132) ANNUAL REGISTER, 1815. 
CHAPTER XIV. 
East Indies.—Attacks on Kalunga, and result.—War of Nepaul.—Con- 
quest of Candy and Annecation of the whole of Ceylon.— Disputes with 
the Chinese.—Embassy.—Converts to Christianity.—Expedition of 
the Viceroy of Egypt against the Wahabees.—Revolution at Tunis. 
HE vast extension of the 
: British Company’s posses- 
sions in the East Indies having 
proportionally enlarged the sphere 
of their contact with the neigh- 
bouring powers, always either 
jealous of their sway, or envious 
of their prosperity, it cannot be 
expected that they should long re- 
main in the enjoyment of perfect 
peace, even supposing no ambi- 
tious views on the part of their 
own servants; and the present 
year has afforded some interesting 
intelligence of the military kind 
from that quarter of the world. 
A dispatch from the Adjutant- 
general of the Company’s forces 
in Bengal, dated Lucknow, Nov. 
9th, 1814, communicated an ac- 
count of the unfortunate result of 
an attack upon the fort of Ka- 
lunga, in the Dhoon district, made 
by Major-gen. Gillespie, on Oct. 
3ist. After various unsuccesse 
ful attacks on the fort, attended 
with a great loss of officers and 
men, the General himself gal- 
lantly cheering on his men within 
thirty yards of the gateway, re- 
ceived a mortal wound, and the at- 
tempt was given up. A battering’ 
train having been brought from 
Delhi, operations against Kalunga 
were resumed on November 25th, 
and a practicable breach being re- 
ported on the 27th, an assault 
was directed by Colonel Mawby. 
The storming party, however, 
met with insuperable obstacles ; 
and after the exposure during two 
hours to a galling fire, they were 
ordered to abandon the attack.— 
Their efforts, though unsuccess- 
ful at the time, produced such an 
effect on the enemy, that the fort 
was evacuated by its Nepaulese 
garrison on the 30th, and left to 
the occupation of the British. In 
the same month some small forts 
garrisoned from Gorkah in Ne- 
paul were taken ; and a Nepaulese 
Subah was surprised in his posi- 
tion, and slain. 
The British government in In- 
dia was now engaged in a direct 
war with the state of Nepaul; and 
the Vice-president at Fort Wil- 
Jiam thought it proper to publish, 
on January 6th, a declaration of 
the causes which had produced 
hostilities between them. It begins 
with observing, that the course of 
the Gorkah (Nepaulese) conquests 
having approximated their fron- 
tier to that of the company, of its 
ally the Nawaub Vizier, and of 
the protected Sikh chieftains, 
through a great extent of coun- 
try, it was scarcely tobe expected 
that differences would not arise 
among the inhabitants and public 
