WHO, AFTER DISTINGUISHED SERVICES IN THE PENINSULA, IN THE COMMAND OF A LIGHT BATTALION, AT WATERLOO, WITH THE 42ND ROYAL HIGHLAND REGIMENT, FELL MORTALLY WOUNDED, WHILST LEADING THE THIRD DIVISION OF THE ARMY OF THE SUTLEJ TO THE ATTACK ON THE SIKH ENTRENCHED CAMP, AT SOBRAON, ON THE 10TH OF FEBRUARY, 1846. * * * * * THE OFFICERS WHO HAD THE HONOUR OF SERVING UNDER HIM IN HIS LAST BATTLE, AND OTHERS, HIS FRIENDS, IN HER MAJESTY'S AND THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SERVICE, IN BENGAL, HAVE CAUSED THIS MONUMENT TO BE PLACED IN HIS PARISH CHURCH, IN TESTIMONY OF THEIR RESPECT AND AFFECTION FOR A GENEROUS, COURTEOUS, AND CONSIDERATE COMMANDER, A GALLANT AND DEVOTED SOLDIER. XIII. [Page 194.] PROCLAMATION OF PEACE. Foreign Department, Camp, Lahore, Feb. 22nd, 1846. The British Army has this day occupied the gateway of the citadel of Lahore the Badshahee Mosque, and the Hazuree Bagh. The remaining part of the citadel is the residence of his highness, the Maharajah, and also that of the families of the late Maharajah Runjeet Singh, for so many years the faithful ally of the British Government. In consideration of these circumstances, no troops will be posted within the precincts of the palace-gate. The army of the Sutlej has now brought its operations in the field to a close, by the dispersion of the Sikh army, and the military occupation of Lahore, preceded by a series of the most triumphant successes ever recorded in the military history of India. The British Government, trusting to the faith of treaties, and to long subsisting friendship between the two states, had limited military preparations to the defence of its own frontier. Compelled suddenly to assume the offensive, by the unprovoked invasion of its territories, the British army, under the command of its distinguished leader, has, in sixty days, defeated the Sikh forces in four general actions; has captured 220 pieces of field artillery; and is now at the capital, dictating to the Lahore Durbar the terms of a treaty, the conditions of which will tend to secure the British provinces from the repetition of a similar outrage. The Governor-General being determined, however, to mark with reprobation the perfidious character of the war, has required and will exact, that every remaining piece of Sikh artillery which has been pointed against the British army during the campaign shall be surrendered. The Sikh army, whose insubordinate conduct is one of the chief causes of the anarchy and misrule which have brought the Sikh state to the brink of destruction, is about to be disbanded.