Star. — London, England, 1818-09-18 00:00:00

. ,r. if . ( I' 1 . . '''.. i . I . 11 . 1 I - I i . I ! I. it 1 . i ? 1 . , 1 1 ' i s . I . , , .. , .1 ‘ . ;1 , .. - '1 • . .1 1 . • ; s li 1 1 i t 1 ; i . . . , ' \ ' ~ % 411r- , v%*, - 1 0 ' EAST INDIA L (,Rohe THE BOMILIY COURIER OF MAT We have the very great satisfaction to the surrender of the strong and important : Ryghur, to the intrepid .detachment Wide* mend of Lieutenant -Colonel Prothei, on , instant. The garrison held out •a flag of truce t. ifttt instant, and after three days of negotiation, were allowed honourable term, vii. to march out with .their arms and private property; which they accord ingly did, and Lieutenant-Colonel Prather riok pos session of the fort, in which he found the wife of his Ili4hness the late Peishwa, and public property to the amount of five lacs of rupees. We understand :that her Royal Highness will be permitted t o retire to any place she may fix upon. We have not yat received the full detail of particulars of this success ful accomplishment of the arduous services in which' this gallant Comman ling : Officer has beta employed during the pttsent campaign. By the kindness of a friend, we have been favoured with the following extracts of letters from the Deccan : ' Little has been said of the excessive exertions of the force under General Smith. It will scarcely be credited, that it has matched nearly 3,090 miles within the last few months, and that its efficiency is now greater, if possible, than when it first left can tonments. The troops, notwithstanding their great fatigues, and sometimes privations, are in the finest spirits and order: the cheerfulness with which they have borne their incessant labour, gives them every claim to applause and future indulgence. It would perhaps not be too touch to assert, that, for a con tinuation, nothing can equal in India the march of the Light Division under General Smith ; and con sidering its perfectly effective state under such cir eumstances, the highest degree of praise is due to the Commander who ensures such an important object in the most trying situations, and in spite of the many obstacles he has hall to surmount." From-another quarter we learn, that the Poona auxiliary horse, under Lieutenant-Colonel Cunning ham, and the reformed horse under Captain Davies, have left camp upon some secret expedition. There is little doubt that either of these gallant Officers will give an admirable account of any part of Bajee Row s army they may be fortunate enough to fall in with. Previously to the departure of these useful and meritorious troops, Brigadier-General Smith was pleased to express his opinion of them in Orders, an extract from which we have fortunately obtained: RETRACT OF DETACHNIRST ORDERS BY BRIGADIER- GENERAL SMITH, SD MAY. 44 The auxiliary and reformed horse will march to morrow morning, agreeably to instructions the Com manding, Officers will receive from head-quarters. " This Brigadier-General takes this opportunity of thanking Colonel Cunningham and Captain Davies, and their Officers, for their exertions and attentions in supporting and enforcing his orders, against the scandalous and oppressive practice of seizing forage, which is in fact.a cloak for every other species of robbery and plunder. The complaints against these troops, unaccustomed as they have been to the wholsome restraints, of discipline, have been very trifling, and were always anxiously remedied by their Officers, as soon as known, and which reflects the highest credit on their Officers for the regard they pay to orders, and the honourable desire they have shewn to protect the inhabitants from injustice and robbery." . _ • We can afford no better evidence of the judgment which dictated the arrangements made by Brigadier- General Smith for the purpose of intercepting Bajee Row (alluded to in the above private information), than the communication which we have now the sa• tisfaction to make, of the submission of his Highness Chimnajee Appa, and of Appah Dessay, of Nepaune. It fell to the immediate lot of Captain Davies. of the Nizam's Reformed Horse, to receive the submission of those Chiefs ; that gallant Officer having come in sight of the troops of Nepaunker, to the number of about 3,000 horse, stationed on a rising ground, im mediately formed and advanced to charge the enemy; but oft approaching within 400 yards, a flag of truce was sent out with of offers of surrender. We hear nothing of Bajee Row, but a report is current of the death of Trimbuckjee Dainglia, the consequence of a fever which attacked and terminated his existence, it is said, in Candeish, i short time since. _ _ _ Another private account, dated the 7th May, Camp at Jellum, mentions, that a spy came into us at Beer from Nepaunker's camp ; he was on the (lodavery, and proceeding southward ; we marched at ten o'clock on the morning of the 7th, with a view of intercepting him. After getting over about 30 miles, we came in full view of his line of march.