East Indies.
The Times, 1824-11-24T00:00:00

By tlhe General Palzer, arrived in the6 Doi,ns;1ices from Madras to the 1st of Augtust have becn reqaived. This vessel has mtade a remarkably quick passage both out and home, liaving perrormed the vovage to Madras and back in ei-ght montlis and tbrec dlays. The drought which has been mentioned as prcvaiiiing in tlii-i pljace still coziti- mued; there had been no rain for many ionths, an( seri- ous apprelhensions of a famine werc eniertained. Accounts had remwhed Madras from Calcttta up to the 19th of July. In the extracts from the papers from tihat Preaideney ivhich are annexe(d, 'will be fottui the of- ficial account of an attack on a stockade at Kimmen- dine, by the troops under Sir A. Campbell, andit also a reTort froin the officer in- conirnanit at thW takhig of Cbe- duxba, which proves to have been 'a more arduous affair than was at first stated. Great efForts were miakingat MIadras to send(i reinforcemnents ro the army acting against the Bur!uese. One brigade,mrider-Colonel Fair, had sailed for Chittugwigy and sevOral-of the native regiments at fa.ras were under or,ers to be prepared to march. at a monvenetp n6tiee. They were enca-iped about nine miles from AladrasinartAie ArtilTery cantbnments, Theo4th and 69th Regimebts Wvire under similar ortders. The follovhmg. is an extract Qf a lbtter, dated . Ma&ras; July 30:- '" As6 eon'x thetraifnsle over,- and tieBengal trdnpa collected at Chittagong. it in said that the vshole fore~, about 20,000 i:en, under Sir E dward Paget, will move,- oil thc Blurmese'capiial, Um- meripoora. Thc troops at Rangoom who are at least looo strong. are to eo.o1crafte-by aiing up the ltrawaddy river- We have four bligadea fi Madras tr"ops at R:nzoonai-der Brigadier-General *V. IiI?Bleat,, commanding- the ,4th Regiment; tne 41st anid 8th, Ki(ig's ofu 1st European, regilnetit; the 7th, Oth, IVth, 12th, 16tir, 18th, 43t1, and 34th Light Infantry native regiments, together with a ldrge detachment of artillery and pioneers. You will see sieoffl?ial eeeuniof wbathasacen golig on in that quarter of late, 1Ett nothling declsvelsts yet hken place, owing to thecontinued rairs. Theenem? have hadl a lesson they cannotacon forget at theseveral at- tacks at their stcckadcs; where they have uniformly sufiered ge. verd". They apptear to be a brave -race of people