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have submitted to at our hands since November,'lB39 :
the numbers of the ,troops engaged cannot be very ex-
actly ascertained from the returns before us : those we
have set down will be found a very close approximation
to truth. The casualty list on our side is official, and
of course exact : _ _

Nov. 3, 1839.-11. M. S. Volage and Hyacinth, in
ascending the Canton River, were attacked near Chuen-
pee, by 29 war junks; an action.ensued, and•in less than
an hour the whole of the junks were disabled-3 had
been sunk, one had blown up, and a number had driven
on shore. Our loss was one man wounded ; that of the
enemy between four and five hundred killed and wounded,
The Chinese force was computed at 3,000 men, and 300
guns ; our's amounted to 400 men, and 50 guns.
July 3, 1840.—Amoy fort razed. Flag of truce sent
in by H. M. S. Blonde, was fired on—casualties not given
—probably about 50 of the enemy killed. 16 junks
sunk by H. M. S. Alligator—about 30 of the Chinese
killed.

s.—Chusan taken. 91 guns captured. Our force con-
sisted of H. M. S. Wellesley, Conway. Alligator, Rattle-
snake, H. C. steamer Atalanta, and 18 transports, con-
taining H. M. 18th, 26th, and 49th, Royal Marines, Ben-
gal Volunteers, Madras Sapper and Miners—in all 4,500
or thereabouts : that of the enemy nearly 5,000. 25 of
the Chinese killed. _ _

September 19.-11. M. S. Druid, Hyacinth, and Larne,
and H. C. steamer Enterprise, destroy a jos-house which
had fired upon Macao. Troops engaged-120 marines,
80 seamen, 180 sappers, 300'm all, under Captain Mee,
of the Bengal Volunteers : enemy's force 1,000 (?) Our
casualties were 4 wounded ; those of the enemy 40 killed.
January 7, 1841.—Chuenpee and Ty-cock-tow forts
destroyed. Our troops consisted of a detachment of
Royal Marines, the 26th and 49th Queen's, 37th M. N. 1.,
Bengal volunteers, Royal 'Artillery, three guns, and a
party of seamen—in all about 1,400 men. The ships
engaged were, the Melville, Wellesley, Blenheim, Sul-
phur, Calliope, Hyacinth, Lame, Druid, Modeste,
Columbine, Samarang, and Starling, and steamers Queen
and Nemesis. The casualties on our side were 38
wounded ; of the enemy between 300 and 400 killed
and wounded. 173 pieces of ordnance were captured
on this occasion.

February 22.—Masked battery of 20 guns at the back
of Anunghoy, destroyed by the Nemesis, without loss on
our part ; 30 of the enemy killed ; 80 guns disabled.
26.—Annunghoy and North Wangtong captured :
forces employed—detachments of the 26th and 49th
Queen's, 37th M. N. 1., Bengal Volunteers, Royal Ma-
rines ; vessels—Blenheim, Melville, Wellesley, Calliope,
Samarang, Druid, Alligator, Herald, and Queen and
Madagascar steamers. Our casualities were 5 wounded;
those of the enemy 500 killed and wounded—among the
former was the Chinese Admiral Kwan ; 1,300 were
made prisoners.
27.—Light squadron proceeded up the river and
attacked the enemy, who were strongly posted near
Whampoa Reach, with 40 war-junks, and the Cam-
bridge. In an hour the batteries, junks, &e., were
silenced, when the marines and small-arm men were
landed and stormed the works, driving otr the enemy's
forces, amounting to 2,000, of whom nearly 300 wore
killed ; 98 guns captured ; our loss was 1 killed and
8 wounded.

March 2.,--Battery of 25 guns on Junk river captured,
with a loss of 15 of the enemy killed, and on our side
1 seaman mortally wounded.
s.—Howqua's Fort having been abandoned the pre-
, ceeding night, was taken possession of, and garrisoned by
H. M.'s 26th Regiment.
6.—Troops landed on the left bank of the River, con-
sisting of the detachments of H. M.'s 26th and 49th
Regiments, under Major Pratt, 26th ; and Royal Marines
of the fleet, under Captain Ellis ; the light squadron and
flotilla weighing anchor at the same time. On the first
-vessel passing the barrier, the Chinese fired off the guns
in the centre battery, and retired ; the guns in the two
flank works had been previously withdrawn, and these
defences were immediately occupied by the seamen of
the fleet. The town of quiton now lay at the mercy of
the troops; but a letter having been received from H.M.'s
Plenipotentiary by the Commander-in-Chief, the troops
were re-imbarked on board the transports, and fell down
the river to the Bocca Tigris.
15.—Attack and capture of a fort at Whampoa by
H. M. S. Modeste and steamer Madagascar ; 3 men
wounded on our side ; and many of the enemy found
dead—exact number not known.
13.—Fort of Motao captured by the Nemesis and boats
of the Samaranc, :13 guns destroyed. Several other
small forts also astroyed.
14.—Fort of Hong-how destroyed.
15.—Five forts, one battery, two military stations, and
nine war-junks, mounting 115 guns and 8 gingalls, de-
stroyed by Nemesis, &c., with 3 seamen wounded on our
part—casualties of the Chinese unknown.
18.—Chinese fire on a flag of truce sent to the Impe-
rial Commissioner. Forts, defences' and flotilla cap-
tured off Canton : Union Jack placed on the walls of the
British Factory in Canton by Captain Herbert. 123
guns taken. Enemy's casualties upwards of 400 • ours
being 7 wounded. Suspension of hostilities agreed
May 23 to 30.—Canton captured. 3,200 men engaged.
Casualities on our side, 13 killed, 112 wounded ; enemy's
casualties, 1,500 killed, 3,000 wounded. 6,000,000 dol-
lars paid as ransom for restoration of Canton. Fleet re-
tired 31st May.
Aug. 26.—Amoy captured ; 500 guns taken. Our
casualties were, 2 killed, and 15 wounded ; those of the
enemy about 100 killed. Enemy's force estimated at
from six to ten thousand.

3L—Battery on the islaud of Quemoy destroyed by
.he Nemesis.

