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manding No. 2 ^ Detachment quartered there, and Sir John
Hearsey took him to his own house, where he was tended
with assiduous care by the family of the gallant General, one
of whose daughters became his wife. When sufficiently
restored to enable him to undertake the voyage to England,
Lieutenant Carew was about to appear before a Medical Board'
when the following letter from Captain Campbell, dated the
22nd of June, 1858, decided him to put off his visit to England,
and resume his duties: 44 My dear Carew,—Is it possible for
you to do any duty? We are hard up for officers, and if you
could get patched up so as to do duty at Barrackpore, however
little you could do, it would be of the greatest importance
to the public service, as Lieutenant Windus is off to Chya-
bassa, and I want an officer to take charge at Barrackpore, so
that I can send an officer to Sasseram from the 6 Auckland.'
At present, I am at my wits' end; you can make w^hat use of
this you see good, and I can, of course, appoint you only as
fit for duty on the spot, and not to march out, if you can
induce the medical officer to allow you to buckle on your sword
once more, and try how you get on at Barrackpore." Accord-
ingly. Lieutenant Carew replied affirmatively to this pressing
invitation, and remained at Barrackpore till No. 2 Detachment
was no longer required, when he marched with it to Fort
William, and returned the six guns to the arsenal.
Before leaving, he called on Brigadier Christie, commanding
the station, who expressed himself highly satisfied with the con
duct of his men, as also did Colonel Knox of H.M.'s 67th
Regiment. The former said:—" I will most certainly write
to Captain Campbell, the senior naval officer, when the order
comes for the breaking up of your Battery. I will then repeat
to him what I told you the other day, viz., that nothing could
have exceeded the good behaviour of the Naval Brigade of this
station since they have been under my command, now upwards
of lour months. During that time not a single man has been
brought before me for misconduct, a more orderly, cleanly,
respectful set of men I have never had under my command
and I can only further add, J shall be very sorry when the
order comes for your brigade to leave Barrackpore." Colonel
Knox also w^rote :—" Agreeably to order, I send you a memo
randum about your departure. We are all sorry you and your
men are going—a finer or a better conducted set of fellows it
has never been my lot to serve with in garrison. I wish I had
the pick of some of them to fill up my Grenadier Company
with, £5 might tempt some."
Upon leaving Barrackpore, Lieutenant Carew proceeded to
Fort William, where he assumed command of No. 10 Detach
ment of the Indian Naval Brigade, consisting of one hundred
men, raised to guard Alipore jail, which contained a large