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IMPERIAL PARLIAkE.Yr.

fteheil in a mos+ piclurecque spot, awl onnilel
every side by lute" mountains, and abounding, iii
elm rivulets. veril replenished with li,h, and in
gardens, little iudch'ed to tUtilire nuderd, bnt ?in-
ductive and luxuriant. This place, thipugh °al)
tire long marches rlis.ent from Cashmere, maintains
no. commercial or other intercourbe with-that cele-
brated region.

MUSE OF COMMoNs, TossosT,Jss. se.

The Sreaten having taken the Chair st the
usual hour. some Private bills were brought up ;
eArr which,

Mr. Pitactyst moved, " That the :hanks of
the House should be given to Vie 11..1v. Charles
Proby, for his excellent Seriuon preacmil before
them that day:'—Agreed to,
Mr. Wu %RYON brought up the llcport of the
Committee of Supply. which NW reJ 1 a first snel
se. mod time. and the Itasolutions a4rred to It
was resolved that the Hoene s'.ould resolve itself
into a Committee, tomorrow, for the purpose of
considering farther of the Report.
Mr. Psacxxat. gin. notice, that he would move
for a vote of Seamen. to-morrow, for the seryice of
the year.

BOMBAY, AUG. 5. I RO9.

Amboy Cesar, Attgra J, 1609.

Wnaitraw mewed for an Account of the
An Intl N*val Eptiinntea. which was %Wed to.
Adjourned till to morrow.

LVDI.I.

nom Tug itINAL 1111,1-1111AILU. •UO. 13.1809.

A detachment of the llundelcund army, conest-
of one troop of carob). three coinpumes of the
4th light infantry battahoa, and two companies of
the Ist battalion 17th Native infantry. with a party
of s 6 !women, and ease sie-peueder, the whole
under the coeiniuid, of Major Kelly, have lately
retettlaii to cantonments, from an expedriou alto
the di et of kespeor. The objects of the expe-
dite: • aegoinplishei, without any
bloodshed. Tranqc ty comidosece had..l4cey
remetal. throughout the couutry ; end the Mita
pracipal refractory Ziunindars had been delivered
up to the Adawlut at Benda.

EMIDASSY TO CAM..
Elate oar last, nothsug further has 'earthed us on
the subject of the We events in Cabul. leosuly
rersimas. theeelbee. that we should NMI the pro-
ruse give.llll our lest, tsf biyirug bufore our readers
rich part:eula a tektite to t'.e return of the Ens-
Ussy, es have eome to our knowledge.
The tract of country passed by Mr. Elphinsten
and his suite, in tlisir journey from Peshoter to At-
toe, it about 45 issues in e..tent. For twefity.fiee
lid:non this side of Ihrshour. the face of the Lad-
amine presents one uniform and level plain. Iseauti-
fatly verdant, occasionally interspersed s ith trees.
mid divided tlw ('uhul ricer, winch flows towards
die Indus. in a rapid strew o. about aon yards in
breadth. The latter. part of the road leads over a
barren and sour tract, and, at one place. for about
two mils and an half, through • pass, evrernely
steep rctesgsv.i. The summit of one of The kills
in thi, neighbourhoods commands* prospect. mag-
nificent beyond description. Among other objects,-
the great Indus is seen to the North-East. extranded
ever a sandy bed born two and an half to dime
les in extents awl diiisted by the undulations of
that hell into numberless smaller streams. This• as-
pect it (-minims s to isetwirve, within a mile of
Cm' fort of .14w. where. just as it receives the wa
tern of the Cahul river, it i cowries-4- rt into one
compact and fathomless torrent. -..rfiti yards in wids h.
and gu-h;ng Iwtwatm high and abeart banks of
dark-e ey schisins. turinotintsd by lofty hulk or
rocks of dm same composition.
• The forinrs• of Attoc was built by the Eraperor
A kbsr, as • harrier agani‘t the inewsions of the
At:l4mm. it is of an irregular. oblong shape. about
half a mule in I. ...en by a Mustier of a mile in
luu with ; and is situme.l nu the face of a mugs-slaw, •
eventire hull. wish its liars ow extremity !no-jet-thug
he
towards the buss. A bastion. 35 fret to height.
'fonus the southern and most peamineut tingle. and
' the too of thislission. during the high floods. is
wa4sed by the waters of the river. The garrison of
this stronghold. whew visited by the Embassy. con-
sisted of no more thaws one solitary horseman and
33 foot-soldier*. The Irmo of Attoc is situatedirti-
asodistrely below the fort :---it is very small. and
principally inhabited by boatmen and their
All the houses iti the fort nf Attoe are bond-proof
and it is considered by the people of the country as
a plate ef great consequence. 110111 the cireuiu-
stauk-e of as Ile Mr baring been attacked. they safer,
that it thug be impregnable. In troth, however, it
is ti piste quite intlitable of resisting any thing like
a tostri'ar attack ; and only formidable against the
toper:moos of an Asiatic power.
The - about Attoc it

erownunl by sit

_ ce r 41 1111•044.•
air nuitgeo or tatty halo, eateAing tar alai wale, to
vie •out's and west, on both tilde e the Indus;

