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um Ai mi.. We are happy to state that, before leaving Town, the Marquis of ANGLICSXAPS stump was so nearly healed, that Mr. MANN, of /3radford, has been or dered to prepare an artificial limb immediately. Sir Jasms MCnetant, the Director General of the Medical Board, is now inspecting, a second time, the Hospitals on the coast which have been prepared for the reception of the wounded from Flanders. All accounts concur in stating, that the wounded, Orlicers and men, iii the great Hospital stations of and Ostend. continue to recover very ra. 0,11% . Svveral very interesting operations have been s. rmed. In addition to the Medical Staff of th e A rmy i n ' nanders, Dr. JOHN THOMSON. Profe ss d r o f Mili tary ::orrery at Edinburgh ; Messrs. CHA RLE3 BELL and iw v, of London ; and Mr. Gummi, late Deputy Inspector of Hospitals,have been employed in the in vestigation of gun shot wounds, and in giving their Assistance to the wounded Officers and men.—Dr. MiLAGAx, Physician to the Forces ; and Staff Sur geon HUCHEs, have been appointed to attend sick and tcounded Officers in London. Deputy Inspector of Hospitals gun, has been ap pointed to the Halifax Station: We are happy to learn that Mr. WEIR, the late Director General, is much recovered irons his late severe paral) tic attack. Several of the wounded from Waterloo have ar rived at Chelsea, in Hospital waggons; About one hundred and fifty of those who had not lost limbs walled through the Park for the same place, a few days since, in high spirits, though every man had a bandage or some sign of hut t. The South Gloucester Militia and the Worcester Regiment of Militia, are to be quartered at Bristol, whither they will march nest week. The Stafford Militia is to march this day and to. morrow in Derby, in order to relieve the Cambridge going to Yarmouth. The 49th and 97th Regiments of Foot are ordered , from Gosport, the former to Weymouth, and the lat ter to Ireland. The 2d Battalion of the 53d, at Portsmouth, is or. dered to embark for foreign service. The 6th Dragoon Guards is ordered from Ireland to North Britain ; and the 85th Foot is to proceed from Chatham to Hyttie. The recruiting parties of the East Kent Militia have been so successful, that be regiment wants but about 70 men to complete the establishment ; of course, no ballot will be necessary, as the small defiCiency of number will soon be made up by recruiting: SCOTCH GRETs.—Having in our Paper of the 27th tilt. expressed a desire to know the name of the Ser jeant of the Scotch Greys who took the Eagle from tL• French at.the late glorious battle of Waterloo, we have seceived a letter from Romford, informing Is that his name is CJIARLES EWART ; that he is e roire of Ayr:bite. in Scotland, and has served in the )krgiment for 2S years. Our Correspondent also rats, that before he took the Eagle, he cut down the Officer who carried it, and likewise two men that be :s a good swordsman, and has always been ac counted so in the Regiment. the DAIL" gesgram-af-Pwr of the Or*teens of the Perth:mart EstablAstanant at the °artisan at Gibraltar, and as West-b -aba, oohed by a teem regulation, viz. GISRA&TAR. per Day. it 17 11 0 19 0 per Day. Town Major Jo 4 0 Surgeon Major 0 14 .3 Ezra Surgeon 0 14 3 Two Auist.ssrgeona 0 5 Provost Marshall 0 3 in Single Man . 0 1 0 Turnkey 0 1 0 Doren Fort Adjutant 111111110. rack Master, emit 0 $ 10 Tobago—Surgeon O 14 Fort Adjutant and ay. rack Matte, each 0 3 10 Hoses GUARDS, Juror *6. At a General CourtiMartial, held at Gibraltar on the t ath isf February, 1815, and continued by adjournments to the ted of the same month, Lieutenant James Maclean, of the ed Battalion el the 11th Foot was arraigned on the following charges, viz. For challenging Bolin Cross to fight a dad at the Mess ream of the Ilth regiment, In Gibraltar. scl, For conduct highly unbecoming the character of an Meer and a Gentleman, by being in the habit of quarrelling with the °Seers of the said regiment, and thereby disturbing the bar. molly of his corps-.bodt charges being prejudicial to good order and military discipline, and contrary to the Articles of War. Upon which charges the Court came to the following decision, after having esamined the evidence produced on behalf of 'the prosecution, as well as t h e defence made by the prisoner-4a Le, Lieutenant James Maclean, was Guilty of both charges, It being a breach of the Articles of War, sentenced him to be