The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-06-11 00:00:00

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ills nude. the ceininand of Major flelierals Dunkin and
Brea is, 4114 to the II one dii., s tun fruit, the aids- •.f
lb neat the Duriehs uf Kwrru, klinais owl Wain
toed a,.• much retitle. r 1 by the pursuit they !...re sat •
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.Idatit4.ontl the a hole SllUltly be dr...
forth. r to the es...stoat.' or dispersed.
Bulletin from Gen. Smith's Camp, six miles north ef l'e'
lon the Neera Ulcer, 12111 Jaitivity, I'4lB, at two p
We arrived here to day. •Colenel Boles is at the fa,.!
lIW Lillie Bore Gina, br.ne Use on the battering trait.. On
the nth instant General Fender tame upon a beady of the
enemy close to Sattarale (a h., load been left to cones- the
Peigliw,s'm retreat), attacked them with the cavalry, kill .1
and shout sixty, took thirty horses, and made ix
rs. General Priteler continues the ptirsoit ut the
?cashiers, who is said to be Hying to the sontliu.ard.
We march to-morrow to the month east, foamed: Mahriheo, .;
and will probably turn the hills, or pass them at Mar 'eta,
..ppusite Musson% J. GRAIST.
Copy of a Letter from Lieutenant Robertson, Super:to-
haul:sat of Policy at Poona, to Mr. Warden, Chief Se-
eretary to the Government of Bombay, dated Puoile,
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14th January, 1818. '
Sin—The Peishwa, with the greatest part of his army,
arrived at Kurrab !Selfish, sit cuss from Meritch, allfl
Ginn Tulganm, on the I.‘th istatant. He marched on the
10th iusiant in the diaection of Mel itch.
General Priteler took up his ground on the loth, three t.
cot be)end llingnuguuu, marching for K ;
hteeneammetant on the lab was about fourteen eves from
that place; so that, if we suppose the Peishwa marched SIX
COS/ on the same day, General Prittler was foil) miles b. -
bind him.
The chief part of Giskla's and the Yinehorket'e tmops
were at Pewits Suety on the 11th. Gulka hluiself is with the
Peishwa. 'lbe Hombre of men in the detachment at
Puns* Sowly is about seven thousand; they are without
baggage, and have no infantry with them
Genets! Smith was at the buttons of the Glows yesterday.
1 have the honour to he. Ste.
11. D. ROBERTSON.
General Orders of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas HOLT,
dated Head-Quarters of the Artily ut the Deccan, Camp at
Gunny, 14th December, 1618. •
The Commander in Chi. f has received from fhigadier-
General Smith, C.B. coo mandiug the 4th division of the
army of the Dteenn, the detailed areon as of 1113 attack made
tin the sth nit, by she 'mope of his Higiniess the Heidi,. it,
upon the Bombay brigade, stationed at Poona, under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel liner, and of the subsequent
defeat, on the 18th ult. of the Wisdom's army, with the
capture of the city of Poona, by the 4th division, under the
peisonal command of the Brigadier-General. e
His Excellncy would neither do justice hi his own r,o.
Ingo, nor to the melds of the troops employed on this urea.
slain, were be out to express to the army al large, his sense of
admiration at the wisdom of the plaits and the gallantry
valour displayed in their execution, which have led to re-
sults so important and decisive, and his Excellency embraces
this opportunity of offering to Brigadier-General Smith his
warmest thanks for the manner in which his march was con-
ducted from *root. to Poona, tinder circumstances of no
ordinary difficulty, increased as it was by the total alirenee
of regular cavalry, and for the deeeawu RIO p 4 1
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with which his attack of the enemy's lines was piano' and :
executed, and their dispersion snit ovillisrow etrycl 1 by a
perseverance and determined amine which have ucrer been
surpassed.
The Commander in Chief notices In Ibis plate, with repent
satisfaction and commendatiou, the exemplary behaelimr of 1'
the •uxiliary horse, under the command of Captain Spilt.,,
to ahem his Excellency desire, to oiler his best thanks in,.
his gallant, spirited, and successful clamps against suet. su-
perior numbers of the enemy's cavalry.