Oct. I.—Chusan re-occupied by the British troops.
Our force amounted to 2,600 men. 100 iron and 36 new
brass guns, 550 gingalls, &c., captured. Our casualties
were, 2 killed, and 27 wounded. _ _

107.—Chinlia.e captured. 67 pieces of brass, and 90 of
iron ordnance taken. Our troops amounted to 2,098--
those of the enemy to about 12,000. Our loss was, 8
killed, and 16 wounded ; that of the enemy 150 killed.
13.—Ningpo having been evacuated by the enemy, was
taken possession of by our forces on the 13th Oct
March 12, 1842.;---Attack made by the Chinese on
our troops at Ningpo and Chinhae. About 12,000 of the
enemy entered the former city, but were beat off with a
loss of 250 killed. They were also repulsed at Chinhae
with great. -slaughter. Thirty junks destroyed near
Chusan by the Nemesis, &c., &c.
15.—A body of between 3,000 and 4,000 Chinese hav-
ing encamped at the town of Tsee-kee, eleven miles west-
ward of Ningpo, for the purpose of stopping the supplies
of the British, were attacked by a force, consisting of de-
tachments of 18th, 26th, 49th, and a naval brigade
—l,lOO in all ; enemy's force abOut 6,000. They were
quickly routed, with a loss of about 400 killed ; our
casualties were three killed and forty wounded.

Total British casualties, 35 killed and 276 wounded.
Chinese ditto upwards of 8,000 killed and wounded. 1,819
guns captured and destryed.

INDIAN DESPATCHES.

OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF MAJOR-GENERAL
SIR IL SALE'S FORCE AT JELLALABAD.
NOTIFICATION.-SECRET DEPARTMENT.

Bombay Castle, June 11, 1842.
The Hon. the Governor in Council is pleased to re-
publish for general information the following notification
issued at Allahabad on the 26th ult., under the orders of
the Right Hon. the Governor-General of India.
By order of the Hon. the Governor in Council,
.J. P. WILLOUGHBY,- -Secretary to Government.
NOTIFICATION.-SECRET DEPARTMENT.

Allahabad, May 26, 1842.

The Right lion. the Governor-General-of India has
been pleased to direct the publication of the annexed
copies of the despatches from Major- General Pollock and
Major- General Sir R. Sale, K.C.B.
(Ppy.)

FROM MAJOR-GENERAL POLLOCK, C. 8., COMMANDING
TROOPS WEST OF INDUS, •TO T. 11. MADDOCK, ESQ.,
SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT POLITICAL DEPARTMENT.
Camp Jellalabad, April 19, 1842.
Sir,—l have the honour to forward a letter from
Major-General Sir Robert Sale, K.C.8., detailing the
progress of events during the long and perilous siege sus-
tained by the force under his command.
2d. The gallantry of the Major-General and his small
force are too well known to Government to require any
commendations from me, but it is very pleasing to me to
be the channel through which their many trials are
brought to the notice of the Right lion. the Governor-
General of India in Council.
I have had an opportunity of inspecting the works
thrown up for their protection; by the indefatigable exer-
tions of Sir R. Sale's force, and my surprise at their
strength and extent has een only equalled by my ad-
miration of the excellent arrangements which must have
pervaded all departments, since, after a siege by greatly
superior numbers, of upwards of five months' duration,
I find the garrison in excellent health and spirits, and in
an admirable state of discipline, with a good supply of
anynunition, ready and anxious to take the fielk and
mo it willing to advance on Caubnl.
I have the honour to be, &c.,
(Signed) GEO. POLLOCK, Major-General,
• Commanding Troops West of Indus.

TO T.:11. MADDOCK, ESQ., SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT,

POLITICAL DEPARTMENT.

Jellalabad, April 16, 1842.
Sir,—The relief of this place having been at length
effected by the victorious advance through the passes of
the Khyber, of the army under Major-General Pollock,
C.B , I conceive thatd owe it to the troops who have so
long; formed the garrison here, to address to you a re-
port, which may convey some notion of their conflicts
and the severity of their duties, labours, and privations.
It has before been made known to Government, that I
reached Gundamuck on the 30th of October, 1841, under
instructions from the authorities at Caubul, and there re-
ceived intelligence of the breaking out or a terrific insur-
rection at the Affghan capital on the 2d November. My
retracing my steps on that city was, in a military sense,
impracticable, since the first inevitable sacrifice would
have been of the lives of 300 sick and wounded, whom I
could not have left in depot with the treasonable irre-
gulars at Gundamuck, whilst my cattle was unequal to
the transport of my camp equipage, and my ammunition
insufficient for protracted operation. In the position
elcn water,ouldnot
aanbdsolsuhtoeulyidcohz been
maanda
day's which
provisionsl occupied,
dve or
hemmed in on every side by hostile tribes, amounting to
30,000 or 40,000 men, part of whom might have seized
Jellalabad and reduced it to ashes, or holding it, have
left me no alternative but a disastrous retreat towards
J'eshawur, I therefore came to the resolution of anti-
cipating any movement of this kind, and by possessing
myself of this city, establishing a point on which the
force at Caubul might retire, if hardly pressed, and re-
storing a link in the chain of communication with our
provinces. Two marches brought me, after a successful
contest at Futtahabad to Jellalabad. My breaking up
from Gundamuck was followed by the immediate defec-
tion of the irregulars there, the destruction of the can-
tonment. and a general rising of the tribes. I found
the walls of Jellalabad in a state which might have
justified despair ft to the. passibility of defending
them. The enciente kixeensi've for 'my striall

