The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-10 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE KING OF DENMARK.

The Hamburg Mail hag just arrived, which
announces the death of the King of DENMARK,
and he is succeeded by his nephew.

HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM INDIA.
By the overland mail from India, we have re-
ceived Calcutta Journals of the 13th, Madras of
the 19th, and Bombay papers of the 28th of Oc-
tober, bringing highly interesting intelligence from
the East. Four thousand Arabs had attacked the
English garrison at Aden, consisting only of 400
e) men, and compelled them to retire into the fortress;
but though the Arabs suffered dreadfully, the
English lost not a single man. On the 18th of Sep-
tember the Bombay troops having established
the Shah SOOJA 11-00L-MOOLK on the throne
i of Cabul, left Ghiznee on their return home. They
i were expected to reach Quetta on the 25th, where
they were to remain for a few days to depose the
Khan of KELAT, and replace him by a Chief less
hostile to England. This resolution was adopted
in consequence of the discovery having been made
that the reigning Khan had directed the whole of
the hostilities offered to our army in its advance
upon Cabul, and particularly that he plotted the
surprises of our men, and swept the country of pro-
visions. The Bombay army was under the command
of Gen. WILLSHIRE, -who had more to apprehend
from the early setting in of the winter, than from
the hostility of the inhabitants of the country
through which he had to pass. The Bengal di-
vision, which continued at Cabul, was preparing
to leave that city for the Upper Provinces, with
the exception of some troops ordered to remain for
the protection of the SHAH, under the command
of the British Resident. General Sir JOHN
KEANE was to accompany the division as far as
Att ock, from whence he was to proceed to Bombay,
and thence to England, with Sir HENRY FANG,
in the Malabar, announced to sail in January.
Mr. INVNAUGHTEN was to remain as Am-
bassador to the SHAH at Cabul. Captain,
Sir ALEXANDER BURNES was t• proceed to
Candahar, where his diplomatic talents had; been
before so profitably employed. Lieutenant POT-
TINGER, at Herat, had arranged a commercial
treaty with KA &IRANI, which he had forwarded for
ratification to Lord AUCKLAND. A very
favourable commercial treaty has likewise been
arranged with the Government of Lahore,
securing to British merchants the navigation
of the Sutlegde branch of the Indus, hut
fears were entertained of a civil war in that
country. NEHAL SIXGH, the heir appa-
rent to the throne, and Mau& w SINGH, the
Prime Minister, are at loggerheads, and if they
come to blows, nothing is more certain than that
the intervention of England will be invoked, per-
haps by both parties. This may suspend for a time
the advantages of the commercial treaty, but in the
end they will be more than realised by the prepon-
derance of British influence in the Punjaub.
The murder of Colonel HERRING, of the 37th
Regiment Bengal Native Infantry, about 40 miles
from Cabul, ;3 in great measure attributable to
the indiscretion of that gallant offices. The lament.
able details will be found below.
But by far the most important news from India
is the discovery of a conspiracy at Kurnoul in the
Deccan, which must have had for its object the
overthrow of the British Power in India. We
copy below, from the Madras Spectator Extraor-
dinary of the I4th and 19th of October, a curious
made by the
account of the immense preparations
Nabob of KURNOUL to take the field against the
English—preparations which he never could have
carried on; save in concert with the other Native
Chiefs. Kurnoul is an independant Mohan,.
"sedan principality, the fort of which is about
two hundred and seventy . miles north-west
of Madras. The Governor-General having re-
ceived certain information that a scheme was on
foot, directed by the Nabob, for organising a ge-
neral rising against the power of England, a force
wag simultaneously marched against the fortress of
11Coraonl sod Joudpore, which were surrendered
without firing a shot. The result proved the wis-
dom- of the Governor-General's prompt decision.
We hive not yet learned who were the engineers
;Nato superintended the Nabob's gun-foundries, but
SY,

not be surprised to hear that we are in-
. e shouir
t Irbted t< ) our good friend's the Russians for this
- 6licitue e anboeurtcitahlenfea.te) of our empire in India.
The commercial
It will. he found in r 0.
Air
article.
Fret n China wsCfirtoym India is interesting.
