Star. — London, England, 1818-09-12 00:00:00

:~ EAST INDIA IN - T - ELLIGENCE. CALCUTTA COVERNMENT GAZETTR, APLTL Majo -t.ie.iot al Sit David Ochterlory having ar , rived at t:ie het I-quarters of his Excellency the Most Noble the 6overoor-General and Commander-in- Chief, his Lordship availed himself of the Major- General's presence., to invest him with the. insignia of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, in pur suance of the :minority and instritc_ions of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, signified- to his Lord ship by Lord Viscount Sidmouth, tone of his Ma jesty's Pr incidal Secret:tries of State. Friday, the 21th of March, on which day the camp was ar having been appointed fur the per forma:l,T of the ceremony, the Civil Officers in at tend tncc on his Excellency the Governor-General. the ()dicers of the General Staff of the Army, and the °dicers of the Wily Guard, and of the 2d Bat • talion• 25th Re,liment of Native Infantry, forming' his Excellency's escort, were assembled at the Go- vernor-General's Dnrbar tent, - on the occasion. • The Nawaub Ahmed Buksh Khan, and the Aumil of the district, with other local Officers of the Go vernment of his Excellency the Vizier, as well as the Native Oaken of the Body Guatd, and the escort, were also present. His Excellency the Governor-General entered the Durbar teat at one o'clock, preceded by the Secre tary to the Governer-Gencral and the Persian Secre, tary to . tare Government, hearing respectively the badge and decorations and the Statutes of the Order, and by the whole of his Lordship's personal Staff.— Ilk Lordship having taken his seat, Sir David Och teelony was introduced by Lieutenant-Colonel Doyle and Lieutenant-Colonel Young, with the usual forms, and having advanced to the edge of the carpet on which the Governor-General's chair was placed, his Lordship rose and addressed him in nearly the fol lowing terms: " Sin Davin Oturrearonv—l cannot figure to myself any oc t-.:lut on which the h;gh hclour rf representing the Prince Re g, fr: could le." equally flattering with this ceremony, in which he has deigne•.l to °rad- that I shall act for his :loyal Person. The iratruttion has communicated to sue a portion of the warmth with which the generous mind of his Royal Ilighttess glows at every opportunity of encouraging any effort that tends to pro. mote the glory of the British nation ; and I fed cautiously elevated by the fulfilment of such a duty. You are to receive the honoun.bL• badge with which I am commissioned to invcst you as a r.:cogaiti.:,•n of your zdmiratle zeal, and of the advan t3Z:s 3a:crud by that zed to your country's Literest. Such a public acknowledgm , :nt of your professional merit would alone be EA .:lent matter of pritl.:; yet I have to congratulate you on what must be still more touching to your laehAts. You have obliterated a distiu:tion p.inful fur the Oificers of the Honour able-Company ; and you have opened the door for your brothers in arras to`a reward which th.:ir recent display of exalted spirit and invincZale intrapidity proves could not be more deservedly attended to the O.icers of any army on earth." The Gov:Al:or-General then invested Sir David Ochterlony with the is of the Order, under a salute of thirteen guns. (. 1 1 I „ 414 • ) ) • MADRAS, MAY is The following is an attract of a letter from fla tatih, of April 13 : " Authentic mformation having been rsceived by Brigadier-General Pritzker, that several elephants, (the property of B.tjee Rao) had been taken to the vicinity of Purace.' Ghur (a strong hill fort in the Concan), a detachment was immediately ordered to pnrsue them, consisting tf 1.50 auxiliary horse, under Lieutenant J. Wallace, of the rise corps (who volun teered for that service), and SO rank and file of the Madras rifle - corps, under Lieutenant Grimshaw.-- This detachment marched on the evening of the sth lest from Woosuttah, and continued their pursuit until twelve &Clock the following, morning: whi'e halting at a small village, for the purpose of water ing their horses, a man of respectable appearance came up, and mentioned to Lieutenants Grimshaw and Wallace, that he had seen the elephants the pre ceding day, and that they were only four coss from that tillage. On gaining this important intelligence, these two OiTieers determined to halt for that night and attack them the nest morning. Accordingly, at daylight they marched, and having gone about three cess, were informed by a villager, that the enemy had made two barriers, the first having 150 men, and the second 200. The riflemen were now ordered lead, and fix swords, thinking, of course, they would meet with some opposition : but fu:tunately, on their approach, the enemy tied with precipitation to the surrounding jungle, without firing a single ehet, and thus allowed this small detachment to pass their strong , barriers witheut the least raelestatioe.