The Sun.
London, England, 1819-01-15 00:00:00

FOR TIE SUN.

thltOß,—StXCltilot:Sß SnvS. tie w;il britur,
all things into the light of the Sun. I beg to
shine by Its reflection, and, ( hrtnigh your indul-
gence, to propose to him the following simple
ateriet for his solution
If Speech And Doctrine are synonimons, how
does he account for their logic4l application, as
the xignit rei•unt inVitulo raCterinni

theotooc,dly ?
hiitoriraily de facto ipso
Flow consistent with inspiration and the con,.
Current testinlony of all ages ?
How does Si ACKHoOsE reconcile the passages
or text from Mr. B. with the English; Hebrew,
Arabic, and Syriac Versions
As STACKHOUSE defends Mr. BELLAMY on the
ground of the ident Bonus, lie sacrifices the sense to
the sound ; consequently reduces Mr. B.'s Ver-
sion to )\o Anse.
Ergo—What is no sense ?

Ergp—Where is Accuracy of translation ?
I should, liad time permitted, 118'6e animadvert-
ed on the misapplication of Let and Lay. That
not being the case, I big to subscribe myself,
Sir, your Most obedient servant.
BREVITAS.

FOR THE SUN.

‘VESTMINSTER ELECTION.

tDrron,—li was with much pleasure that
read the Address of a Brother Elector in your
Paper of yesterday, calling upon this city to in-
vite the late distingoished Member for Devonshire
to become its Representative. I should'have ex-
perienced inure gratification, however, had the
intimation come from authority, and had it beets
announced for certain that so independent a matt
and so worthy a character as Sir THOMAS ACLAND
intended to come to our relief, and to give us
FM opportunity of vindicating our honour and
our patriotism. As I understand that be is still
in his native County, ignorant of the situation
in which the resignation of Sir MURRAY MAX-
w t. r. has placed us, 1 tbiak it is our duty
to lose no time in expressing our wishes
:winner which may induce him to quit his
retirement and to appear amongst us as the
ehanOon of our liberties. Let, then, those:
who have most influence in this city start for-
ward on the occasion. Lets
.a meeting be called,
and let ns hasten to sign a Requisition, and to
present to Sir THOMAS a list of names which will
remove all indecision on his part, and will at
once confound the hopes of the Candidate who is
now calling for our votes, with no other claim
upon us than the dictation of Sir FuaNcis HUH.,
DETT—a dictation to which we cannot submit
wit-limit Arising every shadow of independence,
and sinking into the most ahject,and degrading-
servitude. I have. conversed on the subject with
many other electors, and find amongst tbern but
one opinion. They all conceive that the credit
of their City would be restored by placing a matt
of private anti public worth at the bead of its le-
presentation. They only wait fur some person of
conseqoenee to assemble Own', and afford them
the occasion of expressing those sentiments, and
requesting Sir THOMAS ACLAND'S services openly.
Were a meeting once called, thousands of zealous
advocates for the character and real interests of
their City would come forward and render the re-
turn of the worthy, local, and independent Ba-
ronet a matter of absolute certainty. In the hope
that no time will he lost in thus rescuing our-
selves from indelible disgrace, I remaht,

ONE OF A THOUSAND.

