Star.
London, England, 1808-04-15 00:00:00

EAST-INDISS.

CALCUTTA, Nov. ts, 1807.
The south-west monsoon, which, from the violeitt'e'
that usually attends its -breaking up, occasion!' Co.
derable alarm to the shipping on the Coromandel
coast, during the month of October, has, in theriffe'
sent season, given way, without any of stormy,.
disagreeable weather, that generally accompanies •
that change. The north-east Monsoon has succeeded,
without even the appearance of any threatening ivea-'
ther, and seems now to be steadily fired.
The raw wet weather that prey ailed. during the close
of last week has proved somewhat injurious to 'the
Bengal crops of rice, now upon theground.
Accounts have been received from the coast of the
farther successes of Surcouffi, in the capture of more
of our defenceless merchant ships. Letters from*Vi-
zagapatam, dated theAst ult. give advice of the
capture of the ships Success and Fortune, both of this
port, on the 28th ult. ,the former bound from Pegue
to Bemo, with a cargo of timber, and the Fortune
returning in ballast from Madras.

Surcoulf having plundered %hese ships, and being
unable to spare hands to navk ate them, in conse-
quence of the number of prizes that he had already
made and dispatched to the French islands, determi-
ned to destroy both these latter prizes. He set fire
to the Success, and she burned to the water's edge.—
The Fortune was scuttled and sent adrift ; but having:
floated in towards Vizagapatant, she has been }lndia
ashore and secured, and will probably be refittedasithl
little loss. The commanders, officers, and sieses of
the Fortune and Success, to the number Of'7o per- '
sons, were embarked in the lonv-boat of the Fortune.',
They made the best of their way. to Vizagapatarn;
where they lauded on the Slst ult. It is now:ascer-
tained, from the date of these captures, that.the dar--
ing adventurer, who thus insulted our coasts,
ancFcarried off a number of our most valuable ships,
has continued very near:), on the same station, but a
few leagues front the coast, and not more than SOO
miles fro:n Madras, upwards of 30 days.
letter from Capt. Holford, comman-
ding at Granjam, dated the sth inst. communicates
intelligence of the recapture of the brig Experiment,
Capt. Cripps.
The Experiment sailed from Rangoon for Cal-
cutta in August last. In her passage across the bay
on the 2`2d August, she fell in with, and was captu-
red by the Semeillante French frigate. Capt. Cripps
was renioved.on board the Semeillante, and.a Prize-
' Master; with four or five Frenchmen were put on
board' the Experiment, with orders to make the best
of their. way to the Mauritius. On the 20th October,
the Lascars, headed by the Serang. took a favourable
opportunity to attempt to retake the vessel. in which
they happily succeeded, and made the Frenchmen
conduct her to Granjam, where they safely arrived
on the 4th inst. Several of the Captains and Officers
of the lately-captured ships, who were landed on the
coast, have retupned by land to Calcutta.

Extract of a letter from Mr. Manesty, British agent,
at Bagdat :
" It is really wonderful how safely I have conducted all the'
commercial concerns under my management, and you will re-'
joice to learn that the result, in consequence of the revolution,
which, at Bagdat, on the lath ult. deprived the Paella of life, will
be, according to all reasonable calculation, administrative of tran-
quillity and consequent encouragement of trade in this country.
The Bacha was murdered by a t;eorgian fiutourite, who hid CON.
nected himself with a person of the name of Neseef Aga, thel
head of a party long inimical to the Bitches Gbvernment ;and on
the day succeeding his death, his assassin and Neseef Aga were
Main by the Bacha's nephew, who immediately assumed the Go-
vernment, and must be confirmed in his uncle's high and distin-
guished office from Constantinople.
" Thus the Bacha and Neseef Aga, the heads of the long-con-
tending parties at Bagdat, have both fallen. Strife, animosity,
and struggle for power, have ceased with their existence, and the
Dacha's nephew, now Soloman Dacha, is a young man of supe-
rior merit and liberality. I am on the best terms with him and
his Governor here, Selini Aga, and, since the Bacha's death, hive
rendered him essential local services."

Nov. 28.—Dispatches were received on Thursday
from the Right Honourable Lord Caledon, Governor
of the Cape of Good Hope, and from Rear-Admiral
Stirling, dated the 6th and 7th of September, giving
an account of the *arrival of the Admiral in Simon's
Bay, on the Ist of September, with his Majesty's ships
Diadem and Raisonahle, and Paz schooner, together
with six transports, having on 'board the 47th and
87th 'Regiments, from the Rio de la Plata, after an
unsuccessful attack upon Buenos Ayres.

BOMBAY, OCT. 25.

Colonel Macquarrie was at Anselly on the Caspian
Sea, on the•2sth of June last, charged with dispatches
for our Sovereign from the King of PersiA.

NAVAL APPOINTMENT6.-.—His Excellency Bir
En-
WARD NUM has recently madp the following
motions in his Majeft'. Squadron: C4ptain
of the Rattlesnake, to temporary command of his
Majesty's ship Powerful ; Lieut Flint, of the Culla
dent, to be commander of the Rattlesnake; Capt.
Wells, of the Victor, to the temporary command of
the Dinican ; Lieut. Groubg, of the Culloden, to be
Commander of the Victor ; Lieut. C. Owen to be
ComMander in the Navy, and Governor pf Madras
Hc4pital ; Mr. W. B. D4shwoo-4 to bg fieulenant
of the Culloden; Mr. C. Pantin to be ditto of the
Powerful • Nr. E. Bingham to be ditto of *ditto.