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force, embracing a circumference of upwards of 2,300
yards. - Its tracing was vicious in the extreme ; it had
no parapet excepting for a few hundred yards, which
there was not more than two feet high. Earth and
rubbish had accumulated to such an extent about the
ramparts, that there were roads in various directions
across and over them into the country. There was a
space of 400 yards together on which none of the gun
rison could show themselves, excepting at one spot.; the
population within was disaffected, and the Whole encientc
was surrounded by ruined forts, walls, mosques, tombs,
and gardens, from which a fire could be ppened upon
the defenders at twenty or thirty yards. •
The garrison took full possession of the town in such
a state on the morning of the 15th of November, and in
the course of 'the day the place and detached hills by
which on one side it is commanded were surrounded,
and surmounted by a force of not fewer than 5,000 in-
surgents. A general attack on the 14th of November
ridded us of these enemies, and a similar array brought
against us a fortnight afterwards was dissipated by a
second sally on the Ist of December. But we had seized
the town, having in our possession not quite two day's
provisions and corn for our men and horses, and beheld
the arduous task before us of striving to render the
works defensible , and collecting supplies fur our maga-
zine from the midst of a fanatical and infuriated people,
with very narrow means in the way of treasure to pur-
chase them. I appointed Captain Broadfoot, Shah
Soojah's Sappers, Garrison Engineer, and Captain Abbott,
of the Artillery, Commissary -of Ordnance. Captain
M'Gregor, Political Agent, gave me the aid of his local
experience, and through his influence and measures our
Dak communication with India was restored, amid a great
quantity.of grain collected, whilst the unremitting and
almost incredible labours of the troops, aided by
the zeal and science of Captain. Broadfoot, put
the town in an efficient state of defence.
Captain Abbott made the Artillery disposition in
the ablest manner, and used every exertion to add to
and encourage our resources, in the way of gun and
musket ammunition, in both of which we were deficient
for the purpose of a siege. Lead and powder were pro-
cured in and about Jellalabad, and a
_quantity of cart-
ridges discovered in an old magazine, and thus the
troops completed to two hundred rounds per min. It
is to be remarked, that
might, in the second week of
November, have marched upon Pesh Bolak, relieved
from investment the corps of Jazalchees under Captain
Tt),:p3,
Ferris, and with it operate:, a doubtful retreat upon
Peshawar.
duty to give support
to
struggling against
their numerous enemies at Caubut, and maintain for
the last momentßul felt
t it
our to be
tr t
them a point on which to retreat arid rally if they met
with reverse.

(! l
iLt4hett !ki thh a ofn r
eblJanuaryelin to
o Iwas summoned by the leaders
theof
give up the place, in fulfil-
ment of a convention entered into by the political and
military authorities at Caubul, but as I was fully assured
of the bad faith of our enemies, I refused to do this, and
on the 13th received the melancholy intelligence of the
disastrous retreat of our troops from the capital, and their
annihilation in the Ghitzie defiles by the rigours of the
climate and the basest treachery on the part of those in
whose promises they had confided. Almost at the same
time it became known to us that • the brigade of four
regiments marched to my succour from Hindostan had
been beaten in detail, and forced to fall back upon Pe-
shawur; my position was most critical, and I might,
hing
whilst our enemies were engaged in
force from Caubul, have attempted, and perhaps etFected,
plundering the
resolvedt h ougli withat
allh h
e
aliz'ard loss,
on- n
oretreatres,a
on the chief town of the valley of Ningrahar, and
the key of Eastern Affghanistan, so long as I had
reason to consider that our Government desired to re-
tain it. The discouragements of my garrison at this
moment were very great, their duties most severe, their
labours unceasing, and the most insidious endeavours
mile by the enemy to seduce the native portion of them
from their allegiance. But their fidelity was unshaken,
and their serenity amidst labours 'and privations un-
clouded. With reference, however, to the state of fana-
tical excitement and national antipathy which prevailed
around us, I had been compelled, as a measure of pru-
dence, to get rid, first, of the corps of Khyber Rangers,
and next, of the detachment of Jazalchee;, and a few of
the Affghan Sappers and a body of Hindostimee gunners,
who had formerly been in the employment of Dost Ma-,
homed Khan. Works had, in the meantime, been com-
pleted, of which the annexed reportS end plans of Cap
tain Broadfoot contain ample details. Generally, I may
state, they consisted in the destruction of an immense
quantity of cover for the enemy, extending to the demo-
lition of forts and old walls, tilling up ravines, and de-
stroying gardens and cutting down groves, raising the
parapets to six or seven feet high, repairing and widen-
ing the ramparts, extending the bastions, retrenching
three of the gates, covering the fourth with' an outwork,
and excavating a ditch ten feet in depth and twelve
feet in width round the whole of the walls ; the •
place was thus secure against the attack of any
Asiatic enemy not provided with siege artillery.
But it pleased Providence, on the' 19th of February,
to remove in an instant this ground of confidence. A
tremendous earthquake shook down all our parapets,
built up with so much labour, injured several of our
bastions, cast to the ground all our guard-housess de-
molished a third of the town, made a considerable breach
in the rampart of a curtain in the Peshawur force, and
reduced the Caubul gate to a shapeless mass of ruins.
It savours of romance, but it is a sober fact, that the
city was thrown into alarm, within the space of little
more than one month, by the repetition of full one
hundred shocks of this terrible phenomenon of nature.
The troops turned with indefatigable industry to the
reparation of their Walls, but at the moment of the great
convulsion, Sirdhar Mahomed Akbar Khan, Burukzye,
the assassin of the late Envoy, and treacherous destroyer
of the Caubul force, having collected a body of troops,
flushed with a success consummated by the vilest means,
had advanced to Murkhail, within seven miles of our
dates. He attacked our foraging parties with a large
gods, of horse on the 21st and 22d of February, and soon
after establishing his head-quarters to the westward, two
miles from the place, and a secondary camp to the east-
ward, about one mile distant, entered the town and esta-
blished a rigorous blockade. From that time, up to the
ith of April, the reduced garrison was engaged in a suc-
cession of skirmishes with the enemy, who, greatly su-
perior in horse, perpetually insulted our walls by attacks
and alerts, and compelled us daily to fight at disadvantage
for forage for our cattle. The most remarkable of these
affairs were those of the cavalry under Lieut. Mayne,
commanding a detachment of Shah Soojah's 2d Cavalry,
and Jemadar Deena Singh, sth Light Cavalry already
reported ; a sally under Colonel Dennie, C. 8., to defeat
a suspected attempt of the enemy to drive a mine, on the
llth of March; the repulse of an assault upon the trans-
verse walls to the northward of the place, on the 24th of
the same month, by detachments under Captain Broad-
foot (who was severely wounded) and Captain Fenwick,
her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry; the capture of bul-
locks and sheep by Lieutenant Mayne. on the 30th and
31st of January; and the seizure of large floAs of the
latter, in the face of Mehomed Akbar's army, by a force
)f infantry under Captain Pattison, of her Majesty'4l3th
Light Inflintry, and of cavalry under Captain Oldfield,
on the Ist instant. These successes Were crowned by
Providence by the issue of the brilliant and decisive at-
tack on the camp of the Sirdhar, on the 7th instant.
I have to notice as a measure of defence, my having
enrolled, as a provisional battalion, a large body of our
camp followers. and armed them with pikes and other
weapons. On all occasions of assault and sally these men
Nun: available to make a show upon Our curtains, and I
have pledged myself to them to recommend to Govern-
ment that they should enjoy all the pecuniary advantages
of native soldiers beyond the Indus, I at the same time
held forth to the troops of Shah Soojah's force the ex-
pectatiou that they would be put, during the special
service, on the same footing with their comrades of the
Bengal army.
From the time that the brigade threw itself into Jel-
lalabad the native troops have been on half, and the fol-
lowers on quarter rations, and for .many weeks they have
been able to obtain little or nothing in bazaars to eke
out this scanty provision. I will not mention as a priva-
tion the European troops from the same period having
been without their allowance of spirits, because I verily
believe this circumstance, and their constant employment,
have contributed to keep them in the highest health and
the most remarkable state of discipline. Crime has been
ilmost unknown amongst them, but they have felt se-
verely, although they never murmured, the diminution
"f their quantity of animal food and the total want of
ghee, flour, tea, coffee, and sugar ; these may seem small
matters to those who read of them at a distance, but they
are serious reductions in the scale of comfort of the hard
working and fighting soldier in Asia. The troops have
also been greatly in arrears of pay, besides their severe
duties, in- heat and cold, wind and rain, on the guards of
the gates and bastions. The troops, officers and men,
British and Hindostanee, of every arm, remained fully
accoutred on their alarm posts, every night from the Ist
of March to the 7th of April. The losses of officers and
tnen in carriage cattle, camp equipage, and baggage, be-
tween Caubul and Jellalabad, were heavy, and their
expenditure,
during the siege and blockade, in obtaining
articles of mere subsistence and necessity, has been
dxorbitant.
I feel assured that Major-Peneral Pollock will consider
it a most pleasing duty to bring the series of labours,
privations, and conflicts, imperfectly sketched in the
foregoing; details, to the notice of the head of the Su-
preme avernment in India, and through his Lordship
to that Of the Court of Directors and.our Sovereign, as a
claim for public acknowledgment and substantial reim-
bursement and reward.
The report of Captain Broadfoot, in his capacity of
Garrison Engineer, will meet with attentive perusal. I
have already stated how much I have been indebted to
his scientific attainments, as wen :is his distinguished
activity and resolution during the siege. Ills fertility in
resource obviated great difficulties in procuring iron,
timber, and charcoal, and to the foresight of his arrange-
ments we owe our having had a very ample supply of
tools. The corps under his command performed, from
Bootkhak, the duties equally of good sappers and bold
light infantry soldiers, and the Affghan linzaree and
Eusilyze portion of it have been singularly faithful in
time of general defection. The two infantry regiments,
under the lamented Colonel Dennie and Lieut.-Colonel
Monteath, have vied with each other in the steady per-
formance of the duties of that arm ; and it would be im-
poseible for me to discrimittate in .ftvour of either, in
awarding praise to the squadron of sth Light Cavalry, un-
der Captain Oldfield, and the lesellsh 2d Shah Soojah's
Cavalry, under Lieutenant Mayne.; 'Lieutenant Plowden
of the former has been distinguNhed on several occa-
sions. The artillery practice of NO. t, light field bat-
tery, has ever been excellent, and haS been equalled by
that of the mountain train. Captains Abbott and Back-
house, and Lieut. Dawes, have proved themselves excel-
lent officers of ordnance. I have more than once brought
it to notice that Captain M`Gregor, Political Agent, has
cheerfully rendered very able assistance in serving; the
guns in every crisis of pressing danger. Of his labours
in his own department I ought not perhaps to attempt to
constitute myself a judge but I know that they have
been unremitting, and their result in obtaining for my

