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(1) Situated en the r, to the north of Omeein.
(2) The Division '__ ier•Geneml Smith, re-
lative to this action, were in the London Gazelle
of the Ath of Sane lust, as were also some extraets from the
disnatrhi s or the Goverionent of Ilonibsy, on the same
asalojcri, so the flazeffes of Ike llith or Aps al and 9th of hole.
(.1) Thease Orders were published in the Gazette of the
oth of Sone.
(4) Wilier carrier.

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Copy of a Dispatch from LieutensatZenersl Sir Thomas
Hislop to the Governor-General and Commander-ill-Clair,
dated Head.quarters, Army of the Deccan, Camp near
btalieidpour, January 28, 1818.
MY LORD--I had the honour of transmittiari
with my dispatch of the 27th tilt. the copy of a pri-
vate communication received from Brigadier-Gene-
rai Doveton, apprising me of his gallant and suc-
cessful operations at Nagpore on the 16th ult. and
I have now the satiaraction to lay before your Lord-
ship a transcript of the official (1) details of that
affair, as forwarded to me in duplicate by the Briga-
dier.Getieral, the original report having evidently
been list or intercepted.
'rile General Orders of yesterday's date, which !
deemed it proper to publish on tins giiii4)ing oc-
casion, and of which also a copy accotnpunies this
dispatch, will shew the high sense I entertain of
the able conduct of Brigadier-General Doveton,.
and the bravery of his troops, aided as they have
been by the intrepid exertions of the meritorious
officers whose names are particularised, and to all
of whom my warmest thanks are due.
• I have the honour, &c. &c.
T. HMO!. Lieut.-Gen.
• (Enclosed in the preceding.)
GENERAL. Oswalt, by the Commander in Chief.
Head-quarters of the Army of the Deccan,
Camp, Nuntoukairee, at the iota Gaut,
18th January, 18111.
The Commander in Chief has much satisfaction
in announcing to the army the receipt on the 15th
instant, of a duplicate of dispatches from Brigadier-
General Doveton, commanding the 9.d division of
the army of the Deccan, containing the official
details of that Officer's operations on the t6th
ultimo, against the troops of the Rajah of Breit,
in the vicinity of the city of Nagpore.
. The original copy of this gratifying communi-
cation never having reached head-quarters, the
Commander in Chief has been hitherto prevented
from publishing to the army the sentimetits of his
applause and approbation, which it would have
been his Excellency's duty, no less than Its inch-
nation, immediately to have conveyed to 116g:id:yr-
General Doveton, and the gallant troops under his
command.
The Brigadier-General reached Nagpore with
the division tinder his ordets on the 13th ultimo,
alter a rapid and fatiguing march, and formed a
junction with the detachment of the s!li thvision
already there; having refreshed his troors dmilig
the 14th and 15th, he prepared to attack the enemy
on the morning of the 1601, which was aceordisigic
done, mud the manner in which this Mapes wilt see.
vice has been achieved reflects the highest credit
upon the judgment and professional talents of the
gallant officer who commanded, ca well as upon the
discipline and determined valour of the excellent
troops who so nobly carried into effect the able and
well•judged plans of their General.
The Commander-in-Chief cordially concurs in
the extwtssions of approbation conveyed in the
Brigadier-General's dispatch, of the distinguished
conduct of Lieutenont-Colonels Mac Lend, Scott,
Mackellar, and Crosdill, commanding;
brigades ; of Major Munt, and Captain Webster,
commanding corps of cavalry ; and of Lientenoi,t-
Colmiels Stewart and Fraser, and Majors Pereira,
Pollock, Mac Donell, Weldon, Atiachiesti, and
'Gainer, ComrnandlifOorps of artillery mud infantry ;
as well as to Lieutenants Poggenpohl and Hunter,
of the horse artillery, and to these•effictis his
Excellency desires to offer his thanks and praise
fur their able and gallant exertions, as described by
Brigadier-General Doveton.
To Major Mac Leod and the Officers of the
General Stuff, to Captains Morgan and Ed moods,
on the personal Statiof the Brigadier-General, sod
to the other Staff Officers, the Conimuuder-in,
Chief's acknowledgments are most justly due for
their able conduct, and zealous exertions, to the
action out the 16th December.
His Excellency desires particularly to 'Airless
the high sense he entertains of the conspctiiiiis
exertions and well-directed ability which have been
so eminently displayed in the conduct of Lien te-
mint Davies, senior eoginetr, to whom lie eller. his
best thanks and applause.
His Excellency also notices, with feelings of the
highest admiration, the conduct of Lieutetiaot
Bayley, who, although labouring under a sect re
wound received on the memorable '2611t November,
volunteered his services with the Brigadier-General
on the 16th ult. and has again proved his well.
earned title to the warmest acknowledgments and
praise of the Commander-in-Chief.
The Commander-in-Chief has also receiied
dis-
patches from General Doveton, detailing his ope-
rations subsequent to the Ifitli ultimo, the succes!.-
fal termination of which on' the 30th ultimo, I.y
the capitulation of the city of Nagpore, his Ex-
cellency has already had the gratification of ;vs-
nouncing to the army in General Orders of the stet
instant (2).
Tne city. it appears, was defended by 5,0r0
Hindostanee troops, and 3,000 Arab, stroi:LO.
posted in the palace of the Rajah, and other %time
buildings in the town—the arrangements made by
Brigadier-General Doveton for their expulsion, and
the gallantry, steadiness, and discipline of tile
troops in the attack of the 24th ultimo, are etititltil
to the Commauder-in-Chief's grateful acknowledg-
ments; and he desires that the expression of has
unqualified praised and approbation of the conduct
of the troops employed throughout the operations
against Nagpore, msy be communicated and pat-
ticulai ly explained to them alt.
His Excellency in conclusion offers to Brig:idle,-
General Doveton his cordial congratulations nroii
the success which has crowned his gallant excrti..l4
at Nagpore, which the Commander-in-Chief Gull
not fail to bring to the notice of his Exctilcuiy
the Most Noble the Governor-General, in a; t:
terms of approbation and applause they 11,:ve
well merited.

