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accounts by express in the course 
of to-morrow. 
I have the honour, &c. 
D. OcHTERLONY. 
Camp, half-past 4, p.m. 
Dec. 29, 1814. 
The Goorkahs, inthestockade of 
Debooka Teiba, though surround- 
ed, have not yet surrendered. I 
have not yet an official report, but 
my Hirkarrah informs me the 
people in the stockade have sur- 
rendered. 
—— 
Copy of a letter from Major-gen. 
John Sullivan Wood, com- 
manding a division of the field 
army to the Adjutant-General. 
Sir,—I have the honour to re- 
port to you, that the plan of ope- 
' rations, contained in my letter of 
the 1st of January, was postponed 
that evening until the 3rd instant, 
in consequence of the informa- 
tion I then received, contrary to 
all previous representations, that 
no water could be obtained nearer 
the fort(the name of which is 
now discovered to be Mujcote) 
than Mahapore, being a distance 
of three miles. On the 2nd inst. 
arrangements were made with 
the Commissariat for the carriage 
of water, for the Europeans and 
Musselmen, in leathern bags, and 
for the Hindoos in pots; and it 
wasresolved to establish entrench- 
ed posts at Mahapore and Ram- 
chae, a high ground near the fort, 
and to place a detachment at, Pah- 
area, a peak about half way be- 
tween the two former, for the 
purpose of keeping up the com- 
munication. Thus my detach- 
ment was unavoidably to be di- 
vided into four parts, if it succeed- 
£d incarrying the successive steep, 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1815. 
narrow, and woody peaks, which 
form the outline of the whole 
ridge west of Mujcote.. In the 
evening, however, this plan was 
abandoned, in consequence of the 
receiptof fresh intelligencebrought 
by two spies sent by the Rajah 
Ruttun Sing, which described the 
road along the ridge as rendered 
altogetherimpracticable, and from 
the advice and information of a 
Brahmin Cauckunnudde Sewar- 
ree, a native of the hills, but for 
many years past resident in Go- 
ruckpore, and attached to the 
Rajah. This man, after insisting 
on the threatening nature of the 
difficulties presented by the Ma- 
hapore Hill, which were abun- 
dantly obvious, recommended that 
the detachment should cross the 
Tenavee, occupy Bupunulpore, 
about ten miles from Simlar, and, 
there leaving the supplies andbag- 
gage, push on to Paipa, where 
grain, &c. would be found more 
than sufficient for the whole de- 
tachment, and from whence Nya- 
cote might be attacked on itsnorth 
side, where the well that supplied 
the garrison was situated ; but in 
the first place he recommended 
that the redoubt at Jutgurgh, cross 
the foot of the hill of Mujcote, 
and one mile west of Bootwul, 
should be reconnoitred and car- 
ried, and the deserted town of 
Bootwul laidin ashes. He placed 
the success of this affair beyond 
doubt ; and said, that the terror 
inspired by the first impression of 
our arms would have a most 
beneficial effect on our subsequent 
operations. 
The whole plan appeared so 
reasonable, and he answering 
for its success, and offering to 
assist in the execution with such 
