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through Goomsir ; and being joined 

 by a multitude of vagabonds from 

 the Pergimnah of Kboordah, the 

 insurrection soon assumed an 

 alarming character. They took 

 the town of Khoordah, and then 

 proceeded to Piply, situated mid- 

 way between Cuttack and Jagger- 

 naut, with a view of cutting off 

 the corximunication between those 

 two places, and particularly of se- 

 curing the })erson of the Rajali of 

 Khoordah, who is high-priest of 

 the temple, and hereditary sweeper 

 of the great idol- 



The same Gazette on April the 

 24th proceeds to comnumicute in- 

 formation respecting Cuttack and 

 its district. After its conquest by 

 the British, the pergunnah of 

 Khoordah was remarkable for its 

 hostility to the English govern- 

 ment ; and it was found necessary 

 for the purpose of securing tem- 

 porary tranquillity to take charge 

 of the person of the Rajah, then 

 a young man, and retain him in 

 custody at Midnapore. W^hen all 

 o))position was subdued, the Ra- 

 jah was restored to his functions 

 in the temple, and was allowed a 

 mallkanu of twenty-four per cent, 

 being more thandcuble the amount 

 {jiven in ordinary cases. 



Since the above was drawn up, 

 fuither accounts have been le- 

 ceivcd from Cuttack up to the 

 IGlli. Captain Wallington liad 

 fortified a bungalow at .laggernaut, 

 and surrounded l)is small camp 

 with a mud wall about seven feet 

 higli ; and liad thi'own out wickets 

 on every side, and was prepared 

 against attack. On the 13th se- 

 veral colimins of insurgents rushed 

 f:ir wards to assault him, but Avere 

 • .soon obliged to retreat v.ith loss. 

 They ma !e a second attack, led on 



by the son of the Dewau of the 

 Khorrdah Rajah ; but having lost 

 in the action seventeen killed and 

 about a hundred wounded, tliey 

 again hastily retired, and were 

 pursued to the end of the town. 

 SL\ were taken prisoners, from 

 whose account it appeared that 

 the Rajah was the mainspring of 

 the disturbance. 



Jugbundoo being i'lformed of 

 the defeat of the parties which had 

 been sent against Captain Wal- 

 lington, immediately jnished out 

 to Jaggernaut at the head of some 

 th(jusand insurgents ; and h.aving 

 surrounded the fort and placeil 

 picquets in every direction, he be- 

 gan to erect a battery with two 

 great guns. Captain Wallington 

 tliinking it impossible with liis 

 small force to make any impres- 

 sion upon so formidable a mul- 

 titude, retired in the middle of the 

 night, and reached Cuttack with 

 his treasure on the IGth. 



The Bombay Courier of April 

 the 2Gth conveys information, that 

 a large body of freebooting liorsc, 

 who were encanijied on the banks 

 of the Peira, about 11 miles N.W. 

 of Soonje Ramaney, were snr- 

 jjrised in their camp by a detach- 

 ment of the Madias a:my, under 

 the conmiand of Mnjcn* Smith. 

 Two companies of the first of tiie 

 tliird, and the first of the second, 

 and the flank comjjanies of tlie 

 IJth Madras Native Infantry, 

 inarched from the banks of the 

 Beema in pursuit of a body of 

 horse J and continuing the chaee 

 with extraordinary perseverance 

 for tour days and live nights, came 

 u[) with tliem. just as they were 

 } iej)aringfor a march on the 17th 

 of Aj)rii. The nature of the 

 ground preventing the inf:mtry 



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