The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-03-27 00:00:00

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-were 'profiled, and. mirehed strsight towards
Poonalt,'"for the purpose of oecuring the person and
me jog ander the immediate &di«n of the Peithwa.—
They are said to have reached Poonah before we had
pent Colonel Smith. with a force of about 4000 men,
agaieactlseni. 'lthe first battle on the sth Npvensber,
was fought at simile distance from • Poonah, end the
~my. WPM deteated bet not disheartened ' • for
*mother battle es. fnoeht on the 17th, not far from
Pweisah. • A-go'sd deal of blood was shed iu the two
bestirs. Capt. Preston, of the ittiashay F.eropetin Re.
Omens, was hmended-sereieiy, and Lieut. Falconer,
.(she Deusbay Nailer) Infeetry. Two brothers, of
-she Neese of Vaeghen, who had Wets .taker( and
irstrietd to Poonah *five the Arm bade, wens shot--
awe et( them mast we esiderstand,le the civil sew.
vice. After the second battle Pnenah surrendered,
mid she Peishes, with 'rrimirekjee, lied with the
*Mains of hie army in some fort tmthe southward—
Shahuonr has berm mentiened,to oi.. Thither Col.
Smith was to Mote ageing him about 010.80. Nov..
The howl overthrow tad rubs of this.. 1104. of the
Priam rat ta Empire martiont bacenlidflOtlY.POsirdedd.
He will fall by the heeds that trestarpd.sued, sustained
him. • The Peishwa's lame. is Bajoefibiti- s‘n
James's, or rather infamensi, Reinatomfith Blotr, 'the'
• sionlered his nephews the Phislitsosll,thin-ROll4, Ifl
*1773. But he failed in seceringtheilign pessemi,
of the' dignity of 'Pelithwe, and the. sea of Nay.
yein Row was declare* Peishera.. •&id sod.'
&mly iii 1795, sod the' tiro 'sans; of Ragoonaeth
Were alternately tidied to the . Meowed. As
length see
.of 'them; &jeers*, was eatiblialied Jo
1803, at Awash, by General Wellesley, in cow
itegeenci of his alliance with the British. cola.
;eluded at Beside on the 10th December, 1802.-
fie bitterer since remained in undisterbed. pewee•
11athent1 till the year 1817, bad been *rely attached
to nisi Gbiernient, which assisted him to settle all
his differences With Ai numerous Chiefs subordinate
'to the Poonah State. It is not et:likely that the
IPeishwh will now be dethroned, and his dignity vs.{
!!need-to one of the desiendanti of Narrain Retry
'the former possessor of the Peishwaship, if any be;
• -yet Bet the new Prince will in ail probe.
'Witt belhorn of the 'power and possessions which.
'belonged to the Present Peishiretwad will have little
'snore than the name of Ring—" a barren Sceptre in
Vs gripe." If we may form a conjecture,' Powell!,
'lnd an the tarrifories along the- west- coast will be
added to our possessions ; and if, as may be ass.
petted, there is a secret understanding with Scindiah,
be will probably have some portion of the Peishwa's
'territories for assisting mar plans.

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THE TESMAN.

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LONDON,:
WIIIIIIT, MARCH 2T, ' tins.
Many lamentable stories hare lately been indult.
Woolly propagated on the authority of letters from
persons who have gone Out with the intention of join-
Jag the Independent Armies in South Americo, of the
valisasters and disappointments that have befallen the
ladventurers ; but if such narratives have had any
• Itortioe of troth in them, the publishers of these
'letters hare carefully abstaieed from disclosing the
real cause of each failures and distresses. We have
been favoured Mich the perusal of, and with extracts
from, letters written at St. Bartholomew's, in the West
Indies, by English Gentlemen, some of whom are on
their nay tor .the Spanish Main, which convey in-
formation of a very dilferent•tenour from that of rer-
' taro private communic,atiow that have been laid before
• the Public. These letters from St. Bartholomew's
ere to the date of the 17th Feb. The intelligence re-
ceived at that island from' the Spanish Main, was
firthsr of an onfavearable character, but little reliance

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-.gas placid upon it. The taking and shooting of
.Bltue bad been ostentatiously annotseced as in the,
Spanish Papers, but had also•been contradicted by
other-reports. The defeat of Bcit.tval nal known,'
bat it is a three months old story. 'll4 coasts and
. Caracas were known to be in the possession of the
Spaniards, bet the Orinoco and the interior belong to
the Independents. fleet.**as aid to be
likeckaded in the Orinoco; and tbachiefdielcsity to
overcome by the sailitery. geifit"Oat to the
patriots, yawl. seearribie The
Spaniards bad collected all their marine-force with
a view of captstrieg the volooteers to Veneseela, and
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amusing themselves by cutting of their noses and ears,
and then shooting them and hanging that up to the
yard-arm. The only apprehensions, however, of the
- gallant adrentnren were, that the `poniards would
not have an opportuoity of attacking them, for the
Supercargoes, noxious for the safety of the arms and
ammanition lentrestedio their care, were rather dis-
posed to act, ea in some of the instances where disap.
.poitttment and disorganisation bare been occasioned by
•thesamecause, namely; not to allow the vessels to
proceed any feta.r without receiving mosey, or at
beast more favoereble intelligence frorn'the MOM—
. Fortenately,howeserstbey bad been iodated to change
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-;their tapholes, and a few days before the date of the
IMMO we are noticing, considerable reinforcement
of mew and artillery bad sailed for Vesaspe6.-1
A letter from a Gentleman on board the Sri-
lanais, which bed niched St. Bertholomew's be.J
fen the 16th, aye, " The Emerald-saibd nine days
ego, after hieing boarded a Spool& vessel, sword is
band, oe the night of the iith, and we 'vat to sail
• 'variety,' in eemptny with the Prince in a few days.
We ere piss to Margontta, bat shall not dheso-

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