The Sun.
London, England, 1804-04-18 00:00:00

ANOTHER PICTORt I?

An m-erland Dispatch arrived yestettlay at .the
India House, by which we are ehabled to give an
interesting detail of another important Battle fought
on th 29th of last November, which"cvas•folbowed
by a complete Victory, attended with very inconsi.
terable loss on our parr.

ea MP at Aa? Arcv. 30, rBl.
" t will endeavour to give you. a detailed ac.
count of a glorious Battle fought yesterddy: That
you may judge of the propriety of the ai`airtn, I
must relate to you the thalalititilCes WLlcia pre-
ceded it.
" IL appears that on the 231 , General
WELLESLEY entered into an agreement with Sici
DI A's Vakeels, that there should be a Cessation of
Arms between us and him ; that is to say, after
the space of
,ten da) s, .which were allovvetif for
Sc to sign the, Trtlaty ~ and perlani.o`tearii.
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ties of it ; one of which was, t retire
with his Army twenty tosses East or, 0401ppOr,
and maintain that_ distdOce at all titres imtween , his
and our Armies here, and in Otzerat, ke;',t2 pre-
vent the possibility of our Troops oluttlails corn.
ruining hostilities On nne another. Six days
.only
after the period presctibed,'wei-e elapsed, but he:had
_ not in the leastende.avoured to pettorin that most
essential part of ,lies agreement', :nc,-r was it actually
ratified; andhe cannot. have any excuse for saying
he did, not know of our advances for he. was very'
often written to, and toil to move away, as we
were gpirg against BuosLA's Troops, with whoa
he was then encamped. •
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"On the zBth a Vakeel came from the BllosLA's

brother,- but as he brought no credentials or powers,
&c. no.auention 'was paid to his advances. 'On the
29'h, while we were marching, and .about . three
miles after he had left our ground, a body of horse
appearecl,.and with therm anOther Vakeel trom BUN-
NA BAuroo, the BiIOSLA'S brother. The General
met him very cordially, and listened to his pro-

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posals, w W ch were as follows .
" That he wished to treat with the General, and
that as his and Sc armies were now near,
.he requested the General wouh3 return to the
ground he had left on the Poonan rirr,. and, in•
that case, the Armies of ScINDT.I and the. RAJA
would retire five cusses to the N. Sd. to prevent
hostilities. • , •

" To this the General replied,, g that they knew
of his advances, and he would not (Hill an Enemy's
Ariny in front) move' ack: ' Vakeel
then proposed, that he should,hait‘at the next water,
about three miles forward ; re which also, he said,
• he should move forward to the ground he at fiat
intended, andlhat thellito3l. A (being his own master)
would remove or nor, as he thought proper but that
if he was near, him, he would attack: him :' he then
told-the VAkeel, ' he should be very sorry that the
most trifling accident should happen to filth ; to
prevent which, he'begged he would go to the rear,
and remain with two people of ours, to protect him
until we had taken up our ground, when he should
athait him again.' With these proposals a letter

