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Tanced against Curraval, which was 

 garrisoned with 1100 men ; — being 

 joined by 150 Sepoys, which aug- 

 mented his force to 310 native troops 

 besides artillery, and having made a 

 breach, the storming party was led 

 on by lieutenant Grant about six 

 o'clock in the evening of the 26th ; 

 bit as our gallant party entered the 

 fort in one direction, the enemy fled 

 from it in another. We had on the 

 occasion a serjeant and eleven men 

 wounded. 



In the course of these dispatches, 

 the following officers are mentioned 

 , in terms of particular commendation : 

 major-general Smith, brigadier-ge- 

 neral Monson, lieutenant-colonels 

 Don, Need, and Taylor; majors Sal- 

 keld and Menzics ; captains Welst 

 and Grant; lieutenants Grant, Al- 

 der, Purvis, and Nicholson. 



In tlie letter of the governor-ge- 

 neral and council, transmitting the 

 foregoing accounts, is the following 

 paras^raph : 



On the 24th of February, the 

 commander in chief took up a new 

 position on the North-east side of 

 Bhurtpore ; and his excellency is 

 prepared to recommence the opera- 

 tions against that place as soon as he 

 should have received supplies of 

 stores and ammunition, which are 

 advancing towards the army from 

 the stations within the company's 

 provinces at which they had been 

 collected. The commander in chief 

 expresses a confident hope of ob- 

 taining possession of Bhurtpore be- 

 fore the concfusion of the season for 

 active military operations in that 

 quarter of India. 



The rajah, it is said, proposed li- 

 beral conditions of surrender ; name- 

 ly, to pay ail the cxpences of the 

 war, and give three lacks of money 

 ty be dispersed among the troops. 



These offers were rejected, and an 

 unconditional surrender is said to be 

 insisted upon by the British general, 

 who is desirous of making an exam- 

 ple which shall deter the native pow- 

 ers from future warfare. The rajah, 

 who defends Bhurtpore, has indeed 

 every thing at stake ; his life, his li- 

 berty, his family, his property — • 

 and he has fought nobly in their de- 

 fence. At the date of the latest ad- 

 vices he had accumulated all in one 

 spot, and expressed his determina., 

 tion of blowing up altogether, 

 should the English obtain a footing 

 in the place. 



Major-general Smith, with a de- 

 tachment of cavalry under his com- 

 mand, having effected the expulsion 

 of Meer Khan from Rohilcund and. 

 the Doab, rejoined the army of the 

 right hon. the commander in chief 

 before Bhurtpore on the 23d of 

 March. Mecr Khan having re.. 

 crossed the Jumna, had arrived at 

 Futtypore Seckree, two days before 

 general Smith's arrival at Bhurtpore. 

 This chieftain had been abandoned 

 by his troops, with the exception of a 

 small body of cavalry. The whoK? 

 of his infantry and artillery quitted 

 his service about the period of his in- 

 cursion into the Doab, and havev 

 since been employed by other chief- 

 tains. Mecr Khan himself is gone 

 off in search of employment, attend- 

 cd only by a few hundred predatory 

 horse. On the 29th of March, his 

 excellency the right hon. the com- 

 mander in chief, with a column of* 

 cavalry under his lordship's personal^ 

 command, and a column of infantry, 

 under licut.-col. Don, marched at 

 two o'clock in the morning to sur, 

 prize the cavalry of Jeswunt lla«! 

 llolkar, whic)i was encamped at thu 

 distance of a few coss from Bhurt- 

 pore. The apprehension of beinj 



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