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R, J. Woodford, at their third 

 meeting, when he informed them 

 that it was in consequence of in- 

 structions from the Prince Regent, 

 as a mark of his disapprobation of 

 their suspension of Judge Smith 

 from his appointments. 



In relating the occurrences in 

 the East-Indies, we must go back 

 to col. Gillespie's success against 

 the refractory Sultan of Djojo- 

 carta, in the island of Java, which 

 was slightly noticed in the history 

 of the last year, but has been 

 fully reported in a dispatch from 

 that officer to lieutenant-governor 

 RafHes, printed in the London 

 Gazette. It being thought ne- 

 cessary to reduce the Sultan to 

 obedience by arms, colonel Gil- 

 lespie collected about 600 fire- 

 locks, a proportion of artillery, 

 and two troops of the 22nd dra- 

 goons, and being joined by the 

 remainder of his force, with his 

 principal supply of ordnance, un- 

 der lieutenant-colonel Macleod, 

 proceeded to Djojocarta, on June 

 18th, 1812, where that prince 

 had fortified himself in his Krat- 

 tan, or palace, surrounded by re- 

 gular works three miles in cir- 

 cumference, with a bastion at each 

 corner, and occupied by 17,000 

 men. After some desultory actions, 

 a general assault was made by the 

 British troops on the morning of 

 the 20th, in which their gallantry 

 in a short time overcame every 

 obstacle presented by an enemy 

 vastly more numerous, but of a 

 very different quality from that of 

 European soldiers ; and all the 

 entrances of the Krattan being 

 forced, the victory was decided by 

 the capture of the Sultan himself. 

 The loss incurred by the victors 

 did not exceed 28 killed and 76 



wounded ; and their whole num- 

 ber actually engaged is stated by 

 colonel Gillespie not to have 

 amounted to 1,000 firelocks. A 

 proclamation was immediately 

 published by the lieutenant-go- 

 vernor, deposing the captured 

 Sultan, after an enumeration of 

 the crimes of which he had been 

 guilty, and raising to the throne 

 of Mataram the hereditary prince 

 Pangerang Adipati, by the style 

 of Sultan Hamangkubuana the 

 Third. This sovereign was in- 

 stalled in his authority on June 

 the 22nd, with the submission of 

 all the princes and chieftains ; and 

 the country remained in a state of 

 perfect tranquillity. 



The state of Hindostan with 

 respect to the native powers, and 

 their relation to the British do- 

 minion in India, has offered little 

 matter of interest during the pre- 

 sent year. By intelligence from 

 Barrackpore, dated February 1st, 

 we are informed that a large body 

 of Pindarees, which lately made 

 irruptions into the company's pro- 

 vinces of Benares and Berar, had 

 plundered Nagpour, the capital of 

 the Berar Rajah. The Rohilla 

 cfiief, Ameer Khan, was laying 

 heavy contributions in the coun- 

 try of the Rajah of Jeypour, and 

 probably intended to depose him. 

 A party of SOO men from Ne- 

 paul had made an irruption into 

 the company's districts at Tir- 

 hoot, and were said to be armed 

 with English muskets, and to 

 have cannon with them. A force 

 of ten companies of native in- 

 fantry, with some field-pieces, un- 

 der captain Latten, had marched 

 against them. With the excep- 

 tion of these petty and remote 

 disturbances, the Indian peninsula, 