— As we approached his left flank he formed on a rising ground. A river lay between us, after cross ing which we also formed line, and advanced in beautiful order, till nearly within charging distance ; at this critical moment a flag of truce advanced from the enemy, and Captain navies returned with it to meet Nepaunker : he submitted to the terms im posed. Chimnajee Rao Appa, Bajee Mao's yauogest. brother, teas with him. The terms &ranted them are, that they shall, with their whole force, accom pany us to Ahmednugger, and there await the plea sure of Mr. Elphinstone. a They have hardly 3,000 men. I never saw our men to so - much advantage : we had about l,eoo men in the field, who were in the high( st spirits, and ad vanced in beautiful order ; in two minutes more the charge would have been given, and in half an hour we i&buld - literally have cut them to pieces. I much ooubted whether the enemy, even under Nepaunker, would have stood our charge. a Although we had not an opportunity of using our sabres, the above affair closes a harassing cam• pato.; for Nepaunker is, I believe, reckoned thefirst sirifar in thii I state. It is said in Nepaunker's camp, that Trimbuckjee is positively dead, and that Ilajee Row is at Boorhampore, where he will remain till be receives a reply to a reference made to Mr. Elphinstone." We havo also the pleasure of announcing the sur realer of the strong forts of Trimbuck, Nassuck, and Juneer, to the force under Lieutenant-Colonel Mae dowall.‘. We have been favoured with the orders issued by Lieutenant-Colonel Macdowall, after the , in a exertions of completing the Query in ten 'hours ; and to Lieute nant-Colonel Crosdill, for the excellent practice of the guns, and mortars brought into this battery, from day-break till dark, on the 24th ; and he begs that .the" Officers and men of both these detachments will accept of his warmest thanks for their cheetful and soldier-like exertions. The conduct of the little body of. Sappers and Miners daring the whole of the ope rations, and the willingness and alacrity with which they performed their duty, without. being once re lieved, were particularly observed, and shew what benefit might be expected to she public service from these men, when the corps may be completed. " Lieutenant-Colonel Macdowall is happy to find that the wounds Major M'Bean and Ensign Lake re- Iceivedin occupying the old villdge near the bottam of the precipice of the mountain, are not likely to de prive him long of their services, and he begs leave to offer his best acknowledgments to all the Officers and men employed on that occasion ; he also requests l that Lieutenant Gordon of the 2d 13th will convey ' to the artillerymen with the two 6-punders, the Offi cer and men of the party of his Majesty's 'Royal Scots, and the party of the 2d 13th who were em• ployed opposite the south gate, his approbation of their cordial and manly exertions for getting the guns so soon into battery upon the hill. The laborious work which falls to the lot of the pioneers on these occasions was most ably and cheerfully performed, and entitles. Lieutenant Frew and his detachment to the Commanding Officer's highest satisfaction and best thanks." The brigade under Major Eldridge, consisting of the Bombay regiment of Foot Artillery, with heavy train, and supernumerary auxiliary battalion, has been remarkably successful. An intelligent con cs pondent informs us, in a letter dated Camp Dougur, May '7, that " in nine days six hill forts have been captured, each of which would have taken as many months to have reduced had they been defended by resolute garrisons." Soonur and Hursur were abandoned previously to the arrival of the brigade Chowan and Juodun stood a few hours' shelling, and then surrendered. Hurry chundurghur and Koonzelghur were taken posses sion of by a party of the auxiliary battalion under Captain Sykes, the garrisons flying from them as the party commenced ascending the mountains on which they are