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London, England, 1818-05-06 00:00:00

E.4S7' INDIES.

. [From die Bombay O. rile, Wednesday, January 7 j

Sciudis halving manifested symptoms of eva.ion
iu furmaiting the 5,000 horse stipulated by the last
Treaty, aid the Killedar of Asseerghur refining to
surrender that fortresd., on the plea 111.41 hr. master
ass not sincere in ;as cessiou of it to the British,the
Marquis of Hustings was iftiViftleing on the 14,11 of
last lt to Autry, about six C 41,4• to the eastward
of t ;nailer. Sciudia ass making every preparation
•to lire a .hot for the looloar of the cause, nod
should such be his reel intentitee, the energy of 144
Lordship'a character will ere this have redgeed Scan-
dia's means of counteracting the accoutpleduisent of .
pia Lo1(1,1111,'• plink
We have not heard that any detailed at-comas
have yet been received of the victory obtained by
his Excellency Sir Thtitnas Iflslop over the troopi
of Mulhar Row Holkar, nor do we know a bat was
the strength of the contending armies. We have
been informed, however, that the action was short
and severe; that 30 European officers have been
killed and wounded, awl 700 lank and file; and
that 65 pieces of ordnance fell into our bands.—
The loss of the enemy is stated in '4OOO, The
Bombay divisiou under the command of Major-
Generel Sir William Keit, had been ordered to
march from )(lithium to Itanisoor, to which place
the enemy had fled after his defeat or the itlst.
The battle was fought on thif left . hank of the
Sara or Seepree river. At six a. iff. on the ftat,
Sir T. Hislop advanced from Arneir to at tack lid kat.
He received two expresses from that young Prince
in the course of his march; the one stetting that lie
was under restraint, and though disposed! to be in
terms of peace with the British, he could not yet
~4eck the ardour of his troops; the other warning
MI to remember that we had not to deal with cow-
Puidarees, but with the veteran troops of
Holkar. The enemy's light troops hovered about
our baggage, but did molting ; near fillondpoor a
large body of cavalry was discoveied in a tope
regiment of cavalry and two companies of rate:
men were detached against them. The ',mufti
received us with the utmost coolness and intre-
pidity ; our cavalry having no embitter', were of
little use, but our riflemen soon diaper-eft them.—
At about 11 Ise passed the Ghaut under a moat
heavy cannonade. IVe found the enemy in a very
strong position. On our approach he opened a tre-
mendous and well-directed cannonade upon us, anti
the best proof we can land of its. efficacy is the
fact that 7 out of 14 of our field-pieces were ren-
dered useless. His right, which was defended by
a battery of 40 guns, was first stormed and corned.
Holkar'e golandauses nobly standing and dying by
their guns. After these were carried, the army
moved in two eontpact lines along the enenly'a po-
sition, and stormed the left Nineties and diopeiseti
his force, and encamped in his position.
A royal salute on the 4th anuounced another vie.
tory, obtained by Brigadier-General Doveton over
another branch of the 11elsratta confederacy, and
confirmed the report of the Berar Rajahsbeing our
prisoner; and we sincerely congratulate oar country..
men on what we consider to be the happy terinitho.
tiros of the contest with that Government.. General •
Doveton reached Nagiroure with a part of his force,
high fly equipped, oil the i',4111, and was joined on the
following day by the remainder. Thus reinforced,thr
Resident on the 14th announced to the Raj:ilia-he •
tennis which he would grant to him, the Brigadier-
General supporting the overtures by. proper dispo-
sition of troops. Information was received early iu
the morning of the 16th that the Rajah had com-
plied anti all our demands, and was I lye:per:oaf
at the Itesideficy, winch he did not, however, reach
until noon ; sod; having surrendered himself to the
Resident, issued orders fur delivering up to General
Dovettot the whole of his artillery, and seat au agent
to his camp to enforce those orders. The Brigadier-
General advanced to intend to the execution of
those instructions; and having approached the first
battery rather unexpectedly, the enemy uhaiiduited
their guns, and retired. Having taken posses-ion of
this battery, our force continued its march, when
heavy fire was opened upon tis by a large body of
troops posted in the Sucker Mont Gardens, which
was followed by a general discharge from the whole
of the batteries. The divisions of inf.orv, uudrr
the co nand of Colonels Mscledal and Mackeller,
supported by a battery of reset ve under Colonel
Crosdell, amid the reserve of lefileary tinder Colonel
Stewart, continued to advance until the ground ra-
mmed of a fartnution in hoe. when the enemy's bat-
teries in front trete karried to the ranst galimait 111.10-
[mr at the poiht of the trayortet. The horse-mita-
lery, under Lieutettatit Poggeophal, and the ca.
valry under Lieutenant-Colonel C. 111311, 5151"
porzed by.their reset ve of gallopers, anil catittry
under Cowen, Sen;tlt, hiving made a detour
round a tank in front of the Sucker Dotty Gimlet's.
charged and earned ihe hrilitries opposed to 111,19.
driving out at the i.itine :nue ills i tttttt eine ma.. of
I the etteiny's v 1,. fore them, which t hey mooed
and pursued. as Icing liit•;*c was till chance ef .
doing them any mischief: n few of the ellect.y •
gusts, which had tacit charged by the c.. ruin', but
had re-owned their fire upon the hatui
in potato', were again cliergad and re•44,dr.iedl ley
five companies front the reserve under I.tenienaiii-
Colonel Stewast, by the artillery, amid a party of
reformed loose moles Cantain l'.dlar, and by teat-
past tame the *hole of the enemy'''. gnus and clomp-
saftpage were to our pie-session, snit 'spatial. of
forty elephants ; the intitiher of goo. 1.1.4,kt 1.4*4
75. end we repave to &old, that the- killed sad
mouitil flu not excet 130.
liv laq account, latteit published of