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`CrOVERNM ENT GAZEVTE, 11 r.tr,‘rt.
Major-`General Sir 'David Ochterlony having
vrived at the heail-tplarters of his Excellency
the Most Noble the (overnor-Gen-end and Cotn-
Inander.in.Chief, hii Lord-hip availed himself of
the i‘! ,I,)r-General's preset/re, to invest hint %rich
'the insognia of the ttreoldl"r,“ of the Order of
'the 11,(1), in 11,irstoince of the ;,inth.Ority and in•
ftftictions of his tiovAl Iligitnek. the Prince Re-
gen', signified to his Lordqiiii) by Lor'l Viscount
one of his ,Nl4:je's. y'i Principal Secre-
taries of State.

Tridiy the 20Th of Maruh, on Which day the
crimp was at Terwah, lotving been apliointed for
the performance of the ceremony, the civil ai-
r ers in attendance ou his Excellency the Gover-
vor-Gcneral, 'the officers of the General SzAT of
the Army, and the officers of the Body Guard,
and of the V! 'hattalion '2.5111 regiment of native
infantry, forming his Excellency's escort, :'Were
assembled at the Governor-General's durbzir ient,
ur the occasion.

The Nawall Ahmed .linksl-, ?Khan, anti the Au-
nail of the dis'iriet, with Other local officers of the
Government of Ms Excellency the Vizier, as well
as the native officers t)l the body guard and the
escort, were also present.
I lis Excellency the Governor-General entered
the Dorbar tent at one o'clock, pteccded by the
Secretary to the Governor-General and the Per-
sian Secretary to the Government, bearing re-
spectively the badge and decorations, and the
statutes of the Order, and by the whole of his
Lou dship's perst.nal Staff. Ills Lordship hav-
ing taken his seat, Sir David Oehterlony was
introduced by Lieutenetut-Colonel Doyle and
Lieutenant-Colonel 'Voting, with the usual forms,
end having advanced to the edge of the carpet on
hich the Governor• General's chair was placed,
Lis Lordship rose and addressed !din in nearly the
following terms

" Silt Davin OcturcittoNT—T cannot figure to myself any
occasion on which the high honour of representing the Prince
Regent could be equally tiattering with this ceremony, in
which he has deigned to order that I shall act for ilk Royal
Person. The instruction has communicated to me a portion of
the warmth with which the generous mind of his Royal High-
ness glows at every opportunity of encouraging; any eNort that
tends to promote the glory of the British nation ; and I feel
consciously elevated by the falfilinent of such a duty. You
are to receive the honourable badge l‘ith which I :WI com-
missioned to invest yon as a recognition of your admirable
seal, and of the advantages secured by that zeal to your
country's interest. Such a public achnowledgement of your
professional merit would alone be sunicient matter of pride;
yet I have to congratulate you on what must be still more
touching to your feelings. You have obliterated a distinc-
tion painful for the officers of the Honourable Company;
arid you have opened the door for your brothers in arms to
reward which their recent display of exalted spirit and in-
incible imtrepidity proves could (DA be more deservedly ex-
tended to the officers of any army on earth.''
The Govern.)r-Getter al then invested Sir David
Ochterlony with the insignia of the Order, under
a sahue of 13 gums.
Al/uplifts, MA), 2.—The following is an extract
of a Wirt front Satorah Of Anti! 13 :
" Authentic information lia6tg been received
by Biigadiet-General Pritzler, that several ele-
phants (the property of Bajee Rao) had been
taken to the vicinity of Porceed Gliur (a strong
bill fort ill the Conean), a detachment was imme-
diately ordered to pursue them, eon:isting of 130
auxiliary horse, tinder Lieutenant 3 Wallace, of
the rifle corps (who volunteered for that service),
and 30 rank and file of the 'Madras rifle corps, un-
der Lieutenant Gtimshaw. This detachment
marched on the evetting of the sth instant from
Wousitttah, and continue(' their pursuit until 12
o'clock the following morning : while halting at.
a small village. for the purpose of watering their
horses, a man of respectable appearance came up.
and meodoned to Lieutenants Grimshaw and
Wallace that he bad seen the elephant; the pie-
ceding day, and that they were only four cost
from that village. On gaining this important in-
telligence, these two officers determined to halt
for that night, and attack theta the next morning.
Accordingly, at daylight they marched, and hav-
ing gone about thrve Coss, were inkrrined by a
villager, that the enemy had made two barriers,
the first having 150 men, and the second 200. The
riflemen were now ordered to load, and fix swords,
thinking, of course, they would meet with some
opposition : but fortunately, on their approach,
the enemy fled with precipitation to the surround-
ing jungle, without filing a single shot, and thus
allowed this small detachment to pass their strong
barriers without the least molestation. Having
so far succeeded, they continued their route to
the spot where these elephants were supposed to
he, and arriving at the place, were given to un-
der:tand by one of the prisoners here taken by stir-
prize, that all the elephants had been carried
away one hour before, to avoid being captured by
the English : the horsemen were now in their
turn called into play, and Lieutenant Wallace,
without a moment's loss, started after them with
140, leaving 10 horsemen with Lieutenant Grim-
sham (tvlin followed with his rifles) to keep open
the eoriontioication. After a hard gallop of five
Lieutenant Wallace overtook and captured
IS elephants and two camels ; they have (strived
in camp, and have been delivered over to the prize
agents ; they are remarkably fine animals, and
their valoe computed at about 30,000 rupees.
" General ['ritzier marched front hence yester-
day with his Madras division, to join General
Monto ; he has, however, taken the Bombay 7dl
Regiment, with a hi igade of IS-pounders and one
laiLytdc or heavy mortars,"
MAY 6. Bajee Rao, the late Peishwa,
bas now become the pi iucipal object of interest in
the present posture of affairs, and indeed the only
apparent obstruction to the general pacification of
tl:e ccutre of loam. itlllllolll Lad last week rude,-

