186] ANNUAL REGISTER, 18]i4. 



2 howitzers was opened to the 

 southward of the fort under the 

 hills, while another of one mortar 

 and one howitzer was fixed on a 

 hill to the eastward, about 600 

 yards distant from the fort. 

 Fresh additions were continually 

 made to the batteries ; and on the 

 28th two breaching batteries were 

 completed, and opened their fire. 

 The fire was returned by the 

 enemy with great spirit ; however, 

 on March 1st proposals were 

 made to surrender the fort, which 

 was not acceded to. The garrison 

 consisted of about TOO Arabs, 

 GOO Gosains, and 500 natives of 

 the Concan, of whom about 30 

 were killed and 100 wounded 

 during the siege. The great 

 natural strength of the fortress, 

 and the only assailable point, the 

 gateway, being at so great a 

 height, are mentioned by the 

 General as greatly increasing the 

 difficulties of the siege. The 

 second of March, however, put 

 an end to this difficulty, being 

 the day of its surrender. The 

 terms granted were upon the 

 whole such as were admissible, 

 the Arabs and Gosains being 

 allowed to proceed to Elichpoor, 

 but without taking service on the 

 road, for the security of which 

 they are to give hostages. 



Lieut.-General Sir Thomas 

 Hislop,inaletterto the Governor 

 General, dated Camp at Aurun- 

 gabad, 31st of March, acquaints 

 his Excellency that he transmits 

 a general order which has been 

 this day published to the troops 

 under his command, acquainting 

 the Supreme Government, and 

 the Government of Fort George 

 and Bombay, as also the Residents 

 at the several native Courts of 



the Deccan, that he has from this 

 day relinquished the powers poli- 

 tical and military, which were 

 conferred upon him by the reso- 

 lution of his Lordship dated the 

 10th of May, 1817. A general 

 order is next published by the 

 Commander in Chief, in which 

 he issues his final orders, declar- 

 ing that the army of the Deccan is 

 discontinued, and the corps com- 

 mandedby the Brigadiers General 

 Smith and Doveton will revert to 

 the footing on which they stood 

 previously to the Lieutenant 

 General's assumption of the chief 

 command. 



The Lieutenant General autho- 

 rizes the general and personal 

 staff at head quarters to maintain 

 their field establishments until 

 the arrival of his Excellency at 

 Fort St. George. 



Lieut.-colonel Adams writes to 

 Brigadier General Doveton,under 

 the date of April 17th, that in 

 consequence of intelligence re- 

 ceived of Bajee Row being in 

 full force at Peepulhote, he march- 

 ed on the preceding night with 

 the hope of surprising him ; but 

 on reaching the place, he found 

 that the enemy had moved on to 

 Sewn}^ He resolved to follow 

 him, and a little after sun-rise 

 encountered his advanced party 

 in full march, whom he pursued 

 in the most difficult country that 

 can be imagined, and came upon 

 the Peishwa's united force in an 

 extensive valley near Sewny. In 

 the attack he was more success- 

 ful than could have been expect- 

 ed ; and he reckons the number 

 of the enemy killed to be from 3 

 to 400. Four brass guns about 

 six pounder caliber, and one con- 

 siderably larger, with their pro- 

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