The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-05-06 00:00:00

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footed It oteowsry to withdrair the let battalion 24th regialeat,
together with a party of the Ist battalioo 20.1, regiment, by
irbisdikee had been re-infOreed doting the night, at Ave A.M.
of the 27th instant, and to tontine the defence of the bill spa mei
left (which had been streogthened during the night by a breast-
work of bags of grain), to the immediate possession of the top.
For this purpose I bad detached Captain Lloyd With one han-
dfed men of the Resident's escort; and fifty men of the Ist batta-
800 20th regiment Native Infantry, under ad European Of.
Aker. A body of Arabs gained possession of this post, at eight
A.M. by the charge of an ovens betaking force up the face of the
bill, after Captain Lloyd had displayed the utmost gallantry in
endeavouring to keep his men to their duty and Gs maintain the
post. At this semen' Capt. Fitzgerald, re-in'orced by a Native
Officer, and 35 troopers of the Madras Body Guard. charged an
immense body of the enemy's best horse, and having captured their
guns, whico were immediately turned upon them, he remained in
possession of the plain covered in every direction with the Hying
enemy. Whilst we were waiting for spikes to send to Capt. Fitz-
gerald to spike the oneney's goes. Is being my intention to re-
call him to support an attack of the infantry on the bill in the
possession of the Arabs, au ex plosion was observed to take place
in the midst of them, and the troops with one accord rubbed for-
ward to the attack. It was with the utmost difficulty that they
had been prevailed oo to wait for the cavalry, and 1 found spy
utmost exertions necessary to prevent the hill we were on from,
being deserted. On the near approach of our troops the Arabs
led leaving two guns. Captain Lloyd took possession of the
kill, supported by Captains Macon and .1. Macdonald, Lieutess.
ant; Watson, W. Macdonald. and Campbell. Lieutenant and
Adjutant Grant, Ist. Battalion 2lth Regiment Native Infantry.,
who had been twice wounded during the night, in the defence of
Mocha', was here killed; and I beg leave to offer my tribute of
praise, and to express my regret for the loos of a most gallant
officer. Shortly sifter the Arabs beginning to collect in ems-
nidersble numbers in front of the hill, and the cavalry having
Is) this time fel tsrhed with their captured guns to the ltesideucy,
a charge of a troop of cavalry. led by Cornet Smith, round the
base of the hill, in which he cut up numbers of th-m, seemed so
totally todispirit them, that from this time their attacks in every
qnarter began to slat-ken, and at twelveentirely ceased.
" I can never sufficiently express toy admiration of the con.
duct of the troops on skis occasion. To Major Al'Kenzie,
second iticommand. and to every Officer and individual eu-
gaged, 1 have to offer my thanks, which are feebly expressed
in my orders. footed on the occasion,. of. which I euclo.e a copy.
Jeoltiost, Resident, was present during the whole of the
action, and his animating conduct tended, in a very consider.
able degree, to excite the troops to their duty. I have to de-
plore the death of Mr. Sotheby, his First Assistant, a gallant
Geatlentau, who had also been present from the first, and ex-
posing himself in every situation, wag' se,erely wounded to-
wards the close of the action, and died in the course of the day.
• "I shall, by to-morrow's (appal (fiost), forward regular returns
of the killed and wounded, which I am sorry to say is consider-
able, amounting to 14 officers and 33.1 killed and wounded, of
ali other ranks.--I haves.-ac. Ste.