T. 11. CONWAY.
ant-Geocrtl of the Army of
the Deccan.

Copy of a Report from MajorAmeral Sir W. Keir to the
Adjutant-General, dated amp, mar Jaboah lib
February, 1818.
Sit —1 have the honour to acquaint you, that a
few days subsequent to my letter of the 3d tost.tot,
received instructions front his Excellency Si

(1) These were published in the Loudon Gn:cttes of 6tY
May and 9th June last.
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(2) Not yet received.
(3) About eighty miles to the westward of ()age's.

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Thomas Hislop to disperse a body ohrocips. mama
.bled under Bheenta [thy., a sister of Mu!her Row
Hollow, who had been for some time past exacting
motley, and committing excesses throughout the
"country ; I accordingly moved from Budnawur (I)
on the 7th instant, leaving the heavy stores and
baggage at that place, under a strong escort, and
after very lung and severe marches arrived at this
place yesterday morning, and encamped close to
Rheem: Bbye's force.
My instructions prescribing in the first instance
an alleMilt at nn amieshle arrangement, I comma.
nested to illy. in s ilyhe the hoe of conduct which
it was necessasy 10 pursue, requesting her isamedi-
, Ably to dislvitiol ber troops, mad place herself un-
der my protection, in order that she might be en-
ehled to proceed to Rempoors, conformably to the
wishes of Holkar's Ministers.
To these demands she considered it prudeat to
'Accede, and came over to my camp in the evening
with Iwo hundred followers. having discharged the
remainder of her troops, consisting of near two
thousand men. who had been granted a safe con-
duct to Tandlah, where they I Jaye engaged to
se-
parate, and return to their respective places of
abode.
• The Bltye is at present in anch reduced circus:-
stollen that I have ,fersen wilder the necessity of
providing for her expenses to Ranspoon, at the
rate of eoo enures a day, end have reported the
circumstance to Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas
Hislop and Brigadier-General Sir John Malcolm,
Political Agent to the Governor-Geireral.
I shell move to-morrow, slid return to my poi-
dog at Budaawur by easy marches.
I base. Ste.
G. W. Kate, Major-Geoerel.
(1) About Ibirty miles west of Orrin.

'Po► Pereira laidligersa, *e.... lad mod

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LONDON.
FRIDAY. JULY 17, ISM

A Flanders Mail arrirrrl list night with Pipers
from Brussels to the 14th instant. The following
ere extracts

satuassus, atm? 11.
Yesterday arrived la Ms city, Lord Kieorird, from
Loudon. - _

naves, JULY 7.

The hawkers of good. inundate the eountry, and threstes
to rein our nicreheets and saanufaeterme, for they are only
the milers of English goods, the eircillation of which has a
fatal inflater* or our manufacturers. It is wi►hed that
eteaseree were takes to prevent all strangers from seine,
iitioug us 43 their peranurr, sad exercising without re-
straint, every branch of ioduslry G►eet vigilance with
respect to every thing that concerns the public safety is the
more necessary, as bands of robbers have formed themselves
is different quarters. .