force supplies and information, and keeping up our
communication with India and with Caubul, and secur-
ing for us Affghan co-operation, I may be allowed' to
predate, and am bound to point out to Government.
' The medical duties of the garri,:on have been ably ful-
filled by Surgeon Forsyth, Superintending Surgeon of
Shah Sooja's force, and Assistant-Surgeons Robertson
and Barnes, her Majesty's -13th Light Infantry, Hare
35th Regimenti'and Brown, late in charge of the Irre-
gulars. •
Capt. Mainwaring, Commissariat Officer to the force,
has been indefatigable in his efforts to keep the garrison
well supplied, and his arrangements in very difficult
times have merited my highest praise. Captain Moor-
house, 35th Regiment of Native Infantry, has satisfac-
torily discharged hiS duties as Brigaide Quartermaster;
he was severely wounded on the 7th inst.
It is gratifying to me to forward the opinion of my
second in command. Lieut.-Col. Monteath, C. 8., placed
on record, without solicitation, his high sense of the merits
of the 13th Light Infantry, of which corps I am proud
of being a member. I fully concur in the sentiments
which he expresses, and hope the distinctions which he
recommends for the officers of his own corps will be ac-
corded. The cheerful and persevering manner in which
the native soldier laboured with the shovel, mattock,
and hand-barrow, were as surprising as their steadiness
and courage in'the field were conspicuous.-
have to acknowledge the zealous manner in which
Brevet-Major Fraser, Light Cavalry, Brevet-Captain
Gerrard, of the corps of Jazalchees; Captain Burn and
Lieutenant Hillersden, of the Khyber Rangers, and
Lieutenant Dawson, of the Janbazees, when their ser-
vices could no longer be available with their corps, vo-
lunteered to do duty with any regiment in which they-
could be useful.