Fro n Attn... up to the fountain-head, Ow rtver
bears the ;tame of Ain "kin. or Parent River. At
.4Attoc. it assunio,t the name or the plat?: as it does
alAo a:za n at Neel:4!). an one;ent town, about %M.% ell
riles below Anne. It preuves tlw same cliwTi, mic-
ro*. rapid fonts, through a tract of do ftliteb, until
it reaches Kalil-Baugh, where it again divides, and
spreads its fnietifFinjt strewas over all t'* adjacent
pla us. The Indus. bre.iking MRK the hue rock.

at Atter, produres a sound %ke the ro.ri.itt of the
ot.P.n; and the large quailorly ,of .jory sparkling
rot►tinusitl►• swept clown by. the torrent,
Imparts au uniformly turbid appearance to tts
water*

On Ow Af;han rile of the river. ^ProAitr to
hUor Clem Amnia ft small ;hum,- or fn: t. e..lled
itlleyn;baci. It w.e. built by :Nadir shah, as a
dl -
fenee we,..inst the Ilintionst inners.
• %% Awn the Esni,,,ly orrivoi at r.e'hirt, they
found only 116-11ve otturbed to toe 1.1,2, .0
that two rotirP (14,.91 *Pre CnIIMIIMP4 io
bnggile t's.• triprrstte side. At turn, t*.a.
KiDdler of Alto.. Attested some sit tnA of je4.
lowly : and tl7. t ()al" and teig4..pr were eon.

- -.•- -
• By the departure of Surgeoit Wilson to Europe,
the appointment of Superintending Surgeon to the
Noun Subeidiary Force. being vacant, the flint.
the Governor in Council is pleased to appoint Sur-
geou Benjamin Philipps to that situation, from the
49111 of last month. Atio. 4. 1810.
The Goternor in Council has bad the satisfac-
tion to receive a comumuication from Lieut.-Cal.
Walker, of the reduction of the Fut t of Mallon in
the province of Kettywar, by storm, on the 7th of
this month. •
The storming party was compo.ed of a detach- -
ment of lai rank and file, front the ed battalion of
ills Majesty's Stith regiment, and 46 rank and file
(ruin the remain* of the Bombay European
went. with their proportion of commissioned and
ison-ct ininisaiimed officers, of the dank companies
of the greuatlier battalion. and of the lit of the 6th,
r completed to 100 rank and tile each, leading the
attack ; followed by the rensuitider of the grenadier
battalion, completed to 400 rank and tile, from the
Ist tomb )))) , 6th regiment. •
The advanced rally, consisting of ei_Europeans,
was commanded by Captain Lieutenant Join,
Mackenzie, of the Bombay European regiment, and
Lieutenant Nee man, of His Majesty's slith rcgia
merit. oho comintutlehly eoluisteered their tier-
viees.for the fusion hope.
The Storming pay was commanded by Major
Dein* Mahuny, of the grenadier battalion. .
Vic Fort rd. Mollie, though within the tributary
tfeiwittleucies of our ally, the Guycowar, hurl yet
athatled range and protection to u pOwerful set of
latirsditti, who hail long infested the country ; and
bud, for a century, successfully opposed the utmost
efforts of the native minks that had beets employed.
to reduce its Chieftain to obedience. The fortifi-
cations are stroug, and the enemy, aware of the
approach of stir troops, and obstinately bent nu the
most determined resistance, had aetaired the foot
of the calm be a strung eruhanktneut, thrown up,
•coishoctis.alisl earth.
-Tire force. under the command of Lientenant-Co-
lone! Walker, arrived before Mallia on the morning
of the 7th, after a lone and fatiguing march. liar-
log suottnoned the fort without effect, and the gar-
rison having pertinaciously and rauntinely resisted
every attempt to obtaio peaceable possession of the
place, the gulls opened their fire at day-light on the,
morsiing of the 1111, the breach ails reported practi-
cable by three sicirsok ; the storming party, under
the able drispeeitioe triode for the moduli, moved off
a little *before four o'clock, alien the forloin hope
rushed on, headed by Captain Mackenzie, who was
the first.person that wended the breach, and pass-
ed isito the town ; he was gall intly supported by
Li. uteuatit Newman, of His Majesty's 36th Regi-
ment, and by the remainder of the party; which
placed aloe Mitt-It force in poasenion of the greater
pectio4l OftllC Wail, ill less than three quarters of an
hour after enuring the breach.
The severest part of the duty remained, how-
ever, yet to be performed, us the detainment ad-
varie4.l, resistance became inure determined ; the
enemy retreated to thermierfurr, which ass st
ly sectored. laud inaccossible to all assault the guns
were brought up, and the fire again opened ; hut
the evening being too far advanced. to admit of a
complete disludgmeht being effected before its
. close, all further operations ceased; and the storm-
ing party maintained possession of the works, and
.of the town, during the night ; in the course of
which, however, the enemy evacuated the place, by
• sally-port. leaving a few of their troops in the
fort to keep up an occasional fire; and at an early
Amnon the moruitigofthe 911,, the fort of Mallia was
completely occupied by the British Detachment.
los thus narrating the circumstances that attended
the reduction' of the fort of Mania; the Governor
in Council affords the inostestisfactory testimony to
the *hie dispositions that bad been plathiSiey that
judicious and experienced Officer, Lient.-Colonel
Walker ;--aied. to the promptitude, vigour, sad
h y, by which that idea was carried into effect,
by the pliant detachment seder that Officer's com-
mand ; which has added another conspicuous ex-
dolt to the ter have air •tle 'often

