The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-24 00:00:00

INDIA.

By the General Palmer, whose :arrival hi the
.Downs we mentioned yesterday, advices from
Madras to the let of August have been received.
This vessel has made a remarkably quick passage
both out and home, having performed the voy-
age to Madras and back in eight months and
three days. The drought which has been men-
tioned as prevailing in this place still conti-
nued ; there had been no ruin for many months,
and serious apprehensions of a famine were enter-,
tained. Accounts had reached Madras from Cal..
cutta up to the 1 Stit of July. In the extracts
from the Papers from that Presidency, which are
annexed, will be found the official account of an
attack on a stockade at Kimmendine, by the
troops under Sir A. CAstrakt.t, and also a report
from the Officer in command at the taking of
Cheduba, which proves to have been a more ar-
duous affair than was at first stated. Great ef-
forts were milking at Madras to send reinforce-
ments to the army acting against the Burmese.
One brigade, under Colonel FAIR, had sailed for
Chittagong, and several of the native regiments
at Madras were under orders to he prepared to
march at a moment's notice. They were en-
camped about nine miles from Madras, near the
Artillery cantonments. The 54th and 69th regi-
ments were under similar orders. The following
is an extract of a letter, dated Madras, July 30 :
" As soon as the rains are over, and the Bengal troops col.
lected at Chittagong, it is said that the whole force, about
20,000 men, under Sir Edward Paget, will move on the Bur-
mesicapital, Ummerapoora. The troops at Rangoon, who are
at least 10,000 strong, are to cooperate by sailing up the bra.
seedily river. We have four brigades of' Madras troops at
Rangoon under Brigadier.lieneral W. M'Bean, commanding
the 54th Regiment; the 41st and 89th, King's; our Ist Euro.
pean Regiment; the 7th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 10th, 18th, 43d, and
34th Light Infantry Native Regiments, together with a large
detachment of artillery and pioneers. You will see the official
accounts of what has been going on in that quarter of late, but
nothing decisive has yet taken place, owing to the continued
rains. The enemy have had a lesson they cannot soon forget at
the several attacks at their stockades, where they have uniformly
suffered severely. They appear to be a brave race of people, and
were they disciplined in a more complete manner, would give
es some hard work. As it is, we must expect a few more broken
heads before thevar is over. It would seem that the Burmese
have hitherto been totally ignorant of the British power ; for his
goldenlooted Majesty, on receiving the accounts of the fall of
Rangoon, actually sent orders to his several commanders to
fight. the English ' sword to sword, teeth to teeth, and to drive
them into the sea.' "

(From a Calcutta Paper.)
CALCUTTA, JULY 11.

In addition to the extra which we issued yes-
terday, we have received communications to the 20th of June.
No military operations have taken place since those we then
mentioned. The Burmese are quite satisfied with what has
been given them, only that they complain we do not fight fair.
In the affair of the 10th they lost a Chief; and had many killed
and wounded, They have abandoned all their works, which
they had erected in the neighbourhood of Rangoon, and are
acting strictly on the starving system—preventing by every
possible means supplies being forwarded. A fowl is not to be
had for love or money, and the army is on its own resources.
These have been materially reduced by the troops from Madras
joining. There is a sufficiency for the purpose of the main-
tenance of the whole, till further supplies can reach them from
this. Ships have been dispatched to Calcutta for provisions;
and we believe the want has been in some measure anticipated
by Government. We understand that the troops will not pro-
ceed up the river till supplies are forwarded. Nothing, we
imagine, will be lost by this, as the presence of our force at the
southern extremity of the empire will divert attention from the
co-operation preparing to the northward.
We stated before that the Ernaad had arrived. Major
Thornhill and Lieut. Kershaw, who, our readers will recollect,
were wounded at Cheduba, are, we are happy to say, recovered,
and arc doing duty.
The following Is a copy of the Government Gazette Extraor-
dinary issued last night:--
The following extract from a dispatch received from Briga-
dier.fleneral Sir Archibald Campbell, K.C.B. and K.C.T.S.,
is published for general information . •

EXTRACT' OF A DISPATCH PROM BRIOADIER.GENERAL
SIR ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, DATED ifiTH JUNE, TO
GEORGE SWINTON, Efig., SECRETARY TO GOVERN.

