The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-22 00:00:00

THE LONDON' JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Morning L'apers, N0v.22, 1825.

[MORNING

*adras Papers to the 19th of July arrived
yesterday. They have brought intelligence from
Calcutta to' the 3d .of the same month; which is
litter than any yet received frOm the same quar-
ter. It announces. the occupation of another im-
portant place by our troops, the town and citadel
Of Munipore, without any resistance on the part
of the enemy„ who fled at the approach of our
force. Munipore, or Munnipora (Manipurn, the
town ojjewels), is a town in the Burman empire,
and the capital of the province of Cassay.. The
district in which this town i 4 situated, is some-
times called the Muggaloo,or Meekly country ,and
is the nearest communication between the N. E.
extremity of Bengal, and theN.W. quarter of the
Burman territories ; but the route has never be-
fore been traversed by. Europeans. The town
was captured by the Burmese in 1774, and has
ever since remained tributary to them. 'An in-
tercourse subsists between it and the province of
Assam, for in 1794;. the British detachMent which
went to Gergong, the capital of Assam saw there
a body 'of cavalry, which had arrived frOm Mu-
nipore. Notwithstanding the occupation of this
place, however, there was no idea that the war
could be terminated without another campaign.
The negociatithrs for peace had ended by the ab-
sconding of the Burmese Ambassador during the
night, when he had so far succeeded as to pre-
vent', the march of the English troops on the
capital, and when he had ascertained the neces-
sity of the troops remaining at Procne, and the
neighbourhood, during the rainy season. The
private letters from Madras concur in represent-
ing trade as being extremely dull in every branch.-
The only business in a state of activity was the
preparing fresh supplies of necessaries for the
army, which were shipping off in succession for
Rangoon.

[NEW TI M ES.]
Madras Papers to the 16th of,july, with news
from Calcutta to the 3d of the same month,
reached us yesterday. The latest news from
Rangoon-is of the 18th of June, and from Prome
of the 7th. The negociations of the Rurmese for
peace appear to have been either a mere pretence
to gain time, or 'an act dictated by the fear of
the moment, and abandoned as soon as that fear
began to' snbside. In dealing with Barbarians
we must always be—tirepare-d for these. sudden
changes of conduct': and we are persuaded that
Sir Archibald Campbell's Measures have in no
degree been deranged .by the momentary pro-
spect of peace. It is most satisfactory to learn
that by the very latest accounts from Prorne the
army there was in great health, with abundance
of supplies, and particularly with plenty of
bullocks both for slaughter and draught. The
rains had set in before the end of June, and of
course .our troops .in Assam, Arnica!), and at
Procne, must remain quietly in their canton-
ments till the month of December, should the
Burmese not previously offer serious terms of sub-
mission, which many experienced persons still
think. they will do. Our Indian Government,
while it takes care to provide for the future safety
as well as dignity of our own empire, will doubt-
less be ready to avail itself of every fair opening
for- putting an end to the heavy expellee unavoid-
ably entailed by the present hostilities. The
value of money has naturally risen in India
with the demand for it. All sorts of Stocks
have fallen. . Eight per Cent. is now the
market rate of interest there, and it will
probably rise still higher if the war is much
prolonged.. 'Great efforts are certainly mak-
ing to bring the contest to a speedy and tri-
umphant close, and we know that to starve a
campaign, is the worst of all possible economy.
The Commander-in-Chief is actively employed
in puring in men, ammunition, and stores from
all quarters. The Government has paid off many
transports at the old rate, . and re-engaged them
for a given period at a lower price. The Com-
pany's remittable paper has fallen from 31 to 25;
the non-remittable 'paper and the Five per Cent.
Loan are, at par. The Exchange on
.England has
risen to 2s. 2d. per rupee.

[THE TIMES.]

.We grieve to find, h4-concurring accounts from
India, that there seems no probable, 'at least no
definite hope, of ft termination to these unlucky
hostilities with the Burmans. A pretended
negociator is said to have been dispatched by the
Court of, Ava, to amuse Sir A. Campbell with
proposals of peace, and to have disappeared
suddenly when he found that the season itself
was likely to accomplish the real end of his
mission, by cutting short the march of the
British General from Prome to Ummerapoora.
In the mean time our army from the Rangoon
quarter was fixed—it might be said water-
logged—at Prome, so heavy; was the commence-
ment of the rainy season ; but what is worse,
the usual accompaniment of wet, sickness had
begun to manifest itself among the soldiery. The
speculations of men are, if we may judge by the
Madras letters, turning towards that which must
now be considered by every reasonable English-
man as one of the very gravest consequences and
most formidable visitations of a state of warfare—
the necessity of borrowing more money to sup-
port the wear and tear of a protracted contest,
and of adding to that enormous mass of debt
which, including the debt of the India Company
and or the nation, constitutes at this moment an
object of all others the most frightful, in our opi-
nion, that ever was looked at by the members of a
political society. That the half-barbarous Burmese
should of themseltes be acute enough
~to prolong
the War for the sake of- pressing on' our finances,
,we do not mean to affirm; but the king of 'Ava
may possibly not want advisers among the en-
viers—tint( is', the enemies of English greatness.
The. most dangerous counsel, and therefore the
most natural, to come from such a source would
he, " Do not expend in needless resistance too
44 much of. your own blood and vigour. Draw on
" these English> involve them in your extensive