The Sun.
London, England, 1801-12-29 00:00:00

E,457 LAT.LtS

It appears by Letters from India,. which came
by die overland Despatch received yesterday, that
the disaffected Polygars, who haYe for some time
past produced so much service for our Troops, are
'again in motion ; and unhappily they seem to have
obtained at different times, and particularly of late,

some advantages over the Corps sent against them.
Letters from Bombay of the
.z3d August, contain
the following intelligence on this •subjeat :
" The Polygars are again in serious rebellion..:—
Our Troops, milder the command of Lieutenant-
:)colorlel AGNEW, have been obliged to entrench
,:themielves near to Adams's Bridge, communi_
caring with Ceylon, being hemmed in by a force
said to amount to 15,000 men : and these mis-
creants have dispersed hand-bilis through the Car_
vatic, inviting all the other Polygars to.join them.
They are well armed, supplied; no doubt, from the
arsenal of Seringaparam, by those traitors to their
ring and Country, whose diabolical proceedings
have but lately been discovered."
Letters of the same date ,contain the folloWing
intelligence :

" Four Hundred Officers and Privates of the
74th Regiment embark to-morrow morning on
board of the David Scott, Captain Gt a, for Trail-
quebar ; it is expefted she will sail immediately, in
company with the Britannia, Captain STOUT, and
the Clarissa, Captain JAMES, both of which carry
followers and baggage.
(c Report speaks of a revolution in Cabul, and
of the death of ZEMAVN StrAw; hut letters from
Calcutta of the 3oth July do not mention it. Mar-
quis Wet.", ESL E Y was expeCted to set out for Luck.
now about the beginning of this month.
" The Leopard, M. W. Capt. SURRIDGEj ar.
rived here from the Red Sea on the 9th inst. and the
MariaiJ Cornivallis Frigate, and many of the Tran_
sports, arc expected in the end of the month.
" Sir Home POPHAM is gone to Calcutta in the
Ponvug, whence it is expeeted another Expedition
is on toot."

tXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER. OF. HIS.
MAJESTY'S 731) REGIMENT.
" Caattp in:he Ceded Di:bias; about 3o milesW". E. of
G:errAlefeo7lda, May 27 , ISsr.
" We have been employed this six months past
iti.taking possession of the very extensive Country
teded tb the Company by His Highness the Ni z ;
and when we thought every thing was done, and
.• that we were to go into quarters, and rest from
our labours; a number of refraalory Polygars started
up, and for three months past we have not known
more than one day's cessation from marching ar
time. It is now said we have done, but the people
in this country; called Polygars; are so deceitful
and treacherous; that there cannot be any certain
conclusion drawn from appearances. In fad, I have
seen- so mush of it; that I shall expert little or no
Test till we get out of the country altogether.
" In the course of out late excursions, the flank
companies of the 73d; some Sepoys, and a detach-
ment of Cavalry, performed one of the, longest
marches ever known to have been done in India by
Europeans we made a march of twelve miles on
the morning of the 9th. ult. over the sandy bed of
at river, being the only road : the afternoon of the
same day, we marched again, and continued marching
the whole of that night, and till about ro o'clock the
following morning, when we arrived at our objet,
being distant bz miles from the first ground we mov_
ed from, and so from the last, which was performed
in 29 hours altogether. . The time, you will say,
Was sufficient, but you must know that we had to
tradve with heavy scaling ladders, carried on Lascar's
Shoulders, and guns over a road, the 'greater part
of which wheeled carriages had never before gone.
The distress in the course of the night I cannot
describe to you : the want of water was one of
.-ahe greatest, which the darkness of the night,
ppd. the natural scarcity in that part of the country,.
qaftevented our finding. The Lascars dropping dead
'from under the ladders, the Europeans and Sepoys
tainting, and left apparently dead on the road, were
sights that made me shudder, although pretty well
accustomed to scenes of the kind within these last two
or three years. Much to our satisfa&ion, the whole of
the. Europeans recovered, and joined us soon after we
got to the place, end the only loss in deaths was
among the Lascars and Sepoys. The great-objeft
Was etfeded, which was the surpriiing and taking
prisoner a Mussulman, by name MAHOBIT CAUN,
who had joined with otT:ers in shaking off their
allegiance to the Company. -On the appearance of
the Cavalry, he made some chew of resistance, but
understanding the Infantry were close behind, he
surrendered.
" Another night_march we had .of twenty miles,
in which our success was equal to the other; but the
people defending themseivCs, caused great slaughter
among them, with the loss on our side. of a few
natives and horses. .
_ _

" An unfortunate, and I may say melancholy
occurrence, has happened to the Southward, - near
Pailamcottah, at a place called Pandalamcourchy,
and as I am certain you will not hear of it from
any public communication,. I will detail the hods
of it.

"About six months ago, a Polygar Rajah, con-
, fined in the Fort of Pallaincottah,contriVed to make
his escape,' and the country people, according to a
preconcerted plan, took up arms in his
.defence.
A Major i\el'CAtnAv, of the Company's Ser-
vice; Who commanded in that station, marched
against them with what any persan would have.
thought a sufficient farce to quell, or oblige them to
141:-"take to the jungle;. much, however, to the -astonish-
:mem of every one they not only stood their ground,
' c•ibat compelled the Major to retreat, after losing some
• hundreds of Sepoys killed and woundei, On this in-
telligence reaching Government, they ordered the
light company and one battalion compmy of the 74th
to reinforce the Major, who was nowsurrounded in
his Fort. This handful of Europeans struck such a
Panic into the deluded. Natives, that they imme-
Aliatefy fled to the Fort of Pandalamcoirchy, which
had cost the lives of a number of Oftlers in taking
not twelve months before, and, stratge to tell,
it had not been properly dismantledstnce. The
Major -being reinforced by the Eutoitans, imme.