Star.
London, England, 1801-12-29 00:00:00

' REBELL/0X IN 7R. cARNAtze.

It appears by letters from India, which came
by the overland difpatch received yefterday, that
the difaffaled Polygars, who have for fome
time pall produced fo much fervice for our
troops, arc again in motion.; and unhappily they
teem to have obtained at different times, and par-
ticularly of late, fome advantages over the corps
fent againft them.
Letters front Bombay, of the 23d Auguft, con-
tain the following intelligence on this fubjeCl:
" The Polygars are again in ferions rebellion.
Our troops, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel
Aosrw, have been obliged to entrench themfelvcs
near to Adam's Bridge, communicating with
Ceylon, being hemmed in by a force laid to
amount to 15,0c0 men ; and there mifcreants have
&lint fed hand.bills tin oagh the Carnatic, inviting
all the other Polygars to join them. They are
well armed, fupplied, no doubt, from the arfenal
of SeringapaN:m by thole traitors to their King
and cviintry, whole diabolical proceedings have
but lately been difcovered."
Letters of the fame date contain the following
intelligence
Four hundred officers and privates of the 74th
regiment embark to-morrow morning, on board
the David Scott, Captain Gin; for Tranquebar;
it is expeaed fnc will IA immediately, in company
with the BKITANNIA, Capt. STOUT, and the CLA-
RISSA, Captain JAMES, both of which carry fol-
lowers and baggage.
" Report IpeJlo; of a revolution in Cubul, and
of the death of ZEMAN SHAW, but letters from
Calcutta of the /oth of July do not mention it.
Marquis WELLE3LLY WAS expelled to let out for
Lucknow about the beginning of this month : it is
laid mailers do not go on there fmoothly.
" The LEOPARD M. W. Captain SURAIDGI,
arrived here from the Red Sea, on the 9th inaant,
and the Meackyrs Coat:watt.' s frigate, and many
of the tranfports, are expeeted in the end of the
‘‘ Sir HOME ropH•M is gone to Calcutta in the
RomNEY, whence it is conjectured another expe-
dition is on foot."

[The firit pats of the above letter from Bom-
bay mentions the renewal of the infrrtedlicn of the
-Polygars. The following letter, which is of a
much earlier date, has been communicated to us
from another foul ce. It will ferve to explain the
nature of -this warfare, and throw fome light on
tranfaCtions with which the people of this country
receive very little information.]

RETRACT OF • LETTER FROM AN OFFICER OF HIS
MAJESTY'S 73D REGIMENT.
" Camp in tho Ceded Diltridls, about 3. miles N. E
of Currumcondah, May ay, zEor.
" We have been employed thefe fix months part
in taking polfetTion of the very extenfive country
ceded to the Company by his Highnels the Nizam,
and when we thought every thing was done, and
that we were to go ar to quarters and reit from our
labours, a number of refractory Polygars flatted
up, and for ihree months part we have not known
more than one day's ceffation from march'ng at a
time. It is now laid we h.tve done, but the peo-
ple in th's court: y, called Piilygars, are fo de-
ceitful and treacherous, that there cannot be any
certain conclufion drawn from appearances. In
faCt I have lien fo much of it, that I fhall 'exped
little or no reft till we get out of the country al-
together.
" In the courfe of our late excurfions, the flank
companies of the 73d, fume Sepoys, and :r detach.
meat of cavalry, peilormcd one of the lon,geft
marches ever to have been done in India
by Europeans: we made a march of twelve miles
on the morning of the 9th ultimo over the Sandy
bed of a river, I sing the only roan ; the afternoon
of the fame day, we marched again, and conti.
nued marching the whole of that night, and till
about to o'clock the fc•llowirtr: morning, when we
arrived at our object, being didant 6z miles from
the frit viand we moved from, and 5o from.the
tall, which ss as perfoimed in 29 hours altogether.
! The time, you will fay, was ,finticient, but you
mull know that we had to move with heavy feat-
ing ladders, carried on Lafcars' fhoulders, and
guns over a road, the greater part of which
wheeled carii igcs had never before gone. The
diftrcfs in the caulk of the night I cannot defcribe
to you : the want of water was one of the greatelt,
which the dal knels of the night, and the natural
fcarcity in th: t part of the country, prevented
our finding. The Lafcars dropping dead from
under the ladders, the Europeans and Sepoys
fainting, and :eft apparently dead on the road,
were fights that made me thudder, although pret-
ty well accultomed to fcenes of the kind within
! there 'aft two or three years. Much to our fads-
faiaion, the whole of the Europeans recovered and
Joined us loon after we got to the place; and the
only lel's in ails was among the Lafcars and
Sepoys. The great objed eras cffeded, which was
the furprifing and taking prifoner a Muffulman,
by name Waltobet Caun, who had joined with
others in (baking off their allegiance to the Com-
pany. On the appearance of the cavalry, he made
Tome thew of relillance, but underflanding the in
Pantry were dole behind, kc furl-end-red.
" Another night march we bad of twenty miles,
in which our fuccefs was equal to the other, but.
the people defending themfelven, caufed great
flaughter among them, with the lots on our fide
of a few natives and honks.
An unfortunate, a:id I may fay, melancholy
occurrence, has happened to the fouthward, near
Pallamcottah, at a place called Pandalamcourchy,
and as I am certain you will not hear of it from
any public conmiunication, I will detail the heads
of it.
" Ab tut fix months ago a Polygar Raj di, con-
fined in t' e fort of Pallamcottah, connived to
make his eicape, and the country people, accord-
ing to a preconcerted plan, took up arms in his
defence.
" A Major M'Caut.t.r, of the Company's fer•
vice, who commanded in that Ration, marched
againfl them with what any perfon wonld have
thoUght a fufiicicnt force to quell, or oblige them
to take to the jungle; much, however, to the allo-

