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DIsPATCtiON Prto4 iNtltit&

thaii tfos'rd, JUN, 5. 19.
I:34o4fcises Fume litre received At the 49.1
iinsee, frotn Ike srvend G sverlltheists m India, ur
which &patches mod ruclusurro Ills fuliowing are
Nowt. and

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Hairnet kit& a di.palei tithes the aubernor-lleiteral In she
!keret Commiltre, &led Hochsr, mear gosearii 3Yth De:
remitter, IR 17.
Untoward eiremmtraosreis. elliefiy inimitable to intention-
ally delsadve inti•llimrsite, cefentril the hope of noshing an
impressive ea ample of she Pandora's, when dory were me-m.lh
sairriiisode.l by Hie diviiidiss of M sier/l 31arsholl,
Itlejim-Gmieral Dunkin, add Lieutenant-Cue.Hod Adana.. or
the Hoiali boundary. I think, however. rode HoHourahle
C.ontemittee will be of uposion, that Hie direction elves h. she
peerral CAI4IIIIIIB was properly adapted tu elreet 1119
As it is, we hive Nearly destroyed the assnesalion. litirreens
Kl4llllll and Woad Sloloodied, by deserting their fintilies used
the great proportion of their troops, have Fiseaped rm. the
present wish, ot Oar utmost, three ilbrufand 40f their held
isioamited fulloweoi Nminbers of Mese, yr bobs they abandon-
ed, have bees. cut of iN detail, and mossy inure will perish in
that manner, while the baeraime and wioneu have fallen into
our hiands The latter hive exproi-ored every humane
aSeri.lo, who Ind, front the outset of their 8.60,
lakes. • deferred course to she westward wish his Duna's, is
at • shun distance beyond Ike Claimant', nod, disappoisted
of reception by Mery Khali, appears petplesed how to set.
I have ransom du believe that his anew have been daily gni..
lialg kids to s tarp invent, from the hopelonmens of their
prospects.

General Orders, by his Excellency the Goverwor.General,
tided Camp Sonarie, Dectinher 17, 1817, eticlooirol is •
inter from Mr. LaMantia Secretary to the Viee-Presi.
drat is Coined, at Fort William, dated 7th January, 1818 i
to Mr. Cobb, Secretary to the Bligi India Company.
The Goverwor-General experietmes the most livrly antis.
faction in annooneing the retire defeat of the roomy by lbe
British troops at Nagpore, by which thry were attacked
without any previous declaration of Isrstilitirs, ur the
slightest act of aggression us the part of our Government
or traps.
The conduct of the Rajah having afforded decided indi-
cations of as hostile design, the brigade of British troops,
cunsisting of two weak hotshots. • of Madras native is•
&airy, and three troops of the 6th regiment of native ca.
entry, the whole amounting to a more than 1,800 Rini.*
men, look post at the Residency on the 86th or November,
and during that and the following day occupied them.
selves in strengthening their position. oii the eventing of
the Sidi they were attacked by the enemy, with a fora
computed at upwards of 80,000 men, who availed them
at all points with cavalry, infantry, and artillery. The active
lasted eighteen hours, and the repeated charges of the enemy
were austaised with the greatest gallantry and persevetance
by our troops, who succeeded, after • most desperate contest,
is completely repulsing and defeating the enemy with greet
emptoritig eight or their guns. Captain Fitzgerald, of
the 6th Bengal Native Cavalry, is reported as having par.
titularly distinguished himself in a most spirited charge
against the enemy's cavalry, in which he captured fuurwf
their gene, and immediately hinted them against the enemy
with great sod decisive effect. At this period the enemy
appeared to be throws into confusion by the blowing up of
• Tumbril. The advantageous 11101111111 was ally seised—
our troops charged end broke through the enemy and par.
sued their seeress, until the fortune of the day was rum.
pleiely decided in Ilse f Our loss was cousiderable,
but the amount has not been cagily ascertained. After the
allow the Rajah sent in %Arida to sae fir • sospcsisiont of
hostilities, but the Resident, Mr. Jenkins, refused to rum.
sansieate with him until all the troops were withdraw.) (rum
the vicinity or the Residency, which was areorilisigly dome.
Iteirforeemests are ou their march to Pinyon. (sum Several
quarters, sad a considerable British force will shortly be
assembled there. His &military the Commanittr.ia-Chief
is requested to direct a royal salute to be And from Iles
Artillery Paris,—By mammal 'of his Escrllesey the Gm
wersoe.Geoeral, J. ADAM,
Secretary to Ilse Guircruor-Gessral.