Thee have no news by this arrival.
ulagsr and Cruiser had sailed for Canton, to
protect the Brit
Larne, Favou
.ish vessels there. The Wellesley,
rite, and Algerine were ordered to
3ombay, to
ii
C triton if old themselves in readiness to sail for
necessary, on the receipt of despatches
frc Supe rintendant ELLIOT, which were daily
exi, ected.
ne WS from Persia represents the SHAH as
having re ason to be heartily sick of his connection
with Ru ssia. The Governor of Shiraz, one of
the Sit/ tn's sons, was made a prisoner by the
people, who refused to give him up, because he
had rent ,urse to imprisoning the merchants to re-
lieve h Ls exhausted treasury. As for the SHAH
himself .he remained at Teheran, a helpless witness
of ay.: disorders of his kingdom, fomented by the
intri' o des of Russian agents.
EKTZRESTING INTELLIGENCE FROM
KURNOUL.
MADRAS, MONDAY, Oct. 14, 1839.
Dar intelligence from Kurnoul this morning is o
sue 1 high interest that we deem its communication in an
E rim will be acceptable to our readers.
On Saturday last it was understood at the Presi-
mcy that an express had arrived, announcing the quiet
a ad unresisted occupation of the Kurnoul Fort by our
t roops, but that the Nuwaub bad been laid hold of and
carried off a prisoner by his own Patens, who vowed
they would not give him up until he paid them their
arrears. This was confirmed by letters received
yesterday. It appears that the troops (consisting of
the 51st regiment Native Infantry, two companies
of her Majesty's 39th, two companies of the 16th
Native Infantry, a troop of the 7th Light Cavalry,
and a detachment of Sappers and Miners) marched in
on the night of the 6th instant, without the least did.
tnrbance occurring on the occasion. The Rohillas and
Patens were previously turned out of the fort ; and, on
the following morning, these collected round the gate,
refused to let the Nawaub enter as he wished, declared
they would not part with him until they were paid up
their arrears, and finally they carried him off into the
Pettah. The artillery at that time found in the fort
was very insignificant. There were a good many swivel
wall pieces, but only seven or eight brass and iron field-
pieces of small calibre. It was generally suspected,
however, that much lay concealed, and the result of
the labours of a committee, appointed to search, was
accordingly looked forward to with impatient curiosity,
Their discoveries did, indeed, prove most extraordinary
and important ; and, to convey a knowledge of their
quality and extent, we will now quote direct from our
correspondent's letter of date the 9th instant :
The discoveries have been almost exclusively con-
fined to the Nuwaub's Zenana, which proves to be a
perfect arsenal upon a most extended scale ; and you
will stare to read that there have been found concealed
in various ways—underground and in godowns, whose
doors and entrances had been built up—between 400
and 500 pieces of artillery, of which fully 100 are in
such a state of equipment as to be ready for active ser-
vice in the field at a few days' warning.
" A great many exceedingly well-constructed fur-
naces are now standing in perfect order for casting guns
and shot, and the of many more have been found
in various places. An immense quantity of shot of all
sizes, grape and canister, langridge, hand grenades, and
shells of various diameters—all made of a species of pew-
ter, but containing more lead and less zinc than the
compound so called usually does, have been found ; while
of copper, lead, and zinc, a considerable store has been
ferretted out. Several very fine brass guns (I should
mention that almost the whole of the pieces found in
the fort are of brass) have been dug up, and two mortars
of the same metal, which for size, and perhaps also for
bpauty of casting, promise to rank as the most remark-
able of their genus in Europe. The bore of the largest
is ti.venl y-,ix inches, thickness of metal nine inches, and
length from muzzle to cascabel about seven feet. The
other has a bore of twenty-two and a half inches, and
the other dimensions in proportion. A great many
muskets, musket locks (English), pistols (ditto), and
swords hate also been turned up ; heaps of cartridges
ready to be Ailed ; also port fires, fuzees, fire balls, slow
matches, a large store of sulphur, rosin, fine charcoal
for gunpowder; in short, every material required to
constitute a large and most valuable arsenal are
here ; and it is evident, from the workmanship
of bis gun carriages and limbers, the beauty and
correctness of casting, and (in many cases) boring
of his euns, the construction of his furnaces, and the
general order and arrangement of this most extraordi-
n o-y military workshop and' storehouse, that the master-
hand has been that of a practised and scientific man,
whose subordinates must have been artificers well quali-
fied to condnct gun founding and carriage building, as
well as laboratory work, in all their departments. The
most remarkable and important conclusion which isat once
drawn from the development, as far as it has proceeded
of this most stupendous plot, is, that the aim of the Nu-
