From Major-General J. B. Hearsey to Major W. A. J. Mayhew on the restoration of order, 1 March 1857

From Major-General J. B. Hearsey, C.B., Commanding the Presidency Division, to Major W. A. J. Mayhew, Deputy Adjutant-General of the Army, Calcutta,--No. 85, dated Barrackpore, 1st March 1857.

        I have the honor to forward, for submission to Government, the enclosed demi-official letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Mitchell, Commanding the 19th Regiment, Native Infantry, dated the 27th ultimo, reporting the mutinous conduct of that battalion on the night of the 26th idem, and the measures which he consequently adopted for the restoration of order and discipline.

        2. I have directed Lieutenant-Colonel Mitchell by this day's dak to exert his utmost endeavours to discover the ringleaders of this disgraceful outbreak, and particularly whether the party of the 34th Regiment, Native Infantry, alluded to were the originators of such.

        3. I have despatched a copy of Lieutenant-Colonel Mitchell's letter to Army Head-Quarters for the information of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief.

From: Selections from the Letters Despatches and other State Papers preserved in the Military Department of the Government of India, 1857-58.  Edited by George W. Forrest.  Calcutta: Military Department Press 1893, 40-41.