of this important fortress, or whether he sustained any loss in the attack of the Pettah on the 18th, or of the fort. 2. After I had arrived at Poolmery, about sixteen miles north from Aurungabad, I found that the enemy did not advance to the southward, as I had been informed they first intended; and in the night of the 15th I received a particular account of the disposition of their troops, baggage, &c. which convinced. me that they intended to interrupt Colonel Stevenson's operations at AsseerGhur. 3. I therefore marched on the 16th to the northward, and descended the Ghaut on the 19th. Scindiah had moved to the northward, but he halted as soon as he found I had returned; and he was yesterday at Aboon on the Taptee. The Rajah of Berar has separated from him, and, it is said, has gone towards Chandore. I suspect that the report has been circulated with a view to draw me to the southward again; but, as Colonel Stevenson has got possession of Asseer-Ghur, and is fully equal to any thing that can be sent against him, it is my intention to reascend the Ghaut immediately. 4. Sixteen officers and serjeants belonging to the Campoos have joined Colonel Stevenson, under your Excellency's proclamation of the 29th of August. I will hereafter send a list of their names, and an account of the pay each is to receive. The infantry retired towards the Nerbudda, when Colonel Stevenson approached Boorhanpoor, and, by all accounts, it is completely destroyed and disorganized. It is impossible to form it into corps again, and it is not probable that it will ever be of any service to Dowlut Rao Scindiah. 5. I have directed Colonel Stevenson to leave a garrison in Asseer-Ghur, and to deliver the districts depending upon that fortress to the charge of the servants of the Soobah of the Dekan. Your Excellency will observe that this is the last of the possessions of Dowlut Rao Scindiah in the Dekan; and the operations of the troops will now be directed against those of the Rajah of Berar. I have the honor to be, MY LORD, With the greatest respect, Your Excellency's Most obedient and faithful humble Servant, The The detailed account of the siege and surrender of Asseer-Ghur was pub lished in the Calcutta Gazette Extraordinary of the 1st of December, 1803. Major General Wellesley's original dispatch, dated the 25th of October, 1.803, has not been received. The foregoing extract is taken from the duplicate copy of that dispatch, which reached Fort William this morning. Published by command of His Excellency The most noble the Governor General in Council, Fort William, December 14, 1803. ADVICES have been this day received from Lieutenant Colonel P. Powell, dated Camp at Calpee, the 4th December, 1803, communicating the satisfactory information of the surrender of the fort of Calpee to the detachment under the command of Colonel Powell, at eleven o'clock on the forenoon of that day. The Killadar having refused to surrender the fort on the summons of Colonel Powell, a battery of two 18-pounders and one howitzer was constructed within two hundred yards of the walls, and opened soon after day-light on the 4th. A heavy fire was kept up till eleven A. M. when the garrison proposed to surrender, and was permitted to march out with their arms and private property. The fortress was immediately occupied by a detachment of British troops. Captain D. Macleod, of the 2d battalion 11th regiment native infantry, received a severe wound while employed on duty at the battery, and one Sepoy was also wounded: no other casualties of any description have occurred. The inhabitants at Calpee have manifested the greatest confidence in the British government, and satisfaction at the treatment which they experienced from from Lieutenant Colonel Powell. Many of the inhabitants, who had quitted their habitations on the approach of the British troops, returned to the town. immediately after the surrender of the fort to Colonel Powell. Published by command of His Excellency the most noble The Governor General in Council, J. LUMSDEN, Chief Sec. to the Govt. Y APPENDIX APPENDIX E. Return of the Ordnance, Ammunition, and Colours, taken from the Enemy from the 8th of August until the 1st of November, 1803, according to the Official Returns which have been received by the Governor General. N. B. The ordnance enumerated in this return is exclusive of the ordnance captured at Delhi, Ferozeabad, Ahmednuggur, Jalnapoor, Baroach, Powanghur, Cuttack, Boorhanpoor, and Asseer Ghur, of which the official returns have not yet been received at Fort William. A DIS Fort William, December 25, 1803. A DISPATCH, of which the following is a copy, has been this day received by His Excellency the most noble the Governor General, from the Honorable Major General Wellesley. MY LORD, Camp at Parterly, November 30, 1803. Having found that the Rajah of Berar was moving towards his own territories, that the body of troops he had with him was but small, and decreasing in numbers daily, and not likely to do much mischief to the territories of the Soubah of the Decan, I descended the Ghauts by Rajoora on the () in order to support and cover Colonel Stevenson's operations against Gawilghur in Berar. Colonel Stevenson had equipped his corps at Asseer-Ghur for the siege of that fort, and had marched to Ballapore, where he was joined on the 24th by the Brinjarries, and other supplies which had been saved from the enemy by Captain Baynes's affair at Amber; and he marched forward on the 26th. Your Excellency has been informed that on the 34d I had consented to a suspension of hostilities with the troops of Dowlut Rao Scindiah, in this quarter and Guzzerat. The condition on which this agreement depended, viz. that Scindiah should occupy a position twenty coss to the east of Elichpour, had not been carried into execution; and Scindiah was encamped at Sersooly about four miles from the camp of Munnoo Bappoo*, which was at this place. The army of the former consisted only of cavalry; that of the latter was cavalry; a great part, if not the whole of Ragojee Bhooslah's regular infantry; and a large proportion of artillery. In the course of the 28th, the Vakeels from Dowlut Rao Scindiah urgently pressed me not to attack these troops; but I informed them repeatedly that there was no suspension of arms with Ragojee Bhooslah; and none with |