The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-11 00:00:00

111-1 E SUN, LONDON', WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11. 1810.

the retreating sepoys ; the advance companies were or-
dered
to the support of the guns and colours, when the
numbetless enemy rushed down with the most deter,
mined g.illantry, and with such impetuosity, that the
troops had hardly time to form ; hard fighting on both
sides, the enemy yelling and howling like beasts of the
forest ; hut the well applied rounds of grape from Clp-
tain Stamford's howitzers soon repulsed the enemy with
considerable loss, leaving above 200 dead on the field.
Our troops suffered severely, about 150 killed and
wounded. Captain Raitt tell leading the storming
party ; Licut Moore, Ist Grenadiers ; Lieutenant
Franklin and Ensign Williams were also killed, and
Lieutenant Loch, Poonah Auxiliary Horse, who, with 50
of the Ressalah, galantly volunteered to act as skirmish-
ers, was severely wounded, but is considered out of
danger. Most of the influential men of the enemy were
found dead on the field, yet the pass remained in their •
possession, their numbers amounting to many thousands.
The heat was dreadfully intense, and the suffering of
the men and cattle from exhaustion and thirst had be.
come painfu4 apparent ; the little water remaining in
the puckalls from the last halting place, was dried up,
snd no water was procurable unless the pass was car-
ried, and the post of Kahun was distant about six miles.
The puckall bheesties and the camel puckalls, together
with the gun horses and the officers' horses with follow-
ers, under an escort of 50 of the irregular horse, went
for water. At this time the cries of the wounded and
dying for " water! water were increasing, and gave
rise latterly to scenes of frenzy and despair. In this
manner they remained, anxiou•ly awaiting the arrival
of she water party. Some stragglers came in
and reported that the water party was sur-
rounded in a nullah : what was to be done?
They had already lost 150 men of the force, the remain-
der were enfeebled with the thirst and exertions of the
two previous days, and, to add to their difficulties, most of
the camel drivers, doolcy bearer', &c., had absconded
during the action, after plundering the commissariat
of the loads of flour, &c. The gun horses were gone,
and the men of the Golundauze so prostrated from fa-
tigue and thirst, that latterly they could scarcely rise to
fire a gun. Major Clibborne, after mature deliberation,
found that it would be impracticable to throw provisions
into the fort of Kahun, and further, that unless the
water party returned, the whole force must perish of
thirst ; the sad alternative was forced upon this gallant
officer of abandoning the unfortunate garrison at Kahun.
No signs of the water party appearing at ten r as., Cap-
tain Stamford was ordered to spike his guns, and this
enfeebled force moved off with as much quietness as the
frantic state of the men would permit. Almost every-
thing was abandoned, owing to the desertion of the
camel drivers, and at daylight they had partly descended
the pass of Surtof, when the little baggage, stores, and
treasure, they were able to bring with them fell into the
hands of the enemy. A great number of followers were
here massacred. Without food and tents, and march.
ing in the burning heat of the sun, they were obliged to
make one forced march to Poobjee, where they arrived
completely famished. A great many deaths have oc-
curred since their arrival, amongst whom Captain Heigh-
ington, of the Ist Grenadiers, who expired on the 3:1
instant. With the exception of 24 gun horses, and a
few followers who joined the detachment near Poolajee,
the remainder of the water party were cut up near a
nullah.—Boinbay Times.
The following short account of the late rencontre
between Major Clibbome's detachment and the Mur-
rees is far more striking than a lengthened description :
" We beat the enemy, but heat and thirst killed us
—the men were frantic—mad : M ijor, Clibborne's con-
duct was capital—coolness itself, and he only aban-
doned his materiel to save the lives of the enfeebled and
frantic survivors, after all his gun horses, camels, and
camel drivers, and followers had either fled or been
killed

instant, carried 537 chests. Our stock is now as fol-

lows., viz.
fidlance of last year's importation, cwt 6,667
Imported to the 22d inst.

8,437
Exportel to the 22(1 inst 4,476

Stock on hand, chests
PERSIAN AND ARABIAN GULF PRODUCE.
Gums Arabic, Olibanum, and Copal, are likewise
only to be met with at present in small quantities, but
we may expect early supplies.
Coffee ( Mocha) —Has been brought up as quickly
as imported, and the present nominal value is Rs. 131
to 13,1 per maund. Further arrivals are looked for soon.

CHINA AND STRAITS PRODUCE.
Sugar.—The market is firm for Manilla and Java, of
which there are about 25,000 bags in dealer's bands.
Of Bengal the stock is about 10,000 bags.
Camphor (China).-200 boxes are on the market for
which Its. 48 per maund is required.
Cassia Lignca—ls held firmly at 4 as. 6. pie. per It.,
clad the stock is about 1,000 boxes. •

Sirowski Pitcairn, who did not venture to India after
all, but turned back at the first station in the desert.

ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 19.

