Government Records Punjab--Records of the Ludhiana Agency

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11.] LUDHIANA AGENCY RECORDS, 1808-09. 27

210. From Inteutenant-Colonel D. Ocutertonr, Commanding a

3Detachment on the North-West Frontier, to N. B. Epmon-

4STONE, Esqutre, Secretary to Government tn the Polttical

5Department, Fort William,—No. 1, dated Camp Dadoo-

6pore, 4 miles north of Booreah, west bank of the Jumna,

7the 16th of January 1809.

8I wave the honor to acquaint you, for the information of

9the Right Hon’ble the Governor-General in Council, that in

10consequence of orders from His Excellency the Commander-in-

11Chief I marched this morning with the force under my

12command from Chilkanah and crossed the Jumna at a very

13fine ford about five miles above Booreah and am now encamped

14on the western bank of the Jumna,

152. I have just received a visit from the Dewan of

16Bugwan Sing of Booreah, accompanied by the nephew of the

17latter, a boy of about ten years of age, who delivered me a

18letter from his uncle expressive of his high satisfaction that

19the British Government has assumed the protection of the

20country, and assuring me that he should soon seck a personal

21interview, though recent circumstances had compelled him

22to submit to a temporising policy, and he now was with

23Mohkum Sing on the west bank of the Sutledge at Philour

24or Ludeeana Ghaut. Goordut Sing writes me from his place,

25Ladooah, where he arrived two days since, in terms of friend-

26ship, but seems to entertain expectations and refers me for

27information to a Vakcel who will hereafter attend.

288. Rajah Bhaug Sing is on his way to join me from

29Kurnaul,

304. Bhunga Sing, and Cheyn Sing, the Dewan of Sahib

31Sing, are reported to have left Putteealah, and I think it

32improbable that any Chief on this side of the Sutledge can be

33so blind to his own interest as to embrace the cause of

34Runjeet in any determination he may have formed to resist

35the British power; nor would it perhaps be either politic or

36just in this early stage to consider men as his adherents who

37are merely associated from necessity.

385. Time and information will disclose those who are

39cordially attached, if any are so, and till then I shall consider

40Progress of

41force under

42Lieutenant-

43Colonel Och-

44terlony.