The National Register. — 1815-08-06 (London, England)

DOWNING STHEI2T, A,VG. 2, 1813. 27th, stating that the army has submitted, and that the " Dispatches have this day been received trout Lieuit. (An. Sir R. King has received its submission with kindness. This , Rrownrigg, dated Kandy, in Ceylon, the V:ith of Felniarv. 181. i. Excelmans is amongst the number of traitors ordered into On the first of February, after overcoming very gnat difficulties, principally in provisioning the troops of the Ist and 2d divisiuns. the interior. Lamarque is another, and he, forsooth, exunder the command of M.4or Hook and Lieut.-Col. O'Conuell' we presses his surprise that his name is included in the same I reached the Balani Mountains, on the great road leading to the City royal ordonance. lie attributes it 46 to injustice or .of Kandy. The fort commanding the pass through the mountain error." lie never served against the King we suppose! was taken on the 211, after a trifling opposition : awl on the :::(1, a fort still further in advance was taken possession of by the tat divtOne of the Papers hints at the probability of all the sm!), without loss. On the loth tlw arinv awns, moved forward, and armies being disbanded, and a. stew army created out i reached the great river ut Maliavelligang‘a. three miles dist Ant from of the national guards of the departments. This is the 'Kandy, when it was first learnt that the King. and his aftlielebt4 had measure that ought to be adopted. Bonaparte's troops abandoned his capital, and the defences which had been elected to prevent the passage of the river. On the 13th Sir R. Brovveirigg can never be relied upon as faithful supporters of the joined the advance of the army, and on the following ,day entered Monarchy. the City of Kandy, and fixed his head goalless in the piilare„, On The Duke de Richelieu is about to return to Russia. the 19:11, the King was surrounded by the people of Dthubiora, the lie was selected by the King for one of his Cabinet Mini- province into which he fled, and after Nome resistaeee, was, together with twa of his wives, taken prisoeer. Sir R. Brovinrigg speaks sters : but is understood to have refused sitting in Coun- most highly of the conduct and discipline of all the troops engaged di m ith Fouche. • in these operations." In several of the villages of Upper Normandy there are The King of Kandy, a few years since, barbarously put to more troops than inhabitants. France now begins to feel death, by the most cruel tortures, several British Officers, some of the miseries she has inflicted upon others for the who were sent to him on a political mission ; it was his conlast '2O years. • stant practice to treat all his prisoners of -war it) the sane The officer who went with a flag of truce to summon merciless manner. Major Davy, a most intelligent British Conde in the name of the King, and who was carried he- Officer, a few years since became one of the most conspicufore a Military Commission at Conde, and by them order- °us of his victiro. ed to be shot, It as named Gordon, a Scotch officer. There It gives us pleasure to say, that this achievement has not is a letter from his brother in these papers, who trusts in cost us a single life, and but few to the Kandians. Treasure, the justice of the King that his murder will not go unp- to some amount has fallen into the hands of the ccnquerors. uuished. The King, who with his two wives was made prisoner, ap......m..... pears to have been contemplated by the Kandians with feelARREST OF