DIABOLICAL Ac•r.--A poor woman, named
Coady, who lived in Stewart's Rents, Drury-
lane, and who for a length of time gained a live-
lihood for herself ar►d three children, by selling•
soup tinder the Piazza at Covent Garden, On
market days, returned home from her avocation
about nine o'clock yesterday moining, to prepare
breakfast for herself and children. She had no
fire lighted, and anxious to get the children's
breaktalits with as much have as possible, she
took the ignited charcoal out of her soup kettle-
stand, and put it into the grate, but being fearful
that the embers would expire, she went to tier
basket to throw more charcoal on ; this basket
she always took with her to Covent Garden,
with a liu3utity of charcoal to recruit the fire oc-
casionally, in order to keep the soup hot. Shc
bad no sooner flung the contents of the basket ott
the fire, than a most tremendous explosion took
place : the poor woman was knocked backwards
Ly the shock, and the immense volume of flame
which for a moment filled the room scorched her
dreadfully, and set several parts of her appsrel on
file The grwe was displaced by the violent concus-
sion, and all the fire was thrown into the 'room,
a considerable portion of which fell on the chil-
dren, and set their clothing in a blaze. One of
them, who had escaped any injury, in the at-
tempt to extioguish the blaze of her mother's
clothes, wasscorched very badly. This poor
family was thus situated, and the_ apartment on
fire in several parts round them, when a strong
sulphurenus smell, and a large body of smoke!
issuing from the room, excited the attention of
the neighbours. Several persons ran up stairs,
and there saw a most appalling sight : the mother
and two of tht. children were much scorched, the
room was on fire, and in one corner stood one of
the children crying most bitterly, without the
sense of call;ng for assistance. The neighbouts
carried them out, and conveyed them to St. Giles's
Workhouse, where surcical assistance was adini-
biStered to them, and they were then put to bed
in a shocking state —On examination since this
lamentable catastrophe, particles of gunpowder
have been found in the charcoal basket by the
firemen, whom Ate alarm had brought to the
spot. There is therefote bait Hide doubt that it is
the work of some-maticious person or persons, tr►
gratify a r.ullianly and unfeeling propensity for a
joke (if it can be called so), by blowing up the
poor woman's soup kettle, which, if it had suc-
ceeded, might b ive been attended with equally'
lamentable consequences.

The Ladies of Tavistock have purchaser!, .by
subscription, the machine called ‘i` The Chimney
Cleaner," for the general use of the town, in or-
der to abolish there the custom of employing
climbing boys.

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IN D! A.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE. LONDON GAZETTE,
OF TUESDAY, JAN. 12.
(Concluded from yesterday's' Paper.)

1:1:tlact front a Letter from Brigadier-General Munro, to the
:lountstuart Eiphinstone, dated 2d June BIS.

After leaving Sattarab on the morning of the
29th ult., I rejoined the reserve the following
tiay about noon. On try arrival found that an
ot der front Appa (a) Dessye to his officer at Ma-
nowlie (b), directing the immediate surrender of
that place to the company, had been received in
camp, and dispatched about an hour before.
Though the order itself was perfectly clear, I was
convinced, both from the character of the Dcssye
and his recent conduct, that it would not be acted
upon without an attempt being made to gain
time, and to try the effect of negociatiun.
therefore determined to prevent all unnecessary
delay by marching to Newpanie.

The Dew an Nerreet Mont said, that he would
himself instantly proceed to Manowlie and de-
liver it np He set out in the evening with a
party of t wenty horse, travelled all night, and
r( ached Manoti lie in the afternoon of the 31st
►►ic.. and made over the place to my Aumildar next

I orning.
When I Marched from Erroor on the 3lst
Appa Dessve had sent no order for the giving up
thedistrict of Chuckorie (c). His second Dewan,
Singoo Punt, who acCompanied We, proposed to
deliver up the Sircar, and retain the Ewan' Vll-
hiees (d). This plan was at once rejected, be-
cause it would in fact have enabled the Dessye to
continue to nniintain a number of his servants at
the expence of the di,tt lets ;--I told the Dewan
that the order must be for the surrender of the
whole district without any reservation, and that
it taus. be brought to tue before my arrival at
Nepawnie. He met me on the march yesterday
niorning with this' order, but as it reset veil the
Enain Villv,ges it was returned to hint, and lie
soon afer came back with another order of un-
conditional surrender.

Extracts from Reports from Lieutenant-Colonel
Commanding; a Detachment of the Hydrabad Subsidiary
Force, to the Adjutant-General of the Army.
Camp before :‘,lalligaum, Ist June, 1918.

0,, the 20th alt, I did myselt the honour of re-
porting to the Quacer•Master-General of the
Array, for the information of his Excellency the
Comminder•in-Chief, the movements and °pe-
rvious of tiie detachwept 1 command up to that
day

I have now the honour of forwarding a return
of killed and wounded from the ISth to the 29th
of last month.

On the 2.Sth the breach in the curtain of the
Fort of N.Ldli;,,Jintn tiv;►s reported and appeared
practicable, and the senior engineer, Ensign
Naves, recommended st►►rming next morning.

