The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-07 00:00:00

KOLAPORE AND SAWUNT WARREE.

We have received tidings of the 27th ult., being a month later
than those formerly sent home, from various portions of the dis-
turbed country ; and though the success of the troops has in the
main been uniform, and their conduct invariably excellent, we
regret to say the insurrection continues apparently as far as ever
from being subdued. The war in which we are engaged is a
paltry and an ingloricus one, and it Is eminently harassing and
unpopular. It was not commenced voluntarily, nor, probably,
av,th much idea of long continuance, and its objects were just and
honourable, without view to .he gratification of avarice or ambi-
tion. The troops under General Delamotte and Colonel Wallace,
having advanced in separate detachments to the edge of the table
land, remained in the end of December posted on the verge of the
mountain range which separates the plains of Kolapore from the
low country towards the sea. After describing various skirmishes
of little interest the writer in the Bitllbay Times, whose opinions
and assertions should be received with caution, thus concludes his
narrative:—The Kirya ttee Pass, where we had on a former oc-
casion suffered so severely, leading from Sussadroog, was still its
possession of the enemy. Its occupation by our troops having
been con idered matter of much importance, a party of two
hundred Europeans and one hundred native►, with one nine.
pounder, under command of Major George, of her Ma-
jesty's 22d, were ordered to advance against it on the
ISth. They were warmly met by the enemy ensconced
behind the stockades, and, after a few volleys, felt back, the
insurgents following closely in their rear. Colonel Caruthers
meanwhile attacked the pass on the 10th from below, and the
enemy were speedily driven from all their stockades; 8 of them
were killed and 30 taken prisoners. On the 21st Munohur was
closely invested, and this fort, which was filled with insurgents, to.
gether with that of Musentosh, were expected to fall into the hands
of Colonel Outrasn's detachment. On one of those occasions Cap-
tain Taylitori, of the Bth M. N. 1., had been picked off; he was a
gallant officer, and is said shortly before to have killed nine of the
insurgents with his own hand. He was in revenge particularly
marked out for destruction. lie is the third officer who has in the
course of the month been cut off—the seventh who has fallen since
the commencement of the insurrection. On the 25th an attempt
was made to take the fort by escalade ; this proved unsuccessful.
On this occasion Captains Munbee and Jacob, and Lleuts. Gar-
diner and Peyton were wounded; but none of them severely. The
insurgents who had sought rellige in the fort, finding the position
untenable, abandoned it after the first attack ; and on the 27th we took
possession without resistance. This is one of the last of their fortified
strongholCs ; but their real strength lies in the jungles, from which
it is next to impossible to drive them. It is proposed to fire the
brushwood covers so soon as the advancing season will permit.
The roads are everywhere obstructed, and no man, or party of
men, can proceed, without the certainty of being tired at from the
jungles. Colonel Outram is sweeping over the country, as of yore,
spreading the terror of his name, and diffusing the feeling of
universal insecurity, but effecting little more. In these trackless
and unmeasured jungles, it is impossible to seethe enemy, however
near—still more so to fellow him. Shots are fired at us, travellers
arc robbed, and hamlets destroyed, before our eyes ; the perpetrators
of these things elude us as we approach. While a desultory,
harassing, and unimpressive war was thus raging on every
side, in the ravines, and In the low country at the bottom
at the mountains, a state of comparative tranquillity had
settled down at Kolapore, the centre and the source of
original disaffection. This state of listlessness and inactivity
was, on the 20th, interrupted by the appearance, 'within twenty
miles of the capital, of a body of some 1,500 insurgents, tinder a
noted malcontent chief, Lall Geer Gosain. On the '2lst, Captain
Western, with a troop of her Majesty's 14th Dragoon, and Cap
tain Clarke, with a company of Grenadiers and 40 Irregulas
Horse, was laid on the track of the marauders ; and on the 231,
Captain Stuart, with another troop, and a small detatchment ()flier
Majesty's 22d and 2d Grenadiers, followed in the same directitn.
The head-quarters of the sth Madras Cavalry were dispatched from
Sholapore on the 25th to co-operate with the troops just men-
tioned. The latest intelligence received regarding the gang re
present them as committing great devastations in the neighbour-
hood of the Bheetna river. No tidings have as yet reached us of
the results of the pursuit, though the troops had been five days
absent at the date of our latest letters.