The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-17 00:00:00

WAR IN INDIA.

[Prom the Calcutta Government Gazette.]
FORT NVILLIAM, INIpAY, MARCH 5, 1024.
PROCLAMATION,
BY THE RIGHT HON. THE GOVERNOR•GENEIIAL IN
COUNCIL.

" The conduct of the Burmese having compelled the British
Government to have recourse to arms in support of its rights
and honour, the Governor.. General in Council hereby notifies,
that the Government of Ava is placed in the condition of a
public enemy, and that all British subjects, whether European
or native, are prohibited from holding any communication with
the people of that State until the differences now unhappily
existing► shall be terminated.
" The Oovernor-General in Council deems it proper to take
this opportunity of publicly declaring the causes that have led
to hostilities, with a State, between which and the lion. East
India Company a friendly Intercourse has long subsisted, to
the great advantage of both parties, and with which the British
Government has invariably sought to cultivate and maintain
the relations of amity. .
" During many years past, the Burmese officers governing

:he country contiguous to our south-cast frontier, have from

time to time been guilty of acts of encroachment a nd aggress
sion, which the British Government would have been fully
justified in repelling by force.
"Solicitous, however, to preserve with all nations the rela-
tions of peace, the British Government lies considered it to be,
In an especial manner, its duty to make large allowances for
the peculiar circumstances and character of the Burmese Go-
vernment and 'people. The consciousness of its power to repel
and punish aggressions has strengthened the motives of for-
bearance towards a nation removed, by their geographical situa-
don, from the immediate circle of our political relations, and
with whom (as we have., no opposing interests) the Suprone
Government sought only to maintain icommercial intercourse
on terms of equality and freedom, conducive to the welfare and
prosperity of both countries.

." So long, therefore, as the aggressions of which the British
Government had to 'complain, could be treated as the unautho-
rized acts of the subordinate officers of the Burman Government,
and could be tolerated consistently .with the national honour
and the security of the British territories, the Supreme Govern-
ment sedulously endeavoured to preserve unimpaired the ex-
isting relations of peace and friendship, notwithstanding pro-
vocations which would have fully justified, and from a state
More fOrmitlable in position And resources would have impe-
riously denianded, a resort to arms.

