The Brighton Gazette published extracts from a letter written by
an officer of the Anglo-Indian army, at Cabul, on the 19th of August. Ile says that most assuredly Dost Mahommed will return as soon as the British troops are ottt of the country ; for "he is beloved, and our old King has no friends. He is just like the old Bourbons in France, all pride and state among the most Republican people in the world. The Afghans are a fine, free-thinking, free-spoken race, but thieves and murderers to a man."
As to prize-money, little will be shared among the victors-
" We expected to get some prize-money in Glinzni, butt I am sorry to say there was scarcely any thing but the guns and ordnance-stores, altogether not above 20,000/. or 25,000/., among so many. This would have been a fine place to storm, but we obtainedpeaceable possession. The country we came through to this place was most desolate, mid here there is one continued line of gardens for forty miles. My tent is pitched under a clump of white-tlinrn or May- flower trees covered with haws ; but to feel the associations which they bring into play, requires a residence in India."
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