.'M H. S. SCOTT,
" conimanding at liagpore.
4' Camp. Nagpore, 29th Nog.. lel7. .
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". P. S. From the bat. information I can obtain, and my ob-
servations. the enemy opened upwards of 35 guns opun us. The
number of their cavalry is said to amouot to 12,000, and their
infantry 5300; 25tY1 of whicli are Arabs, float whom we met
our principal

The nett dispatch of impoitance we subjoin entire,
as it contains the substance of the other details,which
time and want of room prevent as giving to.day
listratt from a Dispatch from the Governor in Commit, at

Bombay, In the secret Committee, dated 3th Jae. 181 P.
16 Since our last letter to your Honourable Committee, dated
the 9d jowl. WM closed, we have received, through the Resident
nt Nagpore, the cup, of a 'dispatch from Brigadier-General
Dowcton, to the Adjutant-fienerril of the Army of the Deccan,
dated the 19th of last mouth, a transcript of which we have the
houonr to inclose.,

On a perusal of that dispatch, your Honourable Commit-
tee will learn. that after the arrival of the Rajah of Berar at
the Residency, and a cotnpliance on the part of his Highness
with all the conditions which had been demanded of him, the
Brigadier-Geoeral, In proceeding to take possession of the
artillery and to disperse the Rajah's troops, was attacked by a
large body of the enemy, on the• 16th December, which be com-
pletely defeated. and no less than seventy-five pieces of ord-
nance fell in o his hawk, with the loss of one hundred ai.d thirty
men killed and a onnded ; the return referred to was omitted to
be forwarded ; but, we understand, by a truer received from
Lieutenant Colonel Burr, that no Officer waz among the umber
of either.

N We ofer to ytkor Ilonotirable Committee our hearty con-
licatula loos .in ibis Irappy and complete termination of the coo
tort tleri,r, the effects of which can hardly be e3;im ond at thi*

interr•Unq crisis
•• Letters room Lietitenant-Colonel Barr, sod Lieu•enant
no!,ert.ion, of the Ist of thi- month, acquaint itb Oat or
l'eitthaa had re-appeared • ith his troops in the vii uii yof
I'eooah, ts:th the buppuied intention of attacking ele I;riati-11
detachment, under the command of the first mentioned Officer,
sod the Ci'y. _ .

" lac pecond battalion of the Ist Regiment of Bomb ,y Native
Infantry. which Bur► bad 0. clered to join him from
beronr, has b en attacked and surrounded by large bodies of
the enemy. and has suffered considerably. It had re .cited the
town of time. gusto, within about fourt✓en miles f Pooludi, and
we hope, it may he e. Wed to protect itself against further loss,
until succours may be vent lost.

•• The only Nutter aerostat we have received from the head-
quarters of the army of the Deccan v. i.h Sir Thomas Milo's. re-
ports, *e regret to say, that upwards of thirty European Offi-
cers aud seven hundred men were killed and wounded at the
battle of the Ylst Ibmenther. About two thousand infantry of
the enemy had been killed in the field and during the pursuit,
and upwards of sixty cannon had falters into oat hands. The names
of the Officers adverted to are ant mentioned.
•• The last accounts from Major-General Sir W. G. Keit, are
dated attßutlaum, the 25th December. The Bombay division
was messiest' the direction of Rampant. towards *bleb place
the enemy is -everted to have fled after the act iuu of the 31a.
" Accoonts ha been received from lieutenant-Colonel
Burr, dated the 3d, intimating, that Captain Staunton, com-
manding the second battalion Ist Regiment of Bombay Native
Infantry, had been fortunately able to commence his march
back to Sensor, *kb 126 wounded, having buried about 50 at
Germaine, and 12 or 15 there, very badly wounded ; that the
Peishwa had proceeded southward,General Smith beiag in put-
.suit, which has probably saved the battalion."

A smart discussion took piece list night in the
douse of Common., on a motion made by Sir
FRANCIS BURDETT, to discharge TUOMAS FERGUSON,
from Newgate, where this man is now confined for
attempting to influence an elector's vote in Scotland,
by corrupt means. The motion was grounded, not
in any sympathy for Fatonsou's crime or its con-
sequences to him, but en the manifest injestice of
punishing him so rigorously for as offence infinitely
less than the traffic in seats in Parliament, of which
Lord CASTLERSAGII, and the late Mr. PascavAL,
were accused, and which they did not deny; yet
Ph* HIiOSII did not visit them with any punish-
Mal. 141 d CAALULEAG,II gowned by a toil)!

