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[The follirtvirig Ofrtfi'ai fetter from Major:Geheill CA MP -
BEL L, command* the Forc.::.3 111 fie Ceded-Distrias, to
the Gov:rament of 111.idias4 has just ,becn received via
Bombay.]

TO JOl-11 Cl-I,4IIiNtF.K, ESQ. CiliEV SECkETARY TO

THE GOVERNMENT, FORT T. GEURGF,

tirl,

I have great satisfaaion in reporting, for the in-
formation of the Right Hon. the Governor in Coun-
cil, the following particulars relative to the opera-
tions against Timakull, which have happily termi-
nated in the fall of the Fort, and chastisement of
its rebel defenders. Immediately after the affair of
the eoth inst. I detached Major STRACHAN, Capt.
NoBLF, and Mr. Deputy Commissary BEST, to
Gooty, to prepare such heavy guns as the place af-
forded. On a minute inspcdion, only one iron
twelve, one iron and one brass nine-poundee, were
found fit for our purpose. By the strenuous exertions
of the garrison, these guns were brought down from
the rock, and zso rounds of ammunition for each,
with carriages, and the articles necessary to keep
them in order, were got ready ; and with this
supply the Major and party arrived in Camp
on the 26th. Fascines and gabions had been made
here ; and in the night of. the z9th, a battery for
six guns, against the North-west curtain of the lower
Fort, was conctrutqed by Capt. CRO5lOll,l', of Artil-
lery ; and another for three guns against the East
face of the Fort and Citadel, by Lieut. Fiecti ET,
of His Majesty's 731 Regiment : the guns were
also got into them, and at a quarter past six o'clock
yesterday morning, both opened with the best
possible effeet. In the course of the day, the fire
of Lieut. FITCHET'S battery effected a praCtica.
ble breach in the lower wall, and at the same time
opened the face of the Citadel ; while that from Cap.
tain CROSD LL'S made a breach it) the curtain suf-
ficiently wide for a Company ro enter abreast.—
These desirable objeits being attained, the Line
turned out at half past three in the afternoon, and
the Storming Parties were formed in the following
order : That for the North-west breach under
Lieutetrant-tolonel DAv ts, seconded by Major
STRACHAN, consisting of the flank and two Bat-
talion Companies of His Majesty's 73d Regiment ;
one Company of the ed Battalion of the 4th Regi.
went ; and four Companies of the•lst Battalion of the
zth Regiment, Native, flanked by forty volunteer
dismounted dragoons of His Majesty's egth Regil
went : That for the Eastern Breach, under Capt.
ROBERT MUNRO, consisting of three Battalion
Companies of His Majesty's 73d Regiment ;
the Flank Companies of the ,zd Battalion of
the 4111 Regiment, and two Companies of the 2d
Battalion of the ssth Regiment, Native Infantry.
At a quarter before four o'clock the Troops were
ordered to advance, and in half an hour were.
completely masters of the place, the Rebels having
quitted the works, and retreated to their well-
built houses, where they fir some time individually
defended themselves : most of them were, how-
ever, killed, and of those who fled, but very few,
if any, escaped the Cavalry, who surrounded the
Fort. To the honour of the Troops, I must beg
leave to add, that every woman and child was
huManely spared, only two of the former, and none
of the latter, having fallen, even from acciden-
tal shot. The wound formerly received by Lieu-
tenant-Colonel MONEYPENNY, deorived me of his
valuable services on the present occasion ; but
his place was most ably filled by Lieutenant_Colonel
Davis ; and though it is difficult to discriminate
where all have behaved in a manner so honourable
to themselves, with such -perfe& unanimity, and so
much to my entire satistaation, I vet feel it my duty
to point out to his Lordship's notice, Lieutenant_
Colonel MONEYPFNNY, Lieutenant_Colonel DAVIS,
Major STRACHAN, Capt. ROBERT MUNRO, Capt.
CROSDILI., Capt. Noisir, and Lieutenant FITCHET,
as Officers whose zeal and ability have shone conspi.
cuous throughout, and to whose exertions I am
particularly indebted.