[-rifled his force to optrr;l•iis of a lititl;ile(i
men, and represented hivamaving rapidly on Nag-
pore, but further accounts have divested him of
this formidable appearance, and reduced his fol-
lowers to little more than a tenth of their reported
number. (.3noput Rao, one of the Sordars of the
Na pore Rajah, with nearly 10,000 Mahrattas,
appearn to have effected a
.junction with liajee
Rao, nearly at thr same period that Mr. Jenkins
discovered the correspondence and the treachery
that tea. going on for the purpose of overthrowing
the British power at the Coott of his master,—
himself is understood to have with him
libwAt 12,000 horsemen and adhelenti of all sorts,
and the topposed object of his marching in the
direction of Nagpore was to emancipate the Rajah
from ttte restraiA which his former conduct bad
rtudered it necessary to impose upon him, The pe-
riod of his military operatious is however now
drat...ringlo g close, and he has hut little time on his
hanilSiellfrwr effect flinch of an offensive nature,
orTh secure hi. retreat from the forces in pursuit of
him. 'Die comTheneement of the rains will soon in-
terrupt his exit by the Nerhuddalt, am, confine him
to a countiy where he can have no chance of
escape. licigittliet -Generals t_Smith and Pritzler
are now positing arrier him to the eastward ; and
though he succeeded in doubling back and avoid-
ing our troops, when to the south of Poona!), a
short time agret,,, it is not likely that he will be so
fortunate again. Chouraglior and Mundlah are
in the hands of .t!frtictory Killadars, and still
more refractory garrisons ; but if lie attempts to
unite with either of these places, or cornea to the
resolution of throwing himself into a tort, tifiw,-
ever impregnable it may he considered, his career
is at an end. As a fugitive, his political exist-
cure may he prolonged, and he will probably
maintain that character till he is finally overtaken
and subdued. _ .

By the last accounts, Colonel Adams continued
at Nagpore, and it was supposed that no attack
woold lie made upon Chouraglinr or Mondial)
till the ei-deennt Peishwa is disposed of. It is
said that the Resideut had offered the Kill.olar
and garrison of the latter place '25 000 rupees, in
parr payment of the arrears due to them from the
Rajah's Government, but no definitive answer
had been received.
We have no intelligence respecting the progress
of the Rajah to Allahabad.
Hsppily all the hill forts and strong places,
about 16 in number, which were
dependent on
Saugor, have surrendered without firing a shot,
ant! all the country north of the Nerbuddah is
now in a state of tranquillity.—kCalcutta Go-
vernment Go:rite.)
The Marquis of Hastings passed the Gogra on
the 31st of March, over a bridge of boats con-
structed for the occasion. On the sth of April
the camp of his Lordship was at Koberah.
MArraAs, lay 9..—Notice has been given from
the Government Batik " that the Right Hop.
the Governor in Council has been pleased to di-
rect, that the interest charged for accommodation
either on loans or discounts to the public, will
be 10 per cent. front the 7th instatr until farther
orders.**