"Trusting that the motives of its conciliatory demeanour
could not have been misunderstood, the British Government
persuaded itself that the Government of Ave, however extra-
vagant, in its pretensions, must have been no less desirous man.
ourselves to maintain a friendly intercourse so profitable to that
country, and could not but be sensible, that as our moderation
was founded on a consciousness of our strength, and on a gene-
ral desire to preserve the blessings of peace, so our forbearance
would not be carried beyond the limits where it ceased to be
entimatible with the safety of our subjects, the integrity of our
dominions, and the honour of our country.
" Unhappily, these expectations have been disappointed.--
The Burmese Government, actuated by an extravagant spirit of
pride anti ambition, and elated by its conquests over the petty
tribes by which it is surrounded, has ventured to violate the
British territories, to attack and slay a party of British seimys,
to seize and imprison British au bjects,to avow extensive schemes
of mischievous aggression, and to make hostile preparations oh
our frontier, that leave no doubt of its intention to execute its
Insolent and unjustifiable threats.
" In prosecution Of a groundless claim to the island of Sha.
puree, the Burmese, Chiefs of Armoire, in a time of profound
peace, and without any previous attempt at negociatitm on the
part of their °overtime:tit, attacked, under CUVer of night, a
small guard of British. troops stationed on that, island fur pier.
polies of police, and drove them from their post with the loss of
several lives. No answer has been returned by the Court of
Amerapoora to the demand of es:planation and atonenient which
It was of course the dutrof the British Government instantly
to prefer; but which was =dein the same spirit of concilia-
tion which had always characterized our communications with
the Court of Ave. On the contrary, the Burmese lacel autho-
rities have distinctly declared the determination of their Sove-
reign to invade the British dominions, unless their groundless
claim to Shapuree is unequivocally admitted.
" Subsequently to the attack on the island or Shapuree, the
commanding officer and several of the crew of the floneurable
Company's schooner Sophia were insidiously enticed on shore,
and carried into the interior by the order of Commissioners spe.
daily deputed to Artacan by the Iltirmeme Cnurt, and although
subsequently released, they have been sent back without any
explanation or apology for the insulting outrage.
The Burmese Generals on the north-cast have at the same
moment advanced their troops into the country of Cachar, and
occupied a post.within only five miles of the frontier of Sylhet,
notwlthimincling that they were dietinctly warned.by the British
autliorities in that quarter that the petty state of Caehar was
under the protection of the British Government, and that the
movement of their troops must be regerded as an act of hostility
to be repelled by force. In both quarters the Burmese Chiefs
have publicly declared their determinetion to enter the British
territories in pursuit of alleged ofrenders against the GoVern-
ment of Ara, and have avowed. intentions of open hostility as
the alternative of our refusing to comply with their unjust and
utterly inadmisaible pretensions..
lithilat occupying their threatinting. position on the British
ofrfon
jdyenrt,eetah,e Burmese (4
another eldership situated I I
eneralit planneilsnailiLr.eatrlrwth.te3C.!atiac.,..nesrt:
In regard to the district of Sylhet, and which having formerly
been restored by the British authorities to the family of, thee
reigning Rajah, after a temporary convulsion, lied been more
distinctly recognized as a dependency of Bengal. 'Try called
on the ittylah to acknowledge submission and allegiance to the
King of .Ava, and a demonstration was actually made to enter
his territory, when the advance of the British troop* frustrated
the execution of their hostile design.
.
".The deliberate silence of the Court of Amerapoom, as well
xi the combination and extent'of the operations undertaken by
its officers, lesve it no longer doubtful that the acts and decla-
rations of the subordinate authorities are fully sanctioned by
their Sovereign, and that that haughty and barbarous Court is
not only determined to withhold all explanation and. atonement
for past injuries, but meditates projects of the most extrava-
gant and unjustifiable aggression againit the British I.lOvern-
ment.
"The Governor-General in Council, therefore, for the safety
of the subjects, and the security of our districts, already seri-
ously alarmed and injured by the approach of the Burmese
articles, has felt himself imperatively called on to anticipate
the threatened invasion. The national honour no less obviously
requires that atonernerft should be had for wrongs ro wantonly
inflicted and so insolently maintained, and the national interests
equally demand that weehould seek by an appeal to arms, that
security against future insult .and aggression which the arm.
gance and rasping. spirit or the Burmese Government have
denied to friendly expoetillation and remonstrance.
" With these views and purposes, the Governor-General in
Council has deemed •it an act of indispensable duty to adopt
such measures as are necessary to vindicate the honour of the
British Government, to bring the Burmese to a just sense of its
character and rights, to obtain an advantageous adjustnient of
our eastern boundary, and to preclude the recurrence of similar
insult and ag
greemion in future.
" Still animated by a sincere desire for peace, and utterly
averse from all purposes of aggrandizement, the Governor..
General in Council will rejoice if the object above-mentioned
can be' accomplished without carrying the war to eitreinities.
But to whatever length the Burmese Government may render
it necessary to prosecute hostilities, his Lordship in Council
relies with confidence on the justice of our cause, on the re.
nources of the Government, and on tbe'approved valour of our
troops, for the early and successful tenni-oat* of the contest.
" By donimand of the Bight: lion. the Governor-General in
Council,

QEORRCzI SWlN'rON,isec, to Uovernmeot,"

811.111: T latest reports from the troops
in the field enable tat to add, that the 'Balinese Jost in killed
and wounded' between four E,rad tire hukldred.rnen..in 'the attack
an the stocknde at Paoodottlee, and oak they evactia tett it a
're* days at ter, and 'were retreating :on AI-turnipOre. 'the Hill
Chiefs, we onderatand, have given amattittneeioiliPiir ii pu~i~in,F
td harass and annoy them in their flint.
Lieutenant;'
.040)4;1 Innis, who arrived at Jottrapore ,on the
"supping the '27.t1; U.(1111)0., and took collini an& the
titas to ptaieta ifiirktiff iiethe Ihirmeie on the 211tb.

AMERICAN PA'ERS.

The following are extract! from New York
Papers to the 24th ult., incluive, received yes-,
terday

"NEW YORK, Jrl4E 18.