Cashiered. Which sentence his Royal Highness the Fames Rennet has been premed to approve and coi,thin; and the Commander In Chief has there*, directed, that the foregoing mar=es, preferred against Lieutenant James Madsen, of the $ll Jattalion Ittb Foot, together with the finding and sentence of the Cow, shall be 'Dared into tbe General Wail Soaks, and 1314 at the bead of every regiment in his Majesty's service. (Signed) H. Carrsar. Governor Lint. Governor Sec. to the Governor 0 I 0. Dep. Judge Adv( rate and Commissary of Musters 0 0 I' town Adjutsut 0 it II Will' Jamaica—Major of Brigade Lb 0 6 Surgeon • 3* I Green:la—Stneen 014 S Fort Adjutant and Ear rack Master, each 0 $ 10 0 34 2 About six Prussian soldiers were billeted in one .house in the vicinity of St. Cloud. The owner of one .1 them writes, "thank GOD I have got rid of my tron hlestme lodgers. My six inmates drank EEC riot less than 20 bottles of wine a day of one sort or another, and yet I wonder at it, for I had prepared a mixture at least one half vinegar, which few men would have managed, but these Prussians I and have iron lailatert that will relish any thing I" On the 4th ultimo, an expedition left Genoa, eon. sistiag of 4000 British, under General Lowe. It, was expected, in the first instance, they would kin the Royalists at Marseilles, and then proceed against Toulon, if that place had not already declared for the King. G en e r al 14twaner, with &JOU men, had (mired at Leghorn front Hapiell and would then Proceed towards GOMA by land. This small army was there to wait for 'further orders. Late accounts from Barcelona state, that the Spa lish army of Catalonia, commanded by General Castanos, ifter having crossed the Pyrennees, has en tered Roussillon I it is said to have at this moment reached the gates of Perpignan. The Thirty Thousand Prize, drawn on TUESDAY LAST, was Sold in Thirteen Shares at Wasa's Office, no Ludgate Hill—this is the Swoon Prize of Thirty Thousand Pounds that has been Sold there in the hut Ara maids. Indeed the extraordinary run of LUCK that has attended his Office in all the late Lotteries, would warrant the supposition that Fortune was de termined to dhpanae bar Favours dirougle the agency of Wtall aloae. LO DON GiakT /':? TilUithbAY, AUGUST 3, JBl5. COLONIAL. DEPARTMENT. DOWNING•iiTitkET, At/GUST 2, I S)S. A Diniateh, of which the following i. a copy, was this day re. ceived from Lieurenant•Genn ral SI it. itsmsrct tan, K. B. dated Kandy, 11.5 th February, I al s, &likened in Bari BATHURST. ONO of MI Majesty's Principal Secretaries or tftates Hri:isb Head.quart et*, Kandy, Feb. 2S, ISIS. MY Loan—For some days subsequent to the date of the list dispatch. which I had the honour to ad dress to your' Lordship, on Kandian affairs, dated 16th January, no circumstance occurred of sufficient consequence to be reprted to your Lordship, the several divisions of the invading force being partly in movement, and partly preparing to move. It wis found, however, that great and apparently insurmountable difficulties would occur in provision ;lig the trorps, on so many routes, with our scanty means of conveyance, and I determined in conse quence on a modification of the plan. This altera tion consisted chiefly in disposing the march of the tmops in such a manner, that the Ist and 2d divi sions, the 3d and 4th, the 6th and 7th, should arrive on the same line, and, at certain convenient points, unite together; an arrangement which, I am happy to say, brought the supplying of the army within pur means, and laid the ground-work of a successful progress towards the. several assigned places of de stination above the hills. On the Ist of February I learnt, by a letter of the. 30th of January from M.tjor Hook, that the Ist divi sion, under the command of that officer, had reached Ganeteynni. situate at the foot of the Balani Moan-, tains, and on the greaeroad leading through the Pass or Gravet of that name, towards the city of Kandy. , Lieutenant O'Connell, with the 2d division, was close in the rear. advancing to the same point, from which Major Hook was then to diverge to the left towards Weywode, in the Seven Kmles, to co operate with Captain De Bussche, already in that quarter with a small force, formed to supply the absence of the auxiliary corps oriFinally expected from Madras. No serious opposition was made to the advance of these divisions. • The first Adikar of the King of Kandy. by name Molligodde, brother to th e D esssve of the Three