I must finally express My gratitude to Providence for
having placed so gallant and devoted a force under my
command; in every way it has exceeded my most san-
guine expectations, and I beg leave in the strongest
manner to solicit the interposition of Major-General
Pollock, C. 8., who has nobly laboured and sought to
relieve it from its critical position in the midst of a hos-
tile empire, in now committing it to the protection and
favour of the Right honourable the Governor-General
in Council, and through him of the Court of Directors,
and of our Sovereign.
I ask permission specially to recommend the following
officers for honorary distinction or brevet rank, or both,
viz.:—Lieut.-Colonel Monteath, C. 8., commanding 35th
Regt. Native Infantry, now secondin command ; Brevet-
Major Frazer, Light Cavalry, whZ acted as my Aid-de-
Camp on the 7th inst. ; Captain Abbott, Commander of
Artillery and Coinmissarlof Ordnance ; Captain Back-
house, commanding the mountain train, and senior officer
of the Shah's troops with my force ; Captain Broadfoot,
commanding Sappers, and Garrison Engineer ; Captain
SS-Light Cavalry, senior officer of that arm :
Captain Seaton, 35th Regiment Native Infantry, par-
ticularly recommended for his conduct on the 7th inst.
by Lieut.-Colonel Monteath ; • Captain Younghusband,
of the same regiment, who was distinguished with the
advanced guard in the Khoord Caubul Pass, and there
Severely wounded ; Captain Burn, late Commandant of
the Khyber Rangers, and doing duty with the 35th
Regiment Native Infantry ; Captain Wilkinson, on whom
the command of the 13th Light Infantry devolved in the
field on the fall of Colonel Dennie, C.B. ; Captain Fen-
wick, her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry, whose highly
deserving conduct in the Pass of Jugdulluck, was noticed
then in my despatch ; Captain Havelock, her Majesty's
-13th Light Infantry, Persian Interpreter to Major-
Generals Elphinstone and Pollock, and attached' to me
as staff, and who commanded the right column in the
final attempt on Mahomed Akbar's camp ; and Captain
Hamlet Wade, her- Majesty's 13th Light Infantry, my
Brigade-Major; whose exertions in the action of the
7th I have elsewhere highly commended. Both these
latter officers rendered most valuable services throughout
the investment and siege. The officers of all ranks, and
soldiers of all arms, Enropean and Native, I have like-
wise to represent as generally and individually deserving
of reward and encouragement, and I hope that the Go-
vernment will sanction my calling upon commandants of
corps and detachments to send in rolls of such native
officers as they may deem worthy of the insignia of the
Order of " Merit of British India."—l have the honour
to be, &c.,

(Signed) R. SALE, Major-General Commanding
(True Copy.) Jellalabad.
(Signed) R. C. SHAKESPEAR, Military Sec.
NAMES OF OFFICERS WOUNDED.—Artillery—Captain
Abbott, slightly. Sappers and Miners—Captain Broad-
foot, severely. Her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry—.
Lieutenant and Adjutant Wood, slightly ; Ensign Oakes,
slightly.
Examined.
(Signed) R. SALE, Major-General Commanding
the Force.
(Signed) HAMLET WADE, Captain-Major of
(True Copy.) Brigade.
(Signed) R. C. SHAKESPEAR, Military Sec.

FROM LIEUT.-COLONEL J. MONTEATII,COMMANDFNG 35TH "
REGIMENT, TO MAJOR-GENERAL SIR R. SALE,
COMMANDING IN.OARAISON, .JELLALABAD.
„ . Jellalabad, April 16, 1842.
Sir,—The exertions of the . garrison of Jellalabad be-
yond ordinary routine having ceased since the decisive
victory obtained over the enemy on the 7th instant,
and now finally terminated by the arrival of the Bri-
tish army tinder Major-General Pollock, -C.8., I trust
I may not be considered as going beyond the limits of
my proper duty in addressing you,to state as follows :
Asdoing but due justice on this occasion to her Ma-
jesty's 13th Light Infantry might be looked upon as a
highly-coloured record of the merits of your own regi-
ment,- and seeing that no such partial bias can possibly
be supposed to guide my feelings in the estimate I have
formed of their deserts, I have pleasure in sincerely de-
' elaring. that their conduct throughout the painful and
perilous position in which they have been so long placed,
has been such as fully to deserve time applause and admi-
ration of their country, and the confidence and best con-
sideration of our well beloved Sovereign. •
On our throwing ourselves, on the 12th of November
last, into the old and ruined town of Jellalabad, without
money, without food, and almost without protection,
with a nation of highly excited and barbarous enemies
in arms against us, our situation seemed as hopeless a
one as British troops were ever called upon to confront ;
notwithstanding which the enemy was twice within 20
days attacked, and on both occasions defeated with signal
success.
You yourself will doubtless detail the works performed
by the regiment ; let it then be only my province, who have
witnessed their exertions almost hourly during a period
of five months, to record that their devoted perseverance
and cheerfulness amidst all the • gloom that surrounded
them, after the destruction of their comrades of the
Caubul force, could not have been surpassed by any
troops in the world ; and that after months of extreme
toil, when an earthquake such as man is not often in the
habit of experiencing, in a moment left scarcely a vestige
of their labour standing, their flying as they did with
redoubled zeal to the work and completing it in ten
days (so that on the arrival of the enemy before Jellala-
bad, they declared thiit the calamity which had befallen
the valley arose from nothing but English witchcraft, it
being the only place that had escaped uninjured), was
what none but British soldiers could have performed,
and what no price could have purchased, for it was the
labour of the heart—work of all others most deserving
of distinction and reward.
In regard to the native troops of all arms, I shall re-
frain from saying much, for a reason which has in a
measure induced me to address this letter to you, but as
you have yourself been a daily witness of their conduct
under every description of circumstance, you have it fully
within your own power to say all of which the Govern-
ment they serve may very justly feel proud, and it may
serve to show, as :In example for imitation, what noble
enthusiasm and zeal may be lighted up in their breasts
by the high bearing and considerate conduct of deter-
mined British officers.
I shall conclude by observing that we can now, Sir,
proudly march forth from this garrison with the enemy's
1 standards in our hands, and their captured cannon to tire
a salute, on delivering over the care of the honour of the
British name, which we have had within our keeping
for the last five months, pure and unspotted, and without
a single circumstance existing to cast a breath upon its
lustre.
The conduct of the officers of time 35th Regiment gene-
rally, as well as of those doing duty with it throughout
the siege, 1 am proud to say, has been such as well to
deserve any reward or distinction that can be conferred
upon them.
Of those holding the rank of captain, and above it,
which enables her Majesty to advance them a step, I
could strongly recommend Captain Seaton, 35th Regi-
ment ; Captain Younghusband, 35th Regiment (severely
wounded), Brevet-Major Fraser, late 2d Light Cavalry,
and Captain Burn, Ist Regiment Native Infantry, both
doing duty with the 35th Regiment.
Of the native officers of the 35th Regiment I could
o strongly recommend that :ix should, as a compli-
ment to the regiment for its gallant and meritorious con-
duct., receive the Order of Merit and of British India :
viz. Sahib Ram, Subardar ; Manick Sing, Subadar ; Dc-
lion Sing, Jemadar; Rambaccus Tewarry, Jemadar ;
Hoolas Ram, Subadar ; and Ilurram Sing, Jemadar. I
have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) J. MONTEATII, -Lieut.-Colonel, Com-
manding 35th Regiment.
(True Copy.)
(Signed) It. C. SHAKESPEAR, Military Sec.
By order of the Governor-General,
T. 11. MADDOCK, Secretary .to the
GovernMent of India, with the Go-
vernor General.
(True Copy.)
r. WILLOUGHBY, Secretary to
Government.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE FROM MAY 24 TO

JULY 17. 1842.