respectively situated. Until these forts were captured, it was supposed the holds to the south of Poona were as strong as any in India ; but Singhur, Pooruandur, and Wassota, bear no comparison witl; Soonur. Hursur and Chowan surpass Soonur, and Juodan is absolutely impregnable, since it has bomb proofs for its garrison to retire to, the only requisites wanting to render the other places equally impreg nable. Independent of its strength, Soonur, com monly known by the name of Juneer, is interesting to the curious inquirer, from its connection with the history of the Mussulman Government in this part of India—from its being the occasional residence of Sewajee—from the ruins of buildings of Mahomme dan origin, and from its inumerable excavations, which, with the like productions in every part of In dia, are ascribed by the Hindoos to the indefatigable industry of the god Pandoo. Soonur has seven gates of masonry, one within the other. In the fort is a mausoleum to the memory of the wife of one of the Mussulman Governors, an eadgah, and a musjid, all in good repair. The latter is built ever an amazing reservoir for water, cut out cf the solid rock : the roof of the reservoir has been cut into the resemblance of beams, and pillars of a chaste design support them at equal distance; in the fort were 28 guns, many of them brass, and human ingenuity and caprice appear to have been exhausted in the forms in which lave or six of them have been cut, and in their multiplied de corations. One was like a bird, and in place of trun nions had wings ; another was like a fish with scales; and a third had an appearance of network over it. The excavations en the face of the perpendicular rock on which the fort is situate, must have required ages, and the incessant labours of the population of is province to have finished them. The mind is lost in a labyrinth of doubt and con. jecture in investigating the motives which could have occasioned the production of such surprising monu ments of human industry. The general form of the excavations is that of a monk's cell, with a stone seat round it, but many of these cells have small openings from the floor into deep square apartments. There is only ono excavation in Juneer-hill, in the form of a temple, which deserves particular mention : it is about 60 feet long by 40: the ceiling appears to have been gilt or painted in compartments. The entrance of the cave has four pillars, in good taste, support ing a gallery, the front of which is cut into lattice work ; above this rises a beautiful arch. In the neigh bouring hills are temples of greater extent than the above described, with colossal figures sculptured-in them. The fort of Hut sur, independent of its na- tural strength, deserves notice only from the labour which has been bestowed on its gates, and the road up to it. The latter is cut into steps out of the rock: the gates, two in number, with the connecting pas- 1 sage, have not a foot of masonry about them, the whoje being cut out of the rock ; you enter the side' of the mountain, go up a passage, and through another gate to the hill, and then get in the interior of the fort, as if you were emerging from a wall. Juodan is on the Ghauts, overlooking the Konkan. To give an idea of its strength, it will be sufficient to say, the last flight of steps, by which you enter the fort, consists of 240, each step of one foot and a half in height ; and they are placed as perpendicu larly, and are as difficult of ascent as a ladder usually [ is. The view from the fort is awfully grand. In the south-west part, a stone dropped from the hand would reach the Konkan, a fall nearly perpendicular, of at least 2,000 feet. Midway down the mountain, On the north-western side, a level runs out for 100 yards, the mountain then becomes as precipitous as before ; from the edge of this small level rises a natural pil lar of rock of at I , a:t 300 feet in height, nodding over the abyss below. At sigh' o'claes. in the mot it fall of the Trinibuck, to the brave detachment and '.E. the command (*that gallanrOffices: - s WRAC? BROM HET/teHSfeNT ORDERS. - " tamp az Trialbuti, Apia 56, (Sunday; 16.) " 4 . 