HERE REST THE REMAINS OF MRS. CATHERINE DEARE, WHO DIED AT CALCUTTA 6TH SEPT. 1791, AGED XXXIV YEARS: IN MEMORY OF HER AND HER HUSBAND, LIEUT.-COLONEL CHARLES RUSSELL DEARE, WHO FELL BY A CANNON-SHOT ON THE 13TH OF THE SAME MONTH, WHILE COMMANDING THE BENGAL ARTILLERY, IN AN ACTION FOUGHT BETWEEN A DETACHMENT OF THE BRITISH FORCES AND THOSE OF TIPPOO SULTAN, NEAR SATTIMUNGULUM, AGED XL YEARS. THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY HIS BROTHER, COLONEL GEORGE DEARE. Footnote 29: Among them two brass 6–pounders which had been lost at Sattimungalum. Footnote 30: Lieutenants Douglas, Hinde, Dowell, Tulloh, and Humphrays. Footnote 31: A bar of iron was however let into the axle. Footnote 32: Major Woodburne and Captain Howell going away, were succeeded by Captains Barton and Rattray. Footnote 33: A letter from Colonel Green to the Secretary of the Military Board, July, 1801, says, “As the two 6–pounders, with brass cheeks, the Board were pleased to direct the agent to make up for the service of the horse artillery experiment, carrying on under my control, to replace those sent to Egypt, will take some time, &c.” These carriages were proved by Major Wittit, when ready, and some alterations suggested. It is probable some mistake between brass and iron has crept into the report from which the extract was taken, or else both brass and iron were tried. Footnote 34: At this time serge had not been introduced it is supposed, and cartridges were made of paper—that now called cannon-cartridge, or packing. Footnote 35: Another was a crutch in which to receive the needle. Footnote 36: So great had been the alarm at one time, excited by the desperate projects (of some officers), that Sir John Murray, the commandant of Fort William, without communicating his precautionary proceedings to the Governor-General, placed the fortress in a state of defence, relying on the unshaken steadiness of the artillery; (_Life of Lord Teignmouth_, vol. i. p. 351) ... and but for the firmness of the artillery at Calcutta, and the manly resistance of several officers at Cawnpore, the army would have dictated to the Government their own terms.—_Idem_, _L. M. to Lord C._, p. 371. Footnote 37: