Star.
London, England, 1826-01-19 00:00:00

EAST INDIES.

In a Liverpool Paper of Monday, we find the follow.
ing summary of the intelligertce received by the Crown,
Captain Pender, bringing advice: to the 28th August:
The main body of the British troops, under the com-
mand of Sir A. Campbell, remained in their canton.
ments at Prome. No general action between them and
the Burmese had then taken place, but the enemy had
annoyed our troops incessantly, by making attacks upon
them, under cover of woods and jungles in front of our
position. A number of persons had fallen ♦ictims to
this petty mode of warfare, but disease had carried off
a much greater number. The rains had been so heavy,
that the whole country was inundated. All was tranquil
at Rangoon and Arracan at the date of the last accounts
received from those places.
A dreadful mortality was raging at Calcutta whin
the Crown sailed. The chOlera morbus was carrying
off the natives by five hundred a day. The mortality
among the Europeans was comparatively trifling.—
Several ships from England, with troops, had arrived
at Madra-s. It was doubtful, however, whether they
would be sent to reinforie the army in the Burmese
territory, as, notwithstanding the mortality which had
prevailed among the British troops in that country, they
were supposed to be still sufficiently strong in number
to bring the war to a satisfactory termination.
In addition to the above, we extract the following
details from the Supplement t• the Calcutta Government
Gazette of the 22d August

—PRONIE.
The period since the cessation Of active operations to
the eastward, vn account of the rains, has been produc-
tive of various reports concernin4 the views and pre-
parations of the enemy, many of them curious :And
amusing, but none of them sufficiently authentic to be
entirely relied on. Ammg other on dits of recent
importation from Pegue, 4.000 Burmese had established
themselves at Putanagoh, a post not far from Prome.
A Burmese who fled to Ava, after the capture of
Donabew, states, that the King had particularly ques-
tioned the Chief Choo Noon.Bo, as to the certainty of
the death of the Maha Bundoolah, and the reply was
in the affirmative. It was quite impossible, he added,
to resist the force of the English either by land or
water. Choi-Noon-Bo suggested the expediency of the
King himself taking the command of the army, but
even then he expected no ether result than that uhich
had been so often experienced. Nex-. day the Golden
Feet issued orders that the whole of the ingots of silver
in his possession should be broken up and formed into
ticals. He also directed a general levy to be raised,
and that as the men arrived at headquarters, each
should receive a present of one bundled ticals, or about
nee hunched and forty rupees.
During the twenty days the Burmese who gives
this information remained at Ave, he thinks that thirty
thousand fresh men were collected, about halt the num-
ber intended to be engaged. Another newsmenger
states, that Ava contains a force of sixty thousand men,
with six hundred guns of different calibre, and fifty
thousand muskets. Whilst at Ave he heard of the cap-
ture of Arracan by the English, which put the city into
great consternation. Namine, the Commander-in-Chief,
was anxious to effect a revolution, being weary -of the
ruinous measures of the King, and the desolation which
the continuance of the war had produced throughout
the empire. He therefore represented to his Majesty that
there was a rock named Kalandoun, distant from Ave
about 18 miles, to which, if he proceeded alone, and
was able to break any part of it, his .success against the
English would be ensured. But superstitious as the
Court is, the favourites, f his Majesty suspected it to be
a trick contrived by Namine to get the Golden Feet
into a solitary place for the purpose of destroying him,
and, after seising the reins of Government, entering
into terms with the English at Prome. Upon this view
of the case, the Chief, Namine, had been trodden to
death under an elephant, by order of the King.—
And it was further said, that his Majesty wished to ap-
point the Prince of Sarrawaddy his successor, as Com-
mander in-Chief, but was dissuaded from it by one of
the women of his Palace. Main-Meean•Bo, the King's
half brother, was then nominated to the situation, with
60,000 men at his disposal, or rather 66,666, there being
something magical in the number. Among them are
said to be three female Shaum Chiefs, with 2,000
followers, whose powers are so prodigious, that by
holding up a finger on the firing of st. cannon, the ball
is turned to water !

Moon-Sho-Az,,r was in confinement at Ava, and
Laushego, the Sliahbunder of Rangoon, still in irons.
The General Wood, from IL ingoon, the 3d August,
and the Penan4 Merchant, from the same port, on the
7th, are working up below Kedgeree. No dispa.ches
have yet reached town.

Madras Papers of the 9th came in to-day. The Hon.
Company's ship Minerva has arrive-1 there, but no
mention is yet made of the Princess Chsrlotteof Wales.

SOUTH AMERICA.