I made my arrangemetos for three simultaneous
attacks, two on the outworks and Penal' on the
opposite side, commatkied by Lieuteuant-Co-
lonel Stewaia and Major Macbean, and the third
and pri•icipal one on the road leading to the
breach under M.ijiir Greenhill, who had joined
me with the. second I,ittalion seventeenth, or
C. L. I. on the e% ening of the 27th. This attack
consisted of one hundred Europe Ans, nod five hun-
dred Sqoes of data eat corps, mostly'of the se-
cond battalion of the seventeenth, and beaded
by Ensign Nattes, sappers HIM Millera, ladders,
&c every mail carrying two bags filled with wct
grors, Ensign Nattes buns& setting the example.
t 'he road leading to the bleach of the out-
works is flanked by towers and loop holes ; how-
ever, our men moved on gallantly until Ensign
Nattes got to the top of the bleach, when he called
out " impracticable," and itwitetliately received
five balls in different parts of his body. Major
Greenhill had fallen a little behind in consequence
of a sm and in the heel, but Captain Kennedy led
on time advance, and was mortally wounded close
to where poor Nattes fell. All this time the fire
front the towers and loop-boles was kept pretty
well tinder by our shot, shells, and musketry from
the reserve. I was obliged, however, to sound
the recall,and our brave troops returned, more con-
vinced of their superiority over these Arabs titan
when they advanced. Capt. Kennedy and Ensign
Nattes, with must of the wounded men, were
brought back, but Lieut. Wilkinson, of the se-
cond battalion of the 13th regiment, and five
met] who were killed, remained in the bed
of the river, and on the top of the breach, un-
til doolies were seta, and the Arabs permitted
them to be brought in. Had it been possible for
our men to have got to the bottom of the breach
of the Fort, I have no doubt we should have car-
ried the place, but there was no road, the enemy
having cut away from the inside of the breach of
the outwork three times the depth of our scaling
ladders,

As the attention of most of the enemy was
drawn to this attack, the town of Malligaum Was
easily °ere:pied, and I have now turned the siege
into a. blockade until the battering guns and store
arrive from Ahmednuggur. Our approact.
the l'ettah side ere now within twenty pa 0
the enemy's outworks, and mines may be easily
carried on, wl,ich the river on the other side pre-
vented. The Fort and outworks of illalligaum
are nnrtommonly wel!-Intilt, and, without mining,
it will br impossible to fill up the different
ci.,cht‘s, I itiffirtit the loss of -so many gallant
office's and men since I came before this place,
but it is with much pleasure I report 'to his
Excellency, that every man WEIS cool and de-
termined, and never flinched mita the recall was
sowided.

Ileturn of Kil:ed and Wottnded in a Detachment of the Hy-
iii.ahad Sol),liiiarv. Force, under the command of Liente-
Inuit -Colonel A. at the Siege and Storm of Mal-
.. ligamu, from the 12th to 29th May, 1813.
Killed.
Europeans.-4 Lieutenants, 1 Ensign, 7 rant and file.
Native 3.-1 Jemidar, 1 Harlldar, 20 rank and file.
Wounded.
Europeans.-2 Nl3jort, 1 Captain, 2 Lieutenants, 1 Etliitp,
Skr:tuilts, 43 rack and tie.

1-!

;`mires.--2 Subidars, Q JeuxWars, 5 Havildars, 109 rank and
file.

Natnes of officer's killed and wounded.
Sappers and Miners.—Lient.,Dayis, Ensign Nattes.
2d Batt. 17, or C. L. I. Lieut. Kennedy.
Ist Do. 2d N. L—Lieutenants Egan and-Wilkinson.
Wounded.
Matiras'European Regiment—Major Andrews.
2d Batt. 17, or C.L. I.—Major Greenhill.
Russel Brig-ade.—Captain Larride, and Lieut. Kennedy.
Ist Batt. 2(1. N. L—Lieut.l)o•.vker.
Detachment of Artillery.—Lieutenant King.
His Majesty's Royal Scots.—Ensign Thomas. •
G. NIAII'LAND,
Major of Brigade
sth and 7th June, 1818.

