The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-18 00:00:00

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" In fact, the troops had nothing whatever to do ;
there was no enemy, and no fighting, and General God-
win's -dispatch, which occupies 15 paragraphs, appears,
therefore, as if it was designed to show the fallacy of that
most venerable axiom, ex nihila nihil ft,' for he has
contrived to make a-great deal out of nothing. There
never was so beggarly an account of empty boxes as the
capture of Prome : yet it has furnished aii.oecasion for
recording the brilliant services of Captain Christie, of
her Majesty's 80th Regiment, who led his company to
the attack of a small pagoda, and captured it'—on find-
ing it empty ; of Captain Welsh, who drove the enemy
out of their position ; of Major Mayhew, Deputy-Adju-
tant-General ; Major Allan, Deputy-Quartermaster-Ge-
neral ; Captain Smith, interpreter to the force ; and Cap-
tain Burn; Military, Secretary ; and Lieutenant Chads,
Aide-de-Camp, who were active in rendering every as-
sistance!', No- doubt all these officerd world have be-
haved most gallantly if Profile had been as Sobraon or
as Goozerat, but there was literally nothing to-do. and
we therefore make over the dispatch to our iminortal
contemporary, Punch.'

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It will be remembered that, on the capture of Prome,
the Burmese General retired to a stockaded position,
about seven miles distant, called Yea-they-Mow, and
that General Godwin resolved not to follow him there
until reinforced by the second division. The force at
Yea-they-Mow was in all private accounts rated at from
4,000 to 6,000 ; in General Godwin's dispatches at
18,000, and subsequent information has proved the for-
mer estimate to be more correct. On intelligence of the
capture of Prome reaching Ava, the King sent down
orders to dress up General Bundoola in old woman's
clothes, and forward him to Ava for decapitation. Bun-
doola thereon escaped to our lines to save his head,
accompanied only by a son of the unsuccessful ex-gover-
nor of Prome. He is now a prisoner on board the Se- •
sostris, and has freely communicated all the intelligence
in his power. He states that the force of Yea-they-Mow
amounts only to from 5,000 to 6,000, and that even this
small force contains a large number of villagers: and -1
tradesmen, whom nothing but the dread of immediate
execution could retain for an hour within the retrench- ~
scents:--.- Both 'parties, moreover, whether soldiers or •
rustles-, are-said to be iri the greatest state of trepidation.
From the day on which the troops landed they have re-
mained in perpetual expectation of an attack, and are
only waiting, with their ponies saddled, for the first shot
to give them a decent excuse to fly. If they ran before
an engagement of some kind, they would be accused of
disaffection, and probably massacred to a man, for the
insane despotism of Ava has reached a point at which
wild acts of cruelty are believed to be indications of
strength.
"It appears, in short, then," says the Friend of India,
" from every account which has reached us, that mat-
ters have gone much further than we expected, and that
the ' giant strength of Ava' is even more hollow than we
had believed. From one end of the country to the other•
there is actually no strength to resist our progress.
Army there is none—out of Ava, at least—and, of the
bands of armed men who are so denominated in letters
and dispatches, one-half are undisciplined, and the other
half do not care which side is victorious, and think only
of preserving their own lives from the vengeance of their
own King. It was said of the French Convention that
their generals conquered—they marched to battle with
the guillotine behind them ; but the Burmese Generals,
under precisely the same circumstances, find it more ex-
pedient to trust to the forbearance of a generous enemy.
It will readily be understood that an army, in which half
officers consider
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than
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the soldiers are villagers taken from the plough, and the
cannot be formidable in the field. Our march to Ava
will in all probability be almost unopposed, and we shall
have only the natural difficulties of the country to con-
tend with lt has been, we believe, sug-
gested that an attack upon Ava, would result in the flight
igwo.ofroieltlitliltiedearaKipelixlenertg:el.ialbtpalslm that, as he cannot be hunted in the
eastern jungles, the Government would have no respon-
sible authority left with whom to conclude a treaty, and
plate. We do not consider such a contingency very
ac-
quaintede
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whichn NoV
supportst
leave
a vtleieAlNci,iaom. country, is. tthe thbeiden-otsitttail iiiinoe.o:ndinegyieL
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thatliel tletelcl leyoeolmlrstveileol territory
coi caNciNtshy.) refuge,el,'()ill event
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now can scarcely keep down its powerful opponents.
The flight of the monarch from his capital would be fol-
' lgoo-leedsbc,3i
or hisn o
fhis immediatefa mdily, estruction u
condition
of
ld
make peace with the invaders on any terms."
Extensive barracks are being built at Prome, and
everything looks like permanent , occupation ; but the
long expected proclamation for annexation has not yet
appeared. "The only news from Rangoon," -says the
Friend of India, " refers to the constant dispatch of
troops to Prome in the smaller steamers, and the exces-
• sive anxiety for annexation. This feeling is not confined
to the natives, with whom it is a question of life and
death, but extends to the officers, and from brigadiers to
ensigns, the first question asked on the arrival of a
steamer is, Is the decree out V generally followed by
some unpleasant wish about the home authorities, as the
authors of the delay."
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