=TRACT FROM THE ARGOS OF BMWS ATMS, AUG. 31.
Sunday, the 28th instant, John M. Forbes, Esq.
our ancient and good friend, was presented to his Ex-
cellency the Govern a., as Charge d'Affaires of the
United States sear this Government. His Excellency,
attended by the Inspector General, the Chiefs of the
garrison, and the President of the Camara, received
him in the saloon. Aftet the Minister of Foreign Re-
lations had introduced and presented him, Mr. Forbes
pronounced the following address:
u MOST EXCELLENT Silt—Five years ago, in the
darkest moment of an almost helpless anarchy, I task
the honour te present myself in this Hall as the
organ of the deep interest which has ever been taken b.,
the people of the United States, in the success of the
patriot cause of Spanish America, throughout all its
fortunes and its strugglei. I cannot express, Sir, the
satisfaction I now feel, when, by order, and in the name
of my Government, I come to repeat to you, in the
midst of a regenerated and happy country, the assur-
ances of a constant and most lively sympathy in every
thing which touches the honour or prosperity of the
United Provinces of La Plata.

" The Government of the United States has been the
first to assume the responsibility, and to risk the conse-
quences, of acknowledging the new Governments
formed out of Spanish America; for this priority of
movement on their part, which has tensed to accelerate
similar acts on the part of other Governments, and to
disconcert, and, at least, to postpone those of a different
character, the United States have asked nothing, nee
do they with anything but a frank and friendly inter-
Course, founded on principles of just and enlightened
reciprocity. At an early period, subsequent to 'that.
great measure, the late President of the United States.
in a message to Congress, in December, 1823, as-
serted two very important principles of law, in the rela-
tions between Europe and America. The first is, that
the American Continents are not henceforth to be con-
sidered as subjects for future colonization for any
European Powers. This declaration implies no disposi-
tion to disturb the now existing system of colonial pos.
sessions, but the principle is directed against the e.t.a-
blishment of any new European Colonies on this Cenci..
nent. T e other principle asserted in this message is,that
whilst theUtited States do not desirC to interfere with the
system of the Allied Powers in Europe, they would re-
gard as dangerous to their owsi peace and safety any
attempt to extend that syst,:m to any part of this hemi-
sphere. In the maintenance of these principles, all the
Independent Governments of America have a strong
interest, and it is hoped that the Government of Buenos
Ayres, far from disavowing, will feel the utility and ex-
pediency of assming them on all proper occasions.
44 Both the principles, solemnly declared in tiro
face of the world, were laid down alter much and
anxious deli:relation on the part of the late Cabinet of
Washington, and I a:n in.tructed to say, the present
President, who was one oh that Cabinet, continues to
coincide in that declaration.

" TltePresident has been much gratified by the Tune: al
'hobours decreed by your Excellency to the late Minister
of the United States, Air. Rodney, and the respect
subsequently strewn to his memory; and I am charged
to express his grateful sense of the friendly and delicate
attentions manifested on that melancholy occasion.
" The Government of the United States is sincerely
desirous. Sir, w cultivate and tn iintain the most friendly
relations with the Provinces of the La Plata ; and I am
instructed to keep constantly in view, and to seize
every fit occasion to give effect to this friendly policy.
I beg leay.., mo t respectfully, further to assure your
Excellency, that this ever will be, as it ever has been,
among the warmest imputes of my own heart."
His Excellency the Governor replied in the follow-
ing words ;
" The Government charged with the national exe-
cutive powers has heard, with the greatest pleasure and
satisfaction, the benevolent sentiments which the Go-
vernment of our good friend, the Republic of the United
States, has deigned to transmit through the organ of
their Charge d'Affaires.
The United Provinces of the River La Plata recol-
lect always with pleasure the act of justice which the
Republic of the United Sums has done in acknowledging
the independence of this country, and this sentiment is
always gaining new strength, as well by the cultivation
of our relations, as by the identity of the principles
which govern both Republics.
" The Government of the United Provinces knows
the importance of the two great principles which the
Hon. President of the United States has laid down in
his Message to Congress; and, convinced of the utility
of their adoption 14011 the States of the Continent, will
consider it an honourable duty to second them ; and,
to that end, to avail itself of every opportunity which
may present.
" It is particularly sa!isfactory to this Government,
that the Hon. President of the United States has named
his Charge d'Affaires in the respectable person of Mr.
Forbes, whox sentiments in favour of the independence
and prosperity of this Republic, manifested constantly
and in all circumstances, have won the love and general
goodt.ill of the citizens of this country."
The following are a few additional paragraphs from
these papers :

" BarAntoss, Decsuseis 6.
Extract of a letter from an American to his !mud in
Baltimore, dated Buenos ♦yres, Sept. 22:
" The great question between the Provinces and
Brazil, about the Banda- Oriental, remains involved in
the uncertainty of diplomatic discussion, in which, how-
ever, great hopes were indulged in the mediation of
Sir Charles Stuart, now at Rio.—But these hopes have
now nearly disapi eared, since it is ascertained that the
treaty between King John and his son Pedro, nego-
ciated by the med•atioir of Sir Charles at Lisbon, is a
complete mockery of the independence assumed by the
latter. In consequence of which, Sir Charles's chief
negotiation has entirely failed, and he is now remaining
at Rio in a private character, waiting the result of
further explanations, ping on through special messen.