waub or his coadjutors has been to produce an efficient
and rowerful train of artillery, not so much for the de-
fence of this fort as for active field service—which it
needs little scope of imagination to conclude would at
the fitting time have been undertaken to work out
the subversion and overthrow of the British dynasty
in India. The majority of the guns are of small
calibre, principally of four and six pounders, and of
these in one godown, the entrances to which had been
carefuliy built up, were found 44, very efficiently mounted
on light field carriages quite fit for immediate use ; while
in the same place were 42 carriages of a like descrip-
tion, evidently only recently completed and ready to
receive their guns and coats of paint. It is difficult
from a hasty survey to form anything which one might
venture to consider a correct opinion, as to the period
over which this manufacture of warlike engines and
stores has extended ; some have the appearance of con-
siderable age, while many, especially of the brass six-
pounders and nearly the whole of the pewter round shot
from the little oxidization visible on their surface, and
which long exposure to the atmosphere would have
produced to a considerable extent, convey the impression
that the furnaces which have been found have within
a very short period, possibly two or three months,
been in full operation ; and when we consider that this
really gigantic magazine, from which the implements
for the destruction of our empire were to have
sprung, has been collecting and increasing daily in
strength and extent, almost in the very heart of our
dominions, in a manner so stealthy as to have been (of
course until lately) scarcely suspected by the Govern-
tnent and their authorities, we are lost in astonishment
at the extent and power of the resources which have
furnished the means to dig so tremendous a mine beneath
our feet, and in wonder and conjecture as to the time and
the agents to be chosen or created for its explosion.
" We cannot at the same time, I think, fail to ad-
mire the prudent foresight exhibited by the Govern-
ment in having taken so promptly the steps which have
led to so complete a development (the unravelment re-
' mains yet behind) of this extraordinary conspiracy,
which, at the period of the arrival of the Commis-
sioners, was evidently in a state so ripe as to require
only the hand to the plough' to burst with astounding
fury over Southern India. From whence the men were
to be collected to wield the enormous engine which has
here been prepared, and what connection this averted
storm has had with the dark clouds which have so re-
cently lowered around our horizon, remain yet as mys-
teries in the womb of time ; and while it furnishes a
striking passing commentary upon the false policy of
over-weeaing confidence in the security of our own
strength and wisdom, and in the weakness and ignorance
of our subjugated foes, it also affords matter for earnest
congratulation that this last strong hold of the Mus-
sulman—the only one perhaps, within the limits
of our territority in which, under the most impe-
netrable disguise of the secrecy and sacredness of the
Zenana, so extraordinary a' scheme could have been
carried on towards completion—has now passed from
him."

Our correspondent adds, on the same day, that no
store or magazine of powder had, up to that time, been
found, though a great many cartridges of all sorts were
discovered in the boxes of the limbers of such guns as
were out of the Zenana, and apparently ready for ac-
tion. It was expected, however, that something of im-
portance would be discovered on the following day, as
it had been ascertained that the Vizier, who acted as a
guide to the Committee, was playing them tricks and
turning them away from several places which they wished
to examine on the plea of their containing only women.
In effect a few lines, dated the 10th, inform us that
about 40,000 lbs. of very excellent powder and a large
store of nitre and sulphur had been discovered that
morning in a godown, and more will doubtless soon
turn up.
At this last date the Nuwaub was still outside the
Fort, but his two brothers were within. One of these,
Khader Khan, was made use of to point out the secret
places of the Zenana—the other Ahmed Khan, is an
unfortunate man, who had been confined to his palace
' for the space of four years by his cruel brother. In
the course of the explorations in the Zenana several
captives were discovered, who were all liberated; these
comprised whole familiesold and young men, women
hoop
place
might, being
m
and children—and some said they bad been immured so
long as sixteen years.
originally
already mentioned the small extent of artil-
lery found in the fort. There were positively
no guns
excep-
tion of tniwnouonrttehdreoenbtrhase
sranminpeaprtnsu,nadnedr,a wanitdh
three
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unwieldy
towers, the walls iron
were
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unarmed.on the platforms
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represented as
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