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7MM LIST MGM'S GAZETTE.

hitehall, Of vos.
The following inttlligencc ha been received at the Eat
India 110 USS:

Wiliam Limey, E•q.lcc. he &c.
SIR—I am dimred by the Hon. the Governor in Council,
to request that you will be pleased to lay before the Ho•
noerab'e the Court of Dire..ters, the accempaiiving Calcutta
Gazette. Extraordinary, dated the 2M April, and tins moment
received. I have the honour to he, tr. .
(Signe.l) F WARDEN, Sec. to Gov.
Bombay Castle, May 16, Igos.
CALCUTT GAZETTE EXTRAORT)INART.
Fort Wiliam, Aorii 23, 1803.
The follm►ing Heads of I.Telligence, compiled fmm offir.al Jii I
autiie.inc I) .C.lllll,'ltt4, received by H • F.acellency the %1•.
Node the Goverilor-G,,neral, from WA Excellelicy .n••
Right Tfoorturahle the Coilimaiwte.-iii-Chief, are published
for general Information!

Major-General Smith, with a thear'wnent of Cavalry under
his command, having effefted the ex puleturi of Miter Khan fl 001
inliikund mid the ',bah, rejoined the army of the Right 110 •
Pourable th,r Commander-in-Chief. before ft hurtpuie,on eh,. 2:.ki
March. Meer Rlyin having re-crossed the imams, had arrived
at Futtypore Seekree, two days before General Smiths an Iva!
at Bliiirtpore. *flare Chieftain had been abandoned by lug
troops, with the exception of a snail body of cavalry. The
whole of his itifantiy and artil-eri quitted his service ab:iut the
period of his Mcursim lutri the Thials, 4114 have since been em-
ployed by other Chiefs tins. M-er Khan himself is gone nff in
search of employment, attended only by a few hundred pref.!,
tory horse
On the 29th of Mach, his Excellent!! the Right Honour
able the Commander-tin-Chief, witn a column of wary undtr
his laordship's personal command, and a column of infantry,
under Lieut.-Coloriel Don, marched at two o'clock in the
100411ilig :iurprke the cavalry of JB4O WO R3O Holkar, which
was encamped at the distance of a few cow from 11111.rtpee.
The apereloinsion of being surprised, had iuduced the enemy
• INIC4IIIO tit seeeral separate divi,ions, and tine operations of
the British troops were directed against two ref his principal en-
campments. His Lordahip, with the cavalry, took a Ci:CUlt.
MIS direction to 'he right, under the hills; whilst Limit -Col
Don, with the infantry, proceeded to the lett, by the direct
deed to the posiiion if the enemy. The enemy having cc.
velvet] SOIOIIII4tIOII (1003 hi. threarrahs of the approach of the
'British troops, was prepared for flight when Lord Lake reached
his cairn,. The enemy, however, sutfoed some loss in his re-
arm from the fire of tire column of infantry, and notwithstand-
ing the rapidity of hit flight, a chaig.! w ejected by the Britian
Cavalry, in which about two hundred of the enemy were de-
'Pored. A q Jaunty of baggage arid cattle, consisting chiefly
Mahout fifty camels, one hundred horsm, two elephants, and
twenty heclieness was captured be the British troops_ L•rd
Lake, aster pursuing the enemy to a considerable distance, re-
turned to amp at eleven o'clock in the same morning.
On the Ist of April, Lord Lake received intelligence that
.7estruot Rao Holkar having retired to a greater distance from
the'Britsli army, had assembled tit: greater part Of 103 troops
sad baggage at a prration eight miss from Bfiurtpore, in the
direction of Furtypore. Lord Lake, in the expeetation that
the vigtlame of the enemy would be diminished io collec-
tivistic+ of the distance to which he had reninved, determined
to attempt to surprise hate camp. Hit Ler‘lship accordingly
parch •d at ism o'clock on the morning of the 2d of April,
With the whole of the cavalry, the horse artillery, and the re-
Were of tie army, and arrived tu the neighbourhood of ies.
wunt Ran Holkar'e camp, before the diwn of day ; Jeserutit
RIO Holkar had received intelligence of Lord Lake's approach
about two harm before his Lerdship had reached the vicinity of
lies camp, and had sent off a part et hi, baggage. The enemy
was ?maid round a hi in village, with ho front covered by cid.
tivated fieids, surroodied by high irieloauies It was still dark,
but the fires of the enemy enabled Lord Lake to make his
disposition for the r,ttrck without waiting for daylight.
The cavalry, formed in tr..° lines, moved round to the right,
whilst the reserve and the horee,anillery,under Limit -Ciil.Den,
was ordered hi gain the left of the village with as much expedi.
time 84 possible. The cavalry advanced at a trot, and when Sr.
erred within a Molt distwice sal the enemy, the right squadrons
of each regiment in Use first line were ordered to charge, sop-
relay the remaining squadrons, ani by the second line.—
ne,ny, on seeing the advisees of the British troop', made
every poesilde exeision to escape, but was charged with success
in various direilions, and suifered great loss. The British ca.
'airy continued the pursuit SO a very eonsiderabk
Lid did not desist until the enemy was entirely dispersed. The
enemy is said to have curt upwards of tree thou aid 'nee on
this occasion.