•
" Accounts front Laguayra to the Ist instant mention' the
arrival there of a number of vessels,' prizes to El Vencidor,
owned by Commodore Daniels; captited off the coast of Spain,
and valued'ut 250,000 dollari.- A tutch frigate had arrived
there with a Commissioner. The torts had been opened for
' f3O days from May, for the admiseon, free of duly, of corn,
rice; &c. Some symptoms of revolt having appeared among
the negroes at Laguayra, the ringleaders had been apprehended,
and measures taken to prevent a surprise. Since the contisca:
tion of the church property by the Government, for national
purposes, those who have thereby been deprived of their over-
grown wealth are represented ax extremely active in promot-
tlng
insurrection among the coloured people. Previous to this
act of the Executive, the. clergy had obtained possession of a
great proportion of the real estate in the Republic, in conic.
quence of their being able to advance Money on mortgage
out of the treasures belonging to the church, which they had
in concealment. This gave them such an ascendancy, that
they hesitated not to avow their intention of restoring the
former tyranny ; and it is more than probable, had they not
been deprived of the means of doing this by the foresight of
Bolivar, that they would have accomplished their purpose.—
The recognition of the old loan, connected with the seizure of
the church lands, and the contracting of a new loan which had,
been effected in Europe, cannot fail to give new energies to the
Colombian Government, and enable it to counteract the machi-
nations of the enemies of liberty throughout the whole of South
America, _ _ _

'6 .ItriE 19..:..-(Cot.olunrAx IlErttni,tc.)—The report of a
revolt at Laguira, against the Government of Colombia turns
out to be a faibrication A miurrekno uncommon occurrence,
bad taken place between the Mule-drivers and porters, which'
called for the interference of the police. This, it is supposed,
was mistaken for an insurrection by some one imperfectly ac-
quainted with the Spanish language. We rather think that
the report originated in an anxious desire, which some have
frequently evinced, of exaggerating every vague rumour that
relates to reverses sustained by the Patriots.
" Juxit 22.-13 y the arrival of the sloop Protector, we have
been furnished with Kingston papers to the Ist instant. The
Hussar frigate arrived at Port Royal on the 20th ult. with four
pirates on board, and one on suspicion.
" The boats of the Hussar. Icarus, and Speedwell, scoured
the Isle of Pines, in quest of the murderers of Lieut. Layton,
Midshipman Strode, and their party. Pepe, the Chief, was
found deed in the bushes of the Isle of Pines : he appeared to
have died from starvation. Sebastian, the second in command,
and who had been active in the atrocities committed on Lieut.
Layton and his unfortunate fellow-officers, was- killed by the
Spaniards. Five more pirates were also killed by the Spaniards
sent out in pursuit by the Governor of the Isle of Pines, who
had received orders from the Governor-General of Cuba to co-
operate.

" One man was killed by the pirates themselves, they fearing
that he would give evidence against them.
" Five more were captured by the British party, one of whom
was, it is stated, present when Lieut. Layton was murdered ;
another was found keeping sentry over a piratical vessel which
had been hauled up'; another, named Bonet°, acknowledged he
had fired on the boats of the Icarus ; and a fourth, named Ste..
phena, had been found in the but whence Pepe had escaped, us
detailed in a former number of the Advertiser. A piratical
felucca was found,' which had been sunk in Malpiase river ; she
mounted three guns and a long nine-pounder. A felucca boat
was also discovered, and destroyed.
" The following is a semi-official return of piratical vessels
burnt by the expedition :
" Pepe's felucca, a new vessel, which bad been only on one
cruise, armed with one nice:pounder, one six-pounder, and one
two-pounder; schooner El Carmen, clinker-built schooner t
felucca.rigged boat, one ithepounder ; 38-feet rowboat; and
three large piratical canoes.
"of the pirates, Thaye been shot and' 5 taken primmer", to
be hung, if they prove to be what they are stated to be.
" The Kingston (Jamaissi Public Advertiser of the 28th 04,,
(which was received at this, office yesterday) contains accounts
from Panama of the 27th A pril, relatiVe to the affairs of 'Peru,
of a gratifying nature. A proclamation had been issued by
Bolivar, on the Peruvians to be firm, and assuring them
that 10,000 Colonibians were read to assist them in establishing
their liberty, notwithstanding the plots of 'their enemies, no
less than fi of which had been detected in the same number of
months. The head-quarters of the Colombian-PerOvian army
was at Truzillo on tha27th March, end the advanced part of
the same army was at Pativilca on the 20th of March. The
Patriots amounted to 'l,OOO effective. troops, and :1,000 more
from Panama and Guayaquil, all veterans, with an extra
supply of 4,000 muskets. were about to reinforce the Liberator.
—The Royalists were 10,000 strong, of allclasses and nations,
badly supplied with arms.
" The primary cause of appointing Bolivar Dictator appears
to have arisen from a suspicion attached to the lilarnuis Torre
Tagle, President of the Congress of Peru, who had since justi-
fied this suspicion by' following the example of Riva AtigerO,
consequence of which the Liberator bad proclaimed him a
traitor. It'was this same' Marquis, it seems; who excited the
black troops in Callao to result. With his usual promptitude,
Bolivar had cautioned the Peruvians against confining so many
prisoners, most!), officers, at Callao, as he had mice lost Puerto
Cattalo by a similar treason. By these accounts, all appre-
hensions as to the safety of the Patriot army in Peru are com-
ydetelY removed, and the most confident expeCtitions excited
that their efforts will, ere long, be crowned with complete
success.

