FROM TRE SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE of JANUARY 12, 1819. India-Board, January 13, 1819. A DISPATCH has been received at the East India-House, from General the Marquess of Hastings, K. G. and G. C. B. Governor General and Commander in Chief of the Forces in the East-Indies, dated Goruckpore, 20th June 1818, of which the following is an extract. Bajce Row having submitted and placed himself in the hands of Brigadier-General Sir John Malcolm, I have the honour to congratulate you on the ter mination of what still bore-a-lingering character of war. The troops with which Bajee Row had crossed the Tapty were completely surrounded. He found progress towards Gwalior impracticable, retreat as nuch so, and opposition to the British force altogether hopeless; so that any terms granted to him under such circumstances were purely gratuitous and only referable to that humanity which it was felt your Honourable Court would be desirous should be shewn to an exhausted foe. The ability with which Brigadier-General Sir John Malcolm first secured the passes of the hills, and then advanced to confine Bajee Row in front, (3) while Brigadier-General Doveton closed upon him from the rear, will not fail to be applauded by your Honourable Court; nor will you less estimate the moderation with which Sir John Malcolm held forth assurance of liberal and decorous treatment, even to an enemy stained with profligate treachery, when that enemy could no longer make resistance. Bajee Row is to reside as a private individual in some city within your antient possessions, probably Benares, enjoying an allowance suited to a person of high birth, but without other pretensions. A dispatch has also been received from the Government of Fort St. George, dated 12th August 1818, of which dispatch and of its inclosures, the following are extracts and copies. Extract from a Dispatch from Mr. Strachey, Chief Secretary to the Government of Fort St George, to the Secretary to the East India Company, dated 12th August 1818. I AM directed to transmit to you a copy of a letter reporting that the fortress of Manowlie and the district of Chuckorie, have been delivered up to Brigadier-General Munro, and copies of accounts of the operations of the force-under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Macdowell, against the fortress of Malligaun, and of its surrender to that officer. By the accompanying dispatch from the Resident at Poona, the Honourable the Secret Committee will have the satisfaction of learning that the war in the Peishwah's late dominions has been termi nated by the surrender of the Fort of Moolheir. The surrender of Malligaum was notified in the Gazette of 28th November 1916, page 2121. Extract from a Letter from Brigadier-General Munro, to the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, dated 2d June 1818. After leaving Sattarah on the morning of the 29th ultimo, I rejoined the reserve the following day about noon. On my arrival I found that an order from Appa* Dessye to his officer at 'Manowlief, directing the immediate surrender of that place to the company, had been received in camp, and dispatched about an hour before. Though the order itself was perfectly clear, I was convinced both from the character of the Dessye and his recent conduct, that it would not be acted upon without an attempt being made to gain time, and to try the effect of negotiation. I therefore determined to prevent all unnecessary delay by marching to Nepawnie. The Dewan Narreer Phunt said, that he would himself instantly proceed to Manowlie and deliver it up. He set out in the evening with a party of twenty horse, travelled all night, and reached Manowlie in the afternoon of the 31st ultimo, and made over the place to my Aumildar next morning, When I marched from Erroor on the 31st ultimo, Appa Dessye had sent no order for the giving up the district of Chuckoriet. His second Dewan, Singoo Punt, who accompanied me, proposed to deliver up the Sircar, and retain the Enam Villages§. This plan was at once rejected, because it would in fact have enabled the Dessye to continue to maintain a number of his servants at the expence of the districts;-I told the Dewan that the order must be for the surrender of the whole district without any One of the late Peishwab's southern Jegheerdars. A town on the river Malpurba, thirty miles N..of Darwar. Villages held rent free. reservation, and that it must be brought to me before my arrival at Nepawnie. He met me on the march yesterday morning with this order, but as it reserved the Enam Villages it was returned to him, and he soon after came back with another order of unconditional surrender..' Extracts from Reports from Lieutenaut-Colonel M'Dowell, Commanding a Detachment of the Hydrabad Subsidiary Force, to the AdjutantGeneral of the Army. Camp before Malligaum, 1st June 1818. ON the 20th ultimo, I did myself the honour of reporting to the Quarter-Master General of the Army, for the information of his Excellency the Commander in Chief, the movements and operations of the detachment I command up to that day. I have now the honour of forwarding a return of killed and wounded from the 18th to the 29th of last month. 'On the 28th the breach in the curtain of the Fort of Malligaum was reported and appeared practicable, and the senior engineer, Ensign Nattes, recommended storming next morning. Imade my arrangements for three simultaneous. attacks, two on the outworks and Pettah on the opposite side, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel. Stewart and Major Macbean, and the third and principal one on the road leading to the breach. under Major Greenhill, who had joined me with the second battalion seventeenth, or C. L. I. on the evening of the 27th. This attack consisted of one hundred Europeans, and five hundred Sepoys of different corps, mostly of the second battalion of the seventeenth, and headed by Ensign Nattes, sappers and miners, ladders,&c. every man carrying two bags filled with. wet grass, Ensign Nattes himself setting the example. The road leading to the breach of the outworks is flanked by towers and loop holes; however, our men moved on gallantly until Ensign Nattes got to the top of the breach, when he called out "impracticable," and immediately received five balls in different parts of his body. Major Greenhill had fallen a little behind in consequence of a wound in the heel, but Captain Kennedy led on the advance, and was mortally wounded close to where poor Nattes fell. All this time the fire from the towers and loop-holes was kept pretty well under by our shot, shells, and musketry from the reserve. I was obliged, however, to sound the recall, and our brave troops returned more convinced of their superiority over these Arabs-than when they advanced. Captain Kennedy and Ensign Nattes-with most of the wounded men were brought back, but Lieutenant Wilkinson, of the second battalion of the 13th regiment, and five men who were killed remained in the bed of the river, and on the top of the breach until.doolies were sent, and the Arabspermitted them to be brought in. Had it been possible for our men. to have got to the bottom of the breach of the fort,, I have no doubt we should have carried the place, but there was no road, the enemy having cut away from the inside of the breach of the outwork three times the depth of our scaling ladders. As the attention of most of the enemy was drawn to this attack, the town of Malligaum was easily occupied, and I have now turned the siege into a blockade until the battering guns and stores arrive from Ahmednuggur. Our approaches on the Pettah side are now within twenty paces of the enemy's outworks, and mines may be easily carried on which the river on the other side prevented. The fort and outworks of Malligaum are uncommonly wellbuilt, and, without mining, it will be impossible to fill up the different ditches. I lament the loss of so many |