Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-06-26

dispatches, so taratl least as they arc pub |
lished, add nothing whatever 10 The sum
of the intelligence which we had already |
laId before the public; and present The !
details of 1t with scarcely amy sensible va |
ration. The account OF the victory gain |
Ell over Hoikar is contained m aSiIGrl and
hurried letter, written hy Sir Ihomas His
Top, from the field OF battle, on the 2isi
Dcccn.ber. The action WAS fought un
the bank oi The SapoGra, opposite Ma
hcidpOor, considerably 10 nUrih Of Indoor
and CnSein, which capitals of She i,yo
leaders, i!0lkar aud Scindia, The Madras
army must have passed IN IFS march To-
wards The enemy. L lie result of he actun
Is IN subsequent despatch described,
az before, 10 have been The capture oil
lioikar's camp, with the greater portion
. OF his artillery, and iIe loss On his pant
! OF about 2U00 men. Fhe Brush loss, we
| regret Ia say, was not eXaggerafeC, whe,r'
| /, WAS stated AT upwards of30 officers and
700 men killed or wounded by the enemt.
The engagement Between Col. Scott
| aud the troops OF Berar was long, obsti-
| nate and bloody. Ii lasted from the even
ing OF the goth Of November TO IL O'Clock
| on the following day and although the
| enemy was repulsed, and six OF his guns
| captured, II was not until OF Col. Scoti's
| small force Ii officers and $40 non-coni-
| nlsSloned aud pilvaies were left among
| lite killed and wounded. We are moi en-
aDicd, by any passage OF the Gazette, To
explain distinctly the causes of hostility
between SIR L. iiislopand Holkar, or We
tween Colonel Scott aud the troops oiihe
| Raj ah of Brrar. Sir Thomas merely SAWS,
that his battle arose from failure OF the
negotiations with the government OF
HolkaT, and " from The repeated acts Of
4, 4. 4
pcrienced SiUcr our advance from Gu
gein on the l4ih instant" Ii is not
specified or even liined at, what were
those insults aud aggressions. Again, we
are told, that On'th 18th of November,
Col. Scott took position which COM
manded NagpoOr, al The requlSliIOn OF
Mr.. Jenkins, The resident; but he does
not inform us VIVA, were the provocattOns
TO this march. Ii Is plain, however, that
the BeraT troops Wrre neither beaten nor
dispirited III the action with that officer
since, on the l4tu December following,
they encountered the army commanded
by Gen. Devotion, in hattie of much
greater Importance. The issue Of ibis
new contest was The complete defeat OF
the Ralah ct Bera's numerous army, who,
1t would appear, opposed the British i'll
defiance of The orders OF their Chief. Tiie
this occasion into our hands, with forty
elephants and seventy five pieces of can
non. These actions complete the militia
ry history Uo the extent which il has been
thought right 10 publisiSit) OF our affairs
III the cenlre of India. Times.
On the 26lh of \ pri the IreHch Cham
Der at Deputies, which upon the pr0po-
siions of the Committee OIL Pensions, had
sent Tie president OF The Council of Mi
nisters, petition OF Lord Kinnaise, "a
Peer of Great Rrltaig, received report
from ViscOnnt de M0ntmoreRcy, and or
dcred If 10 be printed.
In the Frcncl Chamber of Deputies on
the eth of April, when the budget was
under consideration, at that part which
lapproprlateS $50, 600, QO0 francs for the al
my Of occupation, MIR. LafEtte moved
that the expenditure should be limited 10
the 30ih of Nov. next. The minister of
war said The Budget was calculated only
10 that time.
Laffitte said il was calculated TO Dee.
3I.-He did not think that by his motioa
the Chamber could imagine he meant 10
PREJUDICE the evacuation, which was vet
but subject of hope but he thought
that according 10 the treaties, the evacu
alton was TO be made by the Goth of Nov.
next, and that Ii might be useful That the
opinion OF Tue Deputies should be mani
tested In this law. Ii had been complain
ed that he bad painted The situation OF
the nation in too sOmbTe colours, but he
Alarmed there existed no error in lis dcs-
crlplon.
III. de Yiltie said, If the motion was
calculated oproduceany benefit he should
be III favor oil II; lift would hasten The e.
vacHation every body would. support it.
! But II was not calculated TO do any good
Ii was useless.
NJ d. Argenson said, ifthc appropriation
law ended Nov. 30, why do not Minis
tiers ask for an act of indemnity for hav-
ing paid the expenses of The army Of Uc-
cupaiioD since Nov. last. After cOnside
rable iumuli the previous question was
taken and carried.
altoona, April ga notice has been
issued by our High President, that tiiecom
manders Of The two British ships that are
. going out for the purpose of discovering a
passage from the Atlantic into the Pacific
Ocean, were ordered (thai news might be
received from them as often as possibe) 10
throw ont bottles from time to line contain
ing an account of lie ships, and at the same
time request, drawn up in several Euro
J pean languages, that tie finder would
send the contents Immediately either Ia
his own government, or 10 the Secretary
of the Admiralty at London, J. w
, Croker, aud 10 add remark Of the time
when, and The place where. the bottles
were pickedup.
In consequence, the captains Of vessels
and others, are ordered in the name oil
the Royal Chancery Of the Duichies oil
Sleswick, Holstein, and Launcnburg, il
they should find such bottles, immediate
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