There appears to be no doubt now of the defection of
the Emir Beschir, and that the Druscs have risen
against the Egyptians. Ibrahim Pacha had fallen back
on Balbec, and it is said had nearly been made prisoner !
Many of his men had deserted. Soliman Pacha had
suddenly quitted Beyrout, to join Ibrahim, and, the
town being abandoned, the English had taken posses-
sion of it, and were fortifying the land side.
We have no particulars of the country about Acre
and inland to Naplouse. Should the mountaineers of
Naplouse join the Sultan, then it will be impossible for
supplies by land to reach Ibrahim from Egypt.
The defection of the Emir is a sad blow to the Pa-
ella, who says he is betrayed.
The fleet is ordered for sea. Powder and provisions
are going on board. The Egyptian portion of the
crews would fight for his Highness ; not so the Turks.
who form about a third of each crew. These arc,
therefore, to be left behind, at the urgent request of the
Paella's own captains.
We can see nothing of the Llockading ship; this
morning.
The Great Liverpool has come in, or rather off the
port. The mails for India, as well as those pr Alex-
andria, were detained at Malta. This is downrigl•t
stupid. Why not let the letters for Alexandria come on ?
Ve are in hopes that there will not be any war
among the European Powers.
No notice yet of a steamer at Suez. Our latest dates
arc—London, 29th ; Marseilles, Ist instant ; Aleppo,
2:3d of September ; Beyrout, not public, but supposed
14th instant ; Malta, 14th instant ; Constantinople, 7th
instant ; Bombay (last mail), 28th August.

(From the Supplement to the Malta Times.)

LATEST INTELLIGENCE FROM THE EAST.

MALTA, NOVEMBER, 2.

The Great Liverpool steamer arrived in port early
this morning, having left Alexandria on the 28th ult.
She brings an India mail, despatched from Bombay on
the Ist ult. by the Berenice, which arrived at Suez on
the 24th. Mehemet Ali afforded every assistance for
the conveyance of the mail to Alexandria, having given
the East India Company's agent at that place one of
his personal attendants to send for it. The following
official communication has been received by the Chief
Secretary to Government from Mr. Larking, British
Consul at Alexandria.
" BRITISH CONSULATE, ALEXANDRIA, OCT. °S.

"Sir,—l have the honour to acquaint you that Me-
hemet Ali has afforded every facility for the trans-
mission of the India mail from Suez to Alexandria,
and renews his assurances of protection and assistance
for all future mails and passengers through Egypt.
"I have, &c.. " J. W. LARKING.
"To Sir Hector Greig, Chief Secretary to Government."

(From the Gazette du Midi of the 4th inst.)
Our Toulon correspondent transmits to us several
letters which he has received by the last packet•boat
and by the Fulton. We see by their contents that the
forces of the Allies in Syria amount to nearly 12,000
men. of which 7,000 arc Turks, 2,000 Maronitcs, and
1,000 Druses, who have come over, and the remainder
English or Austrian. The commanders were waiting
for reinforcements of Turkish troops to march forward,
and have fixed Beyrout as their basis of operations,
which has now a garrison of 4,000 men and 40 pieces
of artillery. The province of Tripoli bad remained
faithful to the Egyptians, and, as the shallowness of the
water prevented the approach of large vessels, the Eng-
lish contented themselves with sending some vessels to
fire shot which do no harm. Mehemet Ali alone bad
preserved his courage, in the midst of the sad news
which he received from all parts. Oa the 17th he
traversed Alexandria on horseback, and never did he
appear more calm and dignified. Deceived so long by
the mendacious promises of the French Ministry, he will
now no longer listen to anybody, and he has said to M.
Walewski that he may continue his diplomatic moves,
but that in respect to himself he would not lose a mo-
ment in preparing for the struggle.
The Egyptian fleet, consisting of fourteen ships of
the line and ten frigates, was to have left the port of
Alexandria on the 17th, and the Nile steamer had got
p its steam to tow them out, when a strong wind
caused a suspension of the order of departure. This
4,1;1h-ie., out of port, if it were to take place, would be
Mehemet Alt's ruin. Admiral Moutouch Pacha,
Boghos Bey, the French Consul, and all sensible per-
aons who have access to the Pacha, have employed all
their efforts to cause him to abandon his fatal resolu-
tion, which is the result of a sneer of the Minister of
Marine, Hussein Bey. Tills functionary, who has
served two years in the French navy, seeing one day
that the Pacha did not listen to his plan of defence,
rose up to depart, saying, " Well, your Highness had
better withdraw the artillery from the ships, and we
will charge them with corn and flour, and turn traders."
Mehemet was touched to the quick, and gave imme-
diate orders for sailing, which, however, had not been
executed at the latest accounts.

