Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-11-18
CALCUTTA PAPERS.

To the capture of Rangoon will excite
CT acern 10 the breasts of many
persons than her aequsintance, The
latest adyices mentioned by the Cal
cutta editors, lsf, the Burmese troops
at Ramon, estimsted at from eighi to
fifteen thoasand They do no appear
TO have assembled at any Iime In great
er number. The Calcutta 6cotsmsn,
of eSth June mentions that AN over.
wheiming force was 10 preparation TO
sc, a~gaipst then. Except The occaps
ton of Rsngoon. no importsps eve''
had been automatically stated. |
skirnishss between the British andthe
enemy, the latter sesass to have To-
verted, uni ormly. the rule oase
that trusts his toet. whose HANDS are
armed
paneoen was taken on he lat May.
The British commander says I'D MS 81.
| iicial despatch.
II had the saiisfs elton Of seeing the
Brush flag flying in the 'own. w'th0o'
the troops having bad occasion 10
d,schasge . single mnsket u with.
OUT my having occasion TO regret
The loss of q single indisidoal, k''ieo or
w.,nded. 90 our side. The news oi
o,r arrival in ,he river having reached
Rangoon the, preceding night and our
rapid progress up in the morning being
marked by an occasional shot 10 sh-
,wer TO the fire from the Chok'es, to.
gether with the preparation OF The bur-
mese authorities for defence, threw the
,,bab ,ts nts into such q state of conster.
nation AZ TO caose q general flight 10
every direction towards The juDglos, 60
much so that out OF q large population
| do not think that ono hundred men
were found in tho town on our taking
posse sion OF it
The members of the government
! hed at the irst shot, carrying with them
seven out of eleven Europeans, whom
they had ordered to be imprisoned aud
put in irons. The next day the whole
seven were found safe in different pla-
ces OF confinement, their guards having
fled at our approach. The captured
ordnance far exceeds 10 number any
thing No supposed he country to pos-
sess, although. generally speaking, t is
! OF a bad description
Onthe 9Th June. the Reverend Chris
tian David. the first natiOe clergyman,
performed the church duty IN For' Wn.
liam, Calcutta.
From a Calcutta paper Of 3oh June.
We be- To direci me attea,lOn OF our
readers. to an interesting letter, with
which we have been favored. from Ms.
! HouRb, (the wife of the A..erican Mis-.
slonary at Rangoon, who was dePused
by the Burmese to negotiate terms,) ad
dressed to her daughter, a young lacy,
at the seminary OF Mrs. LA aid
Mrs. Pearce, in Calcutta The affect
ing, vet ~artiess simplicity of the de'aiI
cannot fail to interes, every reader and
to carry conviction that the horrors OF
the scene II describes, are faithfully de.
picsed.
.RANGoos, May Ia. ls2f.-The En-
| glsh nave taken RsngooD, and we thro'
much mercy, are spared TO tell you The
joyful news. l thought, three days q
go. that by this lime you would have
been an orphan. Monday. 10Th, news
of the arrival Of the English feet at the
mouth O the river, was brought to Ran.
COON, out we could GOT believe it. not
that we thought j, impossible. bot we
have been often deceived with idle re.
ports. and pla, 60 no dependence on any
thing we heard. Nea'iy all the En-.
gl,sh gentlemen were dining in Ian.
sang's "a Spanish gentieman's) garden
and before they had finished their din.
nsr, hey were conseyed 10 the Kings
godow0 aud confined in cbaiDs We
thought toat Mr. though and Mr. Wsde
would escape, being Americans. but
while we were q tea, q Kings linguis'.
with about l2 men, escorted them TO
the godowps ard put them with the
other foreigners. Our servants nearly
all took the slasm, and Mrs Wade and
myself spent a sleepless and wretehed
n ght in tits loneiy place, with only
four servants in the house with US.
*Moung sheva bs kept by US, and
prayed with us, which was no small
consolation. The other Christians went
off. Tue. day morning. we sent NJ.
| Wade and Mr., Hough some breakfast
and hoped for a line or two but they
were not permitted to write. wrote
10 Mr SarkIs begging Dim to use his
influence with the government, to have
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