Star.
London, England, 1818-06-11 00:00:00

EAST INDIA INTELLIGENCE.

FROM THE CEYLOX GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
NARRATIVE OF THE PROGRESS OP THE REBELLION IN
CANDY FROM TILE DATE OF LAST COMMUNICATION.

COLUMBO, JANUARY 31.
Information having reached Lieutenant-Colonel
Kelly, from various quarters, that the Pretender and
rebel Dessana were at Dombagalla and Mooneragal-
lee, on the borders of Ouva and Wellasse, a detach-
ment was prepared, under the personal inspection of
that Officer, to proceed, on the night of the 18th,
from Medegamwelle to Dombagalla, for the purpose
of surprising the rebel leaders: the information, how-
ever, although correct as to their having been to
Dombagalla, had not been received sufficiently early,
and the party returned next night, having found at
Dombagalla an extensive range of buildings of recent
erection, and which appeared to have been occupied
a few days before, bur were perfectly deserted: these
they set fire to. On their march to Dombagalla,
they fell in with some armed people, of whom they
killed three; one, from the attendance of a round
Talpot on his person, is conjectured to have been of
rank. After the return of this party, Lieutenant-
Colonel Kelly moved from Medegamwelle to Alli-
put ; the road had been in some places blocked up
with the felling of large trees across, but the obstruc-
tions were easily removed. Some arrows were shot
at the party from different places, but without effect.
One of the rebels was killed by a shot from our troops.
Lieutenant-Colo-xi Kelly proceeded by Passera to
Badmula, where he received the report of Major
Macdonald, who was moving through the country
most disaffected. The Major had moved from Alli-
put on the 15th to Bootle; during his march to which
he had met with considerable obstacles from large
trees being thrown across the road, which rendered
it impassable for bullocks, till cleared, to do which
took much time and labour. Ile met with no oppo-
sition from armed insurgents till about a mile and a
half from Bootle, when a few shots were fired from
a rock, from which our escorts had been before an-
noyed ; a road was therefore cut round it, to enable
parties to be sent to protect the line of march in fu-
ture. Major Macdonald met Captain Pike at Bootle,
who awed he hzd been fired at in his march from
Kattragam, and had lost a cooly, kille.l. A small
party sent out that evening, under the command of
a native officer, surprised some reMs, and took two,
prisoners. On the 17th, another detachment, under
native Captain Boram, proceeded towards Alliput to
join Lieut. Raymond, who was moving thither from
Bodulla, and on his way he destroyed a deserted vil-
' lage, to which his attention had been directed as the
' residence of some rebel Chiefs, but who had deserted
it. Major Macdonald himself marched for Here-
' boka on the 18th, during which day he was fired at
' from the jungle, but without loss. At Hereboka he
found Lieutenant Raymond 'aid the first Adigar ;
• the rebels were supposed to be in some force in the
vicinity; for the Adigar, when bathidg, was fired on,
and one of hi attendants had his arm fractured by a
L musket-ball. Two parties were sent out, one to Pa.
watte, four miles south of Hereboka, in which native
Captain Borun succeeded in taking four prisoners--
, and another to Oslevitte, a village three miles S.E.
which was found deserted.

Major Macdonald moved at eight s. m. 19th, with
the first Adigar towards Randemya; the road was
much blocked up by trees. Near Oslevitte, the Adi-
gar, who was in the rear, was sharply attacked by
ginjals and musketry, from the opposite side of a ri-
ver, and he stated, on coming up with the advance,
that he had seen the rebel Dessave, and been reques-
ted to join him with his banners and followers. As
no advantage was to be expected from an attempt to
pursue the rebels, none was made ; but on their re-
appearance on the side of the mountain, a shell was
thrown among them, which fell dead. The party
came to the ground at Itandemya at four p. r:. near
which another shot was fired at the Adigar, which
struck his palanquin. On the 20th they reached
:leerapatowa, where Lieutenant Pretz bad arrived on'
the 19th, having on his march down the Bambuagan
Pass met with mach opposition, and a private of the
73d having been severely wounded in the arm
_by a
musket-ball, on the 18th, at Galgodde. Major 'Mac-
donald intended to proceed up the Hepostall Pass by,
Welleway, having sent the first Adigar by the Barn-'
buagan Pass to meet him.
Major Bailey reports, from Godiagamme, in Wel-
lassee, that every thing was quiet, and the inhabitants,
supplying him with grain in large quantities.
An wort protecting provisions, between Or.ono-
rnalle and Mindagamme met with considerable op-
position, after crossing the Badulla Oya, a bombar-
dier of the Royal Artillery, and a private of the Ist
Ceylon Regiment, were severely wounded by arrows;
and Lieutenant Green, or. his way from Mindagamma
to Badulla, with a party, was also attacked in Weya-
loova, and had one man slightly wounded. They,
however, succeeded in killing the only two insurgents
they saw.—lntelligence has also been received, that
in the attack made on Captain Blanckenberg, in the
defile between Tonnaiva and Heppatagan, (in which
that Officer was wounded,) five of the insurgents re-
ceived mortal wounds.
Captain Cleather, who remained in charge of t!,!e
port at Ahapola, during Lieutenant-Colonel Kelly's
absence, has reported the success of a small but well
concerted and executed night attack on two rebel'
headmen, concealed in a jungle nine miles distant
from the post : having received-intelligence from dif-
ferent quarters that the Ratteralcs of Pattipola and
Karugahavelle were concealed with their families in
huts or in caves in the jungle of Karugahavelle, and
that their huts or caves were at the distance of a mile
from each other, Captain Cleather sent a detachment
of a small party of Europeans and Caffrees, under
I Lieutenant Forster, of the 2d Ceylon Regiment, which