1, Lieutenant-Colonel M.scdowall congratulates I announce a ttac hment he has the honours° command, in ga fortrtss of g ) in so short is time, tisaptiritssion of the imps r the cons- st ab le fortress of Trimbuck: A the lob He then attributes this fortunate occurrence, i cute on the great degree, to the abilities and active.exertions the Cummanding Engineer, Lieutenant Davis, 21411111 ISVPre . . . . a twentieth for example, or s ' -', ing of the 4th instant, the Koaka i n was completely 100,000 Eie:tFs, and not 1t bOO per m s v 44 i intercepted from our view by masses of beautiful sess the requisite qualification hi pmpe r ty f t) , / P'' *white clouds, which only run half way up the neigh- ...des. Is it, .then, among the wealthy cla sse , ;t bouring hills.' I can compare it to nothing but a sta . many Jacobins are to be expected ? li n c t ! pay 1,000 francs; and how -' ''' of milk, in a grand lstit regular swell; a rainbow " ire supposed that they exist among these 10000' : was seen on one of the clouds at our feet, and, the some proportion, lops of the mountain and the magn ifi cen t pillar ap- still . th e y . cou l d only give their suffrages to such .r .eared to rise in terrific majesty from the lower their partizans as world ; but the scene was beyond description, and I of these are there to be met w i t h a How.sre, never felt more strongly than at that moment the obtain the majority in any College? ' Ad m i t truth of the sentiment of the poet who says, should gain it by surprize on some points, it is e " That which was formed to captivate the eye, acknowledged that it is impossible for them i " The ear must coldly taste descriptions weak, it on many. But carry the hypothesis farther.,,. " And the muse butters in the vain attempt." them the advantage of a whole election, whieb;,,a," Hurrychunaleghur owes its strength entirely to the be 52 members in one year ; this %yr:l'ld be f r0. ,7 mountain on which it is situated ; the fort is small, majority of 250. The Chambe r o f lacputier sa,*-1 but the mountain is several miles i n c i rcu mference, be renewed until five years have elapsed, aat i te ' equally difficult of access on all sides. In many Ministry which exists during that p et i o d canna f parts of the mountain the access is only by small to have formed partizans. holes cut for the toes and fingers to hold by in the o But it is doing too much honour t o t h-J vc :., smooth rock, and the adventurous climber often tot- to suppose that they are all so very unt:actai3 . l : - ; ten on eternity. not to be gained by places or honours, or hr far ia , - Koonzelghtir is embedded in mountains, and from bestowed on their relations or friends. Let ti t ; the south cannot be approached f r om the di s tance of h owever , b e B rutuses an d C atos , w h at would ~,,t-' eight miles, except by men on foot. The path (a the Government to look on until they acepi n r, foot wide only) to it, however, is romantically beau- majority in the Chamber? Has not the King ah;„; tiful ; it runs alternately over hills, up deep glens, the power of dissolving the Chamber and convollar and along ridges, the hills being studded with clumps a new one ?—But it will be said, what if they ly. . e : of trees and shrubs, at this season always in the most elected? If they be Jacobins, they will n ot ani rftc „ brilliant verdure. In speaking of the strength of than the Ultras be rechosen, when once thrnii . c 44 these forts, it will be sufficient to mention they owe If representative France, which it is impon arrEtt) it almost exclusively to nature, art having only put confound with numerical France, should remmne. the finishing hand to what nature had left undone. puties as violent as some dream of. that co s is idi The following extract of a letter from Malwaa, happen in consequence of the country bei ng p up ; of the 28th of April, contains someinteresting par- badly governed. In that case, 1 would nor sm „, titulars relative to the movements of another gallant for its being governable, nor that any influer.cer4 little detachment of our forces, which we have great keep under the yoke, against their will, Soo satisfaction in publishing : o In consequence of Intel- of men possessing a full knowledge of their ri g he ligence from Poona, that the Killedar of Gheiriah a had received a summons to surrender, a party under Capt. Pearson was embarked the 15th inst. on board the Honourable Company's cruizers Prince of Wales and Sylph, to take possession ; but the treacherous Killedar, after some frivolous excuses and delays, suddenly opened so heavy a fire upon the cruizers ly ing at anchor, that they were under the necessity of cutting their cables and putting to sea as 'expedi tiously as possible. On their return to Dewghur, where the detachment disembarked, it was found the enemy had