Extract hem a Dispatch from Mr. Starchey, &rectory to tM
Governer in Council at Madras, to Mr. Cobh, Secretory to
the East India Company, dated Jaunary 10, 1919.
I em directed to transmit to you • copy of a dispatch
from, the British Resident at Nagpore, containing the d. lamb
of the action which terminated in the nylon of the Rajah's
gees.
N. S A copy of the dispatch from Brigadier General Dove-
tails, dated as Nagpore, the let b Drerembf r, 11117, containing
the &tails of the action above alluded so, was published sit
the Gesell* of Sheilah May, ISIS.
Extract hum • Dispatch from Mr. Lashington, Acting Se.
artery In the Governnsent at Fort William, to Mr. Cobb,
Secretary to the East India Company, dated Ifih Jas.
ISIS, with two enclosures.
By direction of the Vito-President in Council, I have lb*
hnr•mr to traissmit to yue, fir she i•furwtat' of she Hos.
the Court of Directors. t►r aceonip.inyinit copy of a ditpatrls
this day entire,' from the Secretary to she Goveruor.Ge.
weal, dated she Slit ultimo ; euntaiiiing his Ezrelleory Sir
Thomas Histup's *Aral r. port of she fossil deli sl cud dia.
p►raioa, on she Slat of the army of Mother Row
/Litter, by the British troops, Nader the persist's' coaliataud
of his Excellency.

Copp al a Dispatch front Mr. Adam, Secretary to the Go.
versow.Gemeral, to Mr. Lashingtun, dated Camp Doctor,
Slat December, 1817

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Alt-1 heirs received the commando of the Go vernor-oe.
neml to request you will lay before the Hon. Hie Vice-Pron.
deal in Clawed, the euelusrd copy of a dispatch from his
Eneelimey Liest.-General Sir Thrums Hideo', reporting the
details of victory achieved by the semy seder his Kneel.
lesey's personal ensistand over the way of Mather Kow
Milker, ea the VW of this mouth. of Alabeidpure, near
Owens. The Goversor.Geseral hes already had she Wooer
et cusiveyies to the Hoousrahle tbeVienPresident in Coon.
cil, the lest imotileatios received of this brilliant sod ins.
portent ~et, sod h a Lordship is moored ghat the perusal
of the details maw traesasinsd will create is Ibe beast of
the Honourable Vice. President is Conseil senlinieuto of
adneirstioss soil applause fur Ihr heroism of she olScers and
troops wowed is ibis memorable action, sot less «squall-
led mid csodial thus those which have bees recited is his
usrs..—l have the homier to be,
J. ADA 31, Secretary to the Goortoor-doloorol.

Cagy ea Report from Lieeteasat•Geaeral Sir Thomas His.
M►, Sort. to the Governor.Oeneral and Commaader•in.
Chief, dated ramp on the Booms (opposite blalseidpme),
?LI Deceinehee, 11117.
Loan—ls, my dispatch to your Lordship of the 13th
Instant, from Ofireie, I had the honour to report the junc.
ties on the preeediar day of the third division, with that
ander my prisms& einsionud, and the then uncertain stale
of our isegmeistions with the government of Mather Rae
Hollw. In my subsequent address to your Lordship, of
the 15th instant, from Nen Veber, I described the further
progress of they arrangronento; and, I now be to refer you
for all she details emsoected wish the origin, progress, mid
ultimate failure of the overtures in lairstiuu, to the courts.
poodesee of Brigadier•Geseial gir John Malcolm, year
Lordship's political agent, at sty head.quniters. which he
has regularly maintained, since their cummensesnent wit►
Mr. teeretary Adam, as also to his Sisal report thereon,
stating the tem:suasion of every promo et of amiable ad.
juatisient. Thus 'misled, there appeared ins alternative left
to me for the vindication of the Wooer of the Bratirh Go.
vernment, sod of your Lordship, tilos that which I deter.
mord upon, and which was instantly followed sip by the
attack of Hollow's army in the positioo it occupied, and sit
which event I had the gall. fortion of apprising your Loid.
photo, ow the menial of the !Ist instant, by a few lines
from the field of battle. Ole the Stith instant, I inured to
within seven miles of tie army of Mulhar Ran Haiku,