(From the Bombay Courier, April 11.)

lirieate accounts, dated Camp Ongein, 29th
Match, we are informed, iliatCheetoo, atter going
to Bopaul to make conditions with Captain Head•
Icy for deLvering himself np, suddenly deal, and
has, it is reported, gone hack to his obi haunts
near Baglee and Ragooghtir ; in consequence of
which the force at Ougein was to march that day
towards lettiore, and send out detachments after
him ; the battalion at llin lia would also furnish
a detachment towards Oonchode. The letter fur-
ther states, that the troops of Jean Baptiste hav-
ing mutinied, and deposed tbat leader, had elected
Arratoon, the Armenian, in his stead. We are
happy 10 learn from the saute source, that every
thing was perfectly quit in Malwa.
Reports say that Bajee Rao's chiefs are daily
retiring with their followers : some time ago his
army was said to consi"st of only 25;000 men, and
we have reasosi to suppose that it does not con-
sist of half that number at present.

Out of the 36 strong holds that by the native
accounts are in the Deckan, we may alt catty reckon
30 of theta in our possession, and calculate that
when it 'wilier 50 surrender, we way call the whole
our own : cuch is the numerical exaggeration of
our Ilindoo friends,

(From the Ceylon Gazette, April 25.)

The absence of the rebel chiefs from Ouva pro-
duced a temporary tranquillity in the neighbour•
hood of liaclitlla ; fit the vicinity of Godeagamma
the rebels had attacked our escorts with snitch
fury, and on one of those occasions, on the 2d
instant, Lieutenant Woke, 2d Ceylon Regiment,
was severely wonnded ; 2d Lieutenant (fray, of
the Ist Ceylon Regiment, was on similar duty
between ilallialle and Ilanweile on the 12th April,
and wounded through the lace, but was lett at
Taldenia, and reported by the medical officer to
be doing well.
The addition of troops to the garrison of Candy
gave an opportunity of disturbing the rebels who
had strongly entrenched the..mselves in the exten-
sive villages of Arawe and Godamoone, situate in
Ilewahetty, abort nine miles from the capital, in
a rich and beautiful country, hitherto not visited
by cur troops : three small divisions moved on
these places ; two Irons Candy by different routes
under Lieutenant-Colonel Hardy and Captain
Fraser (of the Staff), and one trout Goneeamme,
under Captain Drew, 73,1 on every road were
numerous abbattis and thorngates at intervals,
which prevented any surprise no the inhabitants
of the villages, and who consequently escaped,
leaving large stores of grain and cattle to the dis-
posal of a detachment which was posted at Goda-
!lionise under Captain Fraser.
The rebels on the tipper part of the seven
holies and Toompane are reported to be assem-
bled in force on the borders of the Korles, but
the precautions taken to guard the last valuable
and faithful province have as yet prevented any
hruption into it ; and in the various movements
of our forces its advance, the rebels have sustained
considerable loss. Detachments also made from
the force at liornegnlle have equally punished the
presumption of such insurgents as were iii its
Beigbbourliood.

isnoviNcht, JOI_;IINALS.

[Frf,m The (Du/di,) CaTesporrlent.]