ploit hose that hare already - .utingoidt-
ed the seal and intrepidity of the Bombay army.
The fort of Mafia having beta esteemed u im-

pregnahle by the numermis Clieftains dispersed
throughout the province of Kattywar, its early re-
daction, and the cool awl steady valour by which it
was carried, fillerl the several N *keels of the differ-
ent Chieftains, who were in attendance on Lieut.-
Colonel Walker. and witnessed this military spec..
tack. with astonishment and admiration ; and have
afforikd thews a presider the irresistible effects of
Bntish discipline ■nd prowess. that csinnet lail to

operate the molt benetiehil constipmeaces irs.sibe 41MP'
irlietirtinl Or 00 rude sod unciiihred • tract of
(-sanity. end still tile greater part of the Periesula
of Ger-nit.
Tie Commending Officer of the forces will be

pl.ssed to communrcate to the I.tert.-Colustel in
command of this force, and to the Officers and men
of Hos Majesty's and the lion. Compauy's fierce"
employed ors the redaction of 111. ilia, the hill' sense
entertained by Government. or their professional
skill and gallantry in the !eduction of th.s import-
ant fortress; omit. in latrti,olitr, of llie orderly
conduct and humanity by ore troops in
its occupation.'
The deep reshot which the Governor in Council
•

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"
isixfoortly conducted up the •vt.ep. b; s very liar- 1 feels for tis e coma It' yes that_hase air. ureter] on this
run and enlisted pathos" Ow.
niter skirtini: w outer will! of 1 ocession, 1.1 enhanced by (be circuinstatices uuder
to l e fort. 'he Mahe took Ht. their gemml on ti c a lii. li the death of Capt. 111'Keiiiie and of Cri,u.
eatitiwn bank, at the • fOot Of 4 hill, two mil! s •ihove i W.lkinson is to be deplored; having surmounted
Attoc. Theft they Milted for the spine of t.. 4% ! the dangers mid difficulties of au assault, those
days ; esposed all the time to a scorching anal, i gallant Officers died, without a *Dual, from the
which blew night and ii!sy„ anxlsont intermission, extreirve 4.itigne and violence of their exertions in
from the East and tionth, 'sod am so I extreme- the rullreP Of an uncomustin!y sultry and elves-me
ly oppressive, that liardly any 9f the party hod ! . day.--These lamented casualties prose the 'urinous
1110 boar's rep( se during flee,. stay. This livat i miture of the enterprise, and exhibit the 'persever-
dattinueil. tlionah not with the same inn nig- I once and writs of the troops iu the most forcible
ix, until they retielied thi-r ground. 'lithe plain of I light.
I
(r 'r--wiz Abdul, wi•e... the% were at length relieved The Honourable the Cu.verlior in Council hat-
*--”ig sl MVO'. fdllio.%ett by a 11.4 glitenlly ing melted, s ith satisfaction and ssuip.ll.,. the
The.. r ramp at Husain Abdul. was orders issued L iplitencit-Co.outl. Walk.,, on

news Abdal,
Iry a tersaaliini
Ow{ besege.