— Ilaving so fir succeeded, they continued their route to the scut where these elephants were supposed to be, and arriving at the place, were given to under stand by one of the prisoners taken here by surpri.e, that all the elephants had been carried away one hour before, to avoid being captured by the Eng li : the horsemen were now in their turn called into play, and Lieutenant Wallace, without a moment's 1 0 , s , start ed a fter them with 140, leaving ten horse men with Lieutenant Grimshaw (who followed with his rifles), to keep open the communication. After' a hard gallop of five miles, Lieutenant Wallace over took and captured 18 elephants, and two camels: they have errived in camp, and been delivered over to the prize agents; they are remarkably fine animals, and their value computed at about 30,000 rupees. " General nitiler marched from hence yesterday with his Madras division, to join General Munro; he has, however, taken the Bombay ';';‘ regiment, with a brigade of 18-pounders and one brigade of heavy mortars:' MADRAS, MAY 6. Bajec Rao, the kta Pcishwa, has now become the principal object of interest in the present posture of affairs, and indeed the only ryparerit obstruction to the general pacification of tha centre of India. Ru mour had last week magnified his force to upwards a a hundred thousand men, and reprciented him moving rapidly on Nagporc, but Cattier accounts have divested him of this formidable appearance, and reduced his followers to little more than a tenth of their reported number. Gunput Rao, one of the Sardars of the Nat pore Rajah, with nearly 10,000 Mahrattas, appears to have effected a junction with Ba;ee Rae, nearly at the same period that Mr. Jen. Cos discthered the correspondence and the treachery Ulu was going on for the purpose of overthrowing the Beitisli powcc at the Court of his master. 'Nies Rao himself i; understood to have with him about 112,000 horsemen and adherents cf all sorts, and tlae, supposed object of • his marcLing in the direction of Nagpore was to emancipate the Rajah from the re straint which his forme! conduct had rendered it necessary to impose upon him. The period cf his military operations is, however, now drawing to a close, and he ha; but little time on h.: hands, either to effect much of as offensive nature, or to secure his retreat from the forces in pursuit of him. The commencement of the rains will soon interrupt his exit by the Nerbuddah, and confine him to a country where he can•have no chance of escape. 'Brigadier- Generals Smith and Pritzler are now ptishing after him to the eastward ; and though he succeeded in doubling back and avoiding our troops, when to the SJuth of Poonah, a Limn time ago, tt is not likely that he will be so fortunate again. Chouraghur and Mandlah are still in the hands of refractory Killa-, dars, and still more refractory garrisons; but if he attempts to unite with either of these places, or comes to "the te.olution of throwing himself into a fort, however impregnable it may be considered, his career is at an end. As a fugitive, his political exist ence may be prclonged, and he gill probably main-, min that character till he is finally overtaken and ' subdued. By the last accounts, Colonel Adams continued at Nagpore, and it was supposed that no attack would be made upon Chouraghur or Mundlah, till the ci dcvant Peishwa is disposed of. It is said that the Resident had offcred the Killadar a:,l garrison of the latter place 25,000 rupee., in part payment of 1 the arrears due to them from the Rajah's Govern ment, but no definitive answer had been received. We have no i nelligence respecting the progress of the Rajah to Allahabad. Happily all the hill forts and strong places, about sixteen in nuail3er, which were dependent on Saugor, have surrendered without firing a shut, and all the country north of the &erbliddall is now in a state of tranquillity.