Major-General Sir Hudson Lowe, come to the determination to proceed immediately to Marseilles, with about three thousand men of this garrison, which embark with the assent of the Sardinian government, at our request, and it is my intention to take the transports with the arms on board, to be employed as may be found advisable. I shall use every effort to afford all the assistance and cooperation in my power, to carry into effect the intentions of his Majesty's government, as detailed in the papers accompanying your letter of the 30th of May last, which I have this morning had the honour to receive from Sir Hudson Lowe, who embarks on board the Boyne: and I hope to sail in the morning for Marseilles.

Boyne, off Marseilles, July 18. In reference to my letter of the 3d instant, a duplicate of which accompanies this, I have the honour to acquaint you, for their Lordships' information, that we anchored in Marseilles Roads, on the evening of the 10th, with the ships named in the margin. † The following morning I went on shore, accompanied by MajorGeneral Sir Hudson Lowe, where we were received by the Marquis de Riviere, the Members of the Royal Committee of Provence, acting in the name of his Majesty Louis XVIII. and all the other

* 14th regiment, 800; Piedmontaise, 600; Italian levy, 1,406; artillery and cavalry, 200.

Boyne, Impregnable, Pomrée, and Bombay.

Authorities, with every manifes tation of joy.

On the 18th, the transports from Genoa, under convoy of the Aboukir, anchored in the Bay; the following morning the troops (about 3,000 men) debarked, and have occupied such positions as the general and myself have thought most eligible. I have landed 500 marines from the line of battle ships, who are doing duty with the army.

The loyalty of the Marseillois is very conspicuous, and the appearance of a British force, together with the arming the national guard, which the Marquis de Riviere has been enabled to accomplish through my assistance, has produced the best effect in calling forth professions of attachment to the royal cause, which their unprotected and defenceless state until now compelled them to suppress. Toulon still displays the tricoloured flag under Marshal Brune, and great excesses have been committed in raising contributions in that neighbourhood.

On the 13th, Marshal Murat, who is at Toulon, sent his Aidde-camp, Lieut.-General Rosetti, to me to propose his being received on board one of the ships for protection and safe conveyance to England. In reply, I charged this officer to inform Murat, that if he chose to go on board one of the ships off Toulon, in order to receive personal protection, it would be afforded, but that I should not enter into any engagements with him as to his destination, leaving that point to be settled by reference to England. I have this day heard, that Murat, finding (on the return of 1 s offi

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cer) he would not be received on board a British ship on the terms which he proposed, has left Toulon, taking an eastern route towards Piedmont."

Boyne, off Marseilles, July 24,

1815, 10 P. M.

I hasten to communicate to you, for the information of their Lordships, that I am this moment returned from the Pass of Olionle, whither Major-General Sir Hudson Lowe and myself, accompanied the Marquis de Riviere (his Majesty's Lieutenant in these provinces) this morning from our advanced post, to receive the adhesion of the officers of the army and navy at Toulon, which was tendered to the Marquis, and the white flag hoisted under a discharge of one hundred pieces of cannon, and acknowledged by one of my frigates off the harbour.

Boyne, off Marseilles, August 1. Their lordships will be informed by my last letter, of the 24th of July, of the arrangement made on the 24th, between the Marquis de Riviere and Marshal Brune.

The non-performance of the stipulated removal of Marshal Brune and the disaffected regiments, has occasioned a correspondence between General Sir Hudson Lowe and myself, and the Marquis de Riviere; which has this morning happily terminated, by Marshal Brune delivering himself into the hands of the Marquis, to be sent (accompanied by his Aid-de-camp) to Paris.

The most evident good will prevails amongst all classes of people immediately about us: and VOL. LVII.

I have no doubt but Toulon will feel immediate benefit from the removal of Marshal Brune.

I cannot close my letter without expressing in the strongest terms the high satisfaction and serving with Major-General Sir pleasure I have experienced in Hudson Lowe, from whose active intelligent mind the service has derived every advantage.