4,..

I request you will report, for the information
of Iltig,dier-G,neral Doreton, !hat Ensign Porton
was %%rounded yesterday in the head, but 1 am
happy to say it is merely a graze.
I forward a copy of the orders I issued the 29th
and 3Otl► ultimo.

Camp beforl 29th May, 1813

Notwithstanding Major Greenhill and the offi-
cers and men who moved w wards (he breach this
morning met with obstacles not to be surmounted,
and were in consequence recalled, Lieut.-Colo-
net M‘Dowell was highly gratified at witnessing
the cool and determined courage of the Europeans
and SepOys on this trying occasion; and begs that
Major Greenhill, the officers and men in this at-
tack, will accept his best acknowledgments for
their gallant conduct.
Every European and Sepoy this morning en-
gaged, as well as the reserve in the trenches,,must
be convinced of the superiority of our troops over
these Arabs, although behind walls ; and time com-
manding officer looks forward for a good road to
the breach, to make a'n excel'ent example of them.
This order to be particularly explained to the na-
tive troops of this detachment......_

G. MAITLAND, M. B.
Camp before Mailigaam, .31st May, 1618.

In nulling the siege of Malligatun into a block-
ade, the commanding- offiCer has to Ihn►ent the
severe loss this detachment has met with in the
fall of so many valuable officers and men since the
1811) inst., particularly in Ensign Natter, of Cie
engineers, in leading he sappers and miners at the
huad of the storming party yesterday ; ti►e service
at large, but particulatly his corps, has lust in him
a gallant and skilful officer. While Lieut.-Colo-
nel Nl'Dowell thus deplores the loss in this siege
of two successive commandants of the corps of
sappers and mine's, he cannot withhold his ap-
probation from the surviving Officers, and he re-
quests Ensigns Parton, Lake, and Underwood will
accept I►is thanks for their zeal and unwearied ex-
ertions on all occasions, since they joined this de-
tachment.

Lieut.-Colonel M'Dowell also laments the fall
of Captain Kennedy, of the 2d hat. 17th regiment
C. L. I. who was mortally wounded close to En-
sign Mattes, and Lieut. Wi!kinson of the 2d bat.
13th regiment N. 1. who fell at the head of his
company, on the same occasion, as also Lieut.
Egan of the same corps, who died of the wound
lie received on the night of the 28th, while in
command of the left post. He is happy, how,
ever, to find that he will not long be deprived of
the services of Major Greenhill and the other
wounded Officers.

The commanding Officer takes this opportunity
of returning his best thanks to Lieut.-Colonel
Crosdill and the Officers and men of the Artillery,
f►►r their great and laborious exertion 3 in the dif-
ferent batteries during eleven days, by which a
breach was completed, with a few guns nearly
unserviceable. •

Lieut.-Colonel PDowell has not yet received
from Lieut.-Colonel Stuart, or Major M‘l3ean,
the operations of the parties under their
reports a
command in the assaults on different parts of :he
Pet t ah, but he is happy to know that their success
has given us complete possession of the town.

G. MAITLAND, M. B.

Copy of a Report from Lieutenant-Colonel AftDowell, to
the Adjutant-General, dated Nlalligautn, 17th June, 1818.
have the honour to report, for the in-
formation of bis Excellency the Commander-in-
Chief, that the garrison Malligaum surren-
dered unconditionally on the morning of the 14th
inst.

After forwarding to you, on the Ist, a return
of killed and wounded, and reporting the result
of the attacks on the Fort and Town, on the
moroiug of the 29th May, 7 changed ground to
the Pettab side, throwing up a strong redoubt
‘vherc our breaching battery was, and keeping
possession of all our advanced posts on that side,
and blockading the place as closely as the range
of the shot from the tort would admit.

-- • - -
inow commenced laying in fresh materials for
renewing active operations to occupy, if possible,
the place before the heavy rains set in, taking our
two unserviceable 18-pounders off the carriages,
and bringing from Chandoor and Unki-Tuuki two
others.