Paomortoss.—Ensign 11. Daly Ist European Regi-
ment, to be Acting Adjutant of the Guzerat Provincial
Battalion ; Lieut. (Bt. Cap.) T. Mayor, 6th Native In.
Ilintry, to be Captain ; Ensign C. Hodgkinson, 6th Na-
tive infantry, to be Lieutenant ; Second Lieutenant J.
R. Hawkins, Artillery, to be first Lieutenant ; Lieute-
nant W. 11. Godfrey, 7th Native Infantry, to be Captain,
and Ensign J. I'ogsou, to be Lieutenant ; Ensign J. H.
Champion, 24th Native Infantry, to be Lieutenant; Cor-
net .T. M. Jones, 2d Light Cavalry, to be Lieutenant.
APPOINTMENTS.—Brevet-Captain J. W. Renny, 19th
Native Infantry, ,to act as Interpreter to the Marine Bat-
talion. Captain -H. Hobson assumed charge of the Stud
Establishment ; Assistant-Surgeon L. Cameron is ap-
pointed to the medical charge of the 2d Troop Horse Bri-
gade ; Captain C. Denton. 2d European L. 1., to act
as Brigade Major at Poonith ; Assistant-Surgeon 1).
Clark is attached to do duty with the lstßattalion Ar-
tillery at Ahmednugger ; Brevet-Major H. Lyons took
charge of the Pay-office, N.D.A. ; Capt. E. Whichelo,
Assistant-Commissary General received charge of the
Deputy-Commissary General's Office ; his Excellency
the Commander-in-Chief, with suite, left the Presi-
dency on a tour of inspection, and to proceed to Dec-
can ; Lieutenant H. Boye, 22d Native ligantry, was

. _
appointed an Assistant in the Deccan Survey, under
Lieut. Nash; Capt. G. S. Brown, 16th Native Infantry,
is appointed Commissariat Agent at Bhooj ; Col. Sir
has been appointed by
George Arthur, Bart.,
the lion. Court of Directors. to the office of Governor of
Bombay and its Dependencies; Capt. Frederick L.
Arthur, her Majesty's 4th, or King's Own Regiment, to
be Military Secretary; Capt. the Hon. Charles West,
21st _Fusiliers, and Lieut. C. C. Deinvile, her Majesty's
85th Light Infantry, to be Aides-de-Camp; Lieut. George
D'Arcy, her Majesty's 94th Regiment, to be Acting
Aide-de-Camp; Assistant-Surgeon T. Young is attached
to do duty with the 2d battalion of Artillery; Assigtant-
Surgeon If. Glasse, Vaccinator in the Deccan; Assistant-
Surgeon Jephson, M:D., Civil Surgeon at Broach ;
Lieut. •E. B. Eastwick has been placed at the disposal
of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief for military
duty ; Ensign G. 0. M'Neill, at present doing: duty
with the 19th Native Infantry, is • removed to do duty
with the 23d Native Light Infantry.
RANKED AND POSTED.—James Richard Swinton, ra • ,k
as•Enaign, and appointed to the 34 Native Infantry;
John Deen Simon, rank as Ensign, and appointed to the
6th Native Infantry; Lieut. R. Douglas is posted to the
2d Troop Horse Brigade; Anthony Charles Romer, rank
as Second Lieutenant, and appointed to the Regiment of
Artillery; Murray Haig, rank as Ensign, and appointed
to the 24th Native Infantry; David Irving, rank as En-
sign, and appointed to the 17th Native Infantry ; Mi-
chael George Head, rank as Ensign, and appointed to
the 24th Native Infantry; Robert Palmer Warden, rank
as Ensign, and appointed to the 16th Native Infantry ;
.John Cruickshank, rank as Ensign, and appointed to the
2d European Light Infantry.
Az TACllED—Asistant-Surgeon W. Campbell, M.D.,
is attached to the 2d Battalion, Artillery, in Fort
George Barracks ; Assistant-Surgeon J. Behan is at-
tached to the left wing of the 2d European Light In-
fantry, at Cclabah ; Cadet C. T. Palin is attached to
2d Grenadier Native Infantry ; Cadet G. 0. M'Neill,
ditto, to 16th Native Infantry ; Cadet W. M..S: Bolton,
ditto, to 2d Grenadier Native Infantry ; Cadet Soppitt,
ditto, to Ist European Regiment.
RESIGNATIONS—Capt. H. Hart, '6th Native Infantry ;
Captain R. Farquhar, ditto ; Lieut. C. Podmore, ditto ;
Lieut. B. H. Comhe, sth Light Cavalry.
CASUALTIXS—Lieut. 11. P. H. Hockin, 6th Native In-
fantry, died. Lieut. G. Skottowe, 3d Native Infantry,
ditto. Lieut. T. G. M`Donnell, Artillery, ditto, on 9th
May. Capt. Knipe, lith Native Infantry, ditto, on ditto.
Lieut. Stone, 24th Native Infantry, ditto, on 12th ditto.
Bt. Capt. Dallas, 2d Light Infantry, ditto, on 18th ditto.
Ensign littikes, 16th Native Infantry, ditto,on 21st ditto.
Ensign Madden, 2d European Light Infantry, dittO, on
30th ditto. Lieut. W. Baird, her Majesty's 17th ditto,
on 29th ditto.

FunLot:an—Ensign F. Levien, 25th Native Infantry,
for three years to London ; Assistant-Surgeon W. W.
Pigott, for one year, to proceed to sea.

SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION.