Korles, who had previously come over to the British territory, and himself Dessave of the Fous Kor lee, kept hovering in front of Major Hook's march, with some followers, but had intimated, both to Major Hook and Mr. D'Oyley, that he was desirous to join the British standard, and was only prevented from doing so, by his apprehension for the fate of ' his family, who were under the King's power in the capital, but whoseliberation or escape he expected as soon as the troops should advance sufficiently near to Kandy, to induce the King to retire from that place: he further gave it to be under Good, that al though he was obliged to keep up the appearance of 6ring, he would do no harm ; and in all these points, although his assurances could not in prudence he fully confided in at the time, he afterwards faithfully kept his word. In the evening of this day, Feb. I, I left Colombo to join the army, and proceeded by the route of Avi.sahavelle (usually called Siaa wakka) and through the Three and Four Kories, to wards Colonel O'Connell's camp, at Gansteenni. Willie at Kooroonagodde, on the Sd of February, a letter from the Lieutenant-Colonel, dated at Ga neteyniti, on the 244 informed, that the advance of that divkicn, under Major Moffatt, of the Ist Cey lon regiment, having been detached to support a patrnle which was conceived to be in danger, had advanced so near the fortified post which commands the Balani Pass, that it was deemed advisabl e: to At tack it; and it had been carried, after slight opposition. At Attypittya, on the. 4th, I received M..jnr Hook's report, dated from perigaimme the pre ceding day, apprizing me that he had taken posses-. sion of that strong position and the neighbouring hill fort of Galgederali, with hardly any resistance, or loss. On the tith I reached Ganiteynne, where it became necessary to halt fcr some days, to give time for the concentration of the divisions advancing from Trin comalee and the east side of the Kandian territory. Lieutenant-Colonel O'Connell was encamped here, and Major Moffatt posted at Ameneopoora, one mile and a half beyond the Pass, and a free communica tionoptn between the two corps. Here the Adikar Molligodde, by. a message through Mr. D'Oyley, requested permission to sure render himself with the banners and records of the four Kurles, of which be is Drssave, having received intimation of the escape of his family from Kandy. My consent being signified to him, he, on the Bth February, came into camp in itate, attended by a number of Chiefs of the four 'curies, who had not previously appeared, and formally gave up the in signia and records of his Dessave into the hands nt Mr. D'Oyley, whom i had divined as Commis sioner on the part of the British Government to con• fer with him. Learning by reports from Major Kelly, command ing the 9d division, and proceeding through the pro vince of Saffragam and Ourah towards the lodide-. sinha Pass, that lie could be sufficiently advanced to support a forward movement on the part of Lieute nant-Colonel O'Connell and Major Hook's divisions, I on the 10th directed Lieutenant-Colonel O'Connell to ascend the Pass and occupy Major Moffatt's posi tion, sending his detachment a little in advance; and - on the evening of the same day 1 joined the camp at Amenoopoora. The Adikar Cheylapola, who had followed my 'progress as far as Ganeteynni, proposed to take a dif ferent route from thence : and being furnished with an escort of about fifty men, proceeded up the moun tains by a road to the right, leading into the province of Oudinoora, the inhabitants of which he was desi rous to communicate with. Late in the evening of the 13th, a report was brought to. Mr. D'Oyley, that a division of the Bri tish troops, supposed to be that commanded by Major Hook, had reached Kattugastotte, a terry of the great river called Mithavilliganga about three miles dis tant from Kandy; that the ir.ing had quitted the ca pital, and that the defences at Gonarooha, another terry of the same river, about an equal distance from the city, were abandoned. A parole sent forward during the night, under the command of Major Browutigg, reached Gon.trooha early in the morning, and, fording the river, ascer tained the truth of the intelligence in all its parts. — Baum ies of peat extent were erected here, reaching from the common place of crossing for a considerable distance along the opposite bank, and commanding I • OW ford ; hitt were entirely deatiinte of either men or 