Ff sonie of nor fellow Joucnalists appear to
have pronounced precipitately npon the nature of
the dispute between Spain and her Colonies, as
well as upon the object of the reference which
this Power has made to the Allied Sovereign!.
The right of Spain over her Colonies-is not 'a
question turniog upon the legality of compitst,
whougli that is a very ancient, and a very 4eneral
title, by the way, anti to nine-tenths of the pos-
ses.irms of the world at least. The modern Re-
pohlicaos of America do not presume to set np
any other in the claims to the lands of their Indian
neighbours. Hit without very deeply
into !I
this subject, was. apprehend. the title of Spain to
her Colonies cannot at this day be well impugned,
upon any defect presumed to inhere in it, on ac-
count of tier having conquered the South Ame-
rican Provinces, before she colonized them—before
she sent her people to settle the!ts, and, with
then), transplanted thither her religion, langoage,
and I ws, :not all the demonstrations of her sove-
reignty. It is with the descendants of those peo-
ple that the qoestion now in lite is to he settled ;
those who were protected by her power—who
spread, under her care, into a populous and pros-
perous race—those whose very ability to contend
with her arms Is the evidence of her losOng
watched over their interests, and consulted all the
metros of their greatness. Whether the American
subjects of the Spanish Crtewn may have been
more prosperous or powertul under windier sys-
tem, is not the exit into goes' too ; nor can it ever
be a question--tor there is nothing certain to
which it may be referred. That they are prospe-
rous and powei fill is most evident, or they could
not have supported their pretensions, unaided by
any rower in the world, for so long a time. There
is oo question of problematical felicity arising
out of the relationship between a Sovereign and
any part of his subjects. Whether the Spanish
American would he more happy in one situation
than ii) another, is a very hard matter to decide
in any case, but, in the present, which is a pure
political case, this conjectural 1,1,11)161:5s is not
involved. If civil subordination—it allegiance to
a Sovereign, were to cud when a Colony began
to grow ambitious, or a people to fancy that they
may be happier io a new situatioll, there would
be scarcely such a thing as tebellion. An appeal
to arms—an array against the Sovereign—a
owning of his autholity, and a renunciation of
the lams of the state, would he only a pursuit at.
ter political felicity—a mere speculative project,
and one which, atter all, could plot be decided by
either result, by success or by defeat.
" We cannot partake of any of those appre-
hensions which our contemporaries profess at the
idea of England entering into a contest with the
Smith Americans—beciuse we are quite sure that
England will not act so absurd a part. As a
member of the Confederacy for maintaining peace,
and conseqountly fur liberating European ,ociety
from the burthen of taxation at no distant time,
Etigirtod may, in that capacity, join it) insis:ioa
upon ihe Insurgents accenting of terms, lair and
just in themselves, and productive, to them, of
vast advantages ; but, if there be any thing itn-
probable, it is England's becoming so rash a
Quixotie as to ondertalse, of burst +, to bring the
South Antericaus to reason. At first sight, and
as men are apt to view political transaction. that
are of a no%cl character, one would he inclined
to call the intervention of the Allied Powers, in
the case referred to them, as an unauthorised and
unlicensed interference. But the world wants
peace, and most have it ; and there is no other
mode of (lee' hug this great purpose, but by the
great Powers compelling those who fly to arms to
deride their controversies—to submit them to
moderation anti equity, and to abide any arbi-
tration which may he made upon such principles.
The frequency of wars has laid the entire mass of
Loropean society miler it load of taxation ; there
is no mode of relief imaginable, that is safe and
honest in itself—jost in its end, and valid in its
effects—save to ita may follow from the mainte-
nance of a long peace ; sod, when the Allied
Powers interpose, resolved to preserve the peace
which they so miraculously brought about, they
are only advocating the general ease, comfort,
and happintss of the world against the specula-
tions of a few desperadoes, who would embroil
it for a fanciful expectation that they may he
better after a Rebellion than they were before it.
If the Allied Sovereigns do no more than avert
war for twenty years, they will he the greatest
benefactors to the human race that ever exilted ;
and there is no portion of mankind which can
possibly enjoy so large a share of the good effects
of continued and inveterate peace as the people
of the United Kingdom. Levellers and tiema-
gogues have, for many a day, been accusing So-
vereigns of going to war, and squandering the
blood and treasure of their people, to gratify in-
dividual and personal objects. The Sovereigns of
Europe are about to falsify, by their practice,
this extreme imputation. They have confederated
for peace—to save the shedding of blood, and the
expenditure of public wealth. Let none oppose
such a noble design—let the Sovereigns proceed,
in this moral and virtuous career, uncaltiumiated
--unresisted by ridicule, by derision, or by so-
phisity ; and, though the ambition of the Spanish
American Chiefs he even frustrated, as a conse-
quence of the mediation of the Soveteigns, yet
the world roust gaits considerably, notwithstand-
ing."

ANTIQUE FRAGMENTS.—There have recently
been discovered at Sonlosse, on the premises of
NI. LEucols, several shafts of columns, and some
capitals enriched with leaves of the acanthus, and
several long bricks, flat, and edged like those
which cover the beat•conductors at N,isium. The
pedestals of the columns, of which some were
erect, and others overturned, were from 16 to
24 inches in diameter, and rather more than three
feet in height. The capitals were only for those
columns of 16 inches diameter. The proprietor,
who discovered these interesting remains in sink-
ing the fonndation of a stable, and who observed
in other parts of the trench fragments of wali,
pavement, &C. 11115 the precaution to conduct the
work so as to cmitiotlC lIIS antigtlolian researches,
without in the least injuring the building.--..cCia-
zette de France.)