Star.
London, England, 1815-05-16 00:00:00

.I.IIftRICA.

EXTRACT OF A rETTER FROM PHILADELPHIA, DATED
THE 17TH OF 111 A ECII.

" Congress have at length determined to have a
Navy—a Bill has passed the Legislature, appointing
a Navy Board. Commodores Hull, 'Bainbridge,
and Rodgers, it is expected, will be appointed Ad.
minds, and put in commissii n. A. very powerful
force, under the command of Commodore Bain,
bridge, is now fitting out for Algiers ; it will consist
of two new 74. gun 6ve4-igates, and ten sloops
of war. If I am not. mistaken, the Algeri:les. will
rue the d7.y when they provoked the vengeance •sf
our tars. The Guerriere, under the command (4
Morgan, sailed from this port yesterday for Nrw
York, where she is to be joined by the Constellatiou
and Java frigates, from the Chesapeake, and the
United States and Macedonian from Long Island
Sound =these frigates, with six sloops of war, form
the first division against Algiers ; and it is said that
2,000 of Brown's rifle veterans will go with the
squadron. The whole Nation is decided for a Navy.
The Pennsylvania, a 71 gun ship, will be launched
at this place in the month of May. Large quanti-
ties of timber are daily brought down the Delaware
and Schuyllkill for ship-building. It is no more ex-
traordinary than true, with what dispatch they build
ships of war in this country :—The Peacock, of 18
guns, was built at Newbury Port in eighteen.work-
ing days ! The Wasp was built at New York in
sweaty days ! The Superior, Commodore Chauncy's
flag-ship, of 64 guns, on Lake Ontario, took up
only thirty days from the laying of her keel until she
bad all her guns on board, and was ready for a cruize !
It is said Congress intend to have the Irames of the
Lake Squadron removed to the Atlantic."

Sir Gr.onoe Pasvosr landed on Saturday, at Ports-
mouth, from the COr:i ACK, 28, Hon. Captain P. Ron-
Nev, irvai Canada. Tire Cossaca arrived on Thurs-
day ; Luc having gone Isom- the Mediterranean to
America, s!ie W 43 placed under quarantine. Si:
GIAItGE W.IS received with those cnngratelatory at-
tention; and respect, which' a
.remembrance of his
Lieutenant Governorship therevan never fail to in-
spire. S•r Groans -embarked and 'sailed from Sc.*
John's, New Brunswick, on the 20th ult.
By the Redwing, Captain YOUNG, arrived from the
Leeward Islands-26 days from Antigua. we learn,
that Sir Giotto Cott. tan's squadron was in Carlisle
Bayp-Biarbadoes, victualling andrefittine; SirGentioui
bad been six Months cruising with the Leander, Nen-
castle, and Mama. in 'search of the Ameeican Irigate
Clulititalion. He got sight ,of bar of Porto Praya
the 11th of March ; but she was then in' advantage-
ously situated to escape, that, 'added to her superior
rate of sailing, she soon effected it—the Newcastle
being the only ship that could keep sight of her, even
for a short time. Sir G1:011GC intended to return to
H alit x. The Superior schooner arrived at Barba
does in -sixteen ,fags from Baltimore, with a cargo of
flour, spoke the Cyane, prize to the Constitution, on
the coast; it is therefore presumed she has got in.
—lt is -a remarkable fact, that so greatly have the
minds of tie people at Barbadues been prejudiced
against the American nation, that only eight dollars
p barrel was offered for the cargo of our which the
Superior took there; whilst during the war it WAS as
high as VS dollars. The French at Martinique and
Guadalot4ie had equally manifested the same dispo.
sition, endeavouring, by all the means at their corn-
mand, to prevent any importatisms from America.
The French Islands had been already well supplied
from France, ltd our islands from Ireland. The
ships at the Leeward Islands had been thus distri.
bnied : the Venerable, on the 17th ult. at Antigua,
refitting, to bring home Sir P.C. Dorman ; the Bar-
badires and C lumbia had gone to cruise on the Line,
until the, term of making (Armes expired ; the Ister.
and Crescent were cruising ; Fairy and Chanticleer at
Demerara ; and Dasher at St. Thomas's.