bling retaliation, still more personal, aecating
the Honourable Baronet of taking that method of
snails to atone for neglecting to attend certain po-
pular Witting.; and his Lordship acknowledges that
he is a bad subject to recover popularity upon, the
abuses in his political character being nothing new.
The Hon. Beronet seeing no prospect of carrying his
motion, declined disiding the House On it ; and it
was negatived without a division. Lord CASTLE-
REACH moved for leave to bring in a Bill to continue
the Peace Alien Act (similar to the last, and, like it,
to continue f►r oily two years); which was carried
on a division of 55 to 18. His. Lordship then brought
in the Bill, which was read a first time, and ordered
to be read a second time on Friday.

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By a farther arrival of American Paper., we are
pot in possession of some documents of importance.'
The PRESIDENT sent a Message to Congress on the
18th of March, relative to the obstacles which arose
in the negotiations with Holland, in
.which it is stated
that " Congress may thiok it advisable t• leave the
subsisting Treaty in its present state, and to meet
the liberal esomptian from discriminating Tonnage
Duties which has been,conceded in the Nether.
lands to the lintels of the United States, by a
similar eitemption to the vessels of the Nether-
lands which have arrived or may hereafter arrive
in American ports, commencing from the time when
the exemption was granted to the •escels of the
United States." He would 66 further recommend to
the consideration of Congress the expediency of ex-
tending the benefit of the same regulation to com-
mence from the passage of the law to the vessels of
Prussia, llamburgh, and Bremen ; and of making it
prospectively general in favour of every nation in,
whose ports the vessels of the United States are ad-
mitted on the same footing as their own."
On the 25th of the same month the ParsieEme
presented a Message on the subject of the Seminole
War, from which it appears, that he grounds the
orders which he had given to pursue them beyond
the Florida line, upon two considerations : —lst, That
Spain had made no effort, in conformity to the Treaty
of 1795, to restrain the Seminoles from committing
hostilities against the United States ; ascribing her
failure, however, to do so, to the incompetency of
her force in Florida : and, 2dly, That where the au-
thority of Spain ceases to exist, there the United
States have a right to pursue their enemy, on •
principle of self-defence: a right the more complete
and obvious, as, in this case,. they would only per.
form what Spain was bound to have performed herself.
The PRESIDENT further intimated, that the American
Commander had been ordered to respect the Spanish
authority wherever it was maintained ; sad to
withdrawn from the provitice as soon as adequate se.
curity was obtained against the renewal of the out•
rages committed by the Indiens.•The PRESIDENT had
also transmitted a Message relative to the independ.
ence and condition of the South American Provinces.
The Secretary of the Treasury had expressed to the
Committee of Ways and Means the inconvenience
hick would result from a repeal of the Duties on
Salt, which he said would occasion a deficiency of
about 700,000 dollars per annual in the resources to
meet the contemplated expenditure of the two sac.
ceeding years.—Mr. &agouti, from the Committee
of Foreign Relations, to whom had been referred
the representations in behalf of Mr. MEAD, made a
Report, in Senate, of considerable length, taking a
full view of the subject, recognising the wrongs of
Mr. MEADE, and declaring substantially, that if the
demand of the Executive for his release be not com-
plied with, the offence ought to be visited with severe
retribution.—From the accounts in these Papers
from Bimini, Ayres it would appear, that the Am,.
titans are not faloarites in that quarter. Their
Consul bad been ordered to quit the place in t wenty.
four hours; but on a subsequent explanation he was
suffered to remain. The country is represented as in
a very dibltirned state. and the Government as rigid
in the extreme. The troops sent ageillSl Attica.; are
said to hove been defeated. It is stated, that the
Patriots in Chili had failed in two attacks upon Tel-
cuahatia ; and that a reinforcement of 3000 Spaniards
had arrived there from Lima.