—( Calcutta Gorcnonent Gazette.) The Marquis of Hastings passed the Gogra on the 9lv of March, over a bridge of boats constructed for the occasion. On the sth or April the camp of his Lordship was at Kubcrah. MADRAS, MAY 9. Notice has been given from the Government Bank, that the Right Hon. the Governor in Council has been pleased to direct, that the interest 'charged for accommodation either on loans or discounts to the public, will be ten per cent. from the 7th iust• uniii farther orders." FItONI TUE BOMBAY COURIER, APRIL H. By private accounts, dated Camp Ougein, 29th of March, we arc informed, that Cheetoo, after going to Bopaul to make conditions with Captain Headley for delivering himself up, suddenly fled, and has, it is resorted, goae back to his old haunts near Ilaglee and ltapoEhut ; in consequence of which the force at Ougein WAS to march that day towards Indore, and send nut detachments after him ; the battalion l at Hindia w.rjld also furnish a detachment tuwards Oonchode. The letter further states, that the troops of Jean Baptiste, having mutinied and deposed that • leader, had elected Arratoon, the Armenian, in his stead. We are happy to learn from the same source that every thing was perfectly quiet in Maiwa. Reports say that Bajce Rao's Chiefs are daily re tiring with their followers : some time ago his army was 5,,11 to consist of only 25,000 men, and we have reason to suppose that it doos not consist of half that number at present. Out of the 365 strong holds that by the native accounts are in the Deckan, we may already reckon 50 of them in our possession, and calculate that when other 50 surrender, we may call the whole our own: , uch the numerical exagseration of our Hindoo friends. PROM TOE czyt.ox GAZETTE. APRIL 25. The absence of the Rebel Chiefs from Ouva pro duced a temporary tr anquillity in the neighbourhood of Badulla; in the ric►nay of Godeagamma the Re bels had attacked our escorts with much fury, and on one of those occasioas, on the 2d inst. Lieutenant Burke, 2d Ceylon Regiment, was severely wounded; Second Lieutenant Gray, of the Ist Ceylon Regiment, was on similar duty b:tween Ilallialle and Hanwelle on the 12th April, aad wounded through the face, but was left at Talienia, and reported by the Medi cal Officer to be doing well. The addition of mops to the garrison of Candy gave an opportunity of disturbing the Rebels who had strongly entrenched themselves in the extensive villages of Arawe and Godamoone, situate in Hewn betty, about nine miles from the capital, in a rich and beautiful country hitherto not visited by our troops ; three 'small divisions moved on these places, two from Candy by difrotent routes under Lieute nant-Colonel I lardy and Captain Fraser (of the Staff), and one from Gonegamme under Capt. Drew, 7'3d. On every road were numerous abnttis and thorngatcs at intervals, which prevented any surprise on the in•• habitants of the villages, and who consequently escaped, leaving large stores of grain and cattle to the disposal of a detachment which was posted at Godamoone under Captain Fraser. The Rebels of the upper part of the Seven Korles and Toompane are reported to be assembled in forte, on the borders of the Korles, but the precautions , taken to guard the last valuable and faithful province have as yet prevented any irruption into it; and in the various movements of our forces in advance, the Rebels have sustained considerable loss. Detach ; mons :tlso made from the force at Kornegalle have equally punished the presumption of such iasurgents as were in its neighbourhood. G. G. BY TILE COMMANDER IN CIIIP.F. " IP-ad-quarters of the Arbsy of the Decitan; (lamp at Aururgabad, Tuesday, March 310828. " Lieutenant-Gen:;ral Sir Thomas II islo? having, in Firsuance of the authority vested In him for that purpose, by the Most Noble the Governor Gene: al and Cammander-ili-Clalef, made such arrangements as were necessary, towards the breaking up of the Army of the licckan, his Excellency proceeds to tea:Leh/a Heal Orders, as 04s - in:ander-in Oudot that army. " From and after the present date, therefore, the designation of the • Army of the Deckan' is discontinued, and the corps commanded by 13rigadier-GeneralsDoveton and Smith. willre siert to the footing on which they stood, previously to the Lieu tcr.ant-GeneraF3 assumption of the chief command. " As the divisions, of which Brigadier-Generals Dovelats and Smith are to retain the command, will still for a time exteed the ordinary =went of the Subsidiary Forces, which constituted