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If it were at all known, and got to the ears of the commander-in-chief and you know how gossip of this kind spreads both his colonel and myself would get a severe wigging, for not sending in a report of it.
Thus the aspect of things in the pirate city, bad though it was, became a little brighter, and continued so for some time, until an event occurred which flung a darker cloud than usual over the ever changing scene. When the commander-in-chief of cavalry condescended to pay a visit to a Jew, it was a sign that events of considerable importance were hovering in the air.
The former seemed to think that the latter assumed the first position, and indeed, most of the angry gestures had been made in Boston, and Boston had been the special object of British punishment. Still, with what may seem unexpected self-effacement, they did not press strongly for the choice of a Massachusetts man as Commander-in-Chief.
Andreas greeted him with a proud nod of the head. "Well, then," he said, "I am Andreas Hofer, late commander-in-chief of the Tyrolese. I ask for quarter and good treatment." "I cannot promise any thing to a rebel," replied the officer, contemptuously. "But you have come to seize me, and none but me," continued Andreas, in a gentle voice. "Well, then, here I am; do with me as you please.
"Any thing else?" inquired Becker. "No, father, I believe the extent of accommodation does not go beyond that." "Therefore I have decided upon something less vast, but more comfortable for you; you will go every night to our villa of Falcon's Nest." "On foot?" "On horseback, if you like and under the direction of Willis, whom I name commander-in-chief of the cavalry."
George Hastings, and the H. C. steamer Diana, having just returned from an expedition to Acheen, whither they had been dispatched by the commander-in-chief, to inquire into and demand redress for an act of piracy, committed on an English merchant-vessel. An account of the expedition has already been published.
He attained the grade of corporal; but this elevated rank did not satisfy him, and he left for the interior. "Finally, after a thousand adventures, which he never wrote out, he arrived at the court of Oude, where, by some means, he obtained a captaincy in the royal army, and, what was better, the favor of the king. In 1780 he was commander-in-chief of the native army.
"Captain Philip H. Sheridan, U. S. Army, is hereby appointed Colonel of the Second Regiment Michigan Cavalry, to rank from this date. "Captain Sheridan will immediately assume command of the regiment. "By order of the Commander-in-Chief, "JNO. ROBERTSON, "Adjutant-General."
I have just learned that the commander-in-chief, who marched into the Highlands to seek out and disperse the insurgents, has declined giving them battle at Coryarrick, and marched on northward with all the disposable force of government to Inverness, John-o'-Groat's House, or the devil, for what I know, leaving the road to the Low Country open and undefended to the Highland army.
The contingent which the Bombay Presidency was to furnish to the 'Army of the Indus, and which landed about the close of the year near the mouth of the Indus, was under the command of General Sir John Keane, the Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay army. The Bombay force was about 5000 strong.
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