Much praise is due to my Aid-de-Camp, Captain
READ, whose zeal and aaivity, during our various
operations against the place, were unremitted. Nor
can I pass over in silence the meritorious conduft of
Lieutenant MAC LEAN, of His Majesty's 25th Light
Dragoons, who on the several attacks of the 24th,
zoth, and loth instant, stein voluntarily forward to
accompany Major STRACHAN.

The conduct of Mr. Deputy Commissiry BEST
has also been much to my satisfaCtion.
It gives me the most heartfelt pleasure to add,,
that not a life has been lost on this occasion, and
that the accompanying return (not received), of
wounded, will be found to contain but very
The Officors and most of the men formerly wounded,
are doing well.
A minute exlmination of the Fort, and the know-
ledge since obtained, enables me to add. that the at.
t.tcki IvlaJur STRAcuAN, on the /4th inst.
was by no means more spirited than judicious, for
determined resistance must long ere•that have been
the fixed intention of the Rebels, as it is now ascer-
tained that the several gates were previously built
up.

- The Potail, or Killeklar, of Timakul, has been
hangrii, but the women, children, and such of the

wounded Rebels as were collected after the assault
of yesterday, have been permitted to depart.
It is my intention to destroy the %vitae of 'the
Fort, and I feel confident that this. example will
effedualiy restore the tranquillity of the Adoni Pro-
vince.

I have the Honour to be, &c.
(Signed) DUGALD CAmrDELL, Mtj..Gen.
Camp at Tiatakull, lax. 1, 1832.

Yesterday evening, about six o'clock, as some
workmen were pulling down an old house in jer-
myn-street, nearly opposite Market-street, which
had been uninhabited for seven years, one of the
floors fell in, by which one man was killed, and
three others buried in the ruins ; but they were af-
terwards dug out, and are in a fair way of reco-

verin,ro.

The Fame, Surman, from London to Montreal,
struck on a rock on' the .13(11 of May, ofr Dach,nn-
l)Q.au,between Quebec and- Mont Kai, and 1,1.15 been
full of water.

SUh'I.IIER ASSigEt,

HEIZTFORD

There were only nine Prisoners on the Crown
side, one of wh0..11 was capitally convined, viz.
John Criswell, fir burglnriously breaking- and en-
tering- the dwelling_house of William •Kirby, at
Essendon, and stealing from thence a sack of flour,
three hams, a watch, some money, and sundry ar-
ticles, his property. The principal evidence was an
accomplice, of the name of Lavveorti, who deposed,
that on the i nth of April, he and Criswell, in corn,
parry with a man not taken, broke and entered Mr.
Kirby's house, at ten o'clock at night, and, after
regaling themselves below, proceeded to the apart.:
meat of the Prosecutor and his wife, two old and
infirm persons, where with impr(Tatio.n, they de-
manded their money. Mrs. Kirby said, ''
will you come to the di,:tressed, we have no minev.
to give, we can scarcely maintain life by our in.
descry." The Prisoner replied, "re know vou
have got money, and money wewiil have." They
then proi:eeded to ransack a chest of drawers in. the
m.:111, and took from thence every thing they could
find. They then fastened the prosecutor and his
wife in, and went into the bed_roorn of their stn:, a
lad, of whom they demanded his watch ; the young
lad hesitating to give it, they beat him exceeding_
ly ; after which they left the house, the Prisoner
putting on the shoes of the Prosecutor, .vhict:
lion, thlede
tape wi ti)ie
ttohisdte,eli(tl;, and sub:;equent convica,
were tied with being
sworn to by the Pros :ewer's wife. The Jury re-
commended the Prisoner to mercy, from the suppo-
sition that he had been led into the com:nission of
the crime by the evidence, who appeared to be the
worse charaeter of the two. The Judge, therefore,
respited the Prisoner, till His is/Ljesty's pleasure
should be known.

