GENERAL HISTORY 



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ajjainst the Rajah of Boni at 

 Macassar. Gen. Nightingale, the 

 commander, states, tJiat having ar- 

 rived at Boni on the Gth of June, 

 he demanded reparation from the 

 Rajah for the insults committed 

 against the British government, 

 which being refused, he made an 

 attack on the next day, and in an 

 hour's time the whole town and 

 residence of the Rajah were in 

 possession of the British troops, 

 with a very small loss on their 

 part. 



From Bengal it is related, that 

 tlie Sambrees, a town in Borneo 

 inhabited by pirates, was captured 

 in July, alter an obstinate resist- 

 ance, by a detachment of his Ma- 

 jesty's i4th regiment under Capt. 

 Watson. 



On February 12tb, the river 

 Netbudda, during the night over- 

 flowed its banks, and swept away 

 fifteen villages, with the houses, 

 inhal'itants, and cattle. The loss 

 of human lives is supposed to 

 have exceeded 3,000. 



Tiie town and suburbs of Ran- 

 goon have been nearly destroyed 

 by fire. Upwards of G,00() houses 

 were consumed, besides vast quan- 

 tities of teak and other wood. 



Accounts have been received 

 from China, that a fierce and dan- 

 gerous rebellion is raging in that 

 empire. It cannot be expected, 

 that accurate relations of the 

 ■ origin and circumstances of such 

 an event should be communicated 

 from a country the policy of which 

 is so peculiarly close and guarded ; 

 but various particulars have beeu 



published in the Bombay courier 

 of July 22nd, which may deserve 

 some credit. Among the various 

 causes to which the rebellion has 

 been ascribed, that of disaffection 

 among the Emperor's brothers is 

 mentioned, and it was doubtless 

 much assisted by a severe famine 

 which prevailed in several pro- 

 vinces during the last year. Its 

 leader, in Shau-tung, named Lis, 

 pretended to be, by metempsy- 

 chosis, the same with a celebrated 

 person who flourished about a 

 thousand years ago. The rebels 

 were in such strength that they 

 ventured an attack upon the royal 

 palace at Pekin, from which the 

 emperor was fortunately absent on 

 a hunting party in Tartary. Num- 

 bas of lives were lost in the 

 attack, but at length the assail- 

 ants, struck by a superstitious 

 panic, gave way before the impe- 

 rial army, and were repulsed with 

 great slaughter. In the pursuit, 

 it is said, that the imperial gene- 

 jals put men, women, and children 

 to death in several districts through 

 which they passed ; and it cannot 

 be doubted, that the cruelties prac- 

 tised on both sides were extreme. 

 The result, as far as is yet known, 

 has been, that the rebels have 

 taken to the mountains of Tee- 

 hang, a tract of 400 miles in cir- 

 cumference, where they may hold 

 out a long while ; and if joined 

 by any number of disaffected, as 

 they probably will be, the insur- 

 rection may still be highly formi- 

 dable. 



