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Falr•rt Goan • Dispatch from the Ga►ertar in Com•rit •f
Illoothay, to the &eret Committee, dated 9th December,

11117.
We have the a•lisf:rtinn of acquainting sour Honourable
einannitter. that the district of Oulpart ha% been taken pos.
Pension of without opptitiiiini, and that the fort of Si vet.-
drougi, ohm a alight retittsaer, hag aurreisilerril without •
✓ustle casually ow our part; about SO or 90 turn have been
mule prinnierr, but the nut of Ike troop. which compost-4
the prriyou effected Unit escape under rimer of the algid.
Ire rougraisilute your Ilina. ruunnince on this twilit oi burls
will beef couriderable cunrrgnrDer, abould we be able, with

Ilie means at niir ecitualtail, to attempt an extensias of oar
in tlowthera Comas, sithest4li ysis may sent
aiNure.l that 41111, R10'111%500 will be eu"awd US Illrteust SO at.
cure wells' We 1... re acquired in dot district
The enemy 114,1 begsa to prepare their craft for the pur-
pose of attacking our trade +bids right repass the toasts.

Tetrad from a (Narita, from Mr. rphinstone to the
Governor. General, dated Camp, Rajarrarrev, Novem-
ber 1:1,
""r obtaining pi/mem:ion of Poona, correct artnante
wive silo mined of some isamitirlars which were before imper-
fectly Stoma. It appeared that the attack on our troupe
on the 511 r, was rhi, fly brought about by the presessioe of
tioklids ; slims the Peishwa souk the alarm 'Cirri" had give., the
order,
tialilesstiltatrtrhae ffninist t ire 11111bne °line:thee lien; "breitk."--1 tar,:
inessage was too late, or tattler, abet Guklah, kearisig of its
approach, astieipatell it by beginning to roust:made, Moro
Dickshut had been intrusted with the &Iles Ptstkah (the
standard of the Mahratta Enspire). and had 5,000 hurl' 'a-
ttached to hint besides hie owe 1,000; he Is however repre-
sented as haviag keen eery swerve tr, the war, and as being
greased byr;oltlah of Unripe* with 0% Itaatia wasone of those
attached to Murat Diekshat'a party, b:ing strongly suspected
of disaffection, be was compellesl to charge int, bet se-
"silted himself aide courage roll fidelity; Guklah avowed
to Appajes Lockman Aims VerrayesVackhrot,intsamliately
blfore the action, that his confidence of semi" and imps.
1, use to engage were founded in the certainty that our se.
poys would come over by companies or battalions on the
lehl.
After the affair of the 51h, the Prisliwa's army was die
ala Ted• Ili* Highness sent fiae Homelier?, she Beaker, la-
noeuted Ilse breaking oat othudilit its, and with his tumid in-
sincerity professed his wish to have reanehised at reser, anal
threw the whole biome ofthe war, both plan anal execimitm, on
his birders; un this oreasion he disavowed the lineiliug of
the Resid. lacy, and said he would be %try glad to build a
new one, fast his whole sliseminse app. ars to one to be merely
• rptcimeu of his aremetomed doable shalius, and of Lis
wish, treat in the worst of times, to keep tame some sepa-
rate ch I of Miriam. fur his owe use.
Some days after the seam, the Peishwa's of picked
up
Dente spirit, end set short circidating the 00000 st Omani
reports of their successes and of the defection of oar Allies.
They ware joined by Dberissejee Portob Kam (the free-
booter), and it is raid by the sou of Mow Revabba ,• Chea-
t:maim Row alto joiner, before their died feint Pounah.
Gobleh set sip a a bite flag as ass asylum fur all who should
desert us before a certain time, after that no perdue was to
be given to any man what bad eerved us; all the servants of
English gentkmen, who happened to live at Poona, were
booted oat by Goklab, and assay treated with great user
rity: the houses of most of them were given op to pluuder,
but none of I heM were put to death.
Some time before dm breaking out of the war, the Pebb-
les hell concerted with all the Ilbeels and Itainoosseer, and
tutor predalui y tribes in his country, to shut up Site roads
and plunder effects belongiais to es. They have readily
taned all ooler so much invited to their inelisation,aud hate
nut confissed their predacious to British property. Th. y
have, howl vet., shut sap roads; that to Bombay is raider tilt-
s...erica by the garrison of Luxor, anal by a detachment which
has taken possession of *NJ atorkaskal the Bair Glum.; nu
slacks have Leen leerier.' front lionalray glace IhC 5111 , Gen.
Smith, however, has mat a *trims detachment to opt,' that
road, and one of less ilia iigils to keep opsis Ilse C ttt I t muniea.
tion ith Alimediniegar. No more touroys have been cast
uff since the first few slays after the war ; but I ant greatly
couerrued to state that lAculcuaut Clink., of the Bombay
Emil:Meer% has Levu eat uff mar Salome Mandava, %here he
was reripluyed on survey. He had b. rat recalled, but, frusta
an over confidence in the strength of his guard lie .11.1 not
fall buck on Soy viatiou. He was attacked in the night lay
the inhabitants of Sakuor Masslava, and next ttttt riling was
surrounded by the Morels and usher adherents of Ts indwell-
ja e, who is still is. that neiglibous bowl. I.itetensiit
Canis was shut a hik cogaged wide the encauy, end his ate.
sachet:mat of a jeineslar anal twenty•five, fought their way to
a snore frenilly part of the country. !lonic cuss on this side
of Atom Bowels they were leceived, Gal, real heist off
seise by the Putted* of a village, *hum I shall tint fail to
discover soul reward. Comets Hooter and Morrison were
is Cloklah's custody ; they, ware all first is charge of Major
Pinto, who is said to have tree:teal them well, anal resisted
orders to use them with severity, Ind Infers the
Prislssea's flight they were pet in chains, and sand to Gob,
lab's fort of Censurer, in the Gotten
In consequence of the execution of Captain end Mr.
Vaughan, I hove addressed letters of remonstrance both to
the Petabwa and to Goklab; to the former I wily threatened
relalidians, its general term% for any repelitiots of such
atrocities, but to Guide& l declared I xplieslly, that any in-
alien's's:l, however C%alieli it his reek, who should ceder the
death of a British primmer, should aLlblier fur the crime in
his 'mu person.
1 omitted to state, that am the 15th General Smith sent
runt a detachment tu Saki reuse guns, wlsieb, with a body of
infantry, had gut off to the wield:um hood of the fort of
hisiglsur ; 15 gnus arra milieu sailboat any bas; besides
Ilwse 46 were taken it, Palates, soil name ill the Peisbwa's
camp; large quantities of intionituitiun have likewise hems
taken. _ _ .

