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covontsodod the }what the batteries, to collect Ids
party (400 mew), and leading 100 tinier cover Near the top of
the breach, to occupy with the remainder the ramparts of
M.laghnr as far as the gateway, but not to edema* further
till supported by 200 men from Ike troops on duty in the
pettah, and a party of pioneers with crow-bars to force its
gates open. These I directed to join him, while Lieutenant-
Colonel Smith was ordered to move with 300 alto and a
tvght houitser to the gateway, to blow it open in the wrest
of the enemy trying; to oppose Captain EAsell'ii progress.
The piety protecting the month battery were mimed alio to
tr.lesoce and forma lodrocut near the breach that bad been
• ;. tr,:eli.,l in that :part o the wall, bat not to enter the fort
noires ihem was opposition.
I\t guard against the possibility of accident. all the
t rib.4la. tl hal heed irsowil for the {tarot % stjur ilftssied
tq
moreVitilieiepegit Woe rapid into of three orders'
-placed me in poseessiow of the fort in a few minutest, and
be:gaireways weer-band opine in bate more than a quarter
• ;Oro's hinir. Theeeemy appeared tog far taken by surprise
Awe theydid not ore.* hchey Ire (0"," the "Pre work!
,Jlklllr.truops afar litels,,,assigrAmiveig, • Thia•ilre.tros soon
.frajorlered oneertyijh.prdalle4unediveilyneed by that • which
Major Blair opted upotheism from Mr different batteries:
nolo' to thesectrallailtaateli ibe casualties have been very
• for. •
°norm by Brigadier-General Dovoton.
lydrabort

Head Quarters, Sy... Sitbsidiary.force,
Camp hAtterchur, 31st March, I*l9.
.The Briradier-General.has• received a report (root Belga-
. ter-Generil Sir John Malcolm, R.C.R. and K.L.S.•of his
, having earls yisterilay morning (weepiest Malachite.. or the
lower.fort of Asseer, which was intended to have been as-
•
• anwited is the afternoon by the Brigadier Grueranedivtainn.
The prom, de and decision with which Brig.-Gen. Sir
John Malcolm, availed himself of the infointation which he
received of Ito enemy having evacuated it is highly credit-
"elste to him.
• The firigadier-General having also received a report fmm
Lien! .Colowel Crosilill, the commanding officer of artillery,
ur the uncommon and ieccasant labour of the whole troops,
• pioneers, &r. employed i• ,working parties in getting the
goes into the Latin ies of a very steep and most difficult
eateut, fully sporeriates their extraordisiaiy and cheerful
, C3E11111011., which reflect such disistigisishrd credit on them
• pit, fool which he will have crest satisfaction in bringing to
the IMO ice of superior authority
J. DOVCTON, Brigadier-General.
list of Wounded amonz the Troops employed in the occu-
pation of the Lower Furt this nionliut, the 30th March,
• i'lo.
• ...Madras European Reg.-1 private and 4 eepoye.
J. NAPIER, A-sist.-Adj Len.
• Brig.. Gen. Sir .1. Malcolm's Division.
Extract from a Letter from Brigadier General Doveton to
Ciotti in Stewart, Acting Resident at the Court of Sciniliah,
• rimed Camp, Asseerglow, April 11, 1819.
• sly dispatch of the 7th instant, will have informed yon of
my breathing battery haring opened, as well as that of Bei-
gaitier-Generil Sir John Malcolm from the north face, on
mormsig of that day. They kept up an incessant and
*sell-directed tire on the walls of the upper fort, until the
toomoon of she Silo. On the evening of the 7114 I received
:ommunication from Sir John Malcolm, that Jestrusit Rao
t..r hail sent out a mesa ige, expressive of his wish to sac.
ien.ler the fortress unconditionally. and of paying his re.
cp1.4.-ts to me us the nest morning. with the request that the
firing from our batteries might cease. This was complied
1..;,11, and he accordingly waited on me, accompanied by Sri-
gs.lier•Genei al Sir John Malcolm.
have foril.er the honour to report, for the information
• his rte. lleury the Most Noble the Governor-General,
r4st the I.st At first made coasidelable objection to the gm.-
, ison Iminz down their arms, and to his 0.• return to the
'tort ; but boiling me determined no these points, hr at last
tattle his leave, and was with some difficully prevailed on
• ky BeigadierLeneral Sir John Malcolm to return late in the
t to the upper rod.
The nest morning, however, the garrison 'began to yes-
crate it at the hour which had been fined on, and by noon
:Le whole of them were paraded iu front of our troops, at a
`eyst selected for the purpose, where they grounded acid de-
l:erred op their arms.
Jeewnot lar and his principal officers, with the
of Dowlitt Rao Scindieli, will be delivered over to
..: C0111111111.!.•1' of that Prince's tr..ops, to be yed to
the garroted' themselves an to be sent back
t• their ssvelat culautries.

Ertaxeum in the Supplement to the nazelle of the 34
i !mgt. 130, col. 2, line 28.—Fur EusiEn Field,
• '.Cr.pincer —read, Cosign Garstin, Field Review.

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