came from SO ND! A, and the same forms were gone
through with Colonel STEPHENSON, who replied,'
that he should march on, and it they were near
him, would attack them He advised them, how-
ever, to retire.' At half past eleven we arrived at
Pantrebe, the place where it was' first intended we
should halt, when we found the BHOSLA'S advance
had left it early that morning, and jiined his Army,
then laying five miles off on a very extensive plain.
From the tower of the village, their whole line was
observed, but•notanoving off, except their baggage.
At this time we were jawed by Colonel STEPHEN_
soN's Army, and were then taking ground for our
encampments, when several parties of the Enemy's
horse drove in our small detached parties of Allies,
and even advanced Gil the very ground we were
. lining cut.
Col. STEPHENSON'S party pitched their Camp,
as they had theft baggage with them, but only four
flags were pitched, as our rents, &c. Were left in the
rear, to enable us the better to engage, and to realer
them less liable to be attacked: Gen. WEL LESLEY
also moved on his Cavalry and Infantry so as to take
up their ground, and, in case of-necessity, to fight.
H.! also advanced the picquets on the road, with their
guns, and ordered (hero to fire on any body of horse
that should come within their reach. The Enemy's
horse still parading near us, were fired on by both
picquets and cavalry galloperi, and they retired to
a greater distance, but still prevented our followers
from foraging &c. At about two o'clock the .Ene-
my's army remained in line and entire, and were
then within about three miles of the right of OUP
line, which determined the General to move on to-
wards theni, still hoping they would clove off. He,
however, ordered Col. STEPS.] ENSOi'S Mop to join
him, and proceeded towards the At about
a quaker past. four o'clock, the Cavalry and ad-
vanced guard of our • army were at the village of
Sursoly, one mile and a quarter from the Enemy's
line, which at that distance had a most formidable
appearance. It was on a plain, upwards of three,
milts' in length, and of great depth, having goo.*
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' " At four o'clock, while all our Troops were in
column, and before they had advanced beyond the
village, the Enemy's guns -opened up-on us with a
quick' well.direCted fire, which occasioned (very
shortly) almost all our loss, by their guns being all
laid for the road near Sursola. The 'Troops. were
soon Moved round under cover of the village, and as
.our line deployed, their cannona,le became less de,
struaive ; and the moment the whole line was
formed, the orders for advancing were given, and
*the 'Whole of.our Troops advanced with great *iegu,
'miry, with guns, &c. and very shortly the Enemy
gave way in all ditedions. At this.time the British
Cavalry advanced, charged the large body•of the
Biros', and' dispersed them. A great slaughter
• etiStied:' `Our Cavalry pursued the fugitives until
night made it necessary' to call Ahem Inck ;
however, possessed theinseh:es of many elephants,.
camels, horses, arms, and baggage ; 'and at at»ur ten
o'clock, by moonlight, the Troops marched c., their
line at Paurrely, having marched 25 mires in that
day. A lindy or— about 1000-Mus
tommatid`of a Petsiir, atiathed 'to ihe'Bu(sLA'.,

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guns, under 13EE,Ny S;tid, stork.- most nobly.,- and
even advanced of our line,. which, luckily, oppo.
,site to them, was formed of the remains of the 74. th
Regiment ; and tit-, left of the 7Sth Regiranf, who
had their revenge for Asle, by.closing with them,'
and putting them all to the bayonet. one spot,
about zoo yards sqqare, I saw upwards of soo dead
bldiese The Enemy left about moo dead on the field
and. I have not the least doubt ti-:jr loss Must have
lieu' upwards of 3603 killed and Vnunded. Of
these, I believe, Sc tNpt A did not lase a rim, nor is
it well aseertyined that he engaged. • O;ir loss is
very tnc,,nsiderabic, not above 56 idled and 300
wounded, mtny of them very slightly. • .

Tr.e'V.keel of the 13tru,t,n'::, first mentioned
as not being received, eirrillrd and had an
with the General last night, AS he Lad brocight hi
CrdentiaLs, (W.* ,f,,rni from* RA' NGb ;77 E
RHO himseii: He is nut a Vi!keel sent affer the
aai-rt,.ag I a first sniposed.:. The min who 'met
us no the rold has nc); yer vii
-red the-General.-

" elepbaiit' driver, Ivho'had' his arm broke,
and was taken with a howdere'd elephant, &dares
that elephant, during the battle; carried the rof
RAGO'j r E Bitost.A,: who was severely ‘vounderl in
the aCtion, and was taken out Of r;:e n6wdzr
mounted on a liorSe ; and that he believes he. lias'
among the number afterwards stain be cur Cavair4,-.
The llowder appears evidently to have been broOn
by a cannon:shot. Many other 'great Bent- m'en
have certainly fallen on the 29th. ' We shall nioire
on to C?uhl"Shur soon ; and it is confidently assert.
.ed, that 'the RAJAH is in .very great-alarm for the
safety of that place, aild anxious to•prevent u 3 go-
. ing near it.
‘.' N. B. No Officers killed, and only four or five
wounded, but none badly."