The National Register.
London, England, 1821-11-19 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

HAGUE, Not. Taels Van Amer-1
ongtn, Aide-dc-Camp to the Governor-General of .1
the East. India possessions, and Lieut. Koopman, al
the navy, arrived here yesterday with the intelli-1
gence of the successful issue of the second expedition
against the rebellious Sultan of Patternlran, which
was of so much importance to the maintenance of
the Dutch authority in India.
On the 25th of June, Gen. de Kock, to whom the
chief command of the expedition was confined, made
himself master, after an obstinate resistance, of the
works in the river, which impeded the approach to
the town. The General states, in his despatches of
The 28th ofJune, that on the 26th he cast anchor
befbre the town, and that the Sultan Badr al deen,
seeing no means of resistance, declared himself ready
to give up the government to his brother, who was
on board the Dutch fleet, and to surrender himself,
on the assurance that his life would be spared. The
General therefore hoped that he should soon be able
to send the Sultan and his family to Batavia on
board the Dagerand frigate.

The General bestows the highest encomiums on
the bravery and perseverance of the soldiers and
se.tmLn.

[he enemy had his chief force in the river near
the island of Gumbori. in the mouth of the river
Pladjoe, on a low and te.arshy spot of ground. A
large battery was erected on the island. Between
that and the right bank were two floating batteries,
and on the bank four batterie:t, one behind the other,
the largest of which was at the mouth of the Pladjoe.
These works were defended by 126 pieces of artillery,
which, as the event showed, the enemy knew very
well how to manage The two banks were also
defended by a double palisade, under the command of
the gnus, and heitind the palisade were armed boats.
—lt appe...red therefore not adviseable to attack the
enemy's works by land.
The first attack was on the 20th of June. At

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daybreak the ships of war took the stations assigned
to them. The cannonade was extremely violent on
both aides. In the forenoon the fire from Gombora
began to abate; one of the gun-boats had already
penetrated through the palisade into the great river,
and the General had already given orders to Lieut.
Col. Kier to make an attack with 300 in boats on
the last-mentioned battery, when ut:fortunately the
cables of some of the ships of war were shot away,
so that they drifted with the stream. This accident
exposed the Vanket ;veil alone to the enemy's fire,
and as this vessel had already GO men killed and
wounord, and several of her gun-boats were dis-
mounted, the General thought it adviseable to sus-
pend the attack.

The second attack was made on the 24th of June.
Before day-break the ships of war took their positions
under a heavy fire from the enemy. At five o'clock
the ships returned the enemy's fire; and at six the
fire from the island began to abate. Col. Ilisehof
made a successfid attempt to penetrate with his
troops in bouts through the palisade, along the left
bank towards the island ; the battery was taken,
and the flag of the Netherlands hoisted on the ene-
my's works.
An attempt to attack the great battery in front
was judged not to be adviseable, and the troops woe
therefore collected on the side of the island in order
to cross the river behind it, and turn the batteries on
the right. Meantime the Ajas and Votus had
overpowered the floating batteries, which were taken
possession of by Lieut. Van den Ende, and after-
wards burnt. At nine o'clock the troops under Col.
Bischoff' began to cross the river. At half-past 11
Lieut. Lunge of the navy, placed our colours on the
hindmost battery. The second and third were
quickly abandoned by the enemy, who endeavoured
to maintain himself in the first and largest ; but the
troops under Lieutenants Wagener and Van Sty rum
carried it by assault, and made themselves masters of
this last and important position.
Here tidlows the names of the officers who dis-
tinguished themselves, and the statement of the
killed and wounded.] The loss in the first action
was—Killed 46, wounded 27. In the second action
—Killed -29, wounded 140. Total (killed) 75;
total (wounded) 237.
BATAVIA, JULY 21.—The conquest of Palem-
bang has been announced by a salute of 101 guns.
The chukra morbus still rages dreadfully at Ban-
lam, the out-districts of Sourabaya and Passarouang.
At Banlam, about 100 persons die daily: in the two
other placess above 170. The number of deaths at
Batavia, in consequence of this disorder, does not
exceed five daily.
Among them the Vanherwrif alone had 17 killed
and 63 wounded.

To-day the guns have been fired on account of this
joyful victory.
HAGUE, Nov. B.—A private letter from Batavia
of the 26th of July states that the cholera morbus
was abating, and it was hoped that its ravages would
soon cease.