The passage of the river by the two dieisions nadir tl:c
Brigadier-Geuersl and Lieutenant Colonel Manes, is Wlorthy
of paiticular notice, and his Excellency Its.. great Fleasu• e
in recording his high sense of the galling and able manure
in which that measure was effected, particularly hy the divi-
-104.1111 nutter Lieutenant-Colonel Wines, to %kith the west
determined opposition was given by the greater pal t of lie .1
enemy's artillery gad iufiultry.
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The conduct of the Brigadier. General, in providing C.r
the safely and protection of the city and inhabitant* after
the victuty. is entitled In, and has the highest praise and ap-
probation of the Commander m Chief, soul the signal furl. es-
sence and excellent discipline thesis by the troops on an ue-
cation su trying, and under circumstances of peculiar tigers-
'ration and cruelty, reflect a lustre upon their chanietee
,thick must ever be remembered with sentiments of the
highest respect and gratitude; and his Excellency moat
heartily participles its the feelings which the Brigadier-
General and leis gallant army must have enjoyed at the mow
silent they planted the British colones of the Prishwa's
palace, in the heart of his capital, which owed to their disci-
pline, suburdinatioit, and forbearance, its preservation from
plunder mid destruction.
His Excellency requests that Lientetiant-Colonel Burr
will accept of his warmest acknowledgments fur the earns-
plary gallantry and deteermined devotion with übich the seed.
den and pee fidwas attach of his small force by the whole of
the Peishwa's army on the dith ultimo, was so resolutely
uppoced and ruccess:a ly repulsed.
The dispositions made by the Lieutenant-Colonel on that
occasion, reflect the highest credit upon kis military cheirmr.
ter, and the seeress of his operations against a force so vet v
soperior in numbers, is a crinviuring proof (if such were
required), that coolness and discipline will always be found
irresistible, opposed In any numerical superiority, if defi-
cient In those . se, istial qualificatious.
'Eke conduct of the Ist battalion, 7th Regiment Bombay
Native Infantry, upon this memorable occasion, demands
Ilse particular notice of the Commander-in-Chief, atal, al-
though his Excellency reels it difficult to distinguish when
all emplace" have acted m admirably well, yet the peculiar
eitu„e writ the. gallant corps was paced, pressed by 11
severe and repeated attacks by the enemy, both horse and
foot, all of which were successfully resisted, entitles this
battalion to his Excellency's especial notice I and the Com-
tuander-iti-Chief desires that the expression of his highest
approtra • may accordingly he coneinuisicattel to the Ist
batinlime, 711, Regiment Native Infantry.
The beet of Captain Ford and the brigade wader lit.
cornraand, is also entitled to the Commander-on-Chief 'a cue -
deal approbation.
The Commandersin-Chief desires that Brigadier General
Smith will express to the Small; the Artillery, his Msjesty's
reeinieet, the Bombay Entopeau regimetit, anti list
a hole of the. 'wive troop., his highest arpoohation of their
roodurt, which leis Excellency a ill not fail to report in the t•
Nattering terms of praise it all justly 'nerds, so his Excel.
lciecy the Nlott Noble the Governor Gel:veal ; and the Com-
mander-so-Chief directs that it be particularly t mplained to
tier native troops, that their courage and discipline till lie
no leva the the meld' his favourable notice to that high att.
IltoritY, than their unshaken loyalty and ineuri uptible fiat •
lily, amidst the
them from their allegiatice.
J B. C. CONWAY,
A.'julant-General of the Army.
Extract from a dispatch from the How Meilintstuart,
I.lsio.almor. Resta:lit at the Comet of the Pei Jews, to the
ahowl ...General, dated Crimp at Constrain, Jail, 4,181 b.
About ilw time of Gem ral Math% arrival at S.
the 17th D. camber, the Peishwa reached Wilitom, ei fir
Joenere; from this piasie Le Mined tip the ILag Liliant to