_The army is now its full march after the Prishwa, who, it
is rasioturetl, sotrods to Alerts to Pumas, or holds that lass.
guayr to encourage hi. troops. Tritobotrkjee his rut )rt
joitorl • —ult. tlarr f !Moon 011 11118 erste peal, or pu
tory tot the Pets is oe.ti know..

Eldred from us Itrport from Biir,ailier-Grmeral Smith to
Licitleimut-Grurrol Sir Mars K.U.K. Cum-
mititiirr-in-Ctsiet. at Bombay, dated Camp, at Julgaum,
_ _

Nue. 2D, 1817.
Mr. Elphinstone informs me he is endeavouring to send a
cossiut to haocuote, mud 1 avail myself of this opportunity
to acquaint your Excellency will, what has pared slime the
force left Poona on the did Instant.
We bail a nto4t difficult task its ascending the little nhore
Gloat with the heavy train, ou the 2341, which was not ac.
complished till late at Hight ; luckily the enemy did not
attempt to defend the Ghent. or it would have cost me
many liver, and tau or these days. 1 was obliged to halt uu
the Roth.
We saw nothing of the enemy till we carne to Jerjuory oe
the 241 h, here lie sheered from four to Gee thousaud horse uu
both Haiiks of our column; we pursued and disperved one
body of about two thousand, w ills the second cavalry and the
artillery gallopers, hut with little caret. the cavalry being
completely hrulken dawn 11941 nselcaa, from the Mom-
sant forced marches they bare made for titan) mouths past.
The second body Of the enemy being upon the rear, and
the march being verf longr(terehty-four miles), they took off
from "fres to twenty hollueks The road was part of the
way winding through hills, sad it ass impossible effectually
to Myer the whole of the baggage. In the course of the day's
skirmishing slit:enemy, by reports from their own camp, lust
about twenty mai and several horses; we hail no one hurt.
I Issued the Nrrrah, by the blase, the same evening. lye
the 241115, I marched to the bottom of the Salpee Pass.
(hen the 17th, we lodged to refresh before entering the
Pam, as the mammy threatened greet opposition.
The following morning (yesterday) we ascended that
Ghent, and iierfeetly utienulcsiesl till we reached the top,
where lie riseinrehewed about sin headiest loose and threw
a few roekets. 'lime advance moult drove them back with
but. They gathered strength as they retired its our front,
and towards the close of oar march shared froiu 3 to 4,000
men in front, and about as matey MUM being upon our rear.
We opened the gallopers upon them two or three times
in the emirs*. of the march, and with great effect. The 2.1
Imitation of the Oili regiment, wider Major Thatcher, bad
the rear guard, and took an opportunity of masking a gal-
loper, nailer a division of aesiltaries, which his enemy were
p truing to charge; it opened with grape, and did great
flirtation; and the enemy throng's the day could nut hare
hat fewer than one lisiailred sal twenty men; we had out
bewilder Sell our Welly slightly speared.
In the march this niorithig he was consequently very shy;
bat as the close of it he sheered shoot five lIMISIIII.I horse
out of range; as the liti tort mile:merit they retired shoo ly ;
the nature of the grotool enshlril me, however, to posh upon
thrum rapidly, nispeneived, till we insetted a ri.itig ground,

whew we found them furnoil, an.l witl.iu rouge; all the eal.
Wpm% and • light live sad half inch buwitser, innaleshatsly
opened upon them with great effect ; sod, as ataal, they
stied is aoufasi,.n ; tbey lost many melt mod hunts, hat I
have nu irport• yet of the ansonsist from their owe camp.
On the whole I think I um assure pour Excelleocy that
every thing is goingun prutiperonaly. It is to he lasismateil,
certainly, that the enemy will out fight, or that I hove ant
esvalry to skive them to a distance; but I think every day's
espenuteol of his prom-sit system is alarming suit disprraiog
Ms tarn, and that he will was give it sip. We have nu didi-
titbits whatever, but want of grain fur the followers; but
the distress has not yet bent sof a nature to oblige tbrm to
leave us •' and. I hope, by protecting the country, and pay-
ing liberally for all I take, that we shall continue to hod
supplies enough to prevent extreme smut.
The troops have to modem west fatigue; we seldom reach
our grunted before two or three o'clock in the evening. frost
the esecessily of keeping the whuk line ia the moat compact
order, lint I am happy to assure yoor Excellency of general
good health, sad the highest spirits in all ranks.

FROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.