Upon the return of Lord Lake to camp, a tidy of infantry
with colours was observed moving in the direHion of the
Jangle which surrounds the town of Bhunpore. This body of
Infantry eras immediate'y charged by a squadron of flu Ma
jetty's 4th Dragoons, under Colonel Vandeleur. Upon the up.
preach of the squadron, and after a few of the enemy had ken
ant down, the remainder threw dun their wins, and were
eta& prisoners. The colours of this corps were captured, and
it proved to he a body of Meer Khatiii inifintry, which, havioe
quitted that Cuief, was proceeding to olio its tervitedi to Run-
beet Slog.
Lord Lake returned to camp at one p.m. after a march, in-
ducting the pursuit of the enemy, of upwards of fifty milts.
A detachrneet composed of the Ist battalion of the fitt,
Native Regiment, six companies of the 2 Oh Native Regiment,
one tantalum of irregular infantry, and the Agra irregular horse,
the whole eoniirnanited by Captain Rosie, mass hid from, Agra
on the lifith or March, to dislodge Hernaut, the Chetah of
lest:out Rao Holkar, who with the remains of Hulkar's in-
fantry and guns, and a body or Nether', cavalry, under Sa-
voie*, had occupied a position between ignore and Dholpore.
Captain Royle's detachment, after a march of twelve tins,
carne up with the cavalry of the eitemy tinder Eapooise, on the
51A of March, and succeeded in completely defeating this corps.
On the 611, of April, Captain Ruyle received information, that
the ptinci,4l buds cal the enemy, of which he was m porton,
bad tab en up a strong position, under the walls of the lon tified
town of Matelot-Mugger. This body of the enemy censi,ted
of between, three and four thousand teen, cavalry and inanity,
and three guru. Captain Royle arrived at Mawlut Nugget, at
eight o'clock, on the mailing of the 7th of April, and found
the enemy advantageously potted, haying the fart of it diwiut-
Nugget in hi- rear, and Iris front and flasks covered bf thicker
ravines, occupied by troops
Captain Rolle, with great spirit and judgment, immediately
formed his detachment fur the attack, and advancing under a
very heavy and well-dire/led fire from the enemy's artillery, awl
from his troops stationed in the teenier, eonipellei the enemy
to attendee beguile, and to retreat with the loss of all his artil-
lery and baggage. The Agra Horse, under Colonel Pohlman,
pursued the fugitives to the di-tanee of five cues from Adawlut-
Nueger, and killed great numbers of the m. On this occasion
were also captured upwards of twenty 'mode of colours, and a
great number of mosquets, of European manukflure, match-
locks, spikes, &c. he. The condo& of the troops in this &Ilion
was highly exemplary, and especially that of the newly-raised
battalions of tl.e 24th mid Y9ets Regiments of Native Infantry,
whrh had not been embodied for more than a period of nve
Months. . _ _

Nis I...xce!lency the Right Honourable the Commaniler-in.
Chief haring completed hia arrangements for the re-commence-
meat of operations against the town of Ithurtpore, changed the
ground of his enca in pirent liefore Shunpore on the oth "(April,
•11.1 took vp hit 111+1 pantile° for the attack. The reduced...in-
dium, of Jiawunt Rao Holkais power, and the manifen
of continuing to afford support to the declining (attune of
that Chet sot, witted to the preparations for the attack of Short-
pore, had previously induci d Rajah Ruujeet Sing to sue for
peace on the 2bth February, and to o.fer terms, which, after
some ucgo :imam', were, with certain molihcations, acceptad by
Lord Lake, under the authority of the Governor-General. An
agreement wail accorti gly formad on the 10th A mil, by which
it Wilft Sine his c.sted vette Honourable Company the fortune
011) wp, and has ieet,wed all the Di,trwts which were conic red
npun Itlin by the brit,sh (ioreinusent after the tionclution et
peace wit:. I)nwlut Ran Scindiali. Ruibeet Sing hae al:o en-
gaged to pay the sum of twenty fails of rupee, to the Conii:a-
ny ; of this sum, three lacks of rupees are to et peed minis-
diately, and lie remainder by instalments, at stated periods.
The son of R unjerl Song was d ii‘tved up to Lord Lake the
I ltit A;c.l, a. au Hostage for this due performance of these on-

igagentents.
.C. 4. 11,!aws, of the liarnhar Earatiiihment, with a aqa..
IYable CM,..41 of iwne,m.rns and 4tnr,.• fr-n 1 thiatut, a!1.1 trea-
au.' to a ►arge aal ,u, t, fot the ULU of the liontbly Aral,
Ikaai..r4;;;Sa•Cal aa.I7CUS4 illt• CUSP 6111 W. IStilu:kocne 400

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