188] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1818. 



the Despatdics from the Governor 

 in Council at Bombay, to the 

 Secret Committee of the dates 

 May 30, and June 3, and 8. A 

 great part of these letters relate 

 to the capture of Ryghur by 

 Lieut.-Col. Prother, as already 

 mentioned. The rest are of httle 

 consequenjce, except that the 

 force under Lieut.-Col. Adams 

 ■ gained possession by storm on 

 the 20th of May of the large 

 fortified city of Chanda, with a 

 small loss. 



In a despatch from the Go- 

 vernor in Council at Bombay to 

 the Secret Committee, dated 

 June 22, 1818, the unconditional 

 surrender is announced of the 

 fort and district cf Vezeadroog 

 to the British Government, 

 which completes the conquest 

 of the southern Concan ; and 

 also, tiiat by letters received from 

 Seroor, it appears that the gar- 

 rison of Malligaum has surren- 

 dered to Lieut.'Col. M'Dovvall. 



By a letter from an officer of 

 distinction with Sir John Mal- 

 colm's army, dated from the 

 camp of Mulawal, July 6th, the 

 surrender of Bajee Row is men- 

 tioned as an important event. 

 This poor man, who is mentioned 

 by the writer as much changed 

 from the time he saw him at 

 Poonah, was at this crisis reduced 

 from the power of a prince, to 

 the state of a prisoner to the 

 British government. He re- 

 nounced lor himself and heirs 

 all claim to the government of 

 Poonah, engaged „o reside at 

 Benares, or wherever the Go- 

 vernor-General might appoint, 

 dismisses all his adherents, and 

 was to receive a sum of not less 

 than eight lacs of rupees aiuiu- 



ally. The writer farther says 

 that Sir J. Malcolm has been 

 particularly fortunate in this 

 campaign, which ended in the 

 Peishwa himself surrendering to 

 him. 



The India- Board in Jan. 13, 

 1819, received a despatch from 

 the Marquis of Hastings, Go- 

 vernor-General and Commander- 

 in-Chief of the forces in the East 

 Indies, dated Goruckpore, 20th 

 of June, in which he confirmed 

 the capture of Bajee Row by Sir 

 John Malcolm, and gave infor- 

 mation of the close of the war in 

 the late Peishwa's dominions by 

 the surrender of the fort of 

 Moolheir. 



Of other enclosures was one 

 from Brigadier - Gen, Munro, 

 to the Hoi). Mount-Stuart El- 

 phinstone, dated 2nd of June, 

 giving an account of the uncon- 

 ditional surrender of Appa Des- 

 sye to the British army. 



Another related to two actions 

 of Lieut.- Colonel M'Dowell, re- 

 lative to the fort of Malligaum, 

 in the first of which he found it 

 necessary to sound a retreat, and 

 turn the siege into a blockade : 

 in the second, dated June 13, the 

 same place surrendered uncon- 

 ditionally. 



The information respecting the 

 island of Ceylon or Candy is 

 related in the following manner 

 by one of our daily papers. 

 When the treaty took place 

 between our army and the chiefs 

 of the kingdom, it was stipulated 

 tliat, on the deposition of the 

 king of that island, the internal 

 government should be conducted 

 through the medium of the prin- 

 cipal nobility, and that no inter- 

 ference should be permitted with 



the 



