Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Vii Lieutenant Hamilton Vetch, of the Assam Light Infantry, giving an account of some interesting operations of Jungle warfare, in which he and Mr. Scott were personally engaged, with other correspondence of the same young officer ; and many letters from Mr. Scott to George Lamb, Esq. Civil Surgeon at Dacca, a particular friend of Mr. Scott's, with whom he was in habits of intimate and confidential intercourse. This gentleman favoured me with a large packet of Mr. Scott's letters to his address; from which I have selected such only as appeared connected with, or were likely to add interest to, the Memoir. Unfortunately, the several dates of these . .only give the day and month, without noting the year in which they were written; so that I have found it difficult, indeed impracticable, to arrange them in a manner altogether satisfactory. But the whole will, nevertheless, with the other papers above-mentioned, be found deeply interesting to Mr. Scott's friends ; some of whom will probably drop a tear to the regretted names of Bedingfield and Burlton, Leslie and Beadon, Wilcox and the amiable young Brodie, who fell a too early sacrifice to the characteristic ardour of a youthful hero, devoted to all the romance and " circumstance" of a soldier's life: and, though motives of consolation will suggest themselves, even on occasions thus painful, yet, when we behold a youth so full of promise, who had already gained the love and admiration of all who knew him, thus unexpectedly " Cut off from Nature's, and from Glory's course u Which never mortal was more fond to run ;" such views, alas ! however they may be approved by the understanding, can have little place in our hearts. I had intended to give some account of the early life and education of Mr. Scott prior to his embar...