The Sun. — 1842-03-10 (London, England)

MURDER OP SIR A. BURNES JELLALABAD, JAN. 5, 1842.—A brother of the jemadar of company is a juzailchee, in the Shah's own service, and has been the bearer of the two last letters received, and of their answers, a man of great courl3 • a c He tells me he was with the party who sallied to Burnes's rescue from the Baler Hissar, and he was wounded at Burnes'-gate. The attack on Burnes' house was made before daylight in the morning, and on the news reaching the King, he immediately sent the wazeer Nazamondowla with a force to assist him. They penetrated the town, and drove the enemy from the street Burnes lived in, but could not enter,as the gateway was in flames, and part of the house. While striving to enter, the enemy rallied, and drove them back. At this time my informant was wounded. One of the King's sons, a youth remarkable for bravery, brought reinforcements, and again penetrated the town as far as Burnes, and beyond it, but found all over, and retired. The Shah's people lost some hundred men. When party reached the gate, Burnes' body was lying in the stretehte beforefirst it, hacked nearly to pieces—but a furious fig ht was going on still in the house, and the cry was, that the other Feringhee and some sepoys were sti 1 defending a room high up. He says they heard them amidst the crackling of the fire, and the shouts of both parties, and could easily distinguish the fire from the gardens and courtyard below, and the return from the house. It seemed on both sides quite steady; it was, as he says, a very strong battle. While all were crying out to try going round to the other side to get in, the waggecr ordered a retreat, and they were furiously pursued. This was not with the second attack under the Prince; but, he says, they learned from the town's people that after their repulse, the people who had hitherto abstained from setting fire to all the house in order to secure the plunder, now carried wood and straw into the lower roams and staircases, and set them on fire, and that on the flames and smoke reaching the upper rooms the Fcringhee, with a few sepoys, suddenly threw open the doors and rushed out upon the enemy, but the latter being prepared for this overwhelmed them at once by reifies from parties placed in readiness to fire into them whenever it should open. This fcringhee was William, beyond question, both from its being what I feel as sure would happen as if I had seen it, and from the man saying he understood always that it was not young Burnes, whom he says he understood to have been killed early in the affair, but not with his elder brother. All accounts state the resistance as desperate as prolonged ; but one thing cannot but strike you, the Baler Hisser adjoins the city on one side, the cantonments on the west. If the wazeer could penetrate to Burnes, why could not the troops ? Did they try it ? John M'Kenzie, too, was on the skirts of the city in an old fort, not very far from the cantonments. For two days he fought, having about 100 men, and then cut his way to our large fo'ce, who (Pa not seem able to cut theirs to him Burnes' party was one havildar, one naik, and twelve sepoys, and next door, but without communica. tion, were thirty sepoys over the pay.office of the Shah's force— these are said to have been first overpowered to obtain the treasure,