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The provisional 'smells whirls still prevails byre is very
iejerions, and impedes business of all kinds. We ardently
drsire to see a definitive system established, as well for the
admieistration as for judicial affairs. We place no faith
in the reports of clients of territory, in which a part of our
Grand Duchy would be included ; yet it were to he wised
that peoples minds were made wholly easy un this bead.
LAUSAIIIIL. JULY 3.

Tilt English who mid• at lawseawe have opened a sob.
seription fur the sufferers who have lout their all by the late
inundation.

la the Gorge of M io the wake had rises to the
height of above 100 feet. This colossi' of waler overthrew
several large rocks, sod levelled entire forests Above 200
houses are sow sated as destroyed, sad above 50 persons
whose death is homes.

The whale vilest of the valley of Begat is corned with
raise to the height of above twenty feet. All the Gelds,
&Nord with the finest fruit trees, and covered with the
richest harvests, are converted iato deserts. Not a trace
females of the dikes which embanked the rime, or of
the numerous bridge. that crossed it. The waters mowed off
with such rapidity, that having burst forth at half-past foot
in the afternoon, they entered the Lake of Geneva, at the
distance of eighteen leagues from the Glacier, at eleven at
sight.

We have received Paris Papers of Mood ay last,
flow which we have made eat acts.

We ha►e received New York Papers to the 17th
Of June. They announce the death of General
MORITA° ; but this account comes in rather a
quemunnahle shape. Emmet* from these Papers
will be found in our subsequent column,.

A Sapp/comsat Gaz.ise was published yester-
day, coma' ttttt copies of the divpatelses lately re.
eeived by the Secret Committee tilt the India
House, from the Governor in Coott:ltil at B boy.
Then will be found to prevent a Niftily iseierestiolig
sod animated picture of the loostilitieli that now
occupy the British 5,10.111 loth.. filing up f r the
greater part the moli,ie litre ~tv ..frerA to our View,
MOI in some isto.nocto exteotlioog the vcesw of oper-
"ioulL The todlorit multi of the bottle of Nag-

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pore, fought on the tfith and 27th of November, 7
between theißritish troops and those of the Rajah
of Bemis, have been already communicated to
our 'readers ~in the dispatch of Lieut.-Colonel
SCOTT (pobliahed in this Paper on the 7th of May
last); but it *u not then known that the combined
British. and Wien force there, engaged did slot
exceed 1,300 men, while the troops of the Raj,h
of SERAIL 'mounted to more than 30,000. Defeat
in such a care mold hardly have been considered
a disgrace, but victory under such a tremendous
disparity of numbers. is entitled to our highest
admiration. The troops opposed to the British on
that occasion too, were not ass inexiierienced rabble,
hastily collected, bearing no character of ast
but in their military equipsiseiis ; it coot:Jima
veterans formed by minty a campaign, who, it will
be remembered. are represented as having bravely
died lighting ut their guns. The cotiseristences
a victory so decisive us that of Nagpore, seem to
have breu felt by the contending armies isl the
several minor actions which followed ; for tin water
with what solvaistagea.either of 1111 l bets or pi"ition,
the etartity may have engisgest, th. v sopelired inca-
pable of cial.ling liiin to inaintaiii earn a gnod
sheer of rraPtiotcr to the troops that u.suded him.
while the British arms have tunfeirmly ;Advanced in
their career of conquest. The armies of the
Pttsilwa, end of the Rajah of HERA R. appear to be
wholly dispersed, mod even their hest fsirireases make
little ur 1111 oppositions. The fortress of Sir tars, sin-
portsist es having been the ancient seat ut thr
netts empire, the city of Nagpore, garrisoned by
8,000 Wimps, and four other tatrov.es, bevy yielded
to the British army. The principal Chief of she
Miihratta army. Bairoo GOKI.A, and several ether
Chiefs of distineti 111 l , have fallen iu the contest, and
the PENH** himself enji ys his personal freeilnin
oisty in flight. A feuiale Chieftain, Mumma
remarkable as being the aisle, of the cele-
brated li•Luatt, soretiodeeed herself to Sir W.
Keta, having previously disbanded I.er troops,
amounting to about 2,000 raw.

