The National Register.
London, England, 1821-11-18 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

H.torE, Nov. B.—Lieut.-Co!. Taels Van Amer-
migen, Aide-de-Camp tei the Governor-General of
the East India possessions, and Lieut. Koopman, of
the navy, arrived here yesterday with the intelli-
gence of the successful issue of the second expedition
aguinst the rebellious Sultan of Palemban, which
was of so mueh importance to the maintenance of
the Dutch authority in India.
Os the 25th of June, Gen. de Kuck, to whom the
chief command of the expedition was confined, made
himself master, after au obstinate resistance, of the
works in the river, which impeded the approach to
' the town. The General states, in his despi.tches of
the 28th ofJune, that on the 26th he cast anchor
Lefore the town, and that the Sultan Bade al deem,
seeing no means of resistance, declared himself ready
togive up the ~overnrneot to his brother, nho tt•as
on board the Ifotch fleet, and to surrender himself,
on the t►ssar:mee Oast hi;; life would be spared. 'the
General therefore hoped that he should sisal be able
tn send the Sultan and his family to Batavia on`
hoard the Drgerand frigate.

The General bestows the highest.enci miurns on
the bravery and perseverance of the st.diers and
seamen.

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The enemy had his chief force in the river near
the island of Gombora. in the mouth of the river
Pladjoe, on a low and marshy spot of gr9und. A
battery was erected on the island. Between
and the right bank were two floating batteries,
anti ou the bank four batteries, 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 evedt showed, the enentrkweW Wr
well how to manige. The tab -bisnits' were _
defended by a &able palisade, under the command.
the guns, and behind the palisade were armed boats.
—lt appeared theretbre not adviseable to attack
enemy's works by land.
The first attack was on the 20th of June. At
daybreak the ships of war took the stations assigned
to them. The cannonade was extremely violent on
both sides. 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 suck with 300 in boats on
the last-mentioned battery, when unfortunately the
cables of some of the ships of war were shot away,
so that they drifted with the stream. This accident
exposed the ranhemerf alone to the enemy's fire,
and as this vessel had already 60 men killed and
wounued, 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.
Befiae 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
lire from the island began to abate. Col. Bischof
made a successful attempt to penetrate with his
troops in boats 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 adviscable, and the troops were
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 Ajax and Venus had
overpowered the floatinglttteries, which were taken
possession of by Lieut, n 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 Wegener and Van Styrum
carried it by assault, and made themselves masters of
this last and important position.
I Here follows the names of the officers who dis-
tinguished themselves, and the statemeat 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.
13*.TAVIS JULY 21.—The conquest of Palem-
bang has been announced by a salute of 101 guns.
The cholera marks still rages dreadfully at Ban-
lam, the out-districts of Sourabaya and Passarouang.
At Banlam, alma 100 persons die daily: in the two
other placess above 170. '1 he number of deaths at
Batavia, in consequence of this disorder, does not
exceed five daily.
Among them the Vanhermeif alone bad 17 killed
and 63 wounded.

To-day the guns have been fired on account of this
joyful victory. •
HAOUZ, Nov. 8... A private letter from Batavia
of the 26th of July states that the cholera ntorbus
was abating, audit was hoped that its ravages would
soh cease.