On the 18th, gabions and fascines for two bat-
teries were completed, and on the 9th, owing to
the great exertions of Br igidier-General Smith, a
park of tour 18 pounders, three brass 12-po►►nl-
ers, some mortars and howitzers, escorted by the
Ist battalion 4th Bombay infantry, under Major
Watson, arrived. On the morning of the 1 1 th,
battery of one 10-inch mortar, and seven 8-inch
mortars and howitzers opened. Several were
mown to ascertain the proper length ut the Born-
t: fusses, when we commenced a smart bout-

ktnent, and at 11 A. M. 1 had the sati•faction
to see the enemy's grand magazine blow up, cur-
rying with it, from the foundation, about 25
yards of the work of the inner fort, son►e of the
11,igah wall, and filling no Nut of the ditch ; still
an i►uweuse btrong wall of the out•works was
mire.

Wi,hin four hondred yards of this a breaching
battery was nearly finished on the night of the
11th, when the, garrison called out for quarter ;
our tire on the breach, however, continued till
morning, whey► the enemy hoisted a flag, and two
Arab Jernidars came out ; I told ►hem uncondi-
tional surrender was the only terms I could give
them. These, in the course of this day, the 12th,
were accepted, and next morning a native officer's
party wls admitted, and the British flag hoisted
on the Tower of the inner fort.

Finding that treachery on our part was sus-
pected, and wishing to do away a report all over
Kandcish to prejudicial to our character, I did

not hesitate in signing a-paper, declaring, in tlle
name of my Government, that the garrison should
not be put to death, after they surrendered ; and
I trust his Excellency will approve of this. Next
morning about three hundred men, mostly Arabs,
marched out and grounded, in front of our troops,
about nine hundred arms of different descriptions,
in an orderly and regular manner, which, with
the conduct of these men, on the morning of the
29th May, in allowing me to carry off my killed
and wounded, induced me to return to the three
Jetnidars, and most of the Arabs, the knives that
had belonged to their families for ages.
_ _

The ni;;tehlocks, blunderbusses, swords. &e
were disposed of to Lieutenant Rind's and Cornea
Kaye's auxiliary and ilindoostanee horse.
I have the honour to be, &e. &c. &c.
A. NI,DOWELI,

Extract from- a Letter from the Honolfrahle Mountstuart
Elphinstone, to Mr. Adam, Chief Secretary to the Bengal
Government, dated Camp, Casserbarry, 18th July, ISIS.
I have the honour to inclose a copy of a letter
front Captain Briggs, announcing the surrender of
Moolheir (e), wi►ich completes the reduction of
candeish,and terminates the war in thel'eithwah's
bite dominions.
Extract from a Letter from Captain Briggs, Political Agent
in Candeish, to the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone,
dated Sounghier, 15th July, 1818.
I am happy to inform you that Moolheir is at
present in our possession.

General Order by his Excellency the Governor-General and
Commander-in-Chief,dated Head-quarters, Camp, Oochar,
28th December, 1817. •

The Commander-in-Chief has much satisfaction
in announcing to the army the successfull result
of an attack (f) made by the troops under the
command of Brigadier-General Hardyman, con-
sisting of his Majesty's 17th foot, and the Sth
regiment of native cavalry, on a considerable
body of the Nagpore Rajah's troops posted near
the town of Jubbulpore, and supported by four
pieces of cannon ; which, after a short struggle,
were captured by our troops, the enemy being
completely routed, and dispersed with considera-
ble slaughter.

The evacuation of the fortified town of Jab-
bulpore, and the capture of several guns, and a
quantity of military stores, were the immediate
consequences of the foregoint operations, which
reflect credit on Brigadier-General Hardytnan,
and the troops engaged, and to whom, and espe-
cially to Lieutenant Pope, Bth native cavalry, the
Commander-in-Chief desires that his approba-
tion and thanks for their conduct may be comma-
Dicated.

' (a) One of the late Pvishwah's southern Jeg,beerdars.—
(6) A town on the river Malpurba, 30 miles N. of Darwar.—
(c) S. E. of Colapoor.—A Villages held rent free.—(e`) Forty
miles north ofChaudoor.—(f) This is the affair reported in
the dispatch from the Goternor in Council at Bombay, dated
14th January, 1818, published in the Gazette of 9th June;
1818, page 1047.