'Runs- Hideous objects a the King% resetunr.n , here presehted themseliei, in the remains of the pot r wretches stock up on poles on both Sides of the river. the seten of which were in full view at the ferry, ansi whole number counted id that neighbourhood was 19 Major Klatt, with the advance of the 2kl divi. slot!, being a few miles in front of the general en campment; was, by Major Brownrigg, on his return with the patrole, directed to proceed forward to Go naroold; in consequence of niy ureters to that effect. On learning the foregoing particulars, I on the Ilth dispatched Major Willett/tan, Deputy Q tarter•Mas ter.General, towards Kandy, with instructions to pre vent the possibility of injury to persons or property, by prohibiting the entry of the troops within the gates of the city, htherwise than as guards, under such dis- position as Major Willerman might judge advisable. Mr. D'Oyley, who had accompanied the patrole the preceding evening, and remained at Gonarooha until joined by Major Motfatt's detachment, with which, before the arrival of Major Willerman, he had advanced to the city, which was found entirely deserted of iith ibitants, and stripped of all property. —Empty chests, baskets, and mots, were the only things found, except some few articles of furniture, not portable enough,nor cf sosii:ient value to be removed. The detachment encamped without the gate. On the It'th, in the morning, I left the position at Antttnoospuvr:► with Lientenant•C.)lonel O'Connell's division, which I caused to halt at a convenient place on the hither side of the river, proceeding myself to the King's granary between Gonarnoha and the town, where I passed the night, and on the following day entered Kandy with my personal suite, and tiled my (paters in the Palace. In the mean time, I had learnt by reports from Major Hook, that he had been induced to advance in prosecution of a plan formed with Capt. de &niche, who with his detachment had ascended the Jaltoewre Gravel, and was in communication with the first di. vision, at a short distance to the left. Information which those Officers had received, rendered it probable that the King was about To. and that the only remaining hope of securing him was.by a rapid and secret movement of those twocorps. I was apprised by M a j or K e lly, t h at h e had, after a faint resistance by the enemy, possessed himself of the batteries command ng the Idalgasinha Pass, and ascended the mountains. A subsequent letter of the 13th announced the fur ther progress of this division a s f ar as IH-iturate, and by one dated in the afternoon of the same day, at Maugala Dobbada Ganeure, one day's m4rch from Hangeraukette, received by me on the 14th; soon after reaching the Palace, I was informed of Major Kelly hiving seized ( together with a great deal of treasure) a number of women and children whom he considered to be of the King's family ; tint this idea was afterwards found erroneous, though several of the women proved to hi related and allied to persons 01 the King's retinue. The treasure is reported to con. sin of silver coins of different descriptions, household implements, and ornaments of silver, to the weight of about 100Ulbs. No report had been received of Major Mackay's approach, with the sth division, from Trincomalee, but L calculated with confidence that he must be with in two or three days march. I had learnt by reports from Major-General Jack son, that nqtwithstanding the most zealous and anxious exertions on his part, the move:win of the tith division had been retarded much beyond the ap. pninte.t time, by unavoidable and insurmountable dii. ticulties in the means of carriage, and conceiving that the strength and disposition of the troops already in the field would prove sufficient to accomplish the ob jects of the campaign, I addressed General Jackson on the 15th instant, countermanding the march of the f.ith division, and the return of any portion of it that might be on the march. It resulted from this situation of the troops, that the King, who was known to be in the Dessavany of Dombeta, with a small number of adherents, was so environed as to renter his escape extremely difficult, and it he did not succeed in getting through the pass leading to his last place of tulut 4 e, the mountains of Captain Andersen, of the 19th regiment, commanding the 7th division from Batticaloa, would arrive at that point, with every probability of inter cepting him. I now made a claim on the Adikar