We have received Paris Papers to the 3d instant.'
The Chamber of Deputies have adopted the Project
of the Law for raising 40,000,000 rentes to die.
charge the foreign claims on France. Not a single
Member expressed a desire to speak on the proposi-
tion ; and the Chamber divided in silence, when
there appeared—for the Law 162, against it 17. The
Parisian Journalists remark, that '• this silence is
more eloquent and more patriotic than all the die.
courses which the subject could have inspired. The
vote will remain as a monument of French loyalty,"
and as a monument exciting no very agreeable re.
collections they seem to treat it. But the same dis-
creet silence is not preserved where it might hive
been expected with equal propriety. French loyalty
*ill burst forth in some shape or other, but it is
never so amusing as when it embraces in its legitimate
ardent objects that seem to have very little affinity
iith their concerns. The same Journalists inveigh
against the British Parliament for its parsimonious
allowance to the Royal Dukes, in the contemplation
of their forming matrimonial establishments. Public
dignity, it is midi has been outraged by the
refusal; great latisfaation is expressed that the
Commons have only a year more to exist ; end a
hint is thrown out that if we do not make a
better choice of Representatives tot nest Parliament,
we may consider our glory as a People gone for ever.
How amusingly truth and falsehood are blended
here! W. shall not dispute the latter part of the
assertion. We have indeed much need to make a

better choice of Represematites, on many accounts ;
bat we do not conceive that atii part of oar glory as

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2 People has been sacrificed by refusing to comply
with the inordinate detoands lately made, with so lit:,
tle consideration and prudent*, 6n the score of Rays!
dignity. The dignity and the glory Consist in not
prostrating the nation before such Merest!tory intent",
and the welfare and honour of the British Parliament
and People would be still more permanently Oda-
blished were French "temple and Fteneh interests
less allowed to influence the conduct Of Odt Legisla-
tors. The resources of this country, lthieh ire the
best supports of its glory, would not base been in
, the dilapidated situation they now ail', had a little
more attention been paid to a just economy ; and
could the French Journalists only persuade their
grateful countrymen to re-pay us only- a tithe of the
sums witch it has cost us to re-establish the Throne

of the BOURBONS, it would enable Jose Burl. to put
something into his own pocket ; and, at the same
time, to contribute handsomely to the attainment of
suds glory as can be derived from prodigal etpendi-
lure. The Emperor ALEXANDER. it• is stated, was
to terminate the Session of the Polish Diet, in Jerson,
on the 7th silt. The Emperor and Empress of Aus•
TRU% a►rived at Trieste on the 17th oft. The Minis-
ter at the Frankfort Diet, for the different branches
of Snotty, applied, on the 20th nit. in the name
'of she Duke of S \XE-WEIMAR, for a general law re-
lative to the Press in Germany. Ilk Memorial was
unanimously referred to M. nu BERG, who hod been
previously authorised in make a Report on the same
subject. The 5 per Ceuta. left off on Friday at
67 f. 85 c.

Yetterday the dispatches IMP rinsed et the East
Indis-house, and &livered to the Pavers or Me fol.
lowing ships, cis.:—Lord fields, Captain J. FIEES-
MAN, and Northampton, Capt. C. Tun; fee Ma-
dras and Bengal.

Ext►act of a letter from St. Helene, dated March
17, 1818 :—" Mr. Dowrow, who has filled the si.
tuition of Member of Council here for twenty years
past, embarked for England on the 14th inst. The
extraordinary honours peid him on this occasion by
Sir Huosom Lowc, and the general manifestations of
respect and affection from all classes of the inhabit.
ant•, are proofs of the high estimation justly formed
of his character. This venerable servant of the Fast
India Company, who has been sometimes called the
patriarch of St. Helena, has aUained his 65th year
(50 of which have been actively employed in their ser-
vice), and leaves this, his native rock, for the first
time. He called at Longwood the day before his de-
parture, bet biAPOLEOW was either sick, or desirous
of being thought so, and did not see him. General
GOURGAUD leaves the island in the same ship *ith
Mr. Dovrrox.

