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In a Dispatch to the Governor-C.;e :lent, dated
head-quartets at Delhi, Oftolser 19th, General Lake
transmits the account of the transaißions of the siege
of Delhi by tlollcar, which he had received from
Lientenant•Colonel Ochterlony, the Adis% Resident

there.
Colonel Ochterlony gates, ,` that on the first ap-
proach of the enemy towards Koosial Gurh. and
the possibility of his direfliae, his route to this city.
I judged it :advisable to call Col. Burn from Saha-
ranpnre, the battalion, late Dowlut Rao's, under
Capt. Harriot, from Rotuck, and a battalion of
Najeebs, under Lieutenant Birch. from Pasiaiput.
To this force were added about two hundred Na-
jeebs, under Lieutenant-Colonel Scott, three hundred
under a native named Khajah Hussein, two hun-
dred under another called Mogul Beg, and some-
thing :shove two hundred belonging to the weal Po-
lice and Custom Establishment, making in all about
twelve hundred matchlock-men, besides the regular
corps above enumerated, and four ca.mpanies. duty
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strength of the 17th regiment."
He then goes on to mention the wretched defence-
less state of the decayed walls of Delhi, 'a hick on the
spar of the occasion were a little repaired, and a few
of the parapets fitted for the reception of cannon.
This work was carried on under the direaion of
Captain Skirving end Lieutenant Goodall.
On the first approach of the enemy on the 7th, a
detachment of irregular cavalry. under Lieutenant
Hunter, of the 24 battalion, 4th regiment, ACCOSI•
panied by Captain Carnegie and Lieutenant Rose,
moved out to reconnoitre, but this corps had been
ill atfeacti, and refused to aft against the enemy,
and most of them went over. Three hundred Ma-
vatties, who had been stati°'ed in the old fort, re-
fused to withdraw with Captain Manuel, and joined
the enemy. Indeed the irregular cavalry seem to
have been totally disaffeEled, and most of them,
afterwards, when direfted to cross the Jumna to
procure supplies, refused to obey, and mostly dis-
persed. or joined the enemy.
On the Bth, the enemy cannonaded the city wall,
and made some trenches, which were repaired as
well as possible during the night. A sortie was re-
solved upon on the 9th, and Lieutenant Hunter vo-
lunteered his services, but it did not take place till
the 10th, when a party of 200 men from the 2d
battalion, 14th regiment. accompanied by Lieute-
nants Evans, Heathcoze, Locket, and 150 men from
Captain Harriot's corps, under Captain Carnegie
and Lieutenant Woodville, with a reserve of fifty
men and a sir pounder. under Lieutenant Dickson,
moved out under the command of Lieutenant Rose.
They succeeded in doing a great deal of injury to
the enemy, whose beaten corps were mistaken for
ours, and fired on by their friends, so that they
must have suffered very much.
On the 14th, the ene:ny's guns opened io every
direaion; and, under cover of this, a large body of
infantry, preceded by ladders, mad an assault at.
and near the Lahore Gate, but were repulsed with
loss.
Lieutenant Simpson, of the 2d battalion, 17th re-
giment, vas killed by a cannon shot at the Agimere
Gate, where he commanded. On the 15th. it was
fowl that the enemy had retreated, and a party WaS
detached to cut off any guns or baggage that might
be in the rear.
The duty during the siege was very severe, but
both men and Officers discharged their duty with
the otmost courage, alacrity, and zeal.
Colonel Scott, Resident at Delhi, died at Agra, of
a severe and lingering illness, on the nit of Sep-
tember ; Lieutenant-Colonel Ochterlony has been

in his room.

The Calcutta Gazette Extraardi,airy of the 10th of
November, contains an account from Lieut.-Colonel
Wallace, of the 19th dragoons, dated Camp before
Chandore, 10-h OEtober, of his march towards that
place, the capture of a small gurty in the village of
Undersool, in which there was a garrison of Hol-
tar's, he having, on the Bth, detached a battalion
with two 2-pounders against the small Fort of
Laussoolgaum, in which there was a garrison of
Halkar's. Some success was experienced ; but a
desperate resistance being made by the enemy, and
Captain Prowne, the Commander, being killed, the
detachment took post in the Pettah. A reinforce-
ment under Major Symons was sent during the
night, and the place was stormed on the 9th with
complete success. Lieutenant Purvis, of the Ma-
dr:s Artillery, likewise fell on this occasion.
In a Letter of the 12th Oftoher, Lieutenant-Co-
lonel Wallace announces the surrender of Chan-
dore by capitulation. Chandoe commands one of
the best passes in the range of hills on which it
stands to Canderish. It is naturally very %motor.
ABSTRACT.
Europeans, 3 killed, 13 wounded—Natiy
wounded.—Cotal, 9 killed, 37 wounilod.
OFTICRIS Kit.LED.
Captain John Browne, 2d battalion 7th regiment; sod Lieu-
tesant Tunis, Ist 1r-stealing' of Artillery.
OFTICCRS WOVNDEO.
Lieuteaant Pea', 2d battalion 7th regiment.
(Sigiied) J. COLEVIROOKF,
Camp before Chandore, Dep. Adjt Geal. Nig. Sub. Ferze
08oher 10, MC

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CALCUTTA GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.
FRIDAY, NOY RR SIR 13, 1104.

roar wit trust, Nov. 23, 1804.
His Excellency the Most Noble the Governer
General has teceived a dispatch from his Excellency
the Commander in Chief, diced Dapper, 9th No-
vember, IEIO4, of which the folksving copy is puh-
lithed for general information :
TO HIS TiCet.t.ettCY Tilt ?.1011T leollf.ll 11AeQUiS
Vi'LLIVILZT, GOVP.Rte (notelet. &C. &C.
MY LORD.-1 have the honour to or,pirt to your Lnis.:Cltp
my arrival at this pl.iri., the totighlanioin .1 nf.bieh the ~,,e
my quitted in the course of the night. He did ism sttenipt
any amuck on the lowa, in *inch were two coar,ianie. of
Captain Criittenden's Piovincial Battalion, and ono of the bit.
taliirile formerly in Seindiali's service, undo rapt. Harnott•
Jessunt Rao Ilolkar has moved in the Airatlion of Coeirja,
and it arenas to be the gegenl ocenlon in the country, that he
means to wrest the Jumiia in the neigAbnurhood ,A Mow,' ,
should he however eoittinite in the I.)qab, 1 •,•allhang •e tune
upon his teat se to rrvent the posithildy of his vtop:Ang at
any pia,. o sufficient length of tune to plunder it with.,ut til-
ing alienglierment with nty C. Airy.
1 have Ilia IMMO to be, us, Loon,
Your Loreolmais man faithful h treunt, .
Head-quartos, Camp klap?or, (Sap.:lr G. LAKE:
se.. ?, life.