You write about old ——­:  did I never mention him to you?  He is here; but was not with us on the campaign, being too unwell when we started.  Though not an old man, he is a very old soldier for an Indian, and is nearly worn out:  he is anxious to get his discharge at the end of the year, when he will have served his twenty-one years, and be entitled to a decent pension.  He is a very straight-forward, blunt, honest old fellow, and when he first joined was a very powerful man, and the best wrestler in the regiment, thereby proving his South Devon blood.  He was ——­’s servant when I joined, and I was delighted at hearing the South Devon dialect again, which he speaks with so much truth and native elegance that you would imagine he had but just left his native village.  There were a great many Devonshire men in the regiment; we lost one, a very fine young man in the Grenadiers, in coming down from Kelat to Cutch Gundava, by the same chest complaint that carried off so many:  he was a native of Tiverton.

Well; it is twelve o’clock, and I am afraid I shall be too late for the post; so good bye.

  Your affectionate son,
    T.W.E.  HOLDSWORTH.

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APPENDIX.

FALL OF GHUZNI, & ENTRANCE OF THE BRITISH ARMY INTO CABOOL.

(From the Bombay Government Gazette Extraordinary of August 29th, 1839.)

SECRET DEPARTMENT.

Bombay Castle, Aug 29th, 1839.

The Honourable the Governor in Council has the highest satisfaction in republishing the following notification issued by the Right Honourable the Governor-General, announcing the capture by storm of the town and fortress of Ghuzni, as also the general order issued on the occasion by his Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir John Keane, K.C.B. and G.C.H., Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Indus.  By order of the Honourable the Governor in Council,

  L.R.  REID, Acting Chief Secretary.

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NOTIFICATION.—­SECRET DEPARTMENT.

Simla, August 18th, 1839.

The Right Hon. the Governor-General of India has great gratification in publishing, for general information, a copy of a report this day received from his Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir John Keane, K.C.B, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Indus, announcing the capture, by storm, on the 23d ult., of the important fortress of Ghuzni.

A salute of twenty-one guns will be fired on the receipt of this intelligence at all the principal stations of the army in the three Presidencies.  By order of the Right Hon. the Governor-General of India,

  (Signed) T.H.  MADDOCK,
    Officiating Secretary to the Government of
    India, with the Governor-General.

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TO THE RIGHT HON.  LORD AUCKLAND, G.C.B., ETC.