BY A BENGALEE. "Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, BUTLER. LONDON: SAUNDERS AND OTLEY, CONDUIT STREET. 1839. ΤΟ LIEUT. COL. WILLIAM WHITE MOORE, HON. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SERVICE, THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED BY HIS GRATEFUL AND ATTACHED FRIEND THE AUTHOR. MEMOIRS OF A CADET. CHAPTER I. IN the year 18-, I received my appointment as a Cadet of Infantry on the Bengal establishment. I was but sixteen years of age, and the thoughts of becoming my own master, and visiting foreign countries, at that time completely outweighed the pangs of separation from home and friends. I will not, like many auto-biographers, confound the reader's imagination with descriptions of the omens, portents, and signs, that astonished B |