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CALCUTTA GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.
Fon %Wham, the 2lti J.ate,'lBo4.
By advices from the Commaader in Chief, under
date the 2dth May. it appears, that on the 21st
May, 'WS, an incursion was made into the Province
of Bundelcund by a body of predatory horse, stated
to amount to soon.
lOeutenant. CP.onel Fawcett, who, by the illness of
Colonel Powell, and the death of Lieutenant Colonel
Polhill, had succeeded to the co,nmand of the Bri-
tish :tmps serving in the Province of Bundelcund,
had sent a detachment of seven companies of Sepovs,
a troop of waive cavalry, and a park of artillery,
under the command of Captain Smith, to attack a
fort about five miles distant from Lieutenant Co-
lonel Fawcett's position at Konch.
On the therning of the nd May, the party of
predatory horse succeeded in cutting off a part of
Capt. Smith's detachment, which was posted in the
Pettali of the Fort. This party consisted of Capt.
Feade, and Lieutenant Morris, of the Artillery ;
with two serjeants, two corporals, four gunners, and
forty matrossrs, and a proportion of lascars ; M.
Hooper, Assistant Surgeon, and two companies of
sepoys from the Ist battalion fedi regiment, under
Lieutenant Gc.lespie.
The whsle of the party was cut off, with the
exception of I 3d wounded natives, who had returned
to Lieut.-Colonel Fawcett's camp on the 2ith May.
Two howitzers, two 12-pounders, one ti-pounder.
and all the tumbrills belonging to the park, were
also captured by the party of predatory horse.—
Captain Smith, with the remaiuicg five companies
of Sepoys, retreated (with the loss of one man only)
to Lieutenant-Colonel Fawcett's camp. The pa:ty
of predatory horse made several attempts to cut
off Captain Smith's retreat, but without success.
The same party of predatory horse attacked
the town nt Calped, and attempted to cross the
Jumma, but were repulsed with loss, by two com-
panies of Sepoys, under the command of Captain
Jones, and were afterwards defeated near Kooch, ott
the 31st May, by Capt. Shepherd, commanding a
party of troops lately in the service of Amhara
Mylia. Si .ce that period of time the predatory
horse evacuated the province of Bundelcund.

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COMMON PLF XS, GUILDHALL—Fes 14.
Sit,edigs at Ni's Pri,s blare Sir J ai ES MA stet o. •
next. C. DtL
This was an adlion brought by the Plaintiff, who
was a tinker, arid kept an old iron shop in R Raffle
Highway, against tae Defendant, a butcher and .
sax gatherer, in the same street, far An assault com-
mitted on his wife, by thrusting a broom into her
face, and throwing her down into the gust -r.
It appeared that Mrs. lien Was, on th' 16th of
Srpternher, sweeping the dirt from befpre her shop
d. or, and %al swept it nearly opposhe the shop of
the Deteniar.t. He cune out and desired her to
desist, but she continued to sweep on. In conse-
quence of this, the Defendant brought out his
broom, and swept it hack again. Mr.. Bell, not
wishing to yield t' .e vianty, attempted to retacti it ;
this pro.luced a sweering ct.ntest, or, as the Witne•s
termed it, a vernmotis sweeping, in the course of
hash a great deal of abusive language was used,
and a great deal of diit and mud splashed on both
aham,Wons I but Mr. 1.1:x, conceiving he got the
worst of it, and unable to restrain his passion, lifted
up his broom and thrust it, dir y ts it was, into
Mrs. Bell's face. She fell, and being a hevv wo-
man, go' a severe bruise on her site, by which she
was coninrd, and attended by a Surgeon tor the
space of thirteen days.
Serjeant Sill/411R r, on the part of the Defend-
ant, stated, that this had been a scolding match be-
tween the parties, and th it Mr:. Bell had a spleen •
against the Defendant, he having obliged her
husband to give in an account of their income, for
the purpose of being assessed for that tax.
Two or three Witnesses were examined for the
Defendant, but, instead of proving any thing in his
favour, their testimony rather went to strengthen
the case of the Plaintiff.
Sexjeant COCK rut., for the Plaintiff, observed on
the evidence at some length. The .Jury, after a
short consideration, found a verdict for the Plaintiff-
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Damages C5l. •

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No trial of any interest took place yesterday, in •
the Court of King's Bench.

Lord MELT' z's ramoured tee gnation still
continues a favourite subje4t of conversation.
La Sit frigate, with the fleet under her convoy
from Cork, art wed at Barhadoes on the 22d of De. •
cember ; the fleet trom Portsmouth had not artived
there on the 13th of January.
The first division of the 6th Regiment marched
into Port<rnouth yesterday. and the second w.il
fol-
low to.m...rrow, to embark for the East Indies.
The total number of persons, military And Wm-
hitants, that died of the late contagions disorder at
Gibraltar, is 3963. About 3000 inhabi•ants went
away when the disorder broke out, of whom, it is
probable, several have died. excluove of rh • anew..
Letters received from the•. Trrrrbf•, of 74 guns,
dated off Ferrol the 14th nit. stets, that s:re had
made an observation a few d Lys before, and re-
ceived iiitelligence that the enemy's squadrons were
in staiu quo.
The report of the loss of the Weltmokih, of 36
guns, we will prove to be without any foundatioa.
The .titi had three East Indiamen to convoy,
And on the unfortunate loss of the Akrgareniu, most
probahly proceeded with the other two. Such re-
ports operate so strongly on the feelings of those
who have rel scions in the Weymouth, that they malt
severe condemnation.
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To-morrow will be the next day ot drawing.

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