FEW WORDS OF ADVICE TO CADETS, AND OTHER Young Persons proceeding to India, BY HENRY KERR, A RETIRED OFFICER IN THE H. E. I. COMPANY'S MILITARY SERVICE; AND Wм. H. ALLEN & Co., 7, LEADENHALL-STREET. 1842. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO THE HONOURABLE THE CHAIRMAN, THE DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN, AND MEMBERS OF THE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE Honourable the East India Company, BY THEIR OBEDIENT, HUMBLE SERVANT, HENRY KERR, A Retired Officer, Bengal Army. PREFACE. THE first edition of this little Work having been received in a most flattering manner, by the parents and guardians of many young officers, and by those also of young ladies who were proceeding to India, I am induced to offer a second edition, in the hopes that it may be found, from many corrections and additions, still more useful than the last. Although the first publication was dictated mainly with the view of advertising an agency connected with India and its services, more particularly for the equipment, outfit, and passage of the Cadet, yet, at the same time, it struck me, that from the experience of nearly thirty years' knocking about in all quarters of the globe, and from having for some time held the appointment of Superintendent of Cadets in Calcutta, that I might offer some practical hints to young soldiers, and point out to them a path, which, if studiously followed, must necessarily lead, not always, perhaps, to worldly advancement, |