REMAINS OF JAMES IL

• -,..;,,.....

[PROM A PARIS PAPER. Or TUESDAYI
Yesterday the workmen employed in making
exca‘otions for the foundation or the steeple of
the new church at St, Germuin.en-Laye, found
at the bottom of an ancient chapel three leaden
boxes, on one of which is the following kiwi!).
tion

" Herein a portion of the flesh and noble parts of the body
of the most high, puissant, and illuxtrieue, ,and roost excellent
Prince James Stuart, second of the name, King of Great 11ri.
twin, bOrn 23d October, 1633, deceased in France, at St. Ger-
main.en-Laye, September it;, 1701." .
Below the inscription ure. the arms of:.that
Prince. This box is 'partly mutilated ; it Con.
tains, besides fragmftnts of bones, °Owr parts
which ere nut yet consumed.

The MaYouimmediutely assembled the. Mani.
ripui Body, and in presence of the Governor of
the Castle 'and the Vicar of the Parish, caned
those precious remaioto;to lie transitited, and do.
posited under the grand ,altar,of the Provisional
Church.

The Registers deposited in the Recordltoomi
of the place were then ,consulted, and Acts were
found dated the 16th of September,. 1701, re
cording the decease of the Prince, and indicating
that his body was taken to the English- Ilenedic.
tinPs in Paris, his heart to the Ursulines at
Chaillot, and part of his •entrails, his brains, and
his lungs to the Church of St., Germain.en.Laye
In preserve in that place the memory of so great
and so religious a Prince."
it is believed that one of the other boxes con.
tains the remains of the Princess Louisa-Maria,of
England, daughter to James 11., who also died
at St. Germain.eis.Laye on the 17th of April,
1712.

FASTUON.—Louii XIV., alluding to a change
in the fashion of bead dresses, which was brought
about by the appearance, of an English beauty at
Paris, said, somewhat petulantly—" I am, I
confess, piqued to see, that with all the au-
thority belonging to my station in this country,
have exclaimed so long against high headdi -
esses, while no one had the complaisance to
lower them fur me in the slightest degree. But
now, when a mere strange English wench arrives
%%WI head-dress, all the Princesse:,
think fit ,to go at once from one extremity to
lgolter.".

The Late KING of the SANDWICH ISLES.

The leaden coffin, containing the remains of his
Majesty, was last night placed in the splendid
cube that has been furnished by Mr. JARVIS, in
Long Acre. It is of immense width, and is lin-
ed with rich white satin, fluted very tastefully,
and the outside is of crimson velvet, and.studded
with brae nails and ornaments similar to that of
the late- Queen. On the plate is the following
inscription :

KAMAIUAMEHA• 2ND
ELII XO NAIIIXA-0. AWAXI MAKE
I POI4KANI 20.
malcAlicr tcAncu
KE-MATIOIC MUA
•
I XEMAXAKAIXIC 1024
ALOICA INO-NO KOMAXOA
ELII JOLAXI.
And underneath is engraven—

K.IMEHAMEHA 2n,
KING OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS,
DIED JULY 14, 1824.
IN THE 28TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.
HAY WE REMEMBER. OCR BELOVED KING
JOLANI.

The Governor Boltz (not PoKt), the Admiral
KAIIIIIE, ,Mtitime I3OKI (who is in a state of
convalescence), the Secretary of Mr. Rives, and
two others of the suite, are in constant attend-
ance, and bear their loss well—the natives are
quite gay and chearful. A great number of ap.
Orations had been made during the morning
for admission, which had generally been com-
plied with.,

The following is a copy of the dispatch to the'
Prime Minister of the Sandwich Islands, an.
flouncing the dem►se of his MAJ BST/, and which
was forwarded to Falmouth:—

