The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-01-19 00:00:00

INDIA.

We mentioned yr,terilay the arrival at Liverpool of the
Crown, Captain Pinder, from Calcutta, bringing advices
to the 28th August. In a Liverpool Paper cat Monday we
find the following Jsummary of the intelligence received by
this conveyance:—
The main body of the British troops, under the command of
Slr A. Campbell, remained in their cantonments at Prome. No
general action between them and the Burmese had then taken place,
tut the enemy bad annoyed our troops incessantly, by making at-
tache upon them, under cover of woods and jungle,' in front of our
position. .A number of persons had fallen victim, to this petty
mode of wavfatei but disease had carried off a much greater num.
ber. The raloshad been so heavy that the whole country was in-
uedeted. All was tranquil at Rangoon and Airman at the date of
the lest recounts received from those
A dreadful mortality was raging at Calcutta when the Crown
exiled. The cholera roorbus was carrying off the natives by SO O a
soy. The mortalPy among the Europeans was comparatively tri-
limp. Serval ships from England, with troops, hail arrived at
hledrae. It wits doubtful, however, whether they would he sent
to reinforce the army in the Burmese teeritorr, as. notwithstand.
ing the mortality "'filth had prevailed among the British troops in
that country, they were 'motional to be stilt %efficiently strung in
number to bring the war to a satisfactory termination.
In addition to the above, we extract the following de-
tails from the Supplement to the Calcutta l;overainent
Go7ette of thv 22.1 A ugyst •
Pnoste—The period since the cessation of active operations to
the eastward, on account of the rains, has been productive of
serious reports roncerniog the views and preparations ot the enemy,
many of them curious aid amusing. but R 41114 of than sufficiently
authentic to be entirely relied on. Among other in dirt of recent
impoitatiot from Pers., 4,000 Burmese had established themselves
Patanadoh, a onst not fir from ?runic.
A Burmese, who fled to Ave. after the capture of Itonahew,
states, that the King had particularly queetioned the Chief Choo-
Nocut,Bn as to the certainty of the death of the .Naha Itundras.
lah, and the reply wan in the affirmative. It was quite impossible,
he added, to resist the force of the English either by land or water.
ChUO-N0011.130 suggested the expediency of the King himself oak.
irg the commend of the army, but even then he expected no other
result than that which had been so °tom experienced. ti..y the
Golden Feet issued order, that the whole of the ingots of silver in his
posseesion should be brokeu up and formed into male. Ile also
directed a general levy to be raised, and that as the MCI arrived at
hesd.quarters, each shots:d receive a present of 103 Beals, or about
140 ropers. Dorir.g the ender. the Burmese. who gives this infor.
matron. remained at A vs t he thinks that 30,000 freshmen were col-
lected, about half the number intended to be engaged. Another
IDelfsl7loflitt states that Ave contains a torceoffiO,lenimen, skit 1110
guns of different calibre.and tiO,Oett musket... NV lids: at Aube heard
of the capture of Arracan by the English ; which put the city into
great consternation. !Gamine, the Commander-in-Chief, wag
anxious to effect a revolution, being weary of the ruinous measures
of the King. and the desolation which the tiontinuar.ce of the war
had produced throughout the empire. Ile, therefore, represented
to his Maitsety that there wan a rock named Kalandatin, distant
Prom Ave &trout eighteen miles, to which if be proceeded alone,
and was able to break any part of it, his 'success against the Eng.
lush would be insured. But superstitious as the Court is. the la.
gamins of his Alajosty suspected it to be a trick contrived by Na.
mine, to get the Golden Feet into a solitary. place for the purpose
of destroying him, and, after seising the reins of Government, en-
tering into term* with the English at Prone. Upon this view of
the case, the (lief. Namitse. had been trodden to death under the
feet of au eleyinnt, by order of the King. And it was further
said, Mat his Majesty wished to appoint the Prince of Sarrawaddv
ins ?weeniest, as Cornmander.in-Chtet, but was dissuaded from it
by ore of die woolen of ho. Palace. 31ain-Aleean.ltio, the King's'
halt brother. was then nottinsied to the situation, with GOAN/Omen
•t his divots', or tether MARA. there being something magical in
the number. Among them there are vald to be three female Shalom
Chiefs. with V. 4440 Wive/ere, whose powers are so prodigious, that
hy holding up a toga on the tiring of a cannon, the:hall is ti.rred '
to • ater,
Noon-Stto-Azor was if, confinement at Ave, and Laualteago, the
*l,M:sunder of Rangoon, still in irons.
The General St'dod, from Rang .on, the 3d August, and the
Penankilluctuun, trona We same port, on die 7th, are working up
berm Katistiee. No despatches have yet reached town.
Madras I'apersof the 9th, seine in to-day. The Hun. Cowpony's
ship M:nerra has arrived there, but no mention Is yet made of the
Pr locos Charlotte of iTaka.