their original eAmunacil, and will continue to be employed in operations intimately cwinccted with those in which th..y have been e..g:iged, since they received that rank, Lkutenant-Ge nets!, Sir Thomas Ilialop notlF.es to the army, that it is net, at I roust, the mecum= of his I..'sceilency its Most Noblp the Go: 'vetoer General, to roseal the cornenisslotu issued to the alas Officers; thin co *tinder grow* Brigadier-G. petals Munro, Pro.:ler, lir Juba and Sir Augustus Moyer, will also retain, for the present, th. reek of e iier-Gc and that Brigadier-Generals Munro, Smith, and Pritzler, will continue td act in the sense relatives tb each other as they now " Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas ihslop aethorixes the Ge r neral, and Personal Staff, at bead-quarters, to comieue to ma:ae tub their field establishments, until the arrival of his Excellency et Pvt St. °tore. " Sir Thomel Hislop would have deemed it quite euperfluous after the hl i „ek and flA.trirg encomium's bestowed on the army of the De clan, by his Excellency the Most Merle the Gover nor-General and Comir.ander-ie-Chief, to cypress those which the gallant army be has had the honour to comment!, ihreugh out so eventful a campaign, is in so pre-eminent a degree eati tled to, personally front him. Impelled, however, by a sense of what is due to them, for th.ere undeviating observance of the most exact discipline, thereby throwing a lustre on their ackeow lodged achievements, he car.not resist the opeortueity which the present moment affords, of bearing the most public testimony I of their further just deserts. " Foch and every divSeson of the army having entitled itself to, and received the lAL-utenent-Gessepre thatch' and applause, it becomes unnecesutty nmv to revert to the particular oecesinna which called forth these acknowledgments; uotbing is therefore left to his Excellency to repeat, bat that they have all most no ; bly done their deity, thereby leaving on his mind an indelible impres-ion of admiration. To have been placed at the bead of the army of the Deckan, must, to the lets sr period of his life, prove the source of his greatest pi. id !, as the conferring on him, by the Most Noble the Governor-General Li Council, of so dis 'tingt.i,htd a command, must ever claim the acknowledgments of his utmost gratittde. " To itlejor-Goner l Sir William Grant Kier, to Brigadier- Generals Munro, Doveton, Sir John 11i acolm, Smith, and Ptitzler, and to Lieutenant-Cc:km.l Adams, who commanded the di ff erent divisions of the army In the field, Sir Th Jules Unship, once more tenders to their ecceptence, the offer of his most eiect re and grateful thanks, for the eminent services they have performed while serving tr ader his command; a.d hit Ex celleocy requ :sts they will each do him the favour of conveying the same to the corps which have composed their divisions during the campaign. " The Lieutenant-General avails himself with pleasure of the present occasion, to record the high sem:. he entertan.s of the able and energetic aslstance lie haa 'vete% ed, during the whole of the campaign, front his General and Personal S.aff, In con dotting their respective departments and duties, which justly en tick's them to his unqualified thanks and approbation : his liacil lency at the same Lime deems it proper to remark, that if the Cummissaviet arrangements during the short pea iud when the army was in the field of 1815, w ere such as to demand his par. titular applause on teat occasion, the arduous and complicated duties required of the department during the late service, and which were most lad‘teetorily fulfilled under circumstance; of the greatest difficulte and embaerassinent, give Lieutenant-Co lonel 31orison, aided as he has been by the indefatigable exer tiqrs of Lieutenant-Celonel Ilfackintush and the Officers o. his department, the stror.geet claim to his I:xcellency'e acknowledg ments end high commendation. " All returns, reports, and cortmunieations, from the Army of the licckan, are to be forwarded thronit the preseribed chan nels to Sir Thomas Ilidup , head-quarters, up to this date, inclu sive, and his Excellency will reserve to bimseli the riebt of giving such further melees zed instructions, as may be necessary on ail poiLts, at present under reference, or requiring submission for approval to superior authority up to the same period." " G. A. 0. " An omission having unintentionally occurred, in not havlec noticed Captain Ffrench, the Postmaster of the Army of the Dechan, In any of the General Ord...rvonveying the thal.ks and acknowledgments of the Commander in Chid' to the Officerz of the General Staff, his Excellency loses an t.me, since that or.th stun has been brought to his obstrvatiol., in .xpiess.ng hisentice approbation of the +try efficient mannor in which Capt. firench has iitvarial)ly conducted dint important department, and sur mounted the mauy difficulties which presented themselves to its due fulfilment, and for which his Excellency now offers to Cap tain l'ir,:nch Ids very sincerc thanks.