Star.
London, England, 1824-07-17 00:00:00

WAR IN INDIA.

IPROH THE CALCUTTA GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
FORT WILLIAM, FRIDAT, MARCH 5, 1524.
PROCLAMATION,
RT THE RUM HONOURABLE THE 009ZENOR.GENERAL rlf COUNCIL.
46 The conduct of the Burmese having compelled the
British Government to have recourse to arms in sup-
port 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.
el The Governor-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 Honourable East India Company a friendly in-
tercourse has long subsisted, to the great advantage of
both pal ties, and with which the British Government
has invariably sought to cultivate and maintain the re
lations of amity. _ _

" During many years past, the Burmese Officers
governing the country contiguous to our south-east
frontier, have from time to time been guilty of acts of
encroachment and aggression, which the British Govern-
ment would have been fully justified in repelling by force.
" Solicitous, however, to preserve with all nations the
relations of peace, the British Government bas consi-
dered it to be, in an especial manner, its duty to make
large allowances for the peculiar ciicumstances and
character of the Burmese Government and people. The
consciousness of its power to repel and punish aggres-
sions, has strengthened the motives of forbearance to-
wards a nation removed, by their geographical situa-
tion, from the immediate circle of our political rela-
tions, and with whom (as we have no opposing interests)
the Supreme Government sought only to maintain a com-
mercial intercourse on terms of equality and freedom
conducive to the welfare and prosperity of both counties.
" So long, therefore, as the aggressions of which the
British Government had to complain, could be treated
as the unauthorized acts of the subordinate officers of
the Burman Government, and could be tolerated con-
sistently with the national honour and the security of
the British territories, the Supreme Government sedu-
lously endeavoured to preserve unimpaired the existing
relations of peace and friendship, notwithstanding pro.
vocations which would have fully justified, and from a
State more formidable in position and resources would
have imperiously demanded, a resort to arms.
" Trusting that the motives of its conciliatory de-
meanour could not have been misunderstood, the British
Government persuaded itself that the Government of
Ava, however extravagant in its pretensions, must have
been no less desirous than 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 general desire
to preserve the blessings of peace, so our forbearance
would not be carried beyond the limits where it ceased
to be compatible with the safety of our subjects, the in-
tegrity 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 and 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 patty of British sepoys, to seize and imprison
British subjects, to avow extensive schemes of mischiev-
ous aggression, and to make hostile preparations on 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 Shapuree, the Burmese Chiefs of Arracan, in a time
of profound peace, and without any previous attempt
at negotiation on the:part of their Government, at-
tacked, under cover of night, a small guard of British
troops stationed on that island for purposes 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 explanation and atone-
ment, which it was of course the duty of .the' British
Government instantly to prefer, but which was made
in the same spirit of conciliation which bad always chit-
racterized our communications with the Court of Ava.
On the contrary, the Burmese local authorities have
distinctly declared the determination of their Sovereign
to invade the British dominions, unless their groundless
claim to Shapuree is unequivocally admitted.
" Subsequently to 'the attack on the island of Sha-
pnrce, the commanding officer and several of the crew
of the Honourable Company's, schooner Sophia were

insidiously enticed on shore, and carried into the inte-
rior by the order of commissioners specially depumd to
Arracan by the Burmese Court, mid although subse-
quently released, they have been sent back without any
explanation or apology for the insulting outrage.
" The Burmese Generals on the north-east have, at
the same moment, advanced their troops into the coun-
try of Cachar, and occupied a post within only five
miles of the frontier of Sylhet, notwithstanding that
they were distinctly warned by the British authorities
in that quarter, that the petty State of-Cachar was un-
der the protection of the British Government, and that
the movement of their troops must be regarded as an
act of hostility to be repelled by force. In both quar-
ters the Burmese Chiefs have publicly declared their
determination to enter the British territories in pursuit
of alleged offenders against the Government of Ava,
and have avowed intentions of open hostility as the al-
ternative of our refusing to comply with their unjust
and utterly inadmissible pretensions.
" Whilst occupying their threatening position on the
British frontier, the Burmese Generals planned more-
over the conquest of Jynteea, another chiefship situated
similarly with Cachar, in regard to the district of Syl-
het, and which having formerly been restored by the
British authorities to the family of the reigning Rajah,
after a temporary convulsion, had been more distinctly
recognised as a dependency of Bengal. They called on
the Rajah 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 Bri.
tish troops frustrated the execution of their hostile design.
" The deliberate silence of the Court of Amerapoora,
as well as the combination and extent of the operations
undertaken by its Officers, leave it no longer doubtful
that the acts and declarations of the subordinate autho-
rities are fully sanctioned by their Sovereign, and that
that haughty and barbarous Court is not only deter-
mined to withhold all explanation and atonement for
past injuries, but meditates projects of the most extra-
vagant and unjustifiable aggression against the Bri-
tish Government.

