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each from the Shaum Province. Only twobad obeyed
the summons, bringing in all about 1,500 men, who
deserted daily, it the rare of forty or fifty a day. Some
head Officers had been put in irons for. recommending
Peace. Large sums rf money were offered to soldiers
to enlist, but with little effect. None of the Chiefs from
Arracan, Donabew, or Prome,- had dares! to appear at
Court. The Uitawbun Ylaungee, from Arracan, with
about 800 men, was at Challis. The Prince of Sara-
wuddy, together with the Pleawoon, and Mah-woung-
note, had gone to Mainlah. The Keewnonghee was at
Mahoon; Mall Silwah, Kheeow, and K acotv n Bo,were at
Patnago; and the Uttiaman, from Prome, was at Kado,
with very few adherents, most of those who marched
from Prome having dispersed.
Another deposition was made by. a sepoy of the 3d
company Chittagong Provincial Battalion, named
Takecr Mahomed, who had been made prisoner by the
Burmese. He stated that the prisoners were distributed
among the Chiefs as slaves. On the arrival of the news
of the capture of Prome, an order was issued to send
these slaves in irons to Stumm; but the Chief, whose
slave he was, suffered him to escape, about the 3d of
May. -On his way to Promo he did not see a single
Burmese soldier, except a party of about three hundred
with the King's brother, three days march from Prome.
He also speaks to the general consternation on the news
of the death of the Bundoolah. The King exclaimed,." I
have lost half of my body." Preparations were made for
abatainini Ummerapo"ra. in case use English should
approach it. A large boat was constructed for convey-
iug away the celebrated White Elephant. The King
meant to retreat to a fort in the Province of Shaum,
150 or 200 miles from Ava.
The witness says, that Mrs. Judson, the American
A/issionary's wife, was permitted to' remain in her house.
unmolested ; but her husband was in a prison in irons.
She was permitted, however, to visit him and to send I
him food.
_

MUNIPOOR, Son'l4, 11145.
TO COL. R. !MEMNON, QUARTZR-MASTZII-GENERAL Or

TIM ARMY.
Stn—Lieutenant Brown's letter of the 12th ult. will
have apprised you of my having volunteered to attempt
reaching Munipoor, accompanied by Gumbear Sing,
and a detachment rom his levy.
I have now the honour to inform yea, for the infor-
mation of his Excellency the Commander in Chief, that
the Brigadier• General commanding the Eastern Divi-
sion, having sanctioned the proposal, I left Sylhet on
the 7th ult. accompanied by Gumbeer Sing, expecting
to reach Banskandy by the direct route of Goobabgung,
Byragie Bazar, &c. but on arriving at the former village
the road was found impracticable from the heavy rains
that bad fallen for several preceding days, and it became
necessary to adhere to the left bank of the Barat river,
by which circuitous route we reached Banskandy on
the 23J. The following day was employed in making
the necessary preparations for the march, and, on the
25th, the force, consisting of 600 muskets, under the
personal command of Gumbeer Sing, crossed the Cheree
Nullah, passed the low swampy ground in the vicinity.of
Luckipoor, and after traversing a range of hills, north
of the Barak, encamped on the borders of the forest,
west of the Jeree Nullah.
2. From this Nullah commences the ascent of the
numerous and irregular ranges of bills, extending with-
out a Single interval 'of level ground for eighty, miles,
to the valley of Munipoor. I have the pleasure to
annex a list of the few Nisi villages in dna, route, all
of which are situated on, or aear the most lofty points
or the differeat ranges, and the various places at which
we halted : as. F. M.
From Banskandy to Tookina Nullah . 11 S 80
Jaye Nullal . • . e: 7 204
Mogktoo ditto 11 4 0
Village of Kala Nap • $ 7 73
Barak Nulla • . • . • * 4 4 177.
East side of Kamboont . .. . 7 0 0
Nootiba . ' ' 1 7AS
Tdoomiton Koons . • . . 3 7 5
Right bask of Ening Nash - . . 4 1 pp
Village of Avian 'cool . . . 3 514$
Eryso Nullab • • • $ 4 0
Village of Noonie . . . - • 3• 5 143
Left bank of Eyee . .. . . 5 0 163
Valley of Munipoor . • • 10 .11,197
Toyin and Stockwie et • • • 11 0 S
4 ,

Total perambulator distance .

