Lonee Sing took the lease in March, 1840, and commenced this attack in May.
[* Anrod Sing holds twenty-eight villages in the Pyla estate, acquired in the same way as those held by Lonee Sing.] The Nazim had with him, of infantry, 1.

Futteh Aesh Nujeebs.

2.
Wuzeree, ditto.3.Zuffur, Mobaruk Telinga.4.Futteh Jung ditto; Ruza Kolee Khan.5.Captain Barlow's ditto.

Eleven guns.

But, being unable to get any duty from the three regiments first named, he offered to dispense with the two first, on condition that the command of the third should be placed at his disposal for his son or nephew.
This request was complied with; and, on paying a fee of five thousand rupees, he got the dress of investiture, and offered it to Lieutenant Orr, a very gallant officer, the second in command of Captain Barlow's corps, as the only way to render the corps so efficient as he required it to be.