THURSDAY.— The writ arrived on Tuesday afternoon,
and was immediately proclaimed. The nomination is
fixed for Saturday, and the polling for Monday next.
The Tory candidates, Mr. Humphrey, Sir John Mild-
may, and Mr. Hope, the expelled from Weymouth, com-
menced their canvass on Tuesday afternoon. They have
not met the electors publicly, nor do they intend to do
so. Mr. G. Thompson arrived on Tuesday evening, and
addressed a very crowded meeting at Andrew's Bazaar
immediately afterwards. He was received with the
greatest enthusiasm, and a resolution, pledging the meet-
ing to support him as a candidate on the Liberal interest,
was carried by acclamation. Mr. Thompson commenced
his canvass yesterday morning.
Lord Nugent, the second Liberal candidate, arrived
by the six o'clock train last evening, accompanied by Sir
John Easthope, Bart. An announcement was imme-
diately made that both candidates would address the
inhabitants from the window of their Committee-room at
seven o'clock. An immense crowd speedily assembled.
Sir J. EASTHOPE presented himself at the window, and
was loudly cheered. He said he had now the pleasure
of introducing to them, as one of the candidates for the
borough, his Noble Friend, Lord Nugent—a man whom
he had long known, a man known to the world as the
friend ofliberty, and the hater of corruption—(C heers)—
no friend to taxation, no tool of the Government, but one
admirably adapted to represent the town of Southamp-
ton. He could not do better than introduce to their no-
tice his Noble Friend, Lord Nugent.—(Cheers.)
Lord NUGENT then came forward, and was received
with cheering. He said, by a deputation which arrived
that morning in London, he had been encouraged to
stand forward amongst them, not for the purpose of so-
liciting their support on his own behalf, but of claiming
it because of those principles which he had always held.
—(Cheers.) Hi He was the rreconeileable enemy of cor-
ruption, of intimidation, and of anything that trenched
on those principles, under the guidance of which the
British constitution had vested the representation of the
people in the people's hands.—(Cheers.) He entered
Parliament during one great struggle in behalf of reli-
gious liberty—the struggle for the repeal of the Test and
Corporation Acts—which was succeeded by the repeal
of the laws affecting the Roman Catholics. He
contended that man had nothing politically to do
with the manner in which his fellow-man ap-
proaches the throne of the Creator.—(Hear, hear.)
He did not say that the Reform Bill of Lord Grey
was to be the be-all and end-all of Parliamentary
representation.—(Cheers,) He had always been the
enemy of monopoly and the friend of free trade. His
Lordship expressed his opinions on this subject, at some
length, and then continued--Now, the evening was
coming on, and were he to detail the conduct of his past
life, and the hopes of the future, it would detain them
much longer than he should be in any way justified in
doing. Besides, in such a large assembly he could not
answer questions so fully as he would wish to do, and he
ould make it his business to see as many of the elec-
tors as the time between that and tke day of election
would allow, and answer whatever questions they might
propose to him, when he should be able to descend from
generalities to particulars. If they should approve of
the principles he proposed, he hoped they would give
him their support, and if they disapproved of them, then
let them gii c their votes to some one whose principle
they agreed with.—(Cheers.)
Mr. YOUNG, a Chartist, then asked the Noble Lord if
he would support the six points of the Charter ?
Lord NUGENT, in reply to the question put, said he
was for a very considerable further extension of the
suffrage ; he was for household suffrage, but he was not,
as society is at present composed, for universal suffrage.'
lle would support the ballot, as he had done for many
years.—(Cheers.) He was for considerably shortening
the duration of Parliaments ; lie would vote for triennial
Parliaments ; but lie was against annual Parliaments.
He was decidedly opposed to the property qualification
of Members of Parliament,. because he believed it to be
a very imperfect test either of wisdom or integrity. He
had not any objection to Members of Parliament being
paid for their fair services, but not in the way of hire or
corruption.—(Cheers.) And lastly, he saw no sort of
objection to equal electoral districts, but he held that to
lie a question of arrangement and detail, subservient to
the great one of fair and equal representation ;. he would
give no pledge on the subject, but would go-- the
straightest way, in his opinion, that might be proposed,
to the great object he had in view—hill, fair, equal; and
pure representation.—(Cheers.)
A CHARTIST in the crowd put some further questions
relative to the views of the Noble Lord on • Universal
Suffrage, in reply to which his Lordship said he would
take the payment of direct taxes as a test of qualification
for the franchise, because at present he knew no better.
GEORGE THOMPSON, Esq., then presented himself at
the window, and was greeted with enthusiastic cheering.
He regretted that it was not in his power to address that
audience as fully as the importance of the subject de-
manded. The circumstances of their town at this mo-
ment were most peculiar. There had never devolved on
an English constituency a more solemn duty than that of
the electors of Southampton at the present crisis.—
(Hear, hear.) They had a character to redeem, an ex-
ample to set, a great crime to bring under public execra-
tion. They had their own sins to atone for—(Cheers)—
and they were called on now, in the language of the
Baptist, "to bring forth fruits meet for repentance." It
was a doctrine of his that it was never too soon to leave
mil* doing wrong-, and the best way was to leave oft' alto-
gether. Therefore he was determined, if they had any-
thing to do with him, that they should have nothing to
do with corruption—that he would not spend a penny
beyond the legal and necessary expenselt-ef that election
—that he would not give away a drop df beer, not a drop
of ardent spirits, nor a morsel of bread, as an induce-
ment to obtain the: votes of the inhabitants of this town.
—(Cheer:.) lie offered them neither meat, drink, silver,
nor gold, but he set before them great principles, and
gave them an opportunity of approving-, adopting, and
carrying them into practice.- lie had'thld them by what
motives alone he was influenced in asking them to send
him to the House of Commons; and that if he were re-
turned be should express not merely the opiiiionS of the
particular number of Men by whoSe votes he got there,
nor the opinions merely of the inhabitants of die town he
represented, but the public opinion of this country on
those measures vital to the prosperity of the country.
- This was his only claim to their consideration. He told
them that he was the enemy or all monopoly,
eccle-
siastical monopoly, the monopoly of political power,
monopoly in commerce .and trade, and above ail, the mo-
nopoly of the land of this country and of its fruits. lle
execrated the Corn-laWs; and he believed the existence
of those laws was the greatest bnpediinent in age way of
, the extension of the suffrage.—(Cheers.) He was
happy that he did not, stand alone as a candidate for
their suffrages.—(Cheers.) He was delighted with the
address of the Noble. Lord. They should accept with
thanks what the Noble Lord was willing•to labour to ob-
tain fin- them. In the peculiar circumstances of their