Boyne, off Marseilles, Aug. 2. The Marquis de Riviere's letter, this moment received, announces the actual departure of Marshal Brune, accompanied by an officer, as before intimated.

INDIA-BOARD,

Whitehall, Aug. 16. Dispatches, dated Fort William, 25th of January, 1815, together with their enclosures, of which the following are extracts, have been received at the East India House, from the Vice-President in Council.

"We have the honour to transmit to your honourable court copies of documents, in continuation of the subject of our address of the 27th ultimo, relating to the operations of the war with the state of Nepaul.

The successful resistance which the enemy has hitherto opposed to the advance of the divisions of Major-Generals Wood and Marley, and the disasters which have occurred in the division commanded by Major-General Martindell, will be a subject of deep regret to your honourable court; but your honourable court will derive great satisfaction from

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the success which has hitherto attended the operations of the division under the command of Major-General Ochterlony.

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Extract of a letter from the Adjutant-General to the Secretary to Government, dated Headquarters, Moradabad, December 10, 1814, relative to the operations of the 2d division of the field army, under the temporary command of Colonel Mawby.

My last transmission of dispatches from the officer commanding the troops in the Dhoon announced the evacuation of the fort of Kalunga on the morning of the 30th ultimo.

The garrison is now known to have suffered most severely from the fire of the British artillery, and particularly from the shells thrown from the mortars. The place was found crowded with dead and wounded, whom the enemy was unable to carry off in his precipitate flight, during the course of which his whole numbers were, with a very limited exception, either killed, wounded, or taken prisoners, by the activity and gallantry of the different detachments which had been very judiciously placed by Col. Mawby, to intercept his retreat.

Bulbudder Sing, the Killedar, effected his escape with about 70 followers, with whom he took post on a hill, at some distance from the British camp, where he was joined by 300 Goorkahs, intended as a reinforcement for the garrison of Kalunga, and who had been several days seen hovering in the mountains. Colonel

Mawby determined to dislodge them from this position, and selected Major Ludlow for the conduct of this service, which was most ably and successfully accomplished by that officer.

The conduct of Major Ludlow deserves, in the opinion of the Commander-in-Chief, to be brought to the particular notice of his lordship, not only as distinguished in this affair, but throughout the whole of the service in the Dhoon: at the arduous and unfortunate commencement of it, his gallantry and exertions were most conspicuous, and it is known attracted the applause of the illustrious commander, who fell on that lamented occasion. Since that period Major Ludlow has been employed on every service of difficulty and danger that has occurred, and invariably conducted himself with eminent courage, judgment, and zeal.

The officers who served under Major Ludlow in the attack of Bulbudder Sing's position are also entitled to particular notice and commendation; and his Excellency accordingly begs leave to name the following officers, as deserving to be honoured with the approbation of Government; Captain Bucke, commanding the light battalion, in the absence of Major Wilson; Ensigns Wilson, Richmond, and Turner, doing duty with that battalion. The arduous and difficult nature of the service, the fatigues and privations the troops had for some time undergone, and the strength of the ene my's position, demanded exemplary exertions of activity, zeal, and personal bravery from the European officers; and they ap

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pear to have been made on this occasion with a spirit and alacrity becoming British officers.

It will be satisfactory to the Government to observe, that in this rencontre, (the first which has taken place between the Sepoys and the Goorkah troops since the successful resistance of the latter from the walls of their forts) our native infantry, animated by the example and under the guidance of their European officers, have maintained their accustomed superiority in close conflict, with an enemy of determined courage, aided by the natural strength of his position.

The fall of Kalunga, and the impression produced by the ultimate fate of the garrison, notwithstanding its protracted and gallant resistance, has been attended with the most beneficial consequences. The confidence that had been created by the events before Kalunga has abated; and the spirit of insurrection against the Goorkah tyranny, which the same events had repressed, has now decidedly manifested itself.

