APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. 
‘The Vice President in Council 
will concur in the opinion enter- 
tained by the Governor General, 
of the credit due to Colonel Och- 
terlony for the skill, judgment, 
perseverance, and patience mani- 
fested by him under circumstances 
of extraordinary difficulty, and 
will anticipate the happiest re- 
suits from the continued exertion 
of those qualities, seconded by the 
skill and bravery of the officers 
and troops under his command. 
Extract ofa Letter from the Adju- 
‘tant General to John Adam, 
Esq. dated Camp at Suffeedoon, 
February 8, 1815. 
Theresult of the first movement, 
against the enemy’s position was 
briefly reported in Colonel Och- 
terlony’s dispatch of the 29th ult. 
forwarded to you on the 2nd inst.; 
T have now the honour to trans- 
mit the Colonel’s more detailed 
report, dated the 31st ultimo, and 
its enclosures, from: which the 
Governor-general will perceive, 
that although the movement has 
not realized the principal object 
proposed in making it,.in conse- 
quence of the enemy having been 
enabled, by evacuating nearly all 
his stockades, to concentrate his 
whole force on one of the intend- 
-ed points of attack, it terminated 
in the repulse, with considerable 
loss, of a determined attack which 
a large part of his force made on 
Lieut.-col. Thompson’s position, 
‘sword in hand, on the morning of 
the 29th December. The conduct 
of the officers and troops engaged 
‘on this occasion, have merited 
and obtained the, Commander in 
Chief's entire approbation. 
- In the plan of the attack, and 
in all measures and arrangéments 
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which could: conduce to its suc- 
cess, Colonel Ochterlony evinced 
his usual judgment and ability. 
Colonel Ochterlony’s operations 
will continue to be directed against 
the enemy’s supplies, and such of 
his new positions as may be found 
to be assailable. 
Copy of aLetter from Major-Gen. 
Sir David Ochterlony, K. C. B. 
to the Adjutant-General. 
Sir,—On the 27th I had the 
honour to report to you the ar- 
rival of the 2nd battalion of the 7th 
Native infantry and the eighteen- 
pounders in this camp. 
Our position in view of the fort 
had compelled the enemy to bring 
their supplies from the eastward 
by circuitous routes, but my in- 
formation led me to hope, that 
the possession of three points in 
front of our right would entirely 
cut off their supplies from Billas- 
pore, and generally from the in- 
terior. In consequence I directed 
Lieut.-Col. Thompson to march 
as soon as it was dark on the night 
of the 27th, and dislodge the ene- 
my from the stockades they had 
erected on two of those points, 
and to occupy and maintain a 
third which they had neglected. 
Lieutenant-Colonel Thompson 
had with him fourteen companies, 
two six-pounders and two howit- 
zers of the mountain train, and a 
force of irregulars amounting to 
at least a thousand, but calculated 
at 1,200 matchlocks. From the 
badness of the road, or rather 
foot-paths, and the great difficul- 
ties encountered, it was not till a 
late hour in the morning of the 
28th that Lieut.-Co . Thompson 
reached the first point he was in- 
structed to attack, and that was 
