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GAZETTE.

FO2T IFILLI2IIII, JON 2 1804.
the Mitt ROW Wirdn-e-ernor
General has receivbd a dispatch from his Excel-
lency the Commander in Chief, dated the 18th May,
l 8 of which the following copy is published, for
general information
To His Excellency Cie Mat Noble the Marq- e MrAle,ley,
Governor General, &t.

My Lo R —Your Lordship IA ill have already been
informed of the success of an assault made by the de-
tachment from the army under Lieut Colonel Don,
on the Fort of Ramponra, the Kith instant. I have
the honour, for your Lordship's informatiJn, to trans-
** Lieut.-Colonel Don's detailed report to that

It is necessary for me to call your Lordship's at-
tention to the spirited and judicious conduit of
Lieut.-Col. Don in planting and leading the assault,
and the truly meritorious and gallant conduit mani-
fested by the whole of the officers and men of the
detachment in carrying the fort.
This service has been performed in a most exem-
plary style, and refleas the highest honour on the
mops engaged, both cavalry end infantry, who
behaved in the most steady and gallant manner.
- The high sense I entertain of their condua, I
bey* endeavoured to express in my orders of this
date, and particularly that of the 2d battalion,
21st Regiment, a young corps, embodied but a few
months, and who could only have been brought to
their present advanced state of discipline by the un-
;emitted exertions of their Commanding Officer,
Major Wade.
In offering your Lordship my cordial congra-
tulat;ons on the acquisition of this important for-
tress. which puts us in possessiln of the whole of
th... territories of Jeswunt Rao Ilolkar, on this side
cf I cannot conclude, without recommend-
ir, Lieut.-Colonel Don to your Lordship's fav Jur-
notice, to whose services I feel myself infinitely
indebted.

Lieutenant Colonel Don speaks in high terms of
the service he derived from the Artillery, under the
orJet s of C tpt. RAban and Lieut. flay ; the merito-
riou• conduct of this corps,on all occasions,lhavefre-

pertly had the honour to .notice to your Lordship;

in IN.< instance their con dua appears to have been
/smite:loy conspicuous for gall.ntr) and successful
exertion, and particularly in the person of Serjeant
D•Laughien,'chn had charge at the tweloe.pounder
that !tweed the gates, and evinced, in that situation,
the trite charaner of a British solder, and will,
I trust, meet your Excellency's approbation and
preiteaion

The 3d Regiment of Native Cavalry, under the
command of Major Doveton, on this occasion, sup-
ported that high chandler for steadiness and bravery,

which they have had frequent opportunities of ac.
quiring and confirming in various instances where
they have been engaged.
The benefit derived to the service from the advice
si received from Captain Wood, of the Engineers,
Liosteaant Colonel Don acknowledges with grati-
pide. I have, in various instances, during the cam-
paign, bad opportunities of remarking thi.. zealous
exertions, ability, and aCtivity, of that Officer on
every occasion, and I derive infinite satisfaCtion from
bating k again in my power to bear testimony to
Iris mei its. I have the honour to be, my Lord.
your Lcr.iship's most faithful and humble servant,
G. LAKE.
Hew May IS, 11104.

To Lieutenant Caionel Adjutant General.
Sin —Yesterday I did myself the pleasure of corn-
rn.l::,icating to you. for the information of Ilk Excel-
lersey the Commander in Chief, that I had carried into
f •
eieintion Ilse plan of attack which I had formed for
the rednAion of Rampoora, and that it had succeed-
ed beyond my expedations, in so far that my loss is
infinitely leis than what I feared it might have been.
It gives me infinite satisfaftion to state, that not
one of nay Officers employed on the assault has been
wounded; an 1, considering the nature of the service,
much as I regret my loss in natives, yet I do thirik
it ksii than what might have been looked for. This
I principally attribute to the attack commencing
somewhat before day-break, when the enemy could
• set discriminate the Office's, and indeed could
hardly distinguish my column, at the same time
that it was sufficiently light for my purpose
Instead of taking op a position on the side of the
hut towards which the principal entrance is si-
tuated, as I at first intended, 1 continued to occupy
my original ground of encampment, as the garrison
might have been induced to barrocade the gate-
ways, which I had determined to attack, by my
moving in that direction. And, yesterday morning,
at two o'clock, I marched with the flank eompa.
Dies, and four battalion companies of the 2d Bat
calii.n Bth, and the flank companies of the 4d bat-
talion Ilse regiments, which, with one 12-pounder
at the bead of the column• for blowing open the

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