas in flank with irresistible impetuosity, killed vast numbers, and put the rest to flight. But, alas! unfortunately for the service to which he was an honour, and the country for whose glory he fought, this gallant and chivalrous officer here closed, in the arms of victory, a life of honour; "and foremost fighting fell." The last effort of this eventful day was the second attack upon

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coming victory throws its shadows front of their right, he determined where their guns and infantry were the vital part of their position, would be decisive. Having discove their left where the river could resolved to pass the Kaitna at t his attack against that flank, t power of their vast cavalry, or fo action under great disadvantage tively circumscribed.

While Maxwell kept his ground up the infantry in person, the col ford firm and silent. Every ma the result of the conflict depend the heart, the quickness of the the ear, strict attention to keep and act ever in a body; every feel and understand that it must disciplined few over the fierce bu

As the columns passed out of ground above the fire from the o one hundred pieces-the hottest opened upon them with terrific wounded many officers and men. orderly, who rode close to Gener skull torn away by a cannon ball

the bayonet. Never was a victory more bravely ved or more complete; stores, ammunition, camp age, bullocks, camels, standards, and cannon were pon the field-one thousand two hundred dead were ted there-and the country round was strewed with wounded, which, General Wellesley conceived, would sed five thousand. The field of battle was strewed

the dead and dying of various nations, and ious arms, with many horses and bullocks, broken non, tumbrils, and other debris of an obstinate bloody battle; yet here, Wellesley, fatigued long excitement and vast bodily and mental exerlay down unhurt, wrapt only in his military cloak, that kind Providence, which for the good and glory is country, had protected him as a shield-enveloped

in the mantle of balmy sleep, diffused over his es that soothing influence, that kind oblivion so essary to recruit, to restore his wearied frame, and it him for the exertions of the coming day. The routed army plundered each other in their flight, ne thousands deserted, and the remainder fled to arampoor, eighty miles from the field of battle.

LETTER NINTH.

PISA, September, 18

MY DEAR

IN your last letter you accuse me of not giving you a fuller account of Gibraltar, and those parts of Andalusia which I lately visited; but you know I was but a short time there, and had neither time nor opportunity of becoming minutely acquainted with the localities, customs, and manners of that interesting country and people. If there is any interest or merit in my letters from Italy, I consider that it arises from my having remained there for some time; been able to converse with the inhabitants in their own language; and observe, con amore, all their peculiar ways and habits. It were idle to give you a minute description of Gibraltar-it is so hackneyed a beat; and every circumstance regarding the rock has been made familiar to the people of England during the glorious siege. While Andalusia, of all the provinces of Spain,

is that regarding which most has been written. My journal, however, now lies before me, and I shall select from it such parts as I conceive may prove amusing to yourself and the family circle.

The heat at Gibraltar during this month is almost insupportable, and the mosquitoes during the evening and night dreadfully annoying. The hotel in which I remained about a fortnight was tolerably comfortable in other respects, but the beds were not supplied with the zanzaliere so common in Italy, and which so completely frees you from the bite, if not from the noise, of these troublesome insects.

As Spain lies under the same parallel of latitude as Italy, it has a climate very similar. In the northern provinces the cold is never excessive; and in the southern, the heat during three months in midsummer would be intolerable, were it not for the sea breeze which generally blows from nine in the morning till five in the afternoon. Yet the interior of Spain being an elevated central plain-the highest in Europe of large extent the temperature is not regulated so much by its geographical position as by the degree of elevation. It is the extraordinary configuration of this country which occasions the aridity of the soil in the interior of the Castiles, the amount of evaporation, the want of rivers, and that difference of temperature which is observable between Madrid and Naples, two cities