96 8 11

3. Our progress had been considerably retarded by
rain, and on reaching the-village of Moonjerionldo, on
the Ist instant, we were compelled, from the same
cause, to halt for three days, in which time the provi-
sions became exhausted, and from that period, to the
day •we entered Munipoor, the men had but a scanty
and precarious supply of bad rice, obtained at most
exorbitant rates, from the *Nagas of the different vil-
lages through hich we passed. To these deprivations,
Gumbeer'Sing's men, composed entirely of Munipo-
?cans, SubMitted without the slightest. appeafanie of
dissatisfaction,' and cheerfully continued to advance,
though constant rain had so much swollen the nullalis
th .t it was necessary 'to
,throw bridges over the three
principal ones, the Eirritt,"Egee, and TOObut, the
timber fOr which *ii, it each instance,'clit immediately
after marches rem.lered 'peculiarly harassing from the
snotintalMtus nature Of ;lie count'r'y traversed.
4. On ihetarce marched &Mil the
left. bank of the ENYee commenced the as-
cent of the hills'fOrMing tt western bo:Mdary to the,
valley of Muni t.. eartiei had been previously de. '
cached to take possesSions of two Naga villages, one on
either flank, in Which the Burmahs had stationed pickets,
twelve miles in advance of the town. At three P.m.
Op village of Koongakool, on the left, was reached by
one of the parties, and a few of the Burmahs captured ;
the other party was equally successful at Miangkoenow,
where a large portion of the enemy was killed, and
some taken. The men were so much exhausted by the
day's march and want of food that it was necessary to
halt, althongb, at such a crisis, rapidity of advance was
most advisable.
5. At two o'clock, r.sc. on the llth, while attempts
v:ere Making to ,obtain a small supply of rice for the
men, from the few neighbouring villages, information
w•rs received that the Burmahs had evacuated the

stockade in the town, and we took possession of it the
Thllowing dAy. Everything.of value had been carried
off, and nothing was found in the stockade but a few
.muskets, two iron guns, and about one hundred and
twenty maunds of rice in husk. The enemy, consisting
of six hundred fighting men, and as many followers, re.
treated ip a somberly direction; and information being
yesterday given that they had steckaded tbtuiselves at
a village called Undre, about ten miles distant, Gang.
bger S.ng and myself, with two hundred men, went in
pursuit of them. On reaching the Ena islullah, six miles
distant, we found that the ,enemy had again retreated,
and.subsequent intelligence proving that they had alto-
wakes left the district I returned to lklunipoort and


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The acquittal of the two Journalists who have so
long been under prosecution at the instance of the
French Government, for their alleged tendency to decry
the Romeo Catholic Religion, is an event of some im-
portance at this moment. Unlike all other public of-
fences, which in France„ as well as in this country, are
tried before a Jury,the political misdemeanours of Jour-
nalists are exclusively determined by the Judges of the
Cour Royale, who alone are entitled to pronounce as to
the law and fact. Before such a tribunal, appointed
by the Kirto, an acquittal from an accusation pre-
ferred by the Government, and prosecuted with all
its power and influence, is an event of rare oc-
currence in France, and demonstrates the progress
of freedom, nq less than the ascendancy which
public opinion has acquired in tkat country, better
than any. other evidence which could be adduced.—
The judgment of the, Court was delivered by the first
.President, M. Sxoutan, the eldest brother of tho.much
respected individual whO for so many years has filled
the office of Consul-General of Fiance in this country.
Two remarkable points are established by this decision,
of the highest importance to civil and religious liberty.
Ist. That 'the malevolent intention or otherwise of a
political writer is to be inferred, not from any •ne
or more unguarded expressions detached from the
context—nor from any one or more improper sen-
tences picked out,- from his works, but from the
general tendency of his writings on the whole, in-
cluding a series of essays 'during a considerable time.
2d. The Law of France is declared to be in accordance

with the declaration.of 102, that the Gallican C.surels
is in no respect under papal authority or jurisdiction.
Of this precedent we would sincerely exhort the Ro-
man Catholics of Ireland and England to profit. If
they would place their religious tenets in like manner,
under the rule of their own Clergy, free from foreign
domination, a great step.towards the removal of ciril
disqualifications would, have been taken ; and a still
greater step towards the same object, Would be to dis-
avow, in the most solemn and public manner, the insane
proceedings of the Dublin Association.

Mr. PLVNIZTT, in a letter to the Fertsanagh
Catholics, explicitly informs them, that it is mere
folly to expect' they will succeed in their claims by any
other means than conciliating the good will of their