The trials on the Pleas side were infinitely more
interesting, and were mostly Special Jury causes.
Major Brown brought his Action against JamnesGtus
Stevens, a Farmer near Hertford, to dispossess him
of his farm, in consequence of a breach of contral.
• It appeared that the Defendant rented a farm of Mr.
Brown, called St. Margaret's Farm, upon the ex.
press condition, " that he should constantly keep
and fold fourscore sheep upon the farm," which,
it was alledged he had omitted to do. The
evidence on the part of the Plaintiff proved this
allegation to be correa, consequently confirmed
the breach of contract. The Defendant, in re-
ply, observed, that the Plaintiff wished to get him
out of his farm, and htd made this circumstance a
pretext to ejel him. It was true, he had not kept
four-score sheep constantly on his farm, but had
provided excellent maiure in lieu of the advantages
likely to result from the feeding of cattle, and that
it was a case of extreme hardship and. oppression.
Nothing, he said, could be set up as to the, bad
management of the farm, and it was the inost un-
fair dealing that could possibly be, for a-Landlord to
endeavour to dispossess an old Tenant, who had
expended his money, and exerted his best skill
in the improvement of a farm, from no other mo-
live than a conviuion that he could gain consider_
able advantage from the effeCts of such expenditure
and industry.
The Learned Judge, MACDONALD said it was
either a breach of contrati; or it was nothing ;
would allow it was a hard, case, but he could look
only to the contraCt the Parties had entered into.—
The Jury were bound to take the same view of the
case, and it was for them to say whether the Defen-
dant had titled conformable to what he had bound
himself.

The jury retired for a considerable time, when
they returned a f.rdiet fur the Plaintiff, observing,
that the Lac4o compelled them to find such a rerdiitt.
This trial excited considerable intere;:r, a> it was
supposed to be not altogether unconneaed with
electioneering differences.

To 1.11.7 'Rig-;t lionvqrag:l4'. LOR 1!) '1
37 0-1, NT. :*C AS

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TLERSACH; &C. 0;„

Via the,...1.0,y,0r, Community, and Citizens,ofrhe
City of London-Perry, in .Common Council assem_
Weill ',this 17th Day of April,.tBoz,..bek •leave.to
congratulate your Lordship ,on the return:of the-
London-Derry Regiment of iVljlitia into this City
and. County ; and we em.btae the earliest moment
to express.our approbation of the Conduta by, which
the Officers, rslod.commissioned-Officeys, aticUri-
vales,. were diiiitiguished during. the calamitous:,
disturbances which agitated, chat pirrt of ,the
dom where they served k.a Condua,houourable to
themselves, -and -td their. Country ; and
we have nn doubt, .that the same Spirit.whicit; when
Treason acid Disorder were afloat,•athaated them to,
support the charaaer_of 'brave and loya,t, Soldiers,
will operate upon( theni With equal advantage in the
pursuit of their several peacetul avocations, novii
that their military,services,.are• no longer required..:
We cannot permit the present occasion to pass,
without declaring our admiration; of your Lord-,
ship's ability, in guiding the Affairs of Ireland
through periods, perhaps the most trying ever ex-
p rienced.
We refiefi with gratitude, that a Barrier has been
placed to the recurrence of such unfortunate times,
y,or Lordship's Exertions, in happily, acctini-
+fishing a Legislative Union with Great Britain ;
anti we feel confident, that, those Talents which
were so successfully displayed in rescuing this Na-
tion fr-in ,destaidion, and establishing its trap_.
quillity on a firm basis, will he as. zealously em-•
ployed in pronioting its future Welfare, .and watch-
ing over the. preservation of. those Blessings it .now
en ivy . . .