TIENT, SECT. AND. POLL•. DEPT., &C., FORT WILLIAM.
Sir—Since I last did myself the honour of addressing you,
Brigadier M'Creagh and the European part of the detachment
sent against Cheduba have returned to headquarters, having
fully executed the orders given by me, agreeably to the instruc-
tions I had received from the Right Hon. the Governor-tieneral
in Council. The able and satisfactory manner in which Briga-
dier M'Creagh carried on the operations intrusted to him, will
appear by the enclosed report, and the result has been such as
might have been expected from the judicious arrangements of
that experienced officer.
Having completed my arrangements for striking a blow upon
the enemy's force assembled here, on the morning of the
18th instant, although the weather continued most unfavour-
able, I moved upon the enemy's fortified camp and stockades
at Keminendine, with about 3,000 men, 4 eighteen-pounders,
four mortars, and some tield.pieces, sending two divisions of
vessels up the river to prevent the enemy from escaping on
that side. It was my intention not to lose a man if it could
be avoided‘ The enemy had already frequently experienced
the irresistible influence of the British bayonet, and it was now
my wish they should also know that we had still other and
perhaps more dreadful means of exterminating them in every
stockade they might be found in. The country, season, and
roads, rendered the undertaking extremely arduous, but not
beyond the inexhaustible spirit of such soldiers as I com-
mand. About two miles from town the head of the column
was stopped by a stockade apparently very strong and full of
men : I ordered two heavy guns and some field-pieces so open
it, while the troops surrounded it on three sides, but the jungle
was so very thick • and close as to prevent the possibility of
altogether cutting off the garrison. In less than half an hour
a considerable gap was made in the outward defences of'
the work, and the defendants not daring any where to show
themselves. I ordered a part of the Madras European
Regiinent, supported by part of the 41st Regiment, to charge,
and the work was immediately carried, with a trifling loss on
our part, the enemy leaving IGO men dead on the ground ; Ma.
jor Chalmers leading the support of the 41st Regiment, and
one of the first men in the breach, received a wound in the face
from a apear, which 1 am happy to say is not dangerous. ' While
this was going on under my own eye, a very spatted and sue.
cessful attack was made on the other side of the stockade, by
'the advance companies of the 13th and 33th Regiments, who
by assisting each other up the face of the stockade (at least ten
feet high) entered about the same time as the party by the breach,
putting every man to death who opposed their entrance ; and
it aff'olds me pleasure to . state that the first man who appeared
on the top of the work, was, I believe, Major Sale, of his Ma.
jesty's 13th Light Infantry.
This point gained, the column again moved forward nearly
a mile, where our left wing was posted, communicating with
the flotilla on the river about half pa mile, under the great stoc.
kale and fortified camp; the head of the column moving up to
the right with great toil and labour through the thick and tens.
cious jungle, for the purpose of again reaching the river above
the stockade, and thus completely investing the enemy's great
strong-hold. In this I was partly disappointed. The enemy
'having thrown up other works above the stockade which would
have exposed my right to certain let,s, and not being able to in.
vest the whole of the enemy's extensive fortifications, I was un.
tier the necessity ofleaving about a hundred yards, between our
tight and the river, unoccupied ; ,but as the principal work ap.
peared full of men, animating each other with loud and
boisterous cheering, I still hoped they would remain till
the impression I intended had been made. At four, r. M.
my troops were In position In many places within a hun-
dred yards of the place ; but in all parts with .ft very
thick jungle in front, extending to the very bottom of the
stockade. The night passed do erecting batteries and making
preparations for opening the guns at day-light next morning;
the enemy continuing loud and incessant cheering till after day-
light in the morning. The moment we had sufficient light on
the following day, a heavy and well directed fire was opened
from our breaching and mortar batteries, which was kept up
far nearly two hours, when a party advancing to observe the
breach, found the enemy, during the cannonade, had evacuated
the place, carrying off their dead and wounded. The chain of
posts occupied by the enemy rendered flight at all times easy,
and the thickness of the jungle necessarily prevented our ob-,
serving when it took place.
The stockade, you will observe by the accompaning plan, is
one of great strength, and capable.of being obstinately defend.
ed. It was zartisoned by the Most desperate crews .of the'