" ORborniallotel, London, July 15, 1324.
" DEAR FluExp—lt is very sorrowful news for you, but be-
ing the will of Heaven we must submit. I mentioned in my
letter, dated July 9, the death of our good TEEN. The Iliac,
having lost his consort, was much agitate by the fatal shock,
and unable to-support the weight his manly bosom experi-
enced, be died, my dear Mend, and left us to lament the vir-
tues we so often admire in him. You well know my feelings,
and the reason I have to deplore the loss of such true friend.
ship. All the physicians could do, all we could say by way of
consolation, availed nothing ; he told me, more than once, that
all the support the English nation could give him was in vain.
The fatal bargain, my dear fiiend, was made, and he sunk to
rise no more. Their bodies will be removed to the Sandwich
Islands, to give you and the whole of our nation satisfaction
that every thing was done by the English Government' and pri-
vate Gentlemen to promote our comfort, and assist our un-
fortunate Monarch. Even the King of England sent his own
physicians, and the Noble Duke of York his surgeon ; and
every thing that England produced was at our command. You
will much regret, with myself, that circumstances prevented
his having an interview with the King of England, who kindly
expressed his hope (through his physicians) that our Kin.v
would console himself, and not sink under his affliction, and
that his Most Gracious Majesty would give our King an inter-
view as soon as his health was restored. I hope you are well,
and that we shall be able to continue the labour for your wel-
fare, is the wish of " Your's, truly,
".JOAN 13. RIVES."
"To Mr. Pitt, Prime Minister at the Sandwich
Islands, or Krimaku."

MANNER OF MOURNING AMONGST THE NA.
"VC AV Mr/ '

TIYES OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.

When an old Chief dies, a number of people
assemble, and seat themselves round a • square
area, fronting the house in which the deceased
lies ; whilst a man, in a red feathered cap, ad-
vances from an interior part of the house to the
door, and putting out his head at almost every
moment, utters, in a most lamentable howl, ac.
companied with the Most singular grimaces and
violent distortions of his face that can he con-
ceived. Afterwards, a large mat is spread upon
the aien, aud the two men and thirteen women
come out of the house and sit • upon it, in three
equal rows, two men and three women being in
the front. The necks and hands of the women
are covered with feathered ruffs; and broad
green leaves variously scalloped, spread over
their shoulders. At, one corner of the area,
near a small hut, appear six boys, bearing small
white banners, &c. The dead bOdy k in the
hut. .A man in a red cap opens the ceremony.
The company, seated on a mat, begin to sing a
melancholy tune, accompanied with a gentle and
slow motion of the body and arms. They then
raise themselves on their knees, and in a posture
between kneeling and sitting, move their bodies
'and arms very rapidly, the tune keeping pace
with their motions. After this has lusted an hour,
with slower movements at intervals, more mats
are sprelitl upon the area, and four or five old
women--.one of whom is the wife of the deceased,
advance slowly out of the house, and being seated
in the front of the company, begin to cry and
wail .rtiost bitterly ; the women behind them join.
ing in these lamentations, and the two men in-
clining their heads over them in a very' pensive
attitude. In this situation they continue till
night, when the corpse is removed. Capt. King
could not learn how they disposed of the body.
Three women of rank informed him that the pre-
sence of strangers hindered them from perform.
ing'some necessary ritea. Scarcely had Captain
King gone out of sight, before he heard their
cries and lamentations; and meeting them a few
hours afterwards, he fontid that they had painted
"he lower part of their faces perfectly black.—
When asked whither the dead were gone, the.
answer was, that the breath, which they seemed
to consider as the soul, or immortal part, was
gone to the " Eatdoa," which they described as
some particular place, which they suppoed to he
the abode of 'the decetised.—( Kulp Voyage.)

DERPERATE A vra.tY IN CASTLECOMERe---on
Sunday night last, a number of men, women, and
children, assembled to destroy the ounce! lately
patispi near the-Turnpike of Castlecomer, by
the Turnpike Board, for the purpose of augment-
ing their tolls. They-had succeeded in acorn-
plishing their-object, when they were overtaken
by the Police and Militia Staff, quartered in
Castlecomer, and an irregular combat immedi-
ately ensued, in which two policemen and eight
of the country people were wounded by musket
and pistol. bullets. There was nothing like party
feeling or hostility in the proceeding, for it has
been ascertained that some yeomen were assist-
ing the country people, one of whom, it is said,
has been dangerously wounded. Weabstnin from
noticing the:regulations which have led to this un-
fortunate affray, as we hope the Turnpike Board
will have a statement of the particulars laid be.
Tore the :public; .They may. be assured that no-
thing less thane•such a statement will satisfy the
people.that their. late -imposts, however legal
they.tmightbave been, are perfectly equitable.—
(Carlow Morning Post, July 15.) •"'