BY 9rdery

S. moviiowaiity, Chamberlain

To the MAy'.oll., CO-NIMUNITY, and CITIZENS of the
CITY of Lo—NDOII.I)EiRy. •

GENTLENt P.N,

_ I have to acknowledge, which I do with,great
satisfadion, 'your Address agreed to in Common
Council, on the 47th April,. tBr)a, and -transmitted
to me by your wozily Mayoj, .which y.ou are
;pleased to-express your approbatioz of. the conclud
:of.the Officers,.Non-cominissioned Officers and
vates of the London-Derry Regiment
during. the important period which his elapsed since
they were-first embodied.- . .
The Regimeni which ibears....the name
.-Of your
City, could not but feel, , that it-liad a high-Oar-4_
ter to support., and an. animating example of Fidelity
:and Loyalty to-imitate, growing out of -your -an,
,nals. It is a justice due to. them. to state, antlyl do'
.it those seniirrients -of. pride, in, which :You
will na-4trally participate, that during the late pain-
ful ,struggici-wiwn attempts, the most systematic,
were made to-.c67.ußt.and.seduce..ille King's Troops
.fiom their allegiance,..not a.single ipsranee- has. (re-
curred,' in which a Soldier „.of the Ltindon,Derry
„Regiment ksrgar::so fat Atillikt he owed himself and
his Corps, as to.des.ert to ;his Sovereign.—
lam persuaded. they Wilt feel proud of the ciistinc,:
tion which-you have conferred upcg3 .qwkr), and de_
!letter to forfeit,it.by- JuiscoodUA,_.
1 beg leave to offer to 9 you, Gentlemen,:hy sip-
sere congratulations on the .restoratioo of Peace
The nine last years have formed an awful period: in
the History of the W0r,14, and no portion:of it has
kit the influence of the times more critically Haan
Ireland. I trust, we may consider the danger which
kis threatened our Keligion,-..Loviatict,l.it'iei•ties,
in common with those of other ou.ntries, as in a
great measure, if not
.wholly, gone by. The'Brilish
Empire 11:4s survived the shuck_ s,vhich-proved. fatal
to so many other States, with credit and resources
unbroken—Commerce and- Manufadures increased.;
and increasing—her Religion, Laws, and Liberties
entire—tier charatler_for Naval ata:Milita.ry Glory;
confirmed and augmented, and her Cons;ltntion it-
self not only preserved, but from the energy it has
displayed, under the pressure of -unparalleled diffi-
culties, more than ever the envy and admiration 'of
the world. _ _

Flattering prosspeEis of general prosperity 80
ternal
,preienr themselves to Ireland,
arising out of Tier new situation; and I fully parti
cipate in the convielion-which You express, tha,t,the
Union which has•heen so happily accomplished, will
save us hereafter any things-an), frorn a recto.-
rence of sOch,painful trials, as those we have lately

gone through.
Wha teller difficulties we may yet have to contend
against, I'am confident the Citizens of Demt will
always stand conspicuous, as they ever have 'done,
in the discharge of their Puslic Duties- - They May
rely on my anxious ;61icitude to watch over- the
-Pr—perityOf Ireland, and I shall always be proud"
with a graterui ;sense of their too partial kirdnesS,
to co-operate with them- in , itnproving our Native
Country, and in preserving that Constitution in
Church and State, for which they and their An.
cestors have Contended successfully on more than
•
one occasion:- • '

I have the lionotir to remain, •
Gentlernen;- -
Your most faithful-and obedier,t Servant,
• . CASTLEREAGH.

„;,

• OP , ueNd.tv se'nnightl a cause of considerable
..irripprtnnde, to:the Public' was decided at the East
`-Riding of,yoKic se,s„,ions; The Toi&rishipict Norton-
,curn.Suvoncwas indikd fir not repairing a high-road
in the Town p, of tl length cif 3700 yards. This
iindidment was s.ubtßitted t 0.,: The road's was, in
fad, part. of the Turnpike leading from Mahon to
Scarbro',. and the Township, ave notice to the
,Trustees of the Turnpike, that the Court would
be moved to apportion any fine imposed between
.the -Township and- the Trustees, under the, provision
of the general Ttirnpike .A,t-t. The cOurt was moved
accordingly, and.a fine of Soo]. imposed, 6001. of
Iwhich, together with three-fourths of all costs in-
.curred, to be taxed by the Clerk of the Peace, was
t.ordereds,to be paid by the Township, and root. the
,remaipdgr,,of the costs, by the Trustees of the said-
-Road. • ,