taken advantage of their absence to strengthen the stockade on the opposite bank of the' river, from which they fired with jinjalls and match locks on every boat that attempted to cross the har bour. On the evening of the 18th, Captain Pearson determined on dislodging them, for which purpose he sent out a detachment under Capt. Hughes, con sisting of two Officers, Lieut. Thompson, of his Ma jesty's 89th Regiment, Lieut. Campbell, of the 11th Regiment of Native Infantry, with 54 rank and file, which, crossing over on the morning of the 19th, completely surprized the enemy, killing and wound ing about 25, and taking nine prisoners, two of whom were desperately wounded. While Captain Hughes and his party gallantly carried the stockades on shore, Captains Robson and Dominiceto nobly contributed to the success of the undertaking,, by pulling up the river with a party of 53 seamen and marines, and attacking the enemy in front. The force of the enemy opposed to this small party was between 200 and 250 matchlockmeu. Their stock ades were completely destroyed, and about eight 1 jinja ll s, with a number of matchlocks, 'ace. taken?' THE EVENING LONDON. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1519. THE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS VIM DAY AT TWELVE o'cLGA Bank Stock shut-3 per Cent. Reduced situ -5 per Cent. Consols 7411 —for Acc.74!!. 31 per Cent. shut-4 per Cent. shut 5 per Cent. Navy 104i1—India Bonds 7971 pm Omnium 4i , disc.—Exchequer Bills 15 17 pan. We present our Readers tc•day with East-India Intelligence, of a very ir.terestir.3 natal, and of so late a date as the 16th of Ma': :At. of the same favourable description as all our advices, and brings the affairs of India still peaceful termination. In the course of nine one of the communications from carp states, hill forts have been captured, each of thich have taken as many months to have :edace4 they been defended by resolute garrbor:: While w•e join in congratulating the these events, We cannot refrain from offering remarks with respect to the reward, and di , appropriated to a numerous portinr, cl the men, to whose indefatigable exertions they have owing. FRANCE. It will be observed, that many of the mostbm, actions recently achieved in India havebeenperfcad by Lieutenants and Captains, in detached and iai► pendent commands. The greater part of the I,:ts , nants are from twelve to fifteen years standiri.x Captains upwards of twenty years. The reg:,l.zsi of the Order of the Bath confine that hoiiour to Fa Officers ; and Brevet rank is not conferred upon is Officers of the Company's Army ,as in England. 1? then, are these deserving Captains and Subalterns be rewarded ? The Company's Service now only af fords a subsistence ; and by the time the OFacers is question rise to the rank of Firld Officer, it . will time for them to think of repose and retirement. PRIVATE izrrsa, DATED PARIS, SEPt. 14. " There exists no reasonable doubt as to the satis factory prospect of our elections, generally speaking. Some names mcoe or less agreeable may be intro duced ; but, upon the whole, they will certainly be cornformable to the nation, which is decidedly for peace and repose, with the consolidation of our new institutions. Most of the pariy-candidates for whom violent efforts are made, will therefore be rejected by the good sense of our electors, who consist of men even more interested than yours in the preservation of public tranquillity. " The ultra-Royalist conspiracy has greatly sim plified our future choice in elections by the light which it has thrown on our real situation. Nearly all the proteges of this faction, now so completely ult• masked, teel themselves to be entirely set aside. They must sustain a great diminution of numbers in the Chamber of Deputies, which they will never be able to repair. About 20 of their party must o out, and they cannot expect to replace more than six. It even will not be surprising if they abstain from appearing or several of our electoral assemblies. They have still the mania of considering radically null every thing that is done without them ; as if Fiance had not long been accustomed to reckon them out of her ranks! " The chances lie between men separated by shades rather than by differences of opinion. They concur as to the essential doctrines, though they may not be always agreed as to their immediate application. They ought to unite, since they have to defend them- selves against a common enemy, by whom they arc