The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-29 00:00:00

34th regiment; Doctor Mayamore, artillery; Capt. Pringle,
Mug Levy.

Extract of a Report from Lieutenant-Colonel Shapland to the
Adjutant-General of the Army, dated Chittagong, • May 20,
1824.
1 have the honour to report, for the information of his Ex-
cellency the Commander-tn-Chief, that, being joined by the
detachmentr of the Ist battalion 23d regiment Native Infantry,
I. returned to Chittagong this morning with the detachment
which was advancing towarns itamoo, when the disastrous
event occurred at that place.
I enclose a report of the Officers who hafe escaped after the
action.

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Copy of a Report from Lieutenant Scott and Ensi,Tris Codring-
ton and Campbell to Brigade-Major White,' dated Camp,
Chittagong, 20th May, 1824.
Sir—lnformation having been required relative to the re-
treat of Captain Noton's detachment from Ramon, on the
17th instant, we, being the only surviving Officers, beg
leave to forward a condensed statement of the circum-
stances which have fallen under our observation, for the .in- .
formation of Brigadier Shapland, C. 13. commanding the district.
The Burmese, amounting. it is supposed, to 10,000 men,
advanced on Ramoo, from the Ruttnapullung road, and en- •
camped on the south side of the river the 13th instant ; en the
following evening, being within gun-shot, and advancing ay-
patently with the intention of fording the liver, a party, with
two six-pounders, under the command of Captain Truman,
was detached for the purpose of annoying the enemy, and frus-
trating any attempt to cross ; this our troops effected.
On the 15th, however, the enemy at eight a m. advanced.
and commenced entrenching themselves about three hundred
yards in front of our position, the right think of which was
protected by the river and by a tank, about sixty paces in ad-
vance, this being surrounded by a high embankment, serv-
ing as a breast-work, was , occupied by the picquet,
who opened and kept up, without intermission a fire on the
enemy during the whole day and following night. Our, posi.
tion - was strengthenecrin the rear by a similar tank to that in
front, for the delence.of.which a strong detachment from the
provincial battal on and Mug lev,was allotted.
On the morning of the Ifith it was discovered that the enemy
had during the night opened trenches on our left flank, and had
considerably advanced those in front. A desultory fire was
continued during the next twenty four hours fiom each tank,
but with little effect on either side. By day-break on the 17th,
the enemy had carried on their trenches to within twelve packs
of the ptcquet, and had also approached to within a short
distance of the tank in our rear; they gained possession of
the latter about II) o'clock, a.st., tile troops defending it having
quitted their post and fled with precipitation. The consume-
non caused by this quickly spread,, and they were almost iin.
mediately followed by the remainder of the Mug levy. The
elephants (on one of which Lieutenant Scott, who had been
*ever* wounded, was tied) were alarmed at the tumult and
fled.

shortly after this (our rear being now nndefentled) Captain
Noton ordered a retreat, which was effected in good order for
about half a mile, the two six-pounders being from necessity
abandoned ; the enemy's cavalry, however, pressing hard upon
the rear of the column, a square was ordered to be formed,
but in consequence of the excessive fatigue and deprivation
which the troops had previously undergone, which ren-
dered them absolutely incapable of offering any effectual
resistance to the everpowering masses of the enemy

pouring in on them on every side, the utmost exertions of th'e
Officers to preserve discipline were unavailing, and on our
arrival at the river the sepoys dispersed in every direction,
and Individual safety became the primary object of each.
Under these lamentable circumstances Ensigns Codring-
tat and Campbell, having seen the other Officers cut
to pieces by the enemy, together with the greater part
of the detachment, and deeming all further chance of re.
sistence hopeless, escaped, the former, closely pursued, to
Coxe's Bazar, and thence by water to Chittagon,g and the latter,
who was slightly wounded, by a circuitous route through the
hills to the same place.
%%It! have, Ac.
J. IV. SCOTT, Lieut. Artillery.
R. CODRINOTON, Ensign 25th N.T.
K. CAMPBELL, Ensign 23d Reg. N.l.

Extract from a Letter from the Governor-General in Council
to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors, dated •
Fort William 2d June 11124.
We avail ourselves of the immediate departure of a ship for
England, to transmit to your Honourable committee copies
of dispatches received this day from BrigudieNtien. Sir Archi-
bald Campbell, announcing the capture of Rangoon * on the
Ilth ult. and beg leave to offer to your Honourable Committee
our congratulations on this highly interesting and important
OWL
We are happy to inflirm your Honourable Committee that,
by the latest accounts from Chittagong, it appears that
the Burmese troops had not ventured to advance from the in-
trenchments thrown up by them at Rama°, after the defeat of
our detaahment at that place; that the temporary alarm occa-
sioned by that disaster was rapidly subsiding, and that the
reinforcements approaching Chittagong would speedilyy. place
the troops at that station in a condition to undertake of
operations against the enemy, should the season still admit of our
advance to the southward. lore than one half of the sepoy6 of
the Ramoo detachment, reported to have been cut °W in the ac-
tion of the Itith. had returned to Chittagong unhurt, but we re-
ret to say, that of the six Officenistated to have been killed no
hope remains that any of them survive.
The detailed report of this affair was published in the
Supplement to the London Gazette of Tuesday, the 23d No-
vember.