'Ailment of every onei they not only Ito theirol
ground, but compelled the Major to retreat, after
lofing fomehundreds of fepoys killedand wounded.
On this intelligence reaching Government, they or-1
dered the light company and one battalion compa-
ny of the 74th, to reinforce the Major, who was
now furrounded in his fort. This handful of En-
ropeans (truck fuch a panic into the deluded na
Lives, that they immediately fled to the fort of
Pandalamcourchy, which had cofi the lives of a
number of „officers in taking not twelve months
before, and, (range to tell, it had not been pro-
perly difmantled once. The Major being rein-
foiced by the Europeans, immediately advanced
to the place, and after a few hour.; employed* to
make a breach, the (torus commenced, led by Capt.
CAMPBELL, of the 74th. The enemy defended them-
felves defperatcly, the breach was found imprac-
ticable, and after a bard firuggle our troops were
obliged to retire with great tot's, officers and
So Europeans killed, ;5 officers and nearly the re- I
mainder of the Europeans wounded, betides tie-
goys killed and wounded in great numbers. Cap-
tain CAMPBELL was wounded, and had the misfor-
tune to fee his brother (a fine young man, and
Lieutenant in his brother's Company) killed' by
his fide, and he is since dead .of his wounds. I
forgot to mention, that previous to the attack of
the fort, a large body of the enemy, who had re-
mained on the outfide, and attempted to flop the
progrefs of our troops, were charged by the body
guard of cavalry, led on by a Lieutenant GRAN r,
who commanded them ; they flood very (beady,
and killed and wounded a numb 'r of the troopers
before they were routed, which they were at lag,
ancLa number of them cut up in conf,:quence.
44 Lieutenant Quint was fpcared through the
lungs, and a Stibildar of Cavalry, who !lived Lord
CORN WALLIS'S life before Seringapat..m, was kill-
ed. Our !aft accounts mention the arrival of the
77th regiment to the fupport of the detachment,
and Colonel Awn w, the Company's Adjutant-
General on this coaft, is on hia way to take the
command of the troops, when, I make nn doubt,
the too much clEed natives will fufrer for their
prefumption. There certainly mutt have been
fome great mifinanagement in the above bufinefr,
and one thing is certain, that on the troops reach-
ing the breach, and finding it was too high to get
ul, tojwithout ladders, there was none to be found,
and the gallant fellows attempted to enter it on
each other's fhouldere, till the whole were citller
killed or wounded."