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London, England, 1826-06-08 00:00:00

PARTIES.

The Earl of Darnley entertained a diatinguished party at dinner yester-
day, at his houve In Herkeley square.
tenni Carrington had a dinner party yesterday, at his honey. Wlaitei.all.
Lady Long gave a splendid rout on Tuesday evening, a, her house to
Prlsylgardens. There were prevent upward. of :Awl of the hoot ton, includ-
ing his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, the Duke .and Durhe.s of
Northumberland, Prince Esterhasy. anti moat of the Foreign Antbaasa-
dors and their Ladies, he.
Lady Bromley entertained a select party of fashionables yesterday, at
her house In Berkeley...square.
Mrs. Atkinson has itsued cards of invitation for a rout on Monday nest,
-at her house, Nottingham-piece.
Mr. kfinchlide had a dinner party yesterday, at his house la Green
at rest, firoevenor-struare.
MOVEMENTS.
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Lord Eliot left town yesterday, for Port Eliot, Cornwall.
The Hon. U'illiant and Lady Barbara Punsonby have left town, for
Poole, Dorsetrhlre.
Sir Charles and Lady Long left town yesterday, for WI ad me.
William Egerton, Esq. has left town, for hi+ seat, Talton Park, Che-
ablre ; and Mrs. Egerton and family, for Yorkshire.
Mr. and Mrs. Child and family left town yesterday, for their seat in
Worcestershire. _ . .

Departures from Hiller's Hotel, Jermyn-street :—Captain and Mrs.
Trowel., for the-Con'in.lnt ; Captain IVade, R.N. for Portrinouth ; R.
Simmons, Esq. fur Brighton.
Arrival at the Mt. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street r—amuel isted, Esq.
from his seat in Northamptonshire. !terminus.; .—Sir George, Lady, and
Hiss Prescott, for their *sot. Theubeld'o, Herts.
Arrivals at head's Hotel, Lower Grosvenor-street:—Robert Lownilvs,
Esq. and George Finch Hatton, Esq. from a tour. Departure.:—Lndy
Byron, for Hortimrs ; Mrs. Henry fliddons, fur Edinburgh; William Nur-
HI, Esq. fur Cheltenham.

EAST INDIES.

(Official.)

[The following dtspatches fill up the deficiency in our socounts
of the operations in Ave, down to the period of the negotiations
Went of space prevents us Irmo giving the enclnsures front Genera
Cotton, Connnodore Brisbane, and Brigadier Annstrong.l

FORT WILLIAX,JANT: 25, Is2f.

Despatches. of which the following arc copies. have been received
from Major.Oeneral Sir Archibald Campbell, K.C.B. and
K.C.T.S. commanding the forces in Ave :

To George Swinton, Esq. Secretary to Government, Secret and
Political Department. &c. &r. trte. Fort William.
Sta.—The enemy defeated and driven from hit positions at
i.in bike, Napatlee, and on the west bank of the Irrawaddy, as
detailed in my despatches of the 4th and sth, 1, on the 6th inst.
marched back with the Ist division of the army to the villages of
Zeonke and Natalaen, upon the Nswrrie river, from whence the
roads to Watteegoan and Neounbenseik branch off, and there I
had ordered the Commissariat of the army to assemble.
Aware that the enemy had been long employed in fortifying the
hooka of the River from 31eaday to Paloh, it became an important
consideration to endeavour to turn these positions, naturally strong
and extremely difficult of access. For this purpose I determined
to march upon Meaday with one division• by the route of Wattee.
goon, Seeyangoon, Saintloop. and Tonkindine, turning the posi-
tions as hi‘th as Roney, while the division under the orders of
Brigadier. General Cotton should march by the road of Nenun.
benzrik, nearly parallel with the River, and in communication
with the flotilla, on board of which I had placed a force consisting
of his Majesty's Royal Regiment and.details, commanded by Bri-
gadier Armstrong, to act in' close and cos 'dant co-operation with
the naval forces under his Facellency Commodore Sir James Brix.
bane. From Tonkindine it was my farther intention to have turned
Mesday by its left, and to have posted ones division of my army in
its rear, previous to attacking it in front.
Pursuant to this plan of operations I marched upon Watteegnan,
wills the tirst d:vision, on .lie 9th instatit, directing Brigadier-
Gmeral Cotton to commerce his march upon the 12th, by which
arrangement the approach of the two columns upon Paloh would
nearly correspond, and his Excellency Commodore Sit James Bris-
bane was to 'note forward on the same day.
On the night of the 11th instant we were visited with a heavy
fall of rain, which continued for 34 hours, to the great injury of
the roads; out Commissariat has sustained a heavy loss in its trans-
or, and in spoiled and • damaged provisions, an evil of all others
least easily remedied in my present situation ; and I lament to •ay,
that nomerous fatal blastula's of cholera have occurred in both divi.
skins of the army. Delay unavoidably ensued, and I did not
reach Tonkindine till the 16:h Instant : on patroling to Malley, on
the river, I found the enemy had abandoned Ida position at Paloh,
and the expectation+ I had formed from the flank movement of the
Ist division were fully confirmed. At Boallny we opened a corn
municstion with the flotilla and Brigadier-General Cotton's divi.
alon, the report of whose march I have the honour to enclose,
which, with the other letters herewith transmitted, will, I trust, af-
ford the Right lion. the Governor General in Council a satisfactory
proof of the consequences resulting from the operations of the Ist,
2tl. and bth, and the subsequent movements of his force.
Finding that the enemy had retreated from /Watley with the
greater part of him army, I, on.the 17th instant, moved forward to
Tabboo with the advance--f#l.4:boo, I directed the Right
Hon. the oc:senor-General:a aril, under Captain Dyke, to
push on towards Meade? by o , and feel the enemy's ad-
vance posts. The enemy bad evacuated the place, but at five miles
beyond it, Captain Dyke came up with his rear, and took some
prisoners, with a war-boat containing three guns • the cavalry
having come suddenly upon six, while close under the bank of the
river.