—Captaiu Ffrencli will continue, until further orders, to be Postmaster with tha Head QUULVI*B Or the hl eras Army in the nal. •• T. H. S. CON WAY, Ad,. (i.m. of the Army." l'H E EVEEVENING STA R L OND ON. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 181 s. THE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS Tills DAY AT TWELVE 0OLO:K Reduced shut—Cons. 750—for Acc. i 31 per Cent. shut—b per Cent. shut 5 per Cent. Navy 105;; --India Bonds Sg2 S 5 pre. Omninm Si disc.—Eachequer Bills 18 19 prcin. Charleston Papers to the 6th ultimo, New-Ymk to the 16th, and Boston to the 16th, reached us this morning. The following are extracts: KIM YORK, AUGUST 11 A gentleman arrived at Norfolk from Havannah, contradicts flatly the report of a duty of four dollars hating been laid at Havannala for tile support of the Inquisition. C.IIIINET TRANSACT:ONS. It is understood, that as soon as the news of Gen. JAcKsolv's conquest of Pensacola reached Washing ton, the PRESIDT:NIT, who was much embarrassed, summoned his Cabinet Counsellors-, when the fol low•ing que.itiu! . ‘s were propounded, and the ::+ :avers given, which are annexed: First.—Whether Pensacola should be retained, viewing all the consequences that may flow from it at home and abroad ?—Auswer. No, it world Le a declaration of war. Second.—ln the event of the captured Spanish ports teing restored, should General Jac!:son be pul on his trial before a Court-Martial, fur breach of or ders and unofficer-like conduct ?--Answer. No: it trill not appear that the General has violated the spirit of his orders, nor will his condtict be proved unofficer-like. Third.—Shall the Ports be restored, and the acts of General Jackson be disavowed, at the same time justifying his motives ?—Answer. Yes: requiring of the Spaniards, garrisons adequate to fulfil the re quisitions of the Treaty between Spain and the United States. FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PRI:SS. " On our part pas war in every respect commen ced: a war, de fiiclo, without any previous declara tion. But what shall we say of the fate of Ambrister? Arbuthnott was executed as a spy. On this charge the Court expressly exonerated him. It appears from General Jackson's own order on the subject, that entered was shot in direct opposition to the Court. It i s cru e l that the Court, in the first instance, eered up judg ment of death against hint ; but immediate) , these. after, and before the proceeding had been laid before Idle General, the Court rescinded that judgment, and I sentenced the prisoner to be flogged aim impri-oncd., !General Jackson, however, in the plenitude of =rt.- shy, dasl,::l his ren agnic.st the sentence, 50,2, doled the wretched victim to histaot cxecttion. a Now let it be conceded that el Court Manialh,i the right to try there men, tut which dleie is :11)4,, dant room to doubt: and let it also be supp,3,ti th 4 the Court, instead of Ong3inL and imptisouixg, h a d sentenced Amhrister to be shot, stili the tf:„ : ;,„ will recur—Why this indecent hurry in the C ob ' mander-in-Chief ? Why were not the two ea”, tb ferred to the President for his decisicn? By th e 6 5t i Article of War (Act of Congress, 10th April, - 1 1 it is expressly enacted, that r.O sentence of a Court Mirtial, in time of peace, extending to t),„k s . . of life, shall be ca:Tied into execu don, %tad: proceedin2,s have been laid before the Presidezti the United States: 4 , To this, perhaps, it may be 01.:;:xtcd, men were executed in time of war ; but this te r should have be= declared by th...! Congres s o f t i 4 United States, and not by a General in Chief. G e . neral Jackson, in his orders, j , .:ltifies the emu* on the ground that Arbuthnott and AnAniste: ac t subjects of a neutral Power. Let this be th, on aide—has any body read or heard of an e xecu e 4 i i modern times on