L N DON Printed b
At tile SuN.Orrics,

AtCl-lUs..t•tttir r, IDO.CTORS) C6Tvill/41ONS,

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,MONI)i,Y, JULY 19,
,1802.

cgazfirt

It apreuted 'chat-the parties in this Cause lived in
the neighbourhood-of Wallingford, anti -the Cause,
which is of a very extraordinary tiature, commenced
in the. A.tchdeaconry Court of Perks, froth whence
it Caine by aNreal 'S o, the Court of ArcheS. Mrs.
Kirby had originally brought het suit for a tetitu.:,
tion of conjugal rites. Mr.-Kirby set up a &large
of adultery, in bar to the citation, and accused his
wife of. a criminal.intercourse with Mr. Mason, a
relation,
.with his'manservant named Frewin, and
with a reSpeaahle 'Gentleman residing in the neigh-
bourhood of Wallingford.—While the_ snit was de-
roding.in the Coo 'of • Arches, Mrs. K. received
information..tbat her husband was 'carrying on an
:adulterous intercourse with a servant maid in
the ..hottFe,.: named Sarah Parsons, and gave into
Court. an iillegation, charging him with such trris-
' conduet..,,7flltp.,the original nature of the Cause for
a restitution was altered by both parties, to one of
divorce ; and the Learned Judge who tried it (the
Right Hon: Sir WILLIAM WYNNE) appeared to
entertain considerable doubt; whether the proof of
ado!tery by the, wife against her husband, would
itritle her to a divorce, or to any benefit beyond
that: of repelling her husband's charge, seeing that
in the outset of the sui*she had only
_prayed a re_
stitution of her conjugal rirPc. Ttm J,408'
.eti, that two -of -the Witnesses produced by the-
husband.gaveno evidence to found the slightest su-
spicion against Mrs. K. and that the husband's case
was supported merely
.by the evidence of three wo
men, ..named Mary Kent Oormerly Parsons, sister
of the' aforementioned Sarah, Parsons), 'Mary Par.'
sons, who married Sarah Parsons's brother, and Jane
Neale, whohad all three ventured to swear posi-
tively to transaetiono, which they stated to have
taken place at Wallingford on the zest of January
and 21st July, 1:795, between Mrs. K. and the
neighbouring Geptleman„ who being examined him_
self,, together with several. of his. friends and ac::
quatntanees_ in lanndon, gave. the most satisfadory
evidence' that. he *was in-London on both those days,.
and-for Several days before. and after...

:The-Learned Judge moreover observed, that
these ihree women_ not ,pnly contraliCted each other
itt.3.vell as themselv4.-s,- but were proved by many
prisons living in-the neighbourhood, to be women
-of the most abandoned ,thayader,
;and undeserving
:of credit ;-.and in regard to the neighbouring Gen
tlernan, Mr:. Mason (since dead),. and r!rewin • the
servant, he said' the. proofs. as to the two former,
even if they were to,bActedited, amounted.at most.
to an indiscretion, And in regard to the latter, who
is :at service near, Hull, in Yorkshire, he had by
his examination completely repelled the pretended
charge made against him. Ti'pon the whole, the
Learned. Judge was- ,clearly of opinion,'that Mr:
K. had failed 'in bringing any proof of misconduct
against his wife; And that she, on the contrary, was
completely exculpated, not only in his opinion, but
also in..,the opinion of her neighbours, many of
whom gave-evidence of their having entrusted their
daughters to be educated by her at a boarding,school
she had at Zwolme, near Wollingford, before she
was married .to. Mr. K. and after she 'had been in-
dircedto leave his- house in consequence of ill treat-
ment.--The Judge in conclusion added, that as
Mrs, K. no longer prayed restitution, he was com-
pelled to dismiss the:suit.
Mrs. K. has,:.we -understand, appealed the cause
to the High Court of Delegates.