Itear.Aduairal Sir Gcoact Hort, whose death we
have already announced, had resigned his office as a
Lord of the Admiralty, about three weeks, hut had
not left his house, and it was there that he died, on
Saturday night. He is succeeded by Sir G kORG
Coca BURY.
Yesterday the LORD MAYOR, Sir W. CURTIS, Sir
JAIRRI SII AW, Mr. Alderman ATKIN!, and Mr.
Alderman Wuon. accompanied by several Gentle-
men, had an i ! view with Lord LIVERPOOL and the
Ctitmcvt.w, of the EXCHEQUER, on the subject of
eq oll,sing the Duty on Coals.
The inhabitants of Tre Msdnc, Carnarvonshirp,
celebrated the nuptials of W. A. Maw/cwt. E.q.
with one general feeling of respect and joy. Wreaths
of natural and artificial flowers, end other devices,
were suspended in the windows of the moct respoct
able tradesmen, while the inn formed one complete
blase of light. The hearts of the peasantry were
cheered by the distribution of ale. .The fire.works
were brilliant. _ _ _

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DeuRY-LANt THEATitIe.-6.o*Ketres Comedy of
Wild Oats was performed last night. Tarr wild.
whimsical pert of Royer fell to the lot of Me. Eimer.
Tom, who was received, after his long !Nettie, with
the enthusiasm that was to be expected on• the retorts
of an actor so popular. Rover could net have been
committed to better hands. Ills eccentricities were
etbibited in all their 800.0011 e viv.,•py and variety.
DOWTON'S Sir George Thunkr was admirable; he
played up to Hover, in the technical plume, • ith
uncommon felicity.
It appears from the returns ptesen'ed by order of
the House of Commons, that the greatest number of
Allen: resident in the United Kingdom, during the
*ear 1817, wee 23,147—and on the Ist of March
last the number was 2c2,910. In the year 1815 five
'aliens were sent out of the coontry—one of them (an
Austrian) who had resided in Linden ten pare.
CORY Elicit Ann c, MAY O.—A considerable quoin-
' tity of foreign Wheat has wired since Monday,
which,in Addition to previous very extensive supplies
from abroad, and what appeared from our owo
coast, have occasioned a stagnation in the Wheat
tratle,frons the reluctance of the millers to purchase ;
and although lower prices by full is. per quarter
were asked than what were obtained on Monday,
eery fern saln were effected. Barley went off slowly,
and is I*. per quarter cheaper. Oats also Is. per
I quarter lower, and dull sale at the reduction. In
other articles there is no alteratitio.
The new Banking Bill, it is supposed, will re-
ceive a few modifications by next Session, but it
seems far from the Minister's intention to abandon
it. The principle of the Bill is grounded on Public
Benefit, as it tends to increase the security of Nego-
@bible Notes ; and the objection to loCk op a Capital
may now be easily rentaied, by the Royal Exchange
Plan of HALAILD and Co., the Contractors with Go.
vernussint, to distribute 107 Capitals throughout
the Country, including THREE of Treaty Thou-
valid Pounds, with the Scheme so arranged, that
T*ENTT-ONE Thousand Pound Prizes will be drawn
in the first 29 Minutes on the KING'S BIRTH-DAY;
and the Sixth-drawn Prize above Rimo must be
either R 22,000, or ,e 23,000, or R-10,000!—All
Sterling Money.
MINORITY.
asi a lard LEAVE TO BRING IN A BILL irOlt REGULATING

•Licns. -
Abertrotoby,Ha. J. UnaWeald, J. Rowell. LNrd G. W.
Mortley, A. Montti. J. Sharlie. ft.
&woelt. James Manes. Sir C. Soliin, W.
Barbam,Jof. 114nrpe th. V is. is a, irailer. Mara ifs
ehrter, Jahn PO W er; ft Tierne); Rt. H.)O. G.
Folkestotie. Visa Rotnilly, Sir S. Wilkinp, Wallet
TtLiktsl---Viscoeut Aithurpe Oki J. S. Laiobt•Ja.