Eheylapola, for the performance of his promise to raise the peiple of these provinces, so as to prevent the. King's escape, and to ascertain the precise plactof his re treat, to which a detachment might be sent to make him prisoner.. Tills task the Add= undertook with alacrity and confidence, offering to proceed to Dombera in per eon : dispositions were made for the proposed put% pose, by preparing 'a detachment to accompany the Adikar, and alispatching another .to form w chain of military communication withetiajor Kelly's force at Haugeraukette. Every thing .being thus prepared, the Adikar set out for Dombera, on the 16th, preceded by the de tachment wider the command of Lieutenant Mylins, of the Ist Ceylon regiment, and accompanied by Mr. D'Oyley, who, on his arrival at Hakkeytugala, in flee forenoon of the same day, found the detachment already there, and learnt that they had taller* in with a party of the King's people, and, after a sharp re biSLilliCe. but withoutloss on our side, had killed three and wounded one, an captured a number of persons, two of whom were near relations of the King, and men of leading consequence, and alieust aU were re lated or allied to him. This account, dated the 16:b, reached me on the 17th, and the same day the prisoners were sent in : when conferred with, they claimed n hit etrneStness their connection with the East India Company's Government. . The principal man, by name Mutal Sawney, made a meat of having ieceived prevents and marks of distinction front the Gentlemen in All thurity under the Presidency of M ideas. I3r ink asked as to the Ring's hiding-I , lace, and the for c,. along with him, he said, it was several days since I , c had seen him ; he was then in Domoera ; be could not say if he continued in the same plate, but it not, he could only go t Bintenine ; that his Court was in a great measure dissolved,• aid that there were no principal Sir Jars or Chiefs remaining with hum.— rhese communications were by nu means made in the tone of a willing informer, but appear to have been true. The dispersion of the Court we had every reason in believe, as on that aad on the following • . lay,. several Nayato rs (avthey are called), or relit. ions of the King, Sinvendered themS . vlves In so far dso as regarded the King's pliCe or re,-: treat, the Account of the prisoner agreed . With the daily reports received from Mr. D'Oyley, who rt-pro- . stinted him to be still iti Dombera, but did not ven ture to flatter himself Of me that he could wee sl in At once cutting him off from escaping to the mono tains. His letter of the 18th stated, that the King had fled from his last known place of halting, and that the inhabitants of two villages had appeired, and pri.trused to co-operate in seArchin , t for him,. The latest report that Mr. I)'Oylcy coul d' then com municate was, that the King was concealed in a forest About a league and a half frcm Fildinya, and he had sent a detachment to endeav-ur to ini.tcept On the 19th in the morning, Iliad the sit:daction to know, by a letter from Mr. D'Oyley of the same date, that the King was in our hands; he had been surrounded the preceding evening in the precincts of Medda Maha Nuwera (the plaice from whence be was reported to have fled) by the r e ••)1.? tit ll.trn bera, in conjunctio n with, some armed ' Kandyans. sent by Elieylapula Adikar, and taken prisoner, with two of his w.ves, iii the liothe 4, f an Aratchy (a sub ordinate fic-rtiiii.an) at a place called about a rule beyond bledda Maha Nuwera. His two remaining wives and his motii-r were known to be at Hanweylle, a short distance off, and b..ing sent tor, with conveyance.; :it'd an escort, were brought to Fil,liny .h. I have since learnt. that the few bI , labar attend inn r.nnair.i.ig wits the Kiog, made i•ort..? resistance, and wounded one of the assailants, r n which the party retired a few pAces, and iirtd tip‘ii the braise; that the King then came cut and delivered himself up. It further appear!, that t.is prisoners b. rand him and rt— riled him, and, I fear, plundered him of some arti. ties of value. As no regular troops or tiny British Officer was present, it was impos.ible tog ye full relief; such of 'the deaths as could be recovered wet.? returned. The Adikar claims, and with seeming justice, conaiderir,; the sentiments he must entertain towards the King, some merit in havinig, by strict orders, saved his lilt ; and great probability arises from what did pass, that nothing less