The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-15 00:00:00

lIOATH,

Extract of a letter dated Naaf river, .June 4, Honourable Com.
pany's cruizer Vestal:--.

" Yesterday, seven the Subadar, in charge of the stoc-
kade ut Tek Naaf, came on board, after enduring much hard-
ship and peril, to inform us that the provincial troops under his
command had mutinied, and given themselves up to the Bur-
mese, after refusing to obey his orders to fire upon the enemy
the preceding evening, under which circumstances he imme-
diately spiked the gun, and destroyed the ammunition belong-
ing to it, and would have done the same with the magazine,
but the Sepoys threatened to take his life if he did so. He
escaped to us in disguise, with his order:y, having seen the
Burmese, whose force consists of 120 horse and a large body
of foot.

Supplies being now cut offend our stay of no further utili-
tweighed and stood down the river. At Mu-
t we fell
in with a fleet of Burmese war-boats,` ro 0 a tdrl reek e p. n
of them carrying swivels and one hundred men each, drawn out
in order of battle; one came off with an order for us immedi-
ately to surrender the vessel, or every hand on hoard would be
massacred. The gun-boats under lr. Boyce's command re.
turned for answer a shower of grape and canister, and bore
down upon them, firing as fast as they could load. An ha.
mense number of men were killed, and some of the largest
boats totally disabled. Nothing could exceed the high.
spirited conduct of Mr. Boyce, the artillerymen, and Mug
Sepoys in the boat, under his command.
" After silencing the boats and men on shore, who kept up
a close fire during the attack, the vessel made for Shuporee
Islands, where a great number of boats and men jay, who upon
our pouring in a brisk fire, drew up their boats ran into jungle,
but not before a Mt Lumber were killed; in fact, they were

literally mown down by our great guns. By this time the gun.
boats came u:). whi;ll were left to complete the confusion by
clearing the shore and jungle, which they did most effectually.
While the brig bore down on the stockade, situated on the op.
posite shore, on nearing it they gave us three cheers, or more
properly specking three war whoops, but our first broadside
soon silenced them ; the boats likewise gave their assistance in
this grand object. Night coming on, we anchored a little to
the southward of •the stockade. All the men under arms and
at their quarters during the whole of the night, expecting an
attack in the dark ; but the great loss they sustained during
the day, I fancy,. deterred them..
" This morning we weighed, and are now on our way to
Chittagong; not a boat to he seen in theriver. I conceive there
were yesterday atleast 2,000 men afloat, and twice that number
on shore. To give you an idea of the havoc made among them
would be impossible, and had not the night prevented, it would
have been much greater. During our stay at anchor, we saw
the place we left in the morning on tire, but as the villages were
deserted some time ago, no great damage could have been done.
Our decks exhibited a most motley groupe—men, women, end
children, with 32 Mut; Sepoys, together with the Suhadar,
Daroga, and Mug Jeniidars, who have put themselves under
our protection."
CHITTAGONG.—Accounts from Chittagong, timed the 27th,
mention a report, that the Burmese had been repulsed in an
attack on the Hon. Company's cruizer Vestal, and on our small
host of Provincials and Mugs at Tek Naaf. Letters of the 20th
state, that the Burmese had not advanced from Ramon, It
now appears, that of the party said to have been completely de.
etroyed at that place, more than one-half had returned to Chit-
tagong unhurt. A spy taken at Chuckerceah has given infor-
mation that the whole of the Burmese force at Rantoo
amounted to 8,000 foot and 200 horse. Of these 1,500 had
gone down against Tek Naaf, 1,590 had returned to the
Pullungo, front whence they had previously advanced to
Ranioo, and the remainder intended shortly to move on Hung.
hung, a stage to the northward of Chuckerceah. The spy fur-
ther relates that the Burmese hail heard of Rangoon being
attacked ten days ago. He adds, that they had four Sirdars,
and only one hundred men killed, at Ramon, that the General
Bundoola had reported progress to the King, and was waiting
for further orders.

Extract of a Letter from Captain Geary, of the Sir Edward
Paget, dated Portsmouth, Nov. 12 :—" 1 sailed from Bengal
the 19th of June, and from the Cape the 10th of September.—
When oft' the Cape I was several days in company with an Eng-
lish ship of about 300 tons, with a poop, bust head, and quarter.
galleries, but from her weather position I could not communi-
cate with her. She made a signal with four fla,gs, but I did
not understand the
.purport (Wit. She had lost all her weather
works abaft the mainmast, evidently from stress of weather, as
I observed the sea mule several breaches over her decks, and a
strong gale of wind from the W.N.W. having come on, I have
great fear for her safety."
Extract of a letter, dated Calcutta, May 31,1024.—" A very
considerable body of Burmese troops were ravaging the coun-
try in the neighbourhood of Dacca, an eastern province 171
miles from Calcutta. The Indigo crops were favourable, hut
it is supposed would receive damage from the enemy, as the
frontiers were defenceless, by so many troops having been with.
drawn for the expedition."

The Sir Edward Paget passed the Cape on September 16, St.
Helena, 30th; Ascension, Oct. 2; and Western Islands, Nov.
3. Spoke, in Channel soundings, the Dove packet, Lieut.
Crossby, from Buenos Ayres, bound to Falmouth.—The Sir
Edward Paget brings home—Col. Knox, Captains M'Kenzie,
Marshall, 'Britten and Lady, and Lieut. Rice, of the Bengal
Infantry, T. •Dykes and C. Puller, Esqrs. ; Lady Puller,
Mesdames Neyland, Phillot, M'Cawan, and Maningham, and
10 children. The passengers on their landing here gave afare-
well dinner to Captain Geary, last evening, at the George Inn,
expressive of their grateful sense of his kindness and gentle-
manly deportment to them during the passage, and the skill
with which he had, their judgment, navigated the ship:—
The Sir Edward Paget was precisely 12 months on her passage
out and home, from Spithead, yesterday being the anniversary
of her passing through the Needles outward bound.—( Ports-
mouth Paper.)