Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-06-28
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ANOTHER VIL'TORr IN INDIA.
LONDON, April is.

at the India House. "A private lcteer ny
this CONVEYANCE gives an interesting detail
ofaao.her important battle fought on the
2eth ofiast November, which was followed
BY complete victory, attended with very
uncomfortable loss on our part. 4 no the
general account is certainly very. accurate,
vet some. confusion appears in the detail,
which must be attributed to the hurry OF
the writer.
lamb at 4Ayca7m, Nop. 80 1905.
aI will endeavor to give you a detailed
account of glorious battle fought >yester-
day. That you navjudge of the proprie-
tv Of the action,I must relate to you tAe
circumstances which precededit.
/" 1t appears, that OF the 25d inst. gene
raj Wellesley entered into an agreement
with Scandals Vakeels, that there should
be cessation Of arms between us and
him that is to saw, after the space OF. ten
days, which we allowed for Sciadia to sign
the treaty, and perform the articles OF It.;
one Of which was that he should retire with
his army &c cosses east.of Ellechphor, and
maintain that distance at all times between
his and Our armies here, and in Guzerat,
&c. to prevent the possibility of the troops,
mutually committing hostilities On one ano-
Their. SIX days only after the period pres
crisrd were elapsed; but he.had notin the
least endeavored to perform that most es-
sential pert OF his agreement, nor was 1t
actually ratified :, and he cannot have any
excuse for saying he did not know OF our
advances, for he was very often written to
and told to move away, as we were gong
against the Bhosla's troops, with whom he
was then cncampsd.
g On the 28th Vakeel came from the
Bhosla's brother, but as he brought no Gre
dentlals orpowers, sc. no attention was
paid to his advances. On the 29th, while
we were marching, and. about three miles
after he had left our ground, abod!y OF horse
appeared, and with them another vakeel
from Burma Baupoo, the Bhosla's brother.
The general met him very cordially, and
listened to the proposals, which were as
follows:
& That he wished to treat with the gene
raj, and that as his and Scandals armies
were now near, he requested the general
would return to the ground he had lett on
the Poonah river, and in that case, the ar
mics of Scindia andth rajah would retire
FIVE crosses to the n. Sd. to prevent hostl-
i,lities.'
g To this the general replied, { that they
knew of his advances, and be would not
with an enemy's army liz 'front.' move back
an inch The vakeel then proposed that
he should halt at the next water about three
miles forward; to which also he said, he
should move forward to the ground he at
first intended, aud that the Bhosla (being
his own mastery would remove. Or not, as
he thought proper: but If he was near him,
he would attack him-:' he then told the
vakeel, he should be very sorry that the
most triaing accident should happento HIM:
to prevent which, he begged he would 60
to the rear, and remain with two people OF
ours, to protect him until we had taken
up our ground, when We would admit him
again. With these proposals letter came
from Scindia, and the same forms were
pone through with coionel Stevenson, who
renlied. $ that he should march on, and II
they were near him, would attack them
he advised them, however, to retire. At
half mast eleven we arrived at Pantrebe, the
nyace where it was at first intended We
should halt. when we found the Ehosla's
advance and left il early that morning and
;oined hi army, tilen laying five miles off,
On very extensive plain. From the tower
of the village, their whole llne was observ-
I'd but not moving of, except their bag
oage. At this time we were joined by col.
Stevenson's army, and were then taking
| ground for our encampm enss, when seye-
raj parties OF the enemy's horse drove an
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