A large portion of the regiment was this year called into the field against Diaram, the zemindar of Hattrass, whose fort and territory had been ceded by Scindia to the British in 1803, at which time no terms were made exempting Diaram from the general laws in force in the Company’s territories; but, in the expectation that, finding no necessity for armed followers, his force would gradually have dissolved and his fort gone to ruin, the Government took no steps to break it up at once. Mistaking this forbearance, in spite of several warnings, he persisted in a course of aggrandizement and opposition to the civil officers, which drew down on him the powerful hand of Government, who determined that no ill-timed economy should interfere with the rapid and complete reduction of his power. Lord Hastings directed the preparations to be made on such a scale to convince all that our failures heretofore were caused not from a want of skill or resources, but from our failing to bring them forward, and being more lavish of the blood of our troops than the _matériel_ of our magazines. For this siege two troops of horse artillery and the rocket-troop, seven companies of European, and four of native artillery, and eighteen companies of lascars, moved from different points and collected before Hattrass, together with a battering train of six 24–pounders, fourteen 18–pounders, four 8–inch howitzers, six 10–inch mortars, fourteen 8–inch mortars, and twenty-two 5½-inch mortars; total, 20 guns, 8 howitzers, and 42 mortars. The general command of the artillery was held by Major-General Sir J. Horsford; Captain C. H. Campbell, M. B.; Major Pennington, commanding horse artillery; Lieutenant Lumsden, adjutant and quarter-master; Majors Mason, McLeod, and Butler, fort adjutants. ─────────┬──────────┬────────────────────┬────────────┬─────────────────────── Troop. │Captains. │Captain-Lieutenant. │Lieutenants.│Lieutenant-Fireworkers. ─────────┼──────────┼────────────────────┼────────────┼─────────────────────── 1 │ Boileau │ │G. Gowan │Morland, Pennington ─────────┼──────────┼────────────────────┼────────────┼─────────────────────── │ │ │Hyde │ 3 │J. Brooke │Rodber │MacAlister │ │ │ │Sconce │ ─────────┼──────────┼────────────────────┼────────────┼─────────────────────── Rocket │ Whish │ │G. Brooke │Cartwright ─────────┴──────────┴────────────────────┴────────────┴───────────────────────