town, they should not reject one whose heart inclined to
give them full justice, whose understanding was free from
prejudice, whose motives were clear from corruption,
who was the friend of the people, and who, though one
of a class 4 society above them, yet had come down to
link himself with the people, to make common cause with
them, and determined to fight their battle.—(Cheers.)
Ile was less anxious about the result of this election than
the character of the electors. He conjured them, as thvy
loved their interests, and desired to witness their tri-
umph, to determine that this election on their side should
be distinguished by peacefulness, intelligence, forbear-
ance, and forgiveness,
while at the same tune they abated
not one jot or tittle of their principles, to court the
smile or win the gold of any one who might be in the
town. lie would indulge in no personalities towards
his opponents, but ho was glad that there was this dif-
ference between them—that while they courted atten-
tion, and provoked as it were the electors to catechise
them, studied silence, almost invisibility, attached to their
opponents, and it was impossible to come at their spe-
cific views,(Cheers.) After some further avowal of
his sentiments on. the Corn monopoly, Mr. Thompson
retired amidst great cheering.
Sir Josh EASTHOPE then again addressed the crowd,
and called on them to be firm and determined itt the,
contest, that the town of Southampton might set a noble.
example by redeeming the past.—(Loud cheers.)

Lord NUGENT announced that he should commence
his canvass immediately, and spare no time in paying his
respects to the electors. If the time should not allow
him to call upon all, he hoped • they would not attribute
it to disrespect on his part. With regard to bribery, the
Noble Lord said he had never been rich enough to bribe,
and it he had the means, he had not the inclination to
do so. If he would, he could not, and if he could, he
' would •not.—(Cheers.) •
T. L. IIAnNAN, Esq., announced that the Committee
would continue si:ting, and would-be happy • tO -receive
the names of any voters who might wish to record their
promises for the Liberal candidates.
The. assemblage then quietly dispersed.
The Liberals, as will be seen by the foregoing ad-
dressei,'are fighting their battle upon principles of the
strictest purity of election. .The Tories, However, are at
the old work of corruption. Agents, well known from
their former participation in the mal-practices of the
party, are most actively engaged in endeavouring to ear,
rupt the poorer electors, not so much as heretefOre by
treating, but by direct offers of bribes. The canvass by
both panics has been prosecuted with the utmost vigour
during this day ; and the contest, which is,properly re-
garded as one of principle against money, .dxcites the
greatest interest.

An open-air meeting will be held in St. Mary's parish,
the strong hold of the Liberals, this even:ng. Both can-
didates will attend.

•
NOTTINGHAM NO MINATION.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) • .
THURSDAY NIGHT.—This has been a glorious day for
complete Suffrage. Early this morning the population
assembled by thousands in and near the market-place,
to be ready to gain admission into the Exchange, the
place appointed to take the nomination. At half-past
nine, Mr. Walter, with a few Conservative friend 4,
passed into the Exchange, amidst hootings and hissings.
of the most awful kind. At a quarter to ten, Joseph
Sturge, accompanied by about 200 of his influential
friends, left the central Committee-room, and, on reach-
ing the market-place, the air was rent with deafening
cheers. The doors were then thrown open, and in, a few
minutes the great room was packed. After. the usual
oaths, and the reading of the laws against bribery, Ike.
the Sheriff addressed the crowd briefly, calling. upon
them to keep order. Mr. Hardwick rose, amidst fearful
groans, to propose John Walter, Bsq. 111 r. Sturge, Mr.
Vincent, and Mr. O'Connor rose, and urged the people
to give all parties a fair hearing. Mr. Hardwick then
said a few words in praise of Toryism, but :he would
keep them long, "as this was a- dry, cold water election."
Mr. Charlton seconded the nomination.
SAMUEL BEAN, Esq., then rose amidst loud and re-
peated cheering, to propose Joseph Sturge, whose recep-
tion was enthusiastic.

J. Cnisp, Esq., seconded the nomination of Joseph
Sturge in a very eloquent speech.
JAMES SwEgr then proposed, amidst loud cheers,
Feargus O'Connor, and the nomination was seconded by
working man.

J. FOWLER, Esq., then proposed Henry Vibmnt,
amidst peals of enthusiastic cheering. The nomination
was seconded by Mr. J. 'TIFFIN.
JOHN WALTER, Esq., on coming forward, was 'hissed
and groaned at, in the most awful manner. Mr.
Sturge insisted that Mr. Walterbe beard. The.people
then listened quietly. He went over the old ground about
the Poor-law, &c. &c.
, .
JOSEPH STuRGE, Esq., next rose, and was hailed with
deafening and prolonged cheers. He made a' most effec-
tive speech in defence of population representation.
FEARGUS O'CoNNoR, in a speech of great power, next
addressed the people, exposing the iniquity of Toryism
and the necessity for Reform.
llExar VINCENT, on rising, was cheered for several
minutes. He spoke in defence of democratic principles,
and in vindication of the working classes.
The Sheriff then proceeded to take a show of hands,
when

Mr. O'CoNson rose and said, " Mr. Sheriff, it is not
my intention of proceeding further in this contest."
Mr. VINCENT-Mr. Sheriff, I beg to retire from all
further participittion in this contest.—(Loud cheers.)
The Sheriff, after making announcement to the ,above
effect, took a show of hands for John Walter, • when
about twenty or thirty appeared on the platform, but not
one in the body of the meeting.—(Shouts of derision fol-
lowed this display.)
The SHERIFF then took a show of hands for Joseph
Sturge, when a scene of the most astonishing nature
presenvd itself. On the platform at least 400 hands
were held up, and all the body of the meeting. The cheers
and clapping of hands that followed cannot be deseribed.
The applause must have lasted ten minutes.
A poll was then demanded on the part of John Walter.
Mr. Sturge and Mr. Vincent afterwards addressed the
people from a window in the market place ; and Mr. Vin-
cent calle .! upon the people not to sleep until the election
was Hon. Great excitement exists throughout the bo-
rough. The people will watch the bribers all night, and
it is confidently expected that to-morrow Will see the
death of Toryism in Nottingham. This has been a
glorious day.