than high authority could have induced them to spare him. In another view, this is 4.ne of the twiny facts which concur to shew, that the feelings of the penpie towards him (exemplified in this his favourite province) to be, when divested of the terrors of tyrannical power, no other than those of hatred and contempt. • Besides the property taken by 1 4 .1.ij , r Kelly, further captures, to a considerable amount, hive been m and information has b«•n received of many places where more treasure is hid. In a military view, the resistance, and consequently the danger, has been comparatively trifling, but would be the highen injustice to estimate, by the in adequate opportunities which have presented them selves, what might have been achieved if the occa sion heel called tbrth the full exertions of the troops. Of fati,i4ue and hardship of weitther, they have had consist. table trials, the road; being indescribably rugged, with frequent interruptions both of m ,un- Lain ael morass, and every difficulty that marching can pos'isly admit. These, however, with the dis. piriting addition of frequent rain, only served to dis play then arciutr, which no obstacles, no discourage ments could subdue. But that for which I hold my self ptincipally indebted to the army which I have had the honour and gold f triune to command in this undertaking is, their orderly behaviour, and abstain ing from all acts of plunder, violence, and irregu -1 ray. They have in coi,sequc nee been every where ceived by the Chiefs and inhabitar:s with unfeigned welcome, assisted with, sulipli s and means of car riage, and their camps frequented by all classes of the natives, with extraordinary freedom and familiarity. Your Lordship will readily perceive the happy tendency of this kind of behaviour, in encouraging ind propagating that confidence, on the part of the inhabitants of these provinces, in the justice and nib. deration of his Majesty's Government,' and the pro tection of bis arms, which served to invite and attach them to the cause in which they were engaged, and led, under PHOVIDUNCE, to a conquest, the attempting , of which has in former instances pr,ved so fatal, as Ito leave terrific lessons of caution and forbearance to future invaders ; an enterprise which. I have no hesitation in saying, could not, with any common prudence, have been entered upon, except with the most credible assurances of the concurring wishes of the Chiefs and people, nor could ever have been brought to a successful issue without their acquies cence and aid. The army has enjoyed in a very surprising degree the blessings of health. Our returns of sick are u►nch below the number which migat be expected in the same force, stationed in any of the garrisons of the colony." I am now occupied in returning to their former stations such pans of the troops as will not be re• quired to remain for the maintenance of the British government in the interior. I am not yet prepared to present to your Lord. ship any connected view of the complicated and important considerations, of a politii al and civil nature. which arise out of this great change s these I shall therefore reserve for a separate dispatch, and conciude the pr sent with soliciting your Lord ship to do me the honour of presenting to hi; Royal Hightii ss the Priace Regent, the expression of my humble congratulations in being enabled, by the speedy and happy issue of a campiogn, ending with the unparalleled good fortune of not losing a single life, to tender for his Jtoyal Highness's acceptance, the duties ot a new and industrious hardy* race of p ople, and the pcssession ot a territory, bountifully endowed with na:tiral gifts, and requiring only the blessings of a just government, and an equitable ad. ministration of justice, and the indulgent care and countenance of a humane and gracious Prince. I consider the circumstances which have taken place to be of so much national interest and import- Anne, as to warrant my entrusting them to the cam ot a confidential Staff Officer. My son, Major rwurigg, Deputy Adjutant General to this army, will therefore hue the honour tit delivering this .its. 'patch, and as he as a perfect knowledge of :.11 the occurrences of our short campaign, he is erahled to afford such fulmination as your Lordship may he pie.•s dto reclaim of :iim. lie mill be charged woth the banner ar standard of KAndy, to b. Itid, with my mobt te•pecttiti duty, at the ttet of his Royal Highossatits Vilna* &soot. I (1 i•''