both attacked with equal bitterness. " There are now only two parties that cannot be reconciled in France; namely, those who wish to preserve and to honour the great results of the revo lution, now consecrated by the Royal Charter; and those who regard those results with contempt, and reject them as far as they dare with all their force s The former are the friends of Monarchy and consti tutional equality ; the latter, partizans of the ancient despotism, and of privileges of every kind. " But the Jacobins, or Ultra. Liberals, it will be exclaimed, why are they not taken into the account ? Are not they the enemies of every sort of established Government, and of all the most necessary social advantages /—Yet, doubtless, there are some Jaco bins; but that name is given to many who do not deserve it. There are few real Jacobins, as there are few real Ultras. Both parties make a great noise, in order that they may appear formidable, and are both equally in discredit for the crimes of 1799, and the excesses of 1815. The prodigy of 1793, when the majority rose against the minority ; and that of 1815, when the minority conspired against the majority, will never again occur while our electoral and con stitutional system subsists. Neither of these fractions of parties, for they ought not to be called parties, are capable of destroying it. " To be an Elector, it is necessary to pay SOO francs in taxes ; to be eligible, 1,000. We have net It appears that the Order of the Bathbas bees a (erred upon. Sir Thomas ninon, but no neticel' yet been taken of the Company's Officers. think it is intended to pass them by, when thellts cious conduct of the PRINCE Ri!GENT tO Gr. OCIITERLONY is recollected. 0: Readers ray member, that at the close of the Nepaul rat, proposed by the Directors to gra::t " medal:" t 3 junior part of the Company's army. 11 - . c rroprsit , was, however, opposed by Mr. CANNING, W:10 iv not grant it the necessary sanction of the Crown. hope that time may have improved his opision the subject, and that on the new occasion which offers for doing justice to a mos: salts:lle cl. individuals, he will act with that generous rep their aspiring hopes, which such distiaz,uithed as their's so justly deserves. A similar claim may we think be put in, ald'' not less force, in favour of some of the civil of the Company—such as Mr. Etresssress others. After reading the following tribute to , services of the Gentleman just named, mail:Ail Dispatch from the Governor-General in Co uncil the Secret Committee of the Board of Directcm can hesitate in opinion as to the propriety of elv ing the proudest honours of the count r y to as vidual of merit so distinguished ?—" ed, they say, for thli happy result," of the PIIISHWA, " mainly to the ever decision, and ability of the Resident STONE, whose conduct throughout important crisis exhibits a combinat lities which has never been exceeded the Meters, of your affairs• Our just action so honourable to the British c as our obligation of public duty, c. bear this testimony to the unrivalled ELrsvisroxes conduit ; and webt • ts wk I for D pt. mas k , l i lt rever, i tt 100,000 , e• or 5,0% to s uc h at l how • mi t , • * Te a_ • ult 7 se Admit ti e , s, it mu lt i, am t o ,i git miter ; ei tt wh'.ch teqk he fi n , naties cam sr=d, and t:.! car.oct th,Y Ja,:cisat actahle or by far o , Let them, .ould coa:m accini m i a King a h c „, id conrolii if they be not any ma rt dlr./A. 4 c gt ioreart a ttt , .1 re:urn De• could sly ing Pori`eMy d not fluencet4 29.0004 tzeir righe Alt. 1.518. VE (ALGA red situ— Is 72% pm 517 pieta. acme falls ettin3 fay last. h it all our recut L still na-el f nine Lye.* ip states, v. !licit wag edaca 1:e ccur.try offering a d distincti• cl the gall • her have Lea e most Wilt beenperfcad ched and of the L:fe.• standiri. 3 nomour to Fii erred open is :nzland. 113a4 Subalterr.s ts :e now only af• the OF,lcers is cer, it . will Cis retirement. :h has been cur It no ratite has :as. We canal teen the late re :NT 10 Ge .eade:s may hA ul war, it to " medal.;" :a 6 rnoprsitir:' INC, W:143 aGlj • the Crown. We his opiniou mita which ust raluzble class If nerous revrtio ;tiazu, ithed t put in, 214' 511 the civil • NSTOSZ tea tribute to do d, CCC:3 .l :led 21 in Council of Directors , sprite! °fe lt "' antry to as " You are indebt the di sc zli ma y, jud. m r , Ego- this arduous tion of eiose its a0,?t 44 t pride in 3 7;-. Charade; 25 calls ;von ;•:s . Led merits Cl rd lers'c W .the gain- Tres.-