A very strongly stockaded position which the enemy occupied on the heights above the town of Calsia was precipitately abandoned, after a feeble resistance, on the advance of a small detachment sent against it on the 28th ultimo, by Lieut.-colonel Carpenter, under the command of Capt. Past, of the 1st battalion of the 17th native infantry, accompanied by a party of irregulars, which had been collected in the country by Mr. Frazer, with his usual indefatigable zeal in the public service.

The dispatch from Col. Mawby, under date of the 7th instant, will apprize the Governor-general of the evacuation of the strong fort of Barunt, situated on one side of those high mountains, which, rising in continuous masses from the north eastern boundary of the valley of the Dhoon, extend to the great Himmalcheh range. The possession of this place is of great importance, commanding not only the district of Jaunsur, lying between the Jumna and Touse rivers, but one of the enemy's main communications between his western army, under Ummeer Sing, and the countries held in subjection by its presence, and the dominions of Nepaul east of the Ganges. This event appears to have been accelerated by the defection of the head landholders and inhabitants of the country. The post of Lackerghaut on the Ganges, where it forms the eastern limit of the valley of the Dhoon, and by which the enemy's direct and principal communication with Ummeer Sing's army was maintained before the British troops entered the valley, is in possession of one of our detachments, which completes the occupation of the Dhoon, and of the principal passes leading into it.

The occupation of this valley formed the earliest object of the Commander in Chief's attention in the plan which his Excellency had resolved to adopt for the campaign to the westward; because it necessarily cut off the lower, most direct, and most frequent line of communication between the capital and the eastern dominions of Nepaul, and its army and conquered provinces west of the " P2

Jumna

Jumna and Touse rivers; and the British authority once established in the valley, posts could have been extended from thence along those rivers to a distance sufficient to deprive Ummeer Sing of his middle line of communication, and to force him, on the event of his being compelled, or finding it expedient to abandon his western conquests, to seek a retreat by the only line for it, which would then be left him, along the foot of the snowy mountains. The unfortunate events before Kalunga retarded, and for a time completely frustrated, the views of the Comnander in Chief, and deprived the 3d division of the army under Colonel Ochterlony, of the support and co-operation it was to derive from the 2d division after the occupation of the Dhoon, in a combined attack on the Goorkah power and possessions in Sirmoor. The fall of Kalunga, the secure occupation of the Dhoon, and the expulsion of the enemy, which is stated to be complete, from the districts lying between the rivers Touse and Junina, have in part accomplished the objects of the campaign in that quarter, and led to the immediate resumption of the original plan of operations intended to be pursued to the westward of the Jumna.

The battering train was to have left Deyrah on the 6th inst. and it was expected the remainder of the division would descend the Timley Pass on the 8th or 9th, on its route to Nahan, which the Commander in Chief has ordered should be through the protected Seikh country, and the Muckunda Pass, with a view to avoid the difficult pass of Guttansun, and the

defiles leading directly from the Kaerdar valley towards Nahan.

Return of Killed, Wounded, and Missing of a detachment of the field army commanded by Colonel Mawby during the siege of Kalunga and subsequent attack on Bulbudder Sing, from the 25th of November, 1814, to the 2d December, both inclusive.

Total of Killed and Wounded—1 major, 5 captains, 6 lieutenants, 2 ensigns, 7 native commissioned officers, 35 havildars and serjeants, 4 drummers, 425 rank and file, 1 gunner, 11 mattrosses, 2 golaundause, 4 gun lascars, 1 driver, 4 bheetees, 1 magazine man.

Copy of a letter from Major-gen. Sir Gabriel Martindell, K. C.B. commanding the second division of the field army, dated Camp, Noginund, December 20, 1814, to the Adjutant-general.

Sir,-With reference to my letter, dispatched by express this morning, I have now the honour to inform you, that Major Ludlow took possession of Ñahun at one o'clock to-day.

I have the honour, &c. G. MARTINDELL, MajorGen. commanding detachment. Camp, Noginund, Dec. 20, 1814.

Extract of a letter from Major

gen. Sir Gabriel Martindell, K. C. B. dated Camp, at Nahun, December 27, 1814.

It is with unfeigned regret that I have to report to you, for the information