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Macdowall is happy .to 6nd that the
wounds Major and Ensign Lake received in occupy-
ing the old village seer the bottom of the precipice of the
usunatain, are not likely to deprive him long of their ser-
vines, sad he begs leave to offer his best acknowledgments
to all the editors and mew employed or that occasion ; he
also regorges that Liest. Gordo. of the 2d 13th will convey
to the aseillerynsen with the two 0-pounder, the Mace, sad
men of site party of his Majesty's Royal Scots, and the party
of the Sd 13th who were employed opposite the moth gate,
his approbation of their cordial and manly earthig', for get-
ting the imago soon into battery upon the bill. The labo-
rious week which falls to the lot of the pioneers on these oc-
casions wee moat ably sod cheerfully performed, sod entitles
best. Frew and his artatluselit to the Coesmanding Officer's
highest eatiefactiou mid best thanks."
The brigade under Major Eldridge, consisting
of the Bombay regiment of Foot Artillery, with
heavy traits and supernumerary ,auxiliary batta-
lion, ha. been remarkably succesiful. An intrlii-
.
gent correspondent informs us, in a letter dated
Camp Dougur, May 7, that 'I in nine days six
hill forts have been captured, each of which would
have taken as many month. to have reduced had they
been defended by resolute garrisons."

Swum end Finrinr were abandoned previously
to the arrivel of the brigade; Chowasu and Juodun
stood a few hour's shelling, and then surrendered.
Hurrychundurgliur and Koenzelghur were taken,
postession of by as party of the auxiliary battalion
under Captain Sykes, the ;purism)s Ahiog from
them as the party commenced ascending th:111011111.
taint on which they ore respectively situated. Until
these forte wete captured, it was supposed the holds
to the south of Poona were as Strong ac any in In-
dia; but Sing-hur, Poorusudur, and Miasma, bear
no comparison with Sooner. flursur and Chowan
surpass Sooner, rod Juodan is absolutely impreg-
nable, since it has bomb-proofs for iti garrison to
retire to, the only requisites wanti, to resider the
other pieces equally impregnable. Independent of
its streogth. Soonur, commonly known by the name
of Juneer, is interesting to the curio's& inquirer,
from its connexion with the history of the Mussul-
mass Government in this part of India—r-from its
being the occasional residence of Sewajee--frein the
ruins of buildings of Mahomniedist origin, ind
from its innumerable excavations, which, with the
like productions in every part of India, are ascribed
by the Usuduos to the indefatigable iisilustry of the
god Pandas. Soonur has seven gates of masonry,
else within the other. In the fort is a mausoleum
to the memory of the wife of one of the Mtissulnien
Governors, an eedgah, and a minsjid, all in good
repair. The latter is built over an unsexing reser-
voir for water, cut nut of the solid rock ; the roof
of the reservoir has beets cut into the resemblance
of beams, sad pillars of a chaste design support
them at equal distance; in the fort were 48 guns,
many of them brass, and human ingenuity and ca-
price appear to have been exhausted in the forms
in which live or six of them have been cut, and in
their multiplied decorations: One war like a bird,
and its place of trunnions had wings; mother was
like a fish with scales; and a third had an ipprar;•
atice of network over it.

The excavations in the free of the perpendicalor
rock on which the fort is situate. must have re.
quired ages and the incessant labour of the popula-
tion of a province to have finished them.
The mind is lost in a labyrinth of doubt and
conjecture in ►nvestigating the motives which could
have occasioned the production of such surprising
monuments of human industry. The general form
of the excavations is that of a monk's cell, with a
stone seat round it, but many of these cells have
small openings from the floor into deep square
apartments. There is only one excavation in Ju.
miter-hill, in the fortn of a temple, which deserves
particular mention : it is about 60 leet long by 40;
the ceiling appears to have been gilt or painted in
compartments. The entrance of the cave has four
pillars. in good taste, summoning a gallery, the front
of which is cut into lattice-work ; above this rises a
beautiful arch. Its the neighbouring hilt. are tem-
ples of greeter extent than die shove described,
with colossal figures sculptured its awl's. The fort
of Ilursu►, independent of it. natural strength, de-
serves notice only from the bilsoor which has beets
bestowed on its gates, and the road up to ir. The
latter is cut into steps nut of the rock ; the gates.
two in number, with the connecting passage, have
not a foot of masonry about them, the whole being
cut out of the rock ; you enter the side of the
mountain, go up a rimulge. and through another
gate to the hill, and then get in the interior of the
tat, as if you were emerging front a wall.