The country over which the army has marched bears ample tes-
timony to the panic and dismay in which the enemy has retired,
while the numerous dead and dying, lying ahcut the country. af-
ford a melancholy proof of the raise* y and privations which his
troops are suffering. Il is loss in killed i..nd wounded all the priso-
ners sfiirm to have been very great, and desertions to a great extent
are daily taking place.
Pantangoh and Alenoon are the flints that have been chosen for
re-esembling the army. and in front of which I hope to be, with
some part of the force, in the course of a few days, although some
delay will unavoidably ensue before the state of the Commissariat
will permit the whole force again to move forward.
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I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
llead-quarter% Meadey, A. CA 31 PIM I.L, Major-Gen.
19th Dec. 1523.
P.S. —I have just received Information that 3lelloon has been
evacuated.

To George Swinton, Esq. Secretary, Secret and Political De-
partment, &c. &e. Fast Wlll'am.
Ste,—Adverting to my last despatch, I have now to state that
the information 1 received, regarding the evacuation of 3lelloor.
by the enemy was erroneous; certain information of his having
rallied at that point reached me shortly after I began my march
front Meriday, with the leading division of the army, and it was at
the same time stated, that a Chief of rank had been sent up to
Asa after the defeats at Proinc, for the purpose of representing to
his Majesty the hopeless state of his affairs, and •he impossibility
of our progr:sa upon the capital being arrested by any military
arrangement..

On'the 26th ultimo, these reports were confirmed by the arrival
of a messenger to the steam-vessel, under al! rg of truce. contain-
nicatin; that Holein Manghie had arrived at Me[loon, deputed by
his Maim, the King of Ava, and with full powers to conclude a
treaty of peace with us. In answer to this measage. I. in concur-
rcnee with the Civil Commissioner, sent Lieutenant-Colonel Tidy,
and Lieutenant Smith, R.N. to the Buraiese camp, to ascertain
what arrangement the King of Ava's Commissioners proposed
making wit;l• us': a truce of 25 days was requested, and positively
refused, as previously determined on, the abt.ve officers being
directed to say, as was afterwards communicated in writing, that
nothing beyond 24 hours would be given for the first metering with
the Iturmese Commissioners, and that the truce was at an end as
w oil as the British oflicers should have left the place. (In reaching
!Beltran on the following 'warning. the 211th instant, I found the
plece strongly occupied, and the river, on the enemy's side, covcred
with boats, which they attempted to escape with, until a few shots
from our guns (by which one oasis was slightly wounded) fired over
the headaurt boats, sheared our determination to prevent it, and
the attempt was given up. In the meals time I received infonna•
don that the Diana steam yowl, the head-quarters of his Excel-
lenry Commodore Sir James Brisbane, was parsing the enemy's
sts unmolested, and accompa.iieil by two liormese war boats,
and althnstgh the enemy appeared throwing up entrenchments on
the oppo-ite shore, and marching and countermarching his troops,
as if making preparations for defence, I accepted his forbearance to
the steam boat ass proof of his sincerity and desire to treat: hosti-
lities here ceased, and in the course of the do; a correspondence
commenced, and led to negotiations which I earnestly hope wiil
render this the last military despatch I shall have to make upon the
war in Asa. I have the honour to he. Sir,
Your most obedient hunible servant.
A. CAMPBELL, 3lajor-(hen.
Brod-gamier', Pantagor,ah, 31st Dec. 1825.
Poblished by command of the Right, Hon. the Governor-
Ueneral in Council.

GEORGE SWINTON, Sec. to the Gott.

Massruse—Th; intercit attached to oar operations in Ava and
at Bhurtpore, has completely diverttd public ;attention from the
proceeding in this and other quarters; by late intelligence we learn
that (iambic Sinh's levy. accompanied by Captain Gram, reached
Manipur on the idth ultimo. The city continued wholly de•ceted,
and there Ira., eto Borm•ae force of any strength in the vicinity.
the detachment at Kolihoo PAS reported not to exceed three or
four hundred men. A hrger force. raid to be from 1.500 to 2,000.
had not crossed the Ningic River. Onnibir Sinh intended to march
against the former body. We here been favoured with the route
of the levy, and some geogriplikul description of the country
traversed, which we shall Ole an eatly opportunity of laying
belorc our rrad,re.—Colealla Jahn Bull.

flis Aftdesty's ship Pyramus, Captain Robert Gambier,
arrivi dst Spithead on Tuesday. Mr. Morier, who landed
at New York, and is understood to have proceeded to
Washington on some important business, embarked again
in the Pyramus, and came home in her. Our letters from
Portsmouth state that the Pyramus has not brought home
the quantity of specie which has been vitp.:ctcti by her.