this ground, as assarced by G nerd Jackson? There are many foreigners w h lived in Europe and America, at the present* but who never dreimt that they weidd march ts : b ittle with halters round their necks, nor was giver s single foreigner executed by the British or, this pow If so, let the President be cited for his just:fic a f t; aad that of the Court which sat under his oniets, s) far asrespects the case of Arbuthnott, for the C oe n is ;:;uiltless of the blood of Ambrister. To the fc:e. going fact may be added, General Jackson ill pe d i, ti:e instructions with the Officer commanding is Eorida, not toy ieid the Spanish posts to any autho. ritv whatever, nor even to the orders of the Pre. d= of the United States without giving him (Grant J.lckvon) one day's previous notice." BOSTON, AL - GUST 1.1. Captain Bird, from Aux Cayes, infonns t s,th ag Christophe and his forces were at Port-au-Prince, a r 4 that the troops that had been ordered Lc Gems! Boyer to Port-au-Prince had returned, there Lira: no longer any apprehension of an attack, Chri s t*. and the force there being deemed sufficient fcr us protection. Another Gentleman, Nrho left Ca de Henry on the 28th of July, sties, that the rep And Cirristophe's Military Expedition against theHayiat Republic was entirely st'r':o-: foundation, tha: was on a tour of observation through his territutia, and had no military force with him whatever. The Paris P.spers of Tuesday arrived this mcraing. The contelts of them are extremely uninteresting. The funds, about which an important egress is said, by sonic of cur contemporaries, to have reached tie City yesterday from Paris, have undergone some change, but not exactly of the nature announced by this pretended express. The intelligence it brosOt is said to have been, " that in consequence of a large sales, the rive per Cents. at the close cf market on Monday .had fallen to 77." Now it a happens, unfortunately for the accuracy of :Es it telligence, that the rive per Cents. had fallen to 7, and even lower on the Saturday before, as on Readers would see stated in the STAR cf Wednes day ; and that on Monday the real f.:11 rtas as if; low.; per Cents. with dividend from 22d Karen. 1518, 77 f. 75 c. (as before.) Mem wi:a IA:6:Ed tient 221 Sept. next, 30c. The fall in the latter sines. Saturday has been 1 fr. 70 c. A private lette:- is the Times states, that " it is certain that fortir.. Stock holdershave, in the course of last we: derable sellers. But, far from seeing any cause of alarm in that circumstance, men c.i rerlectisn re•7l it as a new proof of the speedy derarture of :hoe foreigners, many of vhom, yie!din to an eiaysm ted prudence, may wish to settle ad their prima af fairs with us before their trocr:s nrirch off. A trIl• porary fall m'v.t thus naturally be produted, eilr out there being any reason to view it as a mars: d importance, or to deduce from it the sllghtest to pleasant consequence for the future." bma co ,r The Paris Papers of Wednesday have also :arid at a late boor this forenoon. The Five . r' CrA with dividenl.fronf the 22d of Sepeensher have fallen one per cent. further—they lcitai Tuesday at 73 fr. :11 c. The same Stock. witi;ji , i• dend from 22d March last, continues as before. De Duke of WeLLlNorote, after has ing term na c 3 tis reviews of the Austrian and other I‘,rei , za cci.ti of the Army cf Occupation, retorned en the 4 , h CatnbraYs It is nut known when tl:e rivirs cl L - 2 English troops take place. It was ann0....r.e1: 4 Thursday last, but in consequence, it is s a . ..d, illress of the QUEeN of ENGLAND, it has been ps'e• polled. General Count 'ADISISAL has left Madri.iim Cadiz, to take the colanand of the grand EsFeditin which is fitting out there fer An:mai, the ingsr" tions fur which are said to be going on with rearl% l activity. PRIVATR LETTER " rARTS. arr.!. " A circumstance has just occutred here uhizh tended not a little to revive the bickering% arAl teal revilings of party. The night beilae las:Cc:cm DUEAY was attacked by two ILSVASSiiIS, Leif his MI door, olte of whom wounded him dangerously sr' a dagger in the light side. The manly resi,:asue the Colonel deeated the intended catastrophe , bot the assassins escaped ; and hitherto they have er=g detection. 5h0314 they be discovered, the motives the a.terr pt, as well as the indivichwls who in- 1161 the act, may perhaps be ascertained; but in the al" time cmjecture is busily employed, to supply 3 1741