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from gunpowder. However, there was one volcano of 10,000 rockets that was magnificent, and the natives, who covered the whole plain, were delighted with it all. Captain —— says a clerk in his office gave him the best account of it—one of the old, dried, yellow clerks peculiar to the country. He came in on pretence of mending pens, and said, ‘Fine sight, sir, last night—remarkable. There were 2,000 of us clerks, black and white, on the roof of the Treasury; and, upon my word, Government House was much the finest sight I ever saw in India—such an extent of fire! But—you’ll excuse me, sir—the fireworks! I saw finer fire-works in the early part of the Marquis Wellesley’s reign; to be sure the Marquis was uncommon partial to fireworks, almost a native in that respect, and he had Sir Arthur Wellesley, and King George, and Billy Pitt, and many other respectable characters, in a blaze in the middle of the plain; but it was reserved for the Earl of Auckland to show us a fine illumination, and his Lordship has done it nobly.’ Captain —— says he evidently thought it a finer business than Cabul. It took 210 men to light the roof