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entire, as it is ciistoniary with other Orientals. The fleet
of war•boats carries from forty to fifty rowers each,
armed with a sword and ai. lance. Thee boats, 500 in
number, form a considesige gait Of the Bit man force ;
each cart ies thirty soldier:tensed with 'muskets, and a
piece of ordnance in the prow. tt
The population of the Berman ensplre Is estremely
fluctuating. The means of subsistence and materials
for a habitable abode are so easily procured in tropical
countries, that the lower orders of inhabitat ts hare a
greater facility of withdra‘,ing from oppression than in
colder regions less favoured by nature. ,Hence the large
and frequent emigrations into the neighbouring Stated
which occur in different parts of Asia ; hence, likewise
the numbers who have within the last twenty years
passed the eastern frontier of Bengal, and established
themselves in any places which they found unoccupiedt
The Barman territories were said, in 1795, to contain
8,000 towns and villages, and the whole number of tht
people was estimated at 17,000,000 by Colonel Byrnes;
but a few years afterwards that estimate was reduced to
e,p00,000 by Captain Cox; and in the year 1809, nett
the latter number appeared greatly to exceed the truth.
Many' large towns had been reduced to paltry villages,
and even the bants.of the Erawadi had been abandoned .
by most of their inhabitants.
Rats, silence, and solitude, had, even in the neigh-
bourhood of the capital, replaced the crowded villages
and fleets of trading boats, which so lately shewed the
resources and industry of the people. Many of these
wretched beings were dragged from their homes and
publicly sold, to satisfy the exorbitant demands of the
Government; while the Members of the British Embassy
were continually solicited to purchasi children whose
mothers had no means of supporting them, and whose
fathers had been forced to join the Imperial army. The
oppressive mode of raising these levies was indeed one
of the principal causes of the deplorable condition to
which this empire had been reduced. Rebellion, in
different districts, was the necessary consequence of
such a state of things; and it, of course, materially in-
creased the horrors whictreeerywhere prevailed. Capt.
Canning, the Ambassador to the Court of Ava, at that
period, was informed that the number of registered
houses did not exceed 400,000, which would-not give a
population of 8,000,000, for a country which coofd
easily maintain More than 80,000,000 inhabitants.
• The conduct of some of these emigrants, the Mom is smog-
the causes of the hostile feeling of the Bit-mese towards as.
THE GREEKS AND TURKS.

MARSEILLES, JUNE JUNE I 1 6. -
We yesterday* received news from Alexandria, in
Egypt, which come down to the 22d May, and affirm
positively that people continued still to speak of the
embarkation of the Viceroy's troops; but that nothing
'certain was known on the subject, no troops having yet
arrived in the neighbourhood of Alexandria. The corps
which it was said was to be commanded II Ibrahim
Paella, was encamped some leagues from Cairo, and
at Mat time !'least was not making arty prep.rrations
to break up. Ibrahim was with his lather at a country
house near Cairo. It was affirmed, besides, that the
troops to be embarked were not to be conveyed to the
Morea or placed at the disposal of the Turkish Govern-
ment, but that they will go to Candia, where there is
already a strong corps of Egyptian troops, to which all
the advantages are to be ascribed that the Turks have
hitherto gained in that island.
Farther it is stated in these letters, that the corps In-
tended-0v embarkation does not exceed 6,ooo'men, and
that theatotild be no idea of projects against Grace
till &idle Is' who* subdued, In which these trot** ire
id'iiilet. We have no certain inforaration respetiltig
die Tuttish fleet under the Capitan Pacha: Hoviiver,
it hut not , yet appeared near the Peloponne.sus, or at
the entrance of the Egean Sea ; it 'MI loitered ;about
Negropont, where it is said to have lost some vessels.
Accounts brought by vessels speak of a new and sue-
cessful_attempt to land near Volo. In the Peloponnesas
there was still great confusion. Colocotroni has again
renewed hostile measures against the Central Govern-
ment ; but it was not believed that he acted in concert
with the Turks. The unhappy differences that exist
17 might, however, be very fatal to the Greeks, if the
Turkish operations were conducted with judgment and
energy, which seems to be by no means the case.
M. Dronot has now taken the command of the French
navalforce in the Levant, instead of M. de Rigny, who
has returned to Toulon.— Allgemeine Zeitung, July 11.
INUNDATIONS IN BOHEMIA AND SAZONV.

PRAGUE., JULY s.
After thirty-siz hours' rain, commencing On the 26th
of June, the waters of the Moldau, near our town, rose
to a prodigious height; they were only two feet and a
half short of the height to which they rose at the time
of the breaking up of the frost in 1784.; but, as at that
period, they were only increased to that extent:lly an
enormous mass of ice, the swelling of the river now
must be considered greater than the one at that period.
The Moldau has not only impetuously broken over its
own banks, but it has penetrated into the heart of the
town, many of the streets of which it has inundated.—
An immense quantity cf timber has been torn along by
the violence of the waters from the princii.ahties of
Schwartzenburg and Furtzenburgh.
The rivers of Beraun, Miess, Sasawa, &c. hive made
equathavoc, and their surface was so covered with wood
that the water could scarcely be seen. Whole rafts,
mote than fifty boats laden with timber, an in.men:e
quantity of various kinds of goods, even some roofs
of houses covered with men, besides carts drawn by
'oxen and horses, 'floated under the bridge of this town.
—A small portion of these were stopped Leta eeu the
arches, but the remainder was borne along further, and
either broke or thrown over the banks into the fields and
roads. Near the Hotel of the Invalids, and in the vil-
lages of Lieben and the Holzschowits, several boats n et e
stopped, and a great quantity of wood was taken out of
the water: among the rest, at Lieber, near a forge,
'before which an arm of the Moldau passes, the esd
accumulated to such a height that the water conki not
force it further: an empty boat was even carried byTthe
violence of the torrent over the roof of a house, wtich
it completely drove in. Accounts of similar digisten
ate at this moment received from all parts of Bien246