Star.
London, England, 1801-09-09 00:00:00

EAST INDIES.

The following account, lately received from
Bengal, will throw fi,me light on the clink of the
war carried on in e..rc Coyote country. Among
the Nairs, with whom the lingular cuflom prevails
of one woman having a plurality of hdbands, the
right of inheritance, instead of following in the
dire& male line, devolves to the children of lifters;
hence the fovereignty of Cotiote became a fubjeet
of dirpute between two lons of feparate lifters, com-
monly known as the Coorimnad and Pyche Rajahs.
This competition exifted when Tr Irmo's ufurpa-
tion took place, an event that occafioned molt of
the Rajahs to reek protection to the Southward,
leaving their .diftriels a prey to his tyranny.—
Among the fugitives was the Rajah of Coorim-
nad, who fought a refuge in Travancore, while
the Pyche Rajah, who remained to lhare the for-
tune of his country, acquired a degree of populari-
ty, which enabled him the better hereafter to con-
tend with the fenior and preferable right of the
Coorimnad. By the interference, how.:ver, of
Government, the Coorimnad has been eftabi ithed,
it appearing, beyond a dub:, that his cl rim to
Cotiote fuperfeded that of the Pyche Rajah. Thus
the caufe of difaffeEtion and the fpirit fr. vest has
been traced to its proper fource, and acct ',Arts for
the vexations which the Pyche Rajah is at all times
fedulous to promote.
A letter from Dacca, (Bengal), of .a late a date
as the 3d of May, lays, that information kr: :lug
been given to Mr. CA MACK, that a dangerous con-
fpiracy exifted againtt the peace of that Govern-
ment, by fume of the dicafteaeti chiefs, of whom
Shemf.ud bowla was at the herd, he immediately
aired fecret orders to the civil and military powers
to de every exertion to trace the hidings to the
bottom ; when, after a long inve ligation, it ap-
peared that the confpirators had for ti,nie time
kept up a communication with feveral of the molt
refractory vibes in the various provinces of Ben-
gal, particularly the daring depredators on the
eaftern banks of the Ganges, many of whom were
to havebeen drawn towards that city under various
pretences, together with a number of facquieres,
who had engaged to celebrate a public reli-
gious feftival, in order to throw the military and
civil power off their guard on the occalion, when
advantage was to have been taktn of the popular
tumult and confufion, in which they were to have
feleCted the vielims to their revenge. A depot of
(mall arms (moftly matchlocks) have been dill
'covered in the jungles, and many of the ringlead-
ers have been imprifoned.
Mr. Ceows has failed in his million to eftablifh
a relidency at Scind ; 7emann Shaw having de-
clared himfelf averfe to the mearrire, not from any
real diflike to a friendly communication with the
Company, but from an apprehenfion that the refl.
dente of Europeans among them will afford to the
difaffe.ted clans of the Seicks means and eacufes
for, fermenting thole diftractions and rebellions
which have dilinembered and weakened the fouth-
ern countries.

A detachment from Colonel VICORS'S battalion,
lin January, marched up the barks of a branch of
the Arree river, towards r.lalkar, in the neighbour-
hood of which a very powerful banditti were laid
to have taken refuge in a rude but almoll inaeccf-
fible fort in the mountains. Somc of the Nizam's
native troops accompanied the detachment within
two cofs of the place, when they divided their
forces, the latter hav;ng orders to march, under
cover of the night, to the only defile by which the
enemy could poffibly efcape, and there take their
poll with fixed bayonets and a field-piece, while
the Europcansfcalcd the orpofitc part of the moun-
tain, and !formed the fort. This plan appeared
eafy in theory, but eifficult in praEtice. The march
oftheEnropeanswas through a clear open country,
but that of the natives was obliruaed by jungles
and moratics; in conlcquet•.cc of which they had
fome hours allowed them more than the former,
in order that they might reach the places of defli-
nation at one and the fame p:riod : but unfortu-
nately, this extra time was not fit/Helene for the
obteacics they had to furmount. The Englifb
tronps arrived at the appointed hour, and conclu-
ding the place completely blockaded, gallantly
fcalcd the acclivity, and atfailed the fort ; in which
they were only interrupted 1w fome fiagritents of
rock, rolled from the height, and a tingle volley
of mufquetry, which, fortunately, did no farther
damage than that of wounding two or three of
them, who, on entering the fort, to their great
mortification and furprize, found it completely
evacuated, the enemy having made good their re-
treatat the oppofite defile, on the fit it onfct, which
seas at leaft an hour before the arrival of the na-
tive detachment.

Sr. fl6t.l44s.—Major COCKS, the Honourable
Eafl-India Company's Engineer at St. Helena,
writes very favourably relpeaing the fortifications
and general defence of the Ifland. The foldiers
Ilationed at the Alarm-houfe have orders to be
very vigilant in making alarms on their brit dif.
covering any (hips. This port riles in a gradual
afcent from the valley to the diflanec of about
three miles from the fort, from sylwace it c.m be
catty dii.cerned with the naked eye. It is fin nithed
with two nine:pounder guns. The lunation Kr.::
chofen for oblersiation is completely fortunate : it
commands the whole Wand. in a bird's eye view.
and feet around it the salt ocean. The men also
are appointed to look 4: provided y. ith good
glaffes to affift thcir fight., and, in a cl:ar Jay, can
fee to the extremi,y of thr horizim. difc-ver-
ing one or two Nisi:, :4 tingle gun it tir.:d ; and if
there be more than four !hips, fi guns ate
charged, which what is t:rmed a general:o2:-rit,
and a fignal for defence. A nua is, th,:reupon,
difpatched to the Vallcy, who nuns all the way,
without intermidion. tiil he retches the Calik, to
communicate intellig,ence to the Got rnor, for
said; he is rewarded with fomearrack. The drum
then beats to arms, and every man repaii s to his
poll : fo that t':e promptitude manikfted on
liland at th, ppc:trancc of t fleet of (hips is in

cete.tble. Supportng the fhips not to be encr
they Ane telfri r,,l ir.•m approlching the witt.t.
Nit rt t!:c Land, %;!tliout p: :v ioutly
hoitt. 4...) Nl ith an Officcr, to pay his rctiicc,
tLe v;ic6or.

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