The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-10 00:00:00

E LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts fro,n the Morning Papers, Sept.lo, 159.5.

[TUE Timm.]
A report prevailed yesterday in the city; and
obtained very general credit, of the arrival of in-
telligence from India, of the termination of the-
Burmese war, by the, capture of Ummerapoora,
the capital and the entire submission of the 'op-
posing force.• We shall first give the letter on
which this report is founded, and next examine to
what degree of credibility it is entitled. It was
received 'yesterday by the French post from Bor-
deaux, and may be relied on as a genuine letter,
the hand-writing of the party being well known
to the mercantile house to which it is addressed.
—( Here
.follows the letter; which' will he found in
another column of Sur'.)--The facts stated
in the preceding letter are so extremely confused,
and the notions of the writer respecting the geo-
graphy of the country are so imperfect, that the
first impression of every person perusing it will
be, a doubt of its accuracy _in every particular.
There are, nevertheless, some points in favour of
its being substantially true, which ought to. be
stated when they relate to an event of so great
importance. It will be imagined that such an.
occurrenceas the capture of Ummerapoora having
taken place in the beginning of March, should
have been known long before by the regular ar-
rivals from Calcutta, but we are at present sin-
gularly in arrear with respect to intelligence
from Calcutta, having nothing later than the- 10th
of March; at which date Sir Archibald Campbell,
had he really succeeded to the extent stated,
could not, by any channel, have conveyed the
news of his success to the seat of Government in
Bengal. No communication can take place by
land from Ummerapoora to Calcutta, and sup-
posing him to send his dispatches to Rangoon to
be transmitted by sea, they would arrive at a
period when, on account of the prevalence of the
monsoons, no vessel would be able to quit
that harbour, and the reaching Calcutta at the
date of our latest accounts, from thence would be
altogether out of the question. The next chan-
nel, therefore, through which the news would
spread, would be the ports of Siam, between
which and Sincapore, the nearest English settle-
ment, there is a constant trading communication,
and this, in the prevailing state of the winds,
might even suggest itself as the route by which
the intelligence might reach Calcutta sooner than
any other. Captain Johnson is apparently in
error when he talks of a British force within 100
miles of Bangkok, the sea-port of Siam, and it is
impossible to have any thing to do with the taking
of Ummerapoora, which is at least 500 miles fur-
ther up the country ; but this may be the force
collected by the Siamese, which was relied on
for conducting the operations of the present cam-
paign. After all, it may perhaps be unsafe to
say more than that this news is not to be discre-
dited, either on account of the route through
which it has travelled, or the length of time it-
has taken to reach England, and that the charge
of wilful misrepresentation cannot possibly attach
to nny portion of it. We incline, on the whole,
to give some degree of credit to it ; but at all
events many days cannot elapse before all arrival
from Calcutta shall clear up any doubts that may
exist on the subject.

A: Proclamation has been issued by a noted Personage at the
Cape of Good Hope, which, notwithstanding the quarter it pro-
ceeds from, will give universal satisfaction. It is no other than
an official document, reciting an order under the King's sign
manual, whie.l bears date the 9th of February, 1825, and di-
recurthat a Council shall be established for the Colony " to ad-
" vise and assist in the administration of the Government there-
' " of." His Majesty haSalso signified his pleasure, that cer-
tain persons—viz. the Chief Justice, and five other individuals
of the first rank and character in the settlement, shall jointly,
with the Governor, compose this Council. Such gentlemen
having a heavy responsibility cast Upon them, will, doubtless,
be governed by a sense of it. Those acts of power which go to
. affect the rights, the interests, the fortunes, and feelings of
his Majesty's subjects, will no longer be executed at the
caprice of a Governor alone. Every Proclamation will be,
try the Governor " in Council ;" every act of Council will be
. carried by vote. General my Lord, &c. &c. &c. with half a
dozen appellations—Colonel of God knows what West India re-
giment, consisting of Negro-men, who wear white pantaloons
to cover their black legs—this hitherto omnipotent Lord will
hencesrth be compelled to submit his measures to the judg-
ment of six English gentlemen, with offices to lose, responsi-
' hint), to fear, and independence of character to vindicate. There
is now some chance that complaints will be listened to, eeal
grievances redressed upon the spot—that not so many petitions
will beset the ears of Lord Bathurst and the Parliament'--that
not so many hopes of honest and industrious emigrants be
frustrated, or so many colonists ruined, nor hearts broken, nor
murmurs nor execrations dispersed over the world. This we
' look upon to be a just, wholesome, and provident measure of
the Bing's Ministers. It furnishes both indemnity and security
...;,-not merely a biting reprimand for the past, but a salutary
• cheek upon any vicious appetite for abuses, or insolence of op.
pression, that may show itself in Cape Governors-hereafter. It
—tit a step towards a good and impartial administration of justice,
affording a fair promise of colonial prosperity ; and on behalf of
right against wrong, exhibiting a signal triumph.— (Ibid.)