The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-22 00:00:00

POSTCRIPT—No. 1.

The following piece of intelligence was issued this
morning by one of our local journals. It appears to
be a new version of the affair of the 28th August, in
which Capt. Christie commanded, and which is given
in General Nott's dispatch. I had heard something
before of the alleged misconduct of the cavalry, pre-
vious to the defeat of Shumshoodeen. I would not re-
commend your readers, however, to place much de-
pendence
on this confused account of the transaction.
" Letters from Nott's camp, dated Mydana, 15th
ultimo, had been received at Loodiahah, stating that
the cavalry had suffered sadly on the 28th August,
having turned out to release their own grass cutters
(said to be hemmed in in a fort some miles distant from
camp), and been inveigled into a kind of basin by
parties of Affghans, who retired before them skirmish-
ing. All of a sudden the unfortunate Cavalry found
themselves beset by about 3,000 matchlock men, who
crowned the hills around and opened a heavy fire.
The Cavalry retired in pretty good order until the
commanding officer, fancying there was an opportu-
nity of making an example of some of the enemy,
ordered a squadron to charge up a tolerably accessible
spur, in which two officers and many men were
killed. The squadron was repulsed, and its support
so roughly handled, that all fell into confusion, and
our party returned to camp fairly thrashed ! The
infantry and some guns now turned out, to recover
the slain, in which they succeeded. The bodies had
been awfully mangled General Nott has dropped
this affair into the more successful one of the 30th of
August, which completely broke the enemy's host
and power 1"
Colonel Palmer, it seems, is not dead, but was taken
to Caubul, and thence, with the other prisoners, to
Bameean. The story of his having been tortured,
while in Ghuznee, has been confirmed by the Sepoys.
The sandal-wood. gates of Mahomed's mausoleum
have been carried off from Ghuznee by General Nott,
at the express desire of Lord Ellenborough.
PO STS CRIPT—N o. 2.

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OCT. 16, 1842.—The Governor-General's Express
not having arrived, the dispatch of the steamer has been
deferred. I have received the Delhi Gazette of the
sth instant, and a Supplement to that journal bear-
ing the same date, which latter contains the dispatches
of Generals Pollock and Nott, recounting the occu-
pation and destruction of Ghuznee, and the defeat
of Akbar Khan at Tezeen, and subsequent capture
of Caubul. . .

The Delhi Gazette mentions the receipt of letters
from Kurnaul, to the effect that a communication had
been received there, intimating the recovery of the
whole of the prisoners excepting Captain Bygrave.
This report does not seem to be worthy of implicit credit.
It was said a force would be dispatched for the pri-
soners in addition to the Kuzzilbashes sent off imme-
diately on General Pollock's arrival at Caubul.
A letter from Caubul, dated the 16th of September,
says—" General Nott had arrived, and formed his
camp about five miles from our's (General Pollock's)
in the Ghuznee road.` He sent forward Major Raw-
linson, the political employe, with dispatches, and re-
spects to General Pollock, and on the following
morning (l.7th), General Nott's force will move oppo-
site to Caubul."
All is quiet at Jellalabad and Gundamuck, but
robberies are frequent in the neighbourhood of the
Khyber Pass.
The following extract from a Jellalabad letter of
the 20th inst. will be perused with melancholy in-
terest :
" On Sunday last, seven officers, and about twelve
artillery men, with some of Thomas's Khyburees
went as far as the hill, three miles on the other side
of Gundamuck, where it is said our soldiers of the
44th, and some of the Artillery and sth Cavalry,
made their last stand, for the purpose of burying the
bodies exposed to public gaze. They buried (within
a square made of stones) 162 bodies, and covered
them over with stones. On Sunday morning another
party was sent out, who foUnd and buried 70 men, so
that 232 skeletons have at length lodged in their
earthly tenement."
Calcutta journals have been received to the sth inst.
The Tennasserim steamer arrived on the 4th from
China, with intelligence of the settlement of our dif-
ferences with the Celestial Empire. _ _

The Englishman of the 4th says, " We are happy
to inform our Hurkaru Contemporary that Lord
Ellenborough has determined on hanging Akbar
Khan, on bringing home to him the murder of Sir
M‘Naghten "
Ceylon papers to the 30th September, and Madras
to the Bth October, have come to hand, but contain
nothing of importance.

FALL OF CAUBUL.
(From the Delhi Gazette Extraordinary, Oct. 3.)
We lose not a moment in communicating the most
welcome and anxiously expected intelligence that the
British arms have again triumphed, both at Caubul and
Ghuznee. The tenor of our information, which is most
authentic, is that on the 13th of September Major-Ge-
neral Pollock met the enemy at Tezeen, 16,000 strong,
under the personal command of Mellowed Akbar Khan.
After desperate resistance, " the bayonet alone in
many instances deciding the contest," the enemy were
completely routed and dispersed, leaving several hun-
dreds killed and wounded on the field, and two guns,
large quantities of ammunition and stores, and three
standards in our hands. The loss on our side was 32
killed and 130 wounded.

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OFFICIAL DISPATCHES FROM GENERALS
POLLOCK AND NOTT.
Head Quarters, Simla, 21st Sept. 1842.
Political Department.
The Governor-General has this day received the re-
ports of three victories obtained, on the 30th of August,
over 12,000 Affgbans, 38 miles south-west of Ghuznce ;
on the Bth of September, by Major• General Pollock,
over the troops of Mahorned Akbar Khan and Ghilzie
Chiefs at Jugdulluck ; and on the 16th of June, by the
expedition on the coast of China, within the mouth of
the river Yang-tse-Kiang at the city of Woosung.
In this last operation, and those immediately preced-