Juodan is on the Ghoul,. overlooking the Kon-
kat,. To gi►e an idea of its strength, it will be
Ifieltili 611 ay. the last flight of steps by which
you enter doe fort consists of 240, each step of
one and a half foot in hoglit ; auul they are placed
It* perpendicularly, snit are as difficult of aso:eut,
as a Wider •.ually'is. The view frrtm, tlte'fo►t ii
y 1,111,1017 VASA In the south-trot pint, II stone

dropped from the hand would reach the Kooken,
Tall nearly perpendicular of at (ra•t 2,000 feet.
Midway down the mountain, on the north-wester'.
side,
.a level runs nut fur one hundred yards. the
mount du then becomes as precipitous as before ;
from the edge of this small level rises a natural
pillar of rock of at least 300 feet in height, nod-
ding over the stlqa* ISrlow. At eight o'clock in the
morning of the 4th instant. the lionkan gra* coin-
'deftly iliterCepted fruut our view by masses of
beautiful white clonds, skit+ only rianbialf way
up the neighbouring lolls. I eau compare it tos
nothing but a bra of milk, in a *Hod but regular
swell ; a raiiibow was Cecil on one of the clouds at
our feet.. NIA the tolli lut. the mountain and the
magnificent pillar a;:lesreil to rise in terrifc ma-
jesty froM the lower world ; but the ►cene was be+
amid deiCelptioll, and I never felt more strongl♦
than at that moment the truth of the sentiment of
the poet, who sip
" That which was formed to captivate the eye,
" The ear must coldly tasty• desreipeiuns week'
" And the name falters ill eon attempt."
nurrychtondeghur owes its strength entirely to
the mountain me which It is situated ; the fort is
small, but the mountain is several miles in circuin:.
ference, equally difficult of accerm on all sides. In
mail parts of the anoirotain the access is only by
auwll holes cut fo► the tees and fingers to hold by
in the smooth rock. owl the adventurous climber
often totters on eternity.
Kormzelglour is embedded in Mountains, and from
the south cannot he approached f the distance
of eight miles, except by men goo foot. The. path
(a foot wide only) to it, however, iS roniantically
beautiful; it runs alternate!), over hill., up dreia
glens, and along ridge", the hills being studded with
clumps of tree* and shrub', at this season always in
the most brilliant verdure. In stiesking of the
strength of these forts,
_it 101 l be Sufficient to mews
tiuu they owe it althost exclusively to nature, art
having only put the tiaoshing hand to what nature
had left undone.

The following eittruct of a letter froM Mahwah,
28th April, contains some inteiestiug particulars
relative to the movetnststa of another gallant little
detachment of our forces, which we have great
satisfaction in publishing :
" b consequence of intelligence from Poona. that the
Kilkdar of Glwiriah hail received a summons to surrender,
a lowly under Captain Pedrson was etillurked the 15th ilia .
on board the Hon. Compaily'r cruisers Prince of Waits and
Sylpb, to take poisesaiou; bolt the treacherous Killedar,
after some frivolous excuse, and' delays, suddeuly opeued au
heavy fire uitou the el misers lying at anchor, lint they were
under the necessity of cutting their tables, and putting to
sea as expeditiously as possibly. tbi Illicit return to neweloir,
where the detachment disembarked; it wa. f I the enemy
had taken advantage of their to strengthen the
stockade on the opposite hank of the river, from which they
fired with jiojalls and inatchlocks ou every twat that at-
tempted to cross the harbour.
" On the evening of the lath, Capt. Pearson determined
on dislodging Meta ; for which purpose he a, sit loot a de-
tachment under Captain Hughes, cousiiting of • u offirert.
Lir ut. Thomson, of his Majesty's 82111 Regiment, lieutenaut
Campbell, of the 11th Regiment of Native Infantry, wills
54 rank and tile, which, crossing over on the morning of the
19th, completely surprised the reemy, killing and wound-
ing shunt 25, and taking nine prisoners, tin of whom were
desperately wounded. While Captsin Hughes and his 'tarty
gallantly carried the stockades on shore, Captains Robson
said Domiuicetti Nobly rouiriboted h. the success of the un-
dertaking, by pulling up the river with • pally of 53 arameit
sod marine., sod attacking the enemy in front.
" The force of the enemy opposed to this small party
was between 200 and 251) matchlorkmen. Their sholades
were completely destroyed, and about eight jiojalls, with a
number of matchlocks, &e. taken."'

