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KIRBV’s WONDERFUL MUSEUM.
when I saw it on my first arrival in India, that it should find
its way to England, to be placed in Saint James’s Park, near
the trophies of Africa and Europe, represented by the Egyp-
tian gun, and the Spanish mortar from Cadiz, and thus com-
plete the military tribute to the British arms from three quar-
ters of the globe. At Delhi, opposite the Lahor gate, is a
gun of a very large bore ; and the reader will doubtless re-
collect the two guns at Nagpoor, called Gog and Magog,
about twenty-five feet long each, which were, I think, finer
pieces and better proportioned than this at Ahmednuggur,
which has drawn from me these observations.
“ The same place was taken possession of by the Duke of
Wellington, August the 12th, 1803, and has ever since re-
mained in our hands. There is also here a famous gun,
about twenty-five feet long, which is stated to have carried
shot into the camp of the Duke, though out of range of all
reasonable weapons.”
(The Egyptian gun, in St. James’s Park, is described in
vol. I. page 173 of our work), and the description of the
Spanish mortar, from Cadiz, is as follows.
REGENT’S BOMB.
In 1812, the city of Cadiz having endured a long siege by
the French, it was raised on the 24th and 25th of August,
when, amongst the artillery abandoned by the French to the
Spaniards, was this enormous Bomb or Mortar, which, being
left spiked, was, with one of smaller dimensions, presented
by the Cortes to the Prince Regent. It had been employed
in throwing shells the immense distance of three miles ; and
it has actually thrown to the distance of three miles and a
half. Soon after its arrival at Woolwich, orders were issued
for constructing an appropriate carriage. Its station being
fixed on the Parade in St. James’s Park, a few yards from
the iron-railing enclosing the canal, and immediately opposite
the centre of the Horse-Guards, the work proceeded within a
canvas enclosure. On August 2 the mortar was lifted on a
KIRBV’s WONDERFUL MUSEUM.
when I saw it on my first arrival in India, that it should find
its way to England, to be placed in Saint James’s Park, near
the trophies of Africa and Europe, represented by the Egyp-
tian gun, and the Spanish mortar from Cadiz, and thus com-
plete the military tribute to the British arms from three quar-
ters of the globe. At Delhi, opposite the Lahor gate, is a
gun of a very large bore ; and the reader will doubtless re-
collect the two guns at Nagpoor, called Gog and Magog,
about twenty-five feet long each, which were, I think, finer
pieces and better proportioned than this at Ahmednuggur,
which has drawn from me these observations.
“ The same place was taken possession of by the Duke of
Wellington, August the 12th, 1803, and has ever since re-
mained in our hands. There is also here a famous gun,
about twenty-five feet long, which is stated to have carried
shot into the camp of the Duke, though out of range of all
reasonable weapons.”
(The Egyptian gun, in St. James’s Park, is described in
vol. I. page 173 of our work), and the description of the
Spanish mortar, from Cadiz, is as follows.
REGENT’S BOMB.
In 1812, the city of Cadiz having endured a long siege by
the French, it was raised on the 24th and 25th of August,
when, amongst the artillery abandoned by the French to the
Spaniards, was this enormous Bomb or Mortar, which, being
left spiked, was, with one of smaller dimensions, presented
by the Cortes to the Prince Regent. It had been employed
in throwing shells the immense distance of three miles ; and
it has actually thrown to the distance of three miles and a
half. Soon after its arrival at Woolwich, orders were issued
for constructing an appropriate carriage. Its station being
fixed on the Parade in St. James’s Park, a few yards from
the iron-railing enclosing the canal, and immediately opposite
the centre of the Horse-Guards, the work proceeded within a
canvas enclosure. On August 2 the mortar was lifted on a