moved at half-past six in the evening of the 20th f
January, with -directions to proceed to the farthest
hiding-place first : the party returned the next morn-
ing,
having, after leaving Ahapola, at four miles dis-
tance, entered into a close, thick, and almost impe-
aetrable jungle, the narrow foot-paths through which
were intersected by large rocks. This they passed
through in the greatest silence, and at midnight came
to a spot where an advanced sentinel was found, but
asleep, with bows and arrows about him. He was
awoke, and kept quiet by threats, and the patty pro-
ceeded, and at different distances of a quarter of a
mile, fell in with three moresentinels also sleeng
the last was posted forty yardss from a cave, sitpivate
in a rock of difficult ascent, with a stream of water
Bowing over it. This the party entered in silence,
sod entered a recess, where they found Potepola
Ratterale and his family asleep: the Ratterale sur-
tendered himself, and, after destroying a quantity of
paddy stowed there, and a number of-bows, arrows,
and spears, the party returned to Ahapola the next
morning by eight a. m. the desertion of the guide
having prevented their search after the other head-
man. This is the second instance of a surprise of the
rebels in their concealments, and must have a strong
effect, by shewing them that even in places which
they considered inaccessible, they are not secure from
the effects of the activity of our troops, and the dili-
gence and intelligence of their officers.
The reports received from Lieutenant-Colonel
Hook, at Madulla, and Captain Fraser-, at Watte-
moale, (to which place he had removed from Tibbe-
togoda as a more eligible situation for a post), are
very favourable. With the exception of a partial at-
tack made on a convoy proceeding on the 18th to-
wards Madulla from Wattemoole, by which a pio-
neer was wounded, every thing was quiet on that
road; and Lieutenant-Colonel Hook mentions with
much satisfaction that he is assisted by the people of
Madulla in procuring Olas to cover the buildings
erecting there, and in reaping and bringing in paddy
from lands belonging to the rebels in arms, which
they pointed out themselves. On the 22d, Lieute-
nant-Colonel Hook, in concert with Captain Fraser,
made an incursion towards Yatamadu and Oodoo-
main, as well in expectation of finding some rebel
headman concealed, as to explore an unknown track
of country. Lieutenant-Colonel Houk detached a
party under Captain Coane, of the 73d, to proceed
by one route, while he went by another ; and both
were found very rugged and rocky, and the jungle
very close. The third parties joined at the village
Oodoomadu about nine o'clock, having met with no
opposition ; it was perfectly deserted : and as the
Mahottale was a principal rebel, his house was burnt,
with a great deal of paddy, which could not be car-
ried away ; the other houses were left standing, with
a notice they would share the same fate, unless the
inhabitants came in on their return by another route;
some shots were tired, and in return the party killed
a number of buffaloes grazing about, as a punish-
ment on the inhabitants of the village, who were
justly suspected of being the persons in arms. Cap-
tain Fraser separated from Lieutenant-Colonel Hook,
and both parties returned to th.:ir respective posts,
having sustained no injury.
In the Suffragan Province, which borders on Ouva,
where a considerable observing force is stationed,
Lieutenant Colonel Cother meets with the rradiesti
assistance from the chiefs and natives ; ar., armed
party of Candians, under the command of a Chief,
Ekorelligodde Nilame, had moved from that pro-
vince to Ouva, to join our force.
Notwithstanding the absence of many of the prin-
cipal Chiefs from the capital, on duty, the feast of
the Alum Sala, or presentation of the first fruits, was
celebrated with due solemnity on the 25th, 26th,
47th, and 28th of January. On the first evening,
the Officers of the Royal store and the Temple pro-
ceeded in state from the square before the Palace to
the villages belonging to Government, from which
the first'paddy was to be brought. The procession
in returning on the 26th, in the evening, was met by
the 2d Adikar, and the Chiefs in Candy, at some
distance from ;Ile town, and by them accompanied
to the Maligena, or principal Temple, where the usual
distribution to the different Temples was made. On
the 27th, in the morning, his Excellency received
the portion formerly laid-before the King, consisting
of new rice, and a selection of all the various vege-
table productions of the country. The ceremony
closed the 2sth, in the morning, by a discharge of
ginjales. The Hospital returns still continue to evince
me excellent state of health which the troops enjoy,
under PROVIDENCII to the surprise and disappoint-
ment of the insurgents. •

AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.
NEW-YORK. MAY 2.

FROM TOR ISLE, Of Famscs,—Captain. Brown, of
the ship Romdololday, who arrived last evening, in
95 days from the Isle of France, informs us, that on
or about the Ist of January, the British frigate Ma-
gicienne, Captain Purvis, seized several American
vessels for having brought in and landed for exporta-
tion prohibited goods, notwithstanding special per-
mits nad been granted at the Custom-house, and the
goods had been de sited in tie Custom house stores.
The ship Rolla, of Baltimore, one of the seized yes-
,els, had been liberated, and was to sail in 12 days.
On Thursday evening, a livery-gable and several
small surrounding buildings, situated in Black-horse-
alley, in Philadelphia, were destroyed by fire. The
ancient building in which William Penn once resided
had its roof destroyed, and was otherwise injured.