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COURT MARTIAL

GENERAL ORDERS BT THE coMMANDER rN cuirt.
Head•yuarters, Camp (lodise, January 43, 1818.
Extract from the proceedings of an Mr peals
General Court-Maitial, held at Cuttack, on the
30th day of December. 1817, in virtue of a war-
rant, under the hand and seal of his Excellency the
Most Noble the Marquis of Hastings. K.G. Comte
mender in Chief of all the Forces in India, beating
date the tad' day of October, 1817, for the trial of
Lieut.-Col. Robert Greene, of the 13th regiment
Native infantry, anti all such Prisoners as at.iy be
brought before it.

President. Major-General Charles Stuart.
Officiating as Deputy Judge-Advocate CI I, Lieut...
nant Weston, loth Regiment Native 'artistry.
Interpreter, Sub. Lieutenant IVaddclusr, Cuttack Lrgiuu.

CHARGES.

Lient.-Colionel Robert Greene, commanding the 2d Rana-
lion 3011 i regiment Native Infantre, pieced in arytot
order of Almpir-Geurral Sir Gabriel Mart K.C.B. cone-
mantling ilw troops in Cuttack, on the following Charges
First—For disrespect sod contempt of authority, subver-
sive of good order and military discipline, in &soh. dirtier of
the Article* of War, in ordering, on the 17th Walnut, the

confinement of a Sepuy, orderly, named Ramdeeo Tewarryr
of the Ist hotshots Bith regiment Native Infantry, io'at-
tendance un MAjor-Orncval Sir Gabriel *tannic'', K C.B.
who had been ►ent by the Major-General to require the
attendance of Baiditaut Chowdry of the Bazar,Sd hatiatimi
311th Native Infantry, fur the purpose of insestigating the
subject of a complaint of ill treatment, and violent

of property, lady 41 agaiust the said Chowdry by sertatu 1211.
Well of klionrilab.
Secondly—Kw an unjustifiable assumption of authority,
in withholding, tor a considerable thus., Ilse utendauee of
Maidnaot Chowciry int the Major General, by affording him
refuge wilder his (I.ieut.-Colutsel (ireene's) roof, knowing i
the said Choadry had been previously ordered to attend at
head-gumless, thereby genetic an mono* of insubordina.
cud disrespect to the authority of his Commaudmo
Officer, which it was his (the Lieuteuina-Cultioars) especial
May to support.

Msjor-General Sir Gabriel AlartTsulell, R.C.R.not having
appeared in Court to prosecute the Prisoner eu the charges
be has preferred spinal hint, tbe CAsert du thertfury adjudge
the Prisoner to be acquitted.
(sword) CHARLES STUART.
(Signed) C. T. G. Wasson, MaitistGenerel, President.
okg. D. J. A. Geo.
D►sappruved, (Mired) HASTINGS.
Rent irk* by his Excellency the Must Noble as
Commander in Chief.

The ennsmander is Chu (notices with regret the "tram..
diesel neisconcepiims by which the Curt lies been pink&
In all emirs of vial lwriwe a General duvet Martial, the of.
fence 'charged is ciinsiileral as Itaviwir brew committed yoga knit
Governitteut ; berstme. all bough di ebeelseter may Isnve
runt sinviry or tojory towards as in 41111141111111, the mane a
stated and presented as a thuds ut the law or diactplims