GENERAL HISTORY. 
officers of the contiguous districts. 
A minute relation is then given of 
instances in which these have 
taken place, in all of which the 
Nepaulese government is charged 
with a premeditated system of en- 
croachment. It is ailirmed that 
the Rajah of Nepaul made a pro- 
position for commissioners on 
each side to meet on the spot, and 
decide the respective claims of the 
parties, which was accepted, and 
Major Bradshaw met two com- 
missioners from Nepaul. Their 
proceedings, after much procras- 
tination, were brought to a close, 
and irrefragable proof was ad- 
duced of the British right to the 
whole of what were termed the 
Low Lands. The Rajah, how- 
ever, refused to give them up; 
and further application proving 
ineffectual, the British govern- 
ment determived to take up arms, 
with the resolution not to lay them 
down till it had obtained full 
justice. 
The chief command of the forces 
against Nepaul having been en- 
trusted to Major-gen. Sir David 
Ochterlony, he began his opera- 
tions by an attempt to take pos- 
session of three points in front of 
his right, by which the supplies of 
the enemy from the interior would 
be cut off. For this purpose Lieu- 
tenant-col. Thompson was sent 
at night, on December 27th, with 
-a detachment to dislodge them 
from the stockades which they 
had erected on two of these points. 
The difficulties of the road having 
prevented him from reaching the 
first point till late on the follow- 
ing morning, he found the stock- 
ade too strong to be carried by 
assault, and brought up his ar- 
tillery against it. Whilst he was 
[iss 
engaged in preparing a battery 
he was attacked by the enemy in 
great numbers, who attempted 
to surround him. ‘The warm re- 
ception they met with obliged 
them to retire with loss; and hav- 
ing evacuated one stockade, they 
tock possession of a post at a 
small distance with all their force. 
About the close of 1814 and 
the beginning of 1815, an advance 
of the divisions, commanded by 
major-generals Wood and Morley, 
was successfully resisted by the 
enemy, whe, with much superior 
numbers, obliged the assailants 
to retreat. An attack also, upon 
‘a stockaded fort, made by the di- 
vision under major-gen. Martin- 
dell, was repulsed with consider- 
able loss. The particulars of these 
petty actions in this remote and 
little-known country, as given in 
the dispatches, are totally unin- 
telligible for want of maps and 
plans, 
It appears that the army of Ne- 
paul in the early months of the 
year occupied a fortified position 
on the Malown range of moun- 
tains, from which gen. Ochter- 
_lony expelled them by a series of . 
operations on the 14th and 15th 
of April, terminating in the estab- 
lishment of the British troops on 
that range. On the 16th a des- 
perate attempt was made by the 
Gorkah commander, in person, to 
storm the position ofthe reserve un- 
der lieut-col. Thompson, which ~ 
terminated in the total defeat of 
the enemy with severe loss. In 
the same month colonel Nicholls 
was employed in another part of 
the Nepaul frontier, where he 
carried, by assault, the fortified 
heights and town of Almora, re- 
pulsed the enemy ina night at- 
