royal family on his accession were made Saring Raja and Tipam Raja res- pectively. A letter was despatched to the Moamaria Chiefs to settle their differences with the Raja. Lieutenant MacGregor went ahead and paid a three days’ visit to Jorhat to interview the Burha Gohain who was still main- taining his unequal struggle against insurgents. After his return to Debargaon, he got an urgent appeal for help from Burha Gohain who was being approached by very large numbers of Moamarias. A Subadar and twenty men, out of MacGregor’s total of forty six, were immediately sent to Jorhat ; leaving a naik and eight sepoys to guard the boats and accompanied by Ensign Wood, a havildar and fourteen men, he also followed and reached Jorhat pushing through jungle and avoiding Moamarias. The Moamarias had also advanced quite close to Jorhat and two thousand of them attacked the two officers at the head of the small party of twenty men under the Subedar. The sepoys behaved with great coolness and inflicted such heavy losses that POLITICAL HISTORY 83 they were soon in full retreat. MacGregor’s loss was only four wounded whereas Moamarias’ about eighty killed and wounded. Captain Welsh got information and set out with his troops from Koliabar via Debargaon. He reached a place about twelve miles from Rangpur and was furiously attacked by a large number of Moamarias armed with matchlocks, spears, and bows; but the assailants were beaten off with heavy loss and their leader him- self was seriously wounded. Captain Welsh who had taken up a strong position on a brick bridge over the Nadang river about five miles from Rangpur, now hastened to Rangpur=? which had just been evacuated by the enemy who had left behind them in a great hurry large quantities of grain, cattle and treasure. The booty was sold and the sale proceeds, Rs. 1,17,334 were dis- tributed amongst troops as prize money with Gaurinath’s appro- val.78 On Gaurinath’s arrival at Rangpur on 21st March, 1794 ‘Captain Welsh held a grand Durbar and in the presence of the nobles enquired of the Raja if the help of the British troops could now be dispensed with. The Raja and his ministers were unanimous that if these forces were withdrawn, the country would again relapse into anarchy. Welsh induced the Raja to write to the rebels promising them pardon if they would come in for