For  once  the  Hero  has  inspired  the  Artist.  Foley
speeds  his  Outram  right  forward,  spurring  his  horse,
dashing  on  with  drawn  sword,  his  face  turned
towards  the  absent  troops,  whom  he  cheers  on  to
the  attack.  The  violence  and  life  of  the  attitude
astonish  us  amid  this  dreary  marble  company  :
Outram  lives.  Further  on  there  is  a  column,  some
hundred  and  fifty  feet  in  height,  diminished  to
insignificance  by  the  desert  which  surrounds  it,  but
from  whose  summit  we  have  so  fine  a  panorama  of
the  city.  This  column  commemorates  Sir  David
Ochterlony,  the  mark  of  a  tardy  gratitude.  After  a
career  of  fifty  years  spent  in  the  service,  and  which
stretched  over  nearly  the  whole  span  of  the  duration
of  British  rule,  Ochterlony — the  pacifier  of  the  Ghour-
kas,  transformed  by  him  into  the  most  valiant  of
British  soldiers — Ochterlony  died  of  a  broken  heart,
disgraced  by  the  Calcutta  Government  for  having
kept  a  higher  standard  of  English  honour  than  suited
the  official  theories  of  the  hour.
Between  the  fort  and  Esplanade  Row,  along  the


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