The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-26 00:00:00

RANGOON.

We hava been favoured with the following particulars
from a private letter to a friend from an officer of her
Majesty's ship Fox, 42 guns, Commodore Lambert, be-
fore Rangoon, dated the Ist ult., which will be found
highly interesting, as showing the duplicity practised in
the negotiations with the Commodore and the Governor
of Rar,,goon, which was succeeded by a renewal of hos-
tilitie :

The Governor of Rangoon, having obtained from
the Commodore thirty days' respite for negotiations
after the first display of a vigorous intention on the
part of the British to demand satisfaction for
aggressions committed by the Siamese, seems to
have made preparations for surprising the Bri-
tish- squadron. A new Governor having, durir'e the
thirty days' grace, arrived from the King of Ava,
ha sent off, with all imaginable Eastern
pomp, two emblazoned letters, borne on superb gold and
velvet cushions, carried in state barges, rowed by a bril-
liantly dressed crew, with gilt oars—one letter for the
Governor-General of India, and the other for Commodore
Lambert. Proclamations were speedily afterwards issued
forbidding any of the natives interchanging civilities or
communicating with the Fox, or even going to the beach
to look et her. One native, gifted with more temerity,
or may be curiosity, than his fellows, went and had a
peep at the British, for which ho was immediately de-
eepitated. Four hundred of the 98th (Queen'.) Regi-
alcnt and some artillery have been dispatched from Cal.
°tate, and other troops have been ordered to hold theta-
-Ivta in readiness. The 80th Regiment has been or-
dered down from Dinapore to Moulmein.
/ionic.
,*.itarday morning (Ist February) arrived the
cutta,‘•;:itahpany's steam-vessel Fire Queen from Cal-
modore fresh dispatches and instructions for
.Lambert,Com-
conderiau and I regret to say, somewhat
pr,„editupurY of the prompt and energetic line of
the viant which has been hitherto pursued by
a few weeks emcee. It will be remembered that
Gov4creit the
duct of the insolent and audacious con-
to break off cornier- of Itangoon canoed the Commodore
i..l.l.ations, and to proclaim a blockade,
and that the forts
inflia a severe pashril on the frigate compelled him to
them, by the loss of a large
number of men from thi:ufii,t3ills of the Fox. The Gover-
nor-Generals
wishes to purchase it with-inctißi at. any price; but if he
attty, he should not have
sent Commodore Lambert as
soul.
seater. We now learn
that mere mild proceedings
have answered bet-
ter; that the Commodore should b
personall
to confer with the Governor of Rangoonma gene
Ild,Rafine all",
her Majesty's sbip Fox was t)ai;ti
and offer the same terms as before,
proceeded
At one o'clockio
P•3l January 31, accordingly. the frigateon,
up the river,
passing the Silva stockade - on the amiable mission, in the tow cf the
Fire Queen, and on battery
was sainted with a shower ur .ivuud shot. Tn%t tin. ~,ra-0
Wee paid with good interest I need not say, as beg ,„ her
Majesty's ship Fox was within range. Again the, fired
the first shot, and slain have they felt the power of a fri-
gate's broadside, which it would seam they bad forgotten,
as the indolent or servile policy of the Indian Govern.
meat has received their insults unheeded, and allowed
their misconduct, nay brutality, to English subjects to
go unpunished for many a long year. I re-
gret to say a fine manly young lad, John
Watt, has lost his lag above the knee by a round
she`. A fl3g.
,of truce has now just started with
Lard Dalhousie 'a last attempt to patch up a short Pea"
with these savage and treacherous people; but as the
steamer is now starting, no further information is to be
had. Her Majesty's brig Serpent, 16, Commander
laard, is blockading Cape Negra;s, and the squadron is
Ir,:aithy."