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PARTICOLAAS OF 'a „__,eoW.
. MAJOR GENERAL GILLUM&
The perticulars et the late unfortunate attack epee
Fort Kulingah, in the Napaul country, by the force
under Major-General Gillespie, are detailed in the
followin.g extract from a private letter, written by an
Officer in the Beng4l cavalry, dated Camp, Leltar-
*gong (Bundlecund) November '29, 1814 :
66 The relief for the cavalry appeared in General
Orders, in August last. We marched from Sultan-
pore on the 15th of October. On the ltd we cross-
ed the river Ganges at Allahabad, marched up part
jot the Dooab (the Dooab is the country situated be-
tween the two rivers Jumna and Ganges) and crossed
the Jumna on the ttcl instant at Chillatarali Chant.
When we were about four days march from Keitah
(the place to which we were ordered), an express
arrived •with orders for us to halt until further in-
structions. The next dty the Commanding Officer
received a dispatch, and in consequence made a re-
trograde movement, and we arrived at this outpost
on the lith instant. We have been ordered here,
it seems, to watch the motions of the Pindarrees,

OF THE UNiORTUNATE AFFAIR UNDER

Iwho; a short time ago, plundered and burnt some
i villages in this neighbourhood. They have not ac-
tually violated the Company's territory, I believe,
but it is supposed will not be satisfied with hanging
about the frontiers.

44 We were reviewed by the Earl of Moira on the
10th of September ;'he 'he expressed great pleasure at
what we did, thanked the Officers, and observed,
that our state of equipment, and the evolutions we
formed, did us all great credit.
di You will probably have heard, before this reaches
you, of the warlike operations carrying on at our
north-east frontier. The irruptions which the Ns-
paulese have made for some time past upon the bar-
rier lands, the villages that have been plundered. Sec.
are the reasons why war has been declared. Govern-
ment attempted to put a check to injuries of such
magnitude, by negotiation and mild measures, but
the endeavour was unsuccessful.

'• Two grand divisions of the army were formed,
the one to enter Napaul Proper by the east, •and the
ether to act in its north-west Provinces ; other de-
tachments were assembled to assist the two grand
attacks. Major• General Marlay commanded one or
the grand divisions, consisting of about WOO .men,
and Major-General Gillespie. of his Majesty's 25th
Light Dragoons, led on the other, who was-untbr-
tunately killed on the Ilst of October, in attempting
to storm the Fort of Kulingah, or Nalapanee, in the,
Dehrah llhoon. The army was formed into four
columns of attack, with a column of reserve. The
columns under Lieutenant-Colonel Carpenter and
Major Ludlow, were repulsed, after an obstinate and.
murderous struggle. With three companies of his
Majesty's 83d regiment, and two 6-pounders, the
gallant General Gillespie moved on to the attack,
and after making two unsuccessful assaults qn the
fort, in the third, while in the act of chewing on his
men,' within thirty yards of the gateway, he received
a mortal wound.

4, Colonel Mawby, of his Majesty's .53d regiment,
at the head of the advAnced.guArd. mole an att.ick
on the fort the 21th of October.. He had fired about
100 rounds, when he discovered that the place was
too strong to be taken by assault with the force be
conananded. This, with the three attacks subse-
quen,ly made by General Gillespie, make altogether
tour Attemt;ts to carry this impregnable foi rress ; in
.the course of which five Officers have been killed
and 15 wounded, two of whom have since died of
their wounds, and 225 rank and file lolled, wounded,
and missing.
4, The fort of Kulingah, or Nalapanee, is about
500 feet high, is garrisoned by a regular battalion,
And mounts some heavy pieces'of artillery. It lies
near the second range of mountains; there is no ditch
round the fort, but all the approaches to it have been
strongly stockaded.
46 It is understood that the Rajah of Napaul has
four or five regular battalions, consisting of about
ogle thousand five hundred men each. The Napau-
lese soldiers are represented to be hardy and coura-
geous; and are expected to defend themselves in
Kulingah to the last extremity."