This picture of our affairs in India cannot, in
a military point of view, but prove highly fl ater-
lug to our national vanity ; slid we shall not on.
gratiou►ly seek at the present moment to detract
lions throe feelings of honest pride, by re-
mniking how fatally lush •ucce:ses must even-
tartly lead to our destruction. There is one
with
imony

we
ielw•

nal creistiou, exist •t the present tttttt nem in as high
ad, gree us ever. No opportunity should he lott
of ttionulatisig it• 'nide, or of rewarding its merits;
mid we sootier with I,lemoure that some regiments
have been recommended by the General cominomil-

illg, atil worthy of remitting some and lasting
testi _ of their owa stehieverutots and of
Br 41141 gratitude.

The inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood
of Witold assembled on Saturday last, to honour
the first return of Mr. BENYON Nud his family to
Hatq.,iton Hall, since his election for Stafford. The
worthy Member was met by a large cavalcade oil
horseback, loud the populace took the horses from
his carriage, drawing hum through the town to his
beautiful residence. The day was spent in joyous
festivity. by ringing of bells, the roasting of
and their distribution, with plenty of bread and
ide, to the impulsive. Mr. B.'s friends iu Shrews-
bury intended to celebrate the same timid uu Wed-
nesday last.

On Monday sennight, the ball and supper given
by the Members fur the County of Durham, at the
As.einhly Room. in the Bailey, was ttttt neruusly
uncurled. The room had been considerably en-
larged fur the occasion. by the erection of a tens-
porary buildiog, which contributed a degree of
cookies% The company begaii to assemble soon
after time o'clock, sod before eleven, it is com-
puted that about 401) were present. Amongst the
most distinguished characters were—Mr. and Icily
Louisa Liienbton, Mr. Powlett. Lord Malvin's,
Mr. Brougham, Mr. Riker, Mr. Mrs. and Miss
Hoar, &c. &c. The Ball wee opened by Mr.
Howlett and Mies Hoar. Deming continued till
about twelve o'clock, when the company retired to
the rooms oppropriated for the supper, which coos-
sisted of every delicacy, and proved that no ex-
poise had been spared in providing for the enter-
tainitieut of the party. Dancing was afterwards
resumed, and the company did not separate until a
late hour in the morning.
The men employed at St. Nicholas's church. in
Newcastle. here been kept haul at work for some
time. in order to get it phoned before toe
Assites. The repairs which lutes !Writ made are
very considerable ; not only hiss it !rota found ne-
cessary to renew a greet portion of the roof, but a
considerable quantity of stone wink has been found
indispensahle, as well as some new windows. The
inside of this venerable fabric has also undergone
a complete colournig: the severe' tine morel monu-
ments which it contains present a gratifying teglit
to visitois, and at .e impart a solemnity to the
mind, chew the inutabi!itrof all hiimdti all,iie,, anal
yield a oriental pleasure by recording the minis,
&c. of departed worth. ‘Ve miderstend the paint-
Mg gnen to tors church by Sir dl. W. Iteut.Eii
Hart. M.P. will be put up et the lOW to the Nurse
of this week.

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TITOPIA, JOLT I. point too of coimrstulutioo, to which we two with it
Their Majesties the &strew and Empress arrived on the
the sincerest satisfaction—we mean the testimony
list at Carlstadt, where dory wrre received with entiessissm.
They left it on the 14th, sod the Emperor, arrived at Gads- borne by these dispatch,s to the courage, loyalty, ai
situ on the MI, wad the Empems at Petrewsia, where the discipline., and. under moat trying circumstance" at
Emperor was expected she swat day. Preparations are a Mlle,sopnre, the perseverance of the 111
Stable at Bodes fwe a 'pleads • s sae a.l lance mud xtresoe deli- E
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*OW aiikaa, t intodto. a
dwee daps. The Empress Ma -it Less*, whp mills . 4 4 •
immerge us tottely to present to Ulla !leader% a !bulimic se
haw therAtm isteevirdc. iltra,*oo*.• at Orate, is ,
"ref,' 44,1104,
..,f4,44pltiorittgosis, is of IIIC 11111.011•1 butte of the 1114tite Arany ; and we
vas 'elbow., ips el" breppll .41,,i, arrival. Whets are extremely hippy to find from these dispatches /
Aheirlllololl6l frays -de wows. at Baden, they will Es to that the eminent qualities by which it has been die-
'ben ditY will Milk till his Blakely departs tis.gnialwd, with very few exceptions, since its orig,-
"sr Aik.la-Cbsplir. Ind creation, exist at the !treated tttttt tient iu as high [