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

INDIA.

The Free-trader ship Sir Edward Paget, Capt.
,Tofu GEA ItY, R.N., has arrived at Portsmouth from Calcutta,
which she left on the 18th of June, with a cargo of raw silk
and indigo, sugar and saltpetre, valued at 300,0001., besides
gold and silver specie to the amount of 30,000/. She has brought
Calcutta Government Gazettes, which contain a detailed report
of a gallant action between the Company's cruiser Vestal, as-
sisted by a few gun-boats, and a great number of Burmese war-
boats carrying swivels and one hundred men each, which tried to
intercept her in her way down theriver from Tek N aaf and were so
confidentofsuccess that before commencing the action they called
upon her to surrender, and threatened, if she did not, to murder
every man on board. A shower of grape and cannistcr shot,
however, was the only answer, and not only were half the Bur-
mese boats and their crews destroyed, but the Vestal made tor
the Simporee islands, where she compelled those which lay
there to run aground, and mowed down their crews as they
tied to escape into the jungles. She also silenced a stockade
Ott the shore and swept the river so effectually, that although
more thaw six thousand Burmele had been engaged one day
both on the water and on land, there was not a single boat or
a single enemy to be seen the next day. The Sepoys on
board the. Vestal and the gun-boats behaved extremely well •
but we are sorry to find that some of the Provincial troops had
mutinied and given up a stockade which they occupied to
the 13nrmese. 7he latter, after the unfortunate affair at Ramoo,
where the British loss, however, hail been considerably exag-
gerated, might, it is said, have found their way to Calcutta.
—The greatest alarm was experienced for a few days in that
city, which had ben left with scarcely any military protection
since the sailing of the troops. All fears, however, had been
removed at the date of these advices, and the Burmese not
having profitted by the first. moment of surprise, had lost
all chance of success and were said to he falling hack on
their own territory. On the A ssem side of Ava their resistance
was growing more obstinate, and apprehensions were entertained
lest the war had been protracted to a longer period than had been
anticipatedt Letters from Gorruckpoor to the end of May,
were also received by this conveyance, which gave a very fa-
vourable account of the progress of Missionaries in that part
of India. Great numbersof the natives had become converts,
through the efforts of the Missionaries, to Christianity, and
their example was daily followed by the inhabitants of the
neighbouring villages. A new church was being erected at Gor-
nick-poor, and it was reported the consecration by the Bishop
of Calcutta would take place in Jiine. Sir W. Franklin, Chief
Justice at Madras, died at that settlement 19th May. Sir F.
llacnaghten, Chief Justice at Calcutta, who was about to re-
turn to England in the Sir Edward Paget, was, by the death
of Sir Christopher Puller, obliged to defer his departure. It is
a remarkable fact, that Sir Christopher Puller enjoyed his aP
?ointment exactly the same number of days only as his prede:
censor, Sir F, Blossett.

We have received a series of Singapore Papers from the 22d
of May to the 19th of June, from which we extract the fol-
lowing : _

(From the Paper of May 27. )
The Right [lon. the Governor in Council having been pleas.
ed to sanction the following Provisional Regulations for the
Port of' Singapore, they are hereby published for general in-
formation.

Ist. The arrivals of all ships and vessels shall be imme-
diately reported to the Master Attendant in the ordinary re-
port book, and afterwards by the Commander in person, at the
Master Attendant's Office, as soon as the vessel shall have
anchored.

2d. The intended departure of any ship or vessel shall be
reported to the Master Attendant 24 hours previous to her
sailing, except in cases of emergency, which will be determined
by the Resident.
3d. Commanders of all vessels are required when hoarded by
the Master Attendant's boat, to deliver to the Post Office
letter carrier, all letters, packets, or dispatches for the Settle-
ment, and to receive and furnish a receipt for Post Office
packets which may be sent on board at their deParture.
4th. With the view of affording an authentic record of the
progress of the trade of the Settlement, all Commanders of
European or square rigged vessels are required to give in be-
fore sailing, to the Master Attendant, an accurate specification
of the goods imported and exported by them, such statement to
'be sealed and not opened until the vessel shall have quitted
the port. To facilitate this operation, the Master Attendant
will supply the Commanders with proper forms.
6th. With the same object in view, a verbal statement of the
Import and Export cargo of native vessels shall be given in by
their Commanders.

6th. After reporting at the Master Attendant's Office on their
arrival, and immediately previous to their departure, all Com-
menders of European and Native vessels are required to
wait on the Sitting ;11agistrates, and supply them with a list of
the passengers intending to remain at or depart from this Sa.-
dement.
7th. All vessels, European and Native, will promptly re-
ceive a port-clearance, on application to the Master Attendant's
Office, and such port-clearance will be given without fee or
charge.
Bth. All cargo boats shall be regularly admensured, num-
bered, and registered by the Master Attendant's Office, and
such boat shall have marked upon her bow her number and
tonnage. _

9th. All cargo boats shall be supplied with good and suffi-
cient coverings, adequate to protect the goods received on board
from damage. _ _

10th. The following shall be the maximum of charges taken
for boat hire, woodino,,, watering, and ballasting, of ships touch-
ing at the port, and whose stay does not exceed forty-eight
hours, us well as in all other cases where no previous arrange-
ment or contract is made.
Boat hire BB cents, of a Spanish dollar per royan of 40 pietas.
Firewood per 1000 billets (of 18 rallies to billet), i Spanish
dollars.
Ditto ditto, boat hire included, 8i Spanish dollars.
Ballast sand per royan, including boat hire, 80 cents.
Ditto stone, ditto, ditto, 90 cents.
Water, if with ships' casks, one dollar per ton, including
boat hire.

Ditto, where ships' casks are not used one dollar 12 cents.
11th. The business of supplying wood, water, and ballast for
ships, and the employment of cargo-boats, shall not he con-
sidered subject to any official restraint or regulation beyond
those already mentioned; and the mediation and assistance of
the Officers of the Government, with regard to them, are deem.
ed in the present advanced state of the trade of the port no
longer necessary.
12th. Nothing contained in these regulations shall be con-
strued to operate against the most pert'ect liberty to ships to
wood, water, and ballast, with their own boats.
Alva/we, May 24,
1024.

Extract of a letter dated Calcutta,. .Tune 12, 1024, received by

the Sir Edward Paget :
" 1 enclose a Orriernment Gazelle Extraordinary, out only
ten minute's, giving some account of an affair of boats, in
width the I►ttle Company's cruiser Vestal had been engaged at
Tek Naar. It is represented as a brilliant affair; but there are
accounts in town representing it as a very disastrous business.
Our party have behaved very well, but they have suffered se-
verely. Some of our gun-bolas, it 13 said, have been destroyed.
Whether these report's cone front croaking people or not, it is
difficult to say. The great alarm respecting an invasion
from the Burmese has subsided, though all agree that they
might have advanced upon Calcutta with the greatest ease.—
They are still within our territory at Ramoo, strongly stock-
ad'•d. This is the scene of their victory over Captain Noton's
detachment ; and the scene of their barbarities upon Captain
Trueman. 'They say they will exterminate the Europeans.
Itamoo is 80 mile* south of the Sudder station of Chittagong,
or Islamabad, as it is put down in the maps."
GOVERNMENT GAZErrE EXTRAORDINARY.
Calcutta, June 12.
lIRILLIAN'T AFFAIR WITH A FLEET OF BURMESE WAR.