SYRIA.
OPERATIONS OF THE ALLIES IN SYRIA
TO THE 22d OCTOBER, 1840.
MALTA, Nov. 1.
The entire line of coast extending from Latakia to
Cape Blanco, near St- Jean d'Acre, is now in possession
of the Allies, including. Latakie,• which hild been evacu-
ated by the Egyptians, and the small fort 'Of Edit'', in
the Bay of Acre, taken by H.M.S. Pique, at which
latter, it not being deemed of any great importance, no
garrison was left ; but before abandoning it, the guns
were all spiked. Lieut. M'Dougall, R.N., of the
Pique, was much injured by the going off of a cannon,
but by the last accounts he was doing well. Stdon has
been strongly fortified, and will form an important point
for future operations. Mr. Cuming, mate of the
Cyclops, who led on the Turks in the late attack upon
this place, after the fall of the gallant Lieut. Hockin,
R.M., has been strongly recommended officially to the
favourable notice of the Admiralty for promotion, for
the bravery and und,:unted courage he displayed in the
very critical position in sv-.lsich he found himself placed,
but the death vacancy of I,;:eutenant Penny, of the
Gorgon, has been conferred by fl: Admiral upon Lord
F. Kerr, a youngster of the Princess Charlotte. Mr.
M‘Guire, Mate of the Wasp, severely ve,;unded in the
same affair, is doing well. In the first ata::ck upon
Tortosa, the failure of the parties sent from the Ben-
bow, Carysfort, and Zebra, was chiefly owing to tie('
boats having grounded, with deep water between them
and the shore, when, owing to the heavy surf, the am-
munition of the Marines got wet, and they were ex-
posed, for some time, to a.heavy fire of musketry from
the enemy, who were sheltered by a wall. The loss of
the British on this occasion was the heaviest yet sus-
tained, amounting to eight killed, and eighteen wounded.
ere appears not only strongly fortified, but also gar-
risoned by experienced artillerymen ; for, on the ap-
pearance off there of the Phoenix war steamer, on the
20th ult., to reconnoitre, as many as sixty guns opened
on her from the batteries, when within one mile of the
town ; and, but for her lowness in the water, she must
nave been very soon hulled daring the half hour's heavy
cannonading, as most of the shots passed over, and very
near to her. She did not, however, leave the place with-
out throwing in some well-directed shot and shells,
which no doubt astonished the enemy. Extensive ad-
ditional woi ks appear to be in course of erection within
the town, most probably under the direction (as at Alex-
, andria) of the French engineers ; for on the 19th of
October, whilst the Revenge was becalmed outside, a
French steamer of war, keeping close along shore, made
her way in, and remained all night in communication
with the garrison, but got away at daylight in the morn-
ing. A body of Egyptian cavalry, at least 1,000 strong,
is posted on the sands outside the town.
Beyrout has, after all, not been much injured, with
the exception of a few houses in the line of fire, which
appears to have been admirable, for the castles and
works are a heap of ruins. Before the Allies took pos-
session of the place, and whilst the enemy was yet close
in the neighbourhood, in consequence of intelligence
received from an Egyptian deserter that 200 barrels of
gunpowder had been placed beneath the old Venetian
castle communicating with the town and fortress of Bey-
rout, by a train carried over a bridge, which it was in-
tended to fire as soon as the Allies got into the town,
Commander Worth, Lieutenant Schomberg, R.N., and
four midshipmen, with a Mr. Luscombe, a gentleman,
with an able seaman's rating, all of the Hastings, volun-
teered to go and remove the danger ; and, accordingly,
the barge, pinnance, and gig were manned, and guided
by the informing deserter ; they proceeded a little
before daybreak on this perilous service, and
actually removed one hundred barrels within pistol
shot of the enemy, thirty of which barrels they car-
ried on board, and threw into the sea the remaining
seventy. In the evening, with the assistance of boats
from the Edinburgh, an attempt was made to complete
the undertaking, when eleven more barrels were got
out, and the whole of the remainder thrown into the
sea. This daring and highly perilous exploit was ef-
fected with the loss of one seaman killed, and other two
and the deserter wounded, by the heavy fire of the ene-
my, which riddled the boats ; but as the party were re-
tiring, Mr. Luscombe met with his death, by the acci-
dental explosion of a fusee. The Hastings and Edin-
burgh in the offing kept away the enemy by throwing
shot and shell at them, with such admirable precision,
that they actually passed within three feet of the heads
of the gallant band ashore, who were, however, no-
thing daunted, from their great confidence in the gun-
nery skill of their shipmates. On taking possession of
Beyrout, the camp at Djouni was struck, and all the
marines of the several ships were re-etnbarked,
and
ex- ,
cepting the supernumeraries of the Pique
Stromboli, who remain ashore, divided between Bey-
\
rout and Sidon. Most of the Egyptian prisoners
have been re•embarked in transports, which were
shortly to leave for Constantinople, whence the three
thousand of the ten thousand troops latterly embarked
thete had arrived at Beyrout ; but until the remainder
I arrive, and are somewhat organized by the Generalis-
simo of the Allied forces, Brigadier-General Sir C. F.
Smith, no further operations of importance are likely
to be undertaken.