The Governor-General in Council, therefore, for
the safety of the subjects, and the security of our
dis-
tricts, already seriously alarmed and injured by the ap-
proach of the Burmese armies, has felt himself impe-
ratively called on to anticipate the threatened invasion.
The national honour no less obviously requires that
atonement should be had for wrongs so wantonly in-
flicted and so insolently maintained, and the national
interests equally demand that we should seek by an ap-
peal to arms, that security against future insult and ag-
gression which the arrogance and grasping spirit of the
Burmese Government have denied to friendly expostu-
lation and remonstrance.

" With these.views and purposes, the Governor-Ge-
neral in Council has deemed it an act of indispensable
duty to adopt such measures as are necessary to vindi-
cate the honour of the British Government, to bring
the Burmese to a
sittst sense of its character and rights,
to obtain au advantageous adjustment of Our eastern
boundary, and to preclude the recurrence of similar in-
tuit and aggression 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 objectsl
abovementioned can be accomplished without carrying
the war to extremities. But to whatever length the
Burmese Government may render it necessary to pro.
secute hostilities, his Lordship in Council relies with
confidence on the justice of our cause, on the resources
of the Government, and on the approved valour of our
troops for the early and successful termkpation of the
contest.
,4 By command of the Right Honourable the Governor-General
in Council, •s GEORGE SWINTON, Sec. to Government."
SYLHET FRONTIER.—The latest reports from the
ttoops in the field enable us to add, that the Burmese
lost in killed and wounded between four and five hun-
dred men in the attack on the stockade at Daoodputlee,
and that they evacuated it a few days after, and were
retreating on Munnipore. The Hill Chiefs, we under-
stand, have given assurances of their disposition to ha-
rass and annoy them in their flight.
Lieutenant-Colonel Innes, who arrived at Juttrapore
on the evening of the 27th ultimo, and took command
of the troops, was to proceed in pursuit of the Bur-
mese on the 28th.

SOUTH AMERICA.

---.40.....
FROM THE NEW YORE PAPERS.
NEW YORK, JUNE 19.

Accounts from Laguayra to the Ist instant mention
the arrival there of a number of vessels, prizes to El
Vencidor, owned by Commodore Daniels, captured off
the coast of Spain, and valued at 250,000 dollars. A
Dutch frigate had arrived there with a Commissioner.'
The ports had been opened for sixty days from May,
for the admission, free of duty, of corn, rice.
COLOMBIAN REPUBLIC.—The report of a revolt at
Laguayra, against the Government of Colombia, turns
out to be a fabrication. k quarrel, no uncommon oc-
currence, had taken place between the mule-drivers
and porters which called for the interference of the
police. This, it is supposed, was mistaken for an in-
surrection by some one imperfectly acquainted with the
Spanish language. We rather think that the report
originated in an anxious desire, which some have fre•
quently evinced, of exaggerating every vague rumour
that relates to reverses sustained by the Patriots.
_ _

The Kingston (Jamaica) Public Advertiser of the 28th
ult. contains accounts from Panama of the 27th of
April, relative to the affairs of Peru, of a gratifying na-
ture. A proclamation had been issued by Bolivar,
calling on the Peruvians to be firm, and assuring them
that 10,000 Colombians were ready to assist them in
establishing their liberty, notwithstanding the plots of
their enemies, no less than five of which have been de-
tected in the same number of months. The head-quarters
of the Colombian-Peruvian army was at Truxillo on
the 27th of March, and the advanced part of the same
army was at Pativilca on the 20th of March. The
Patriots amounted to 8,000 effective troops, and 8,000
more from Panama and Guayaquil, all veterans, withl
an extra supply of 4,000 muskets, were about to rein-
forte the Liberator. The Royalists were 10,000 strong,
of all classes and nations, .badly supplied with arms.
The primary cause of appointing Bolivar Dictator
appears to have arisen from a suspicion attached to the
Marquis Torte Tagle, President of the Congress of Peru,
who bad since justified this suspicion by following the
example of Riva Aguero, in consequence of which the
Liberator had proclaimed him a traitor. It this
same Marquis, it seems, who excited the black troops in
Callao to revolt.. With his usual promptitude, Bolivar
had cautioned the Peruvians against confining so many
prisoners, mostly officers, at Callao, as he had once lost.
Puerto Cavell° by a similar treason. By these accounts,

all apprehensions as to the safety of the P.►triot early in
Peru are completely removed, and the most confident
expectations excited that their efforts will, ere long, be
crowned with complete success.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1824.
THE FUNDS.

STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Consols opened this morning at 931 for August Account, with
little doing, except in settling Accounts. Up to this hour they are
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