Dick at home, no doubt, was accounted a "nobody." He was somebody, however, throughout the length and breadth of our island in 1794. Another Governor, Crommelin, had elected to live in the country, and died at Moorshedabad at the age of eighty-one. Sir William David Evans, made Recorder of Bombay, took up his appointment in 1820, and in little more than fifteen months after his arrival died, December 5th, 1821, in his 55th year.-Dict. Nat. Biog. [No. 15, South Wall.] Sacred To the memory of JAMES WALES, Gent, A native of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Also To the memory of Margaret, his wife, Also Of Angelica, their Infant Daughter, Who died in Dec., 1795, This Tablet is erected by Susan, Four surviving daughters, The lady who erected this monument to her father, James Wales, the painter, was the progenitrix of all the Malets, for Susan here mentioned became the wife of Sir Edward Warre Malet. Mr. Hugh Poyntz Malet, the discoverer of Matheran, one of her sons (born 1808), writes us, under date June 8th, 1893, that Susan Wales was born July 30th, 1779, married. September 17th, 1799, and died December 21st, 1868. His authorities are unimpeachable-the insurance office, the Bible at Willing, and tablet in Newton Tavoy Church, Wiltshire. Everybody at Matheran knows Malet's spring and has drunk thereof, and this statement is like unto it, clear, perennial, and incontestable. I conclude by expressing my warmest thanks to the Venerable Archdeacon Goldwyer-Lewis for a copy of the inscriptions in the Cathedral. Without it this paper could not have been written. (8.) SOME BOMBAY STATUES AND PORTRAITS. "OCTOBER 10th, 1812.-The new Town Hall to be built is intended, among other purposes, for the reception of the statues of the Marquess Cornwallis, Mr. Pitt and any future monuments of British Art which public gratitude may bring to Bombay": and again— -- "1816. For the reception of the statues of the late Marquis Cornwallis, Mr. Pitt, and the Marquis of Wellesley, which have cost nearly £20,000 sterling raised by the contribution of individuals. These, as they have hitherto done, are likely to remain in an obscure warehouse, unless we can rear a suitable edifice for the reception of such splendid and exemplary testimonies of public respect and gratitude to the services and to the virtues of the most eminent statesmen of our country." Bombay Government Letter of 22nd February, 1817. Of Mr. Pitt's statue we know nothing, and have no further record about it. We have the following notice under date of 1854" The statue of the Marquess of Wellesley was suffered to be neglected for years after its arrival in the warehouse of Messrs. Forbes and Co., and it was with the greatest difficulty, and only through the influence and liberal contributions of Sir Charles Forbes that money was raised to put it in its place." Cornwallis's and Wellesley's statues are now (1895) in the Elphinstone Circle. March 23rd, 1821.-This day the foundation of a monument was laid at Corygaum to commemorate the battle fought at that place. G May 13th, 1821.-Subscription being raised in Bombay for the National Monument in Edinburgh. The raison d'être may be new to many of our readers. "To record the Victories in Europe and in Asia in which Scotsmen were engaged, and to provide a Temple for the Worship of God." This taken evidently from the home appeal to the public. I have never heard in Edinburgh the last-named purpose even hinted at. January 26th, 1822.-Subscriptions solicited for a statue in Edinburgh of Robert Burns; amount now £373 12s. This I believe was the first statue raised of Robert Burns. It was started in Bombay, and this fact is recorded on its pedestal. The statue is now in the Royal Institution of Edinburgh. August 2nd, 1823.-William Erskine to sit for his portrait for the Royal Asiatic Society, where it may now (1895) be seen. "August 16th.-Sir James Mackintosh's portrait, which was voted to him twelve years since, has not yet reached Bombay." Nor has it yet, and I believe there is neither marble nor canvas in the Asiatic Rooms to represent this distinguished I see the question is asked on April 4th, 1841 :-"Why is there not a picture or bust of Mackintosh in Bombay?" The same question may be asked in 1895. man. 1824, August 31st.-The Marquis Cornwallis's statue, sent out some years ago to be erected in the centre of the Green, cost £5,000. The figures right and left are those of Wisdom and Integrity. October 14th.-Statue now being put up. No sooner erected than the natives adjourn to it as a place of worship. Government, by printed placards in the vernacular, tried to explain and dissuade. Worship, I believe, still continues in a mitigated form at this statue. 1825, September 3rd.-Preparations are commenced on the triangular piece of ground on the Esplanade, opposite the Church Gate, for the purpose of erecting the statue of the Marquis of Wellesley. 1830, October 27th.-Statue of Sir John Malcolm proposed. 1833, April 31st.-Subscriptions solicited for Sir Walter Scott's monument in Edinburgh. 1833, December 3rd.-Sir John Peter Grant's portrait arrived. Sir Herbert Compton, the Chief Justice, would not allow it to be put up in the High Court. When Sir Charles Sargent was Chief Justice in 1892 it was hung in the most conspicuous place facing the Judge in the highest criminal court of Bombay. 1836, September 20th.-Malcolm's statue arrived. December 27th.-Put up in Town Hall. Everybody pleased. 1839, October 26th.-Statue of Sir Charles Forbes extensively subscribed for, now amounting to £3,000. 1841, March 24th.-Statue of Marquis Cornwallis to be removed to Town Hall. This was not done, and I observe on June 9th of this year, at the beginning of the monsoon, a scaffolding was put round the statue of Wellesley on the Esplanade to protect it from the weather. This statue must have been removed to its present site some time thereafter. 1854. The bust of Sir James Carnac, which was subscribed for in 1841 and arrived in 1846, lay three years forgotten in its packing-box under one of the Town Hall stairs, and was only discovered by accident. This is something of a piece with Bentinck's statue, which was detained in pawn in Calcutta in the year 1841. (9.) THE GARRISON OF BOMBAY, 1845. THE Garrison of Bombay within the walls, in the year 1845, consisted of about 3,500 men, as follows: 2nd Battalion Foot Artillery. A wing H. M. 22nd Regiment. The 9th Regiment Native Light Infantry. The 10th Regiment Native Infantry, and the Marine Battalion. The fortifications of Bombay, we are assured, required a garrison of 8,000 men to man them sufficiently. The Governor of Bombay commanded these troops, the Town Major was his representative in the Fort, and the Commander-in-Chief could not exercise any direct control over the troops in garrison. First there was the Commandant of the garrison, then the Town Major, then the Adjutant of the day, who was not to quit his lines during his tour of duty. Then there were Adjutants of Corps, who were either to attend at the Town Major's office at 12 o'clock daily, or direct their Sergeant-Major to do so. Recruits were victualled three days by the Commissariat gratuitously after their arrival. The line turned out without arms whenever the General commandingin-chief came along the front of the rank. On such occasions tents of the quarter-guards were struck, the camp colours planted in line with the sergeants' pikes and tents, the drums piled up behind the colours, and the line dressed by the standards or colours of the regiment. Such were some of the honours paid by the troops according to the Bombay Garrison Regulations of 1845. The fortifications of Bombay, fifty years ago, mounted 1,100 guns, and yet in 1850 this was considered insufficient, and we need not say they required minute and daily inspection. Even with every precaution, there were sometimes lamentable accidents and offences. On June 9th, 1820, when George IV. was proclaimed in the Place of Arms, near the Main Guard, at 5 P.M., at the close, a weather-chest on Hornby's Battery exploded, killing six Europeans and two lascars. On February 22nd, 1831, an English private was hanged for shooting the sentry at Church Gate. The Commandant of Artillery had exclusive charge of the guns on the fortifications and the bastions, and was subject to the orders of the Governor alone. With the latter rested solely the allotment and distribution of public quarters in the garrison and Colaba. The garrison was quartered within the walls, and the walls had three gates, guarded by sentinels. These were the Apollo, Church, and Bazaar Gates. There was a fourth gate, the land entrance (a water-gate also on the sea face) to Bombay Castle, which was the Balla-Killa, a fort within a fort. The bastions were named after such magnates as Granby, Nelson, Moore, or Hornby; Fort George after George III. But the names graven on stone with a pen of iron have passed away, and are to be found in the more enduring book of History. During the period that Bombay dwelt within stone. walls there were fewer complaints than one would have expected. The irksomeness arising from a sense of confinement was inevitable. "Oh, that I had the wings of a dove!" The streets were narrow, which tempered in some degree the glare; but the dust! For, so far as we can see, they were never done |