The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1818-09-22
FROM CALCUTTA.

FkOH CALIOJ La.
By the fhip Courier. Capt Staniy, ar
here ye'terday in iIs days from Calcu,,
AMIR. Toplifhas received papers Of that
place to the 18th May inclu6ve..
The town of Mundlah was taken by
the Britilh forces by form on the 10th
April. About 500 of its defenders were
killed. The Britifh Account ffates that
plumber continued to pour into Col.
Adams camp, and thoufands were dying
OF wounds in the jungles." Unnunt
Sing, one of the mott obnoxious chiefs
to the Britifh was killed, and two others
who wsre taken prifoners were fentcnc-
ed to be hanged. It is faid thar previ
Gus to the furrender Of the town and
fort, they had ordered fcyeral of their
women TO be maf1acred. The army was
TO march without loss of time to Chow
ragpur, which it was thought would fpee
Oily furrender. The Peifhwa had fed to
the weitward.
Calcutta. May II.
accounts from Mirzapore fate, that
the price of Cotton is falling there, with
every appearance of continuing to de-
cline. The fame has been latterly the
cafe in Calcutta, and we are pleafed to
obferve, that luch is the cafe, from the
expectation that the prices may be rem
dered favorable TO the profitable fhipment
of that article to China, 70 as to give en-
ployment to many of the veiels now laid
up. and hesping fevere lo6es on their
owners.
From Paris Paper.
Horrible Atroeity.-An horrible crime,
which prefents in it's details the mott as.
tonifhing courage and angular presence
of mind, has been lately committed in
the vicinity of little village Of the Brie.
Il altogether forms drama, the episodes
of which poGe.s great interef. If the
trial to which ii will give rife fhall not
obtain the melancholy celebrity of the
cafe of Fauldes, i, will at leaf difplay
character of woman, whole frightful fit
uarion was more critical than that of the
myftcrious and imprudent heroine Of
Rhodes.
# pedler and his wife, Mort time
Gnee prefen,ed themfelves at night-fall
at the door of little farm houfe, fhort
diffance from the high road. They re-
queited of the farmer permiGisn to leep
there, whole wife was fill confined to
her bed, having lately iain-in. A small
room was aligned to them, where they
pafIed the night quietly. The next day
being Sunday, the farmer and his fer
wants went to MATS to a neighbouring
village. The pedlar ALTO expreiIeda win
to 60 there, and there remained in the
houfe only the wife of the farmer, the
pedlar's wife, who complained thar fhc
was not we'll, and child of fix years of
age.
Scarcely had the people gone out, when
the pedlar's wife, armed with knife,
prefented h erfelf at the bed of the lying
in woman. and demanded her money,
threatening to kill her in case Of refufal.
The latter, fck and weak, did not op.
pofe the aightef reliance, and deliver
ed up the keys of her drawers, at the
fame time defring the little boy 10 con.
duct the woman who had to look for
fomethinR in them. She rofe foftly from
her bed, followed the pedlar's wife, withs
out being heard, and having beckoned
the child out of the room, locked the
robber in the chamber. She then deiir-
ed the child to run to the village, to ap-
prize his father, and defire him to bring
ailiftance.
The child did not lofe an Infant; but
BY an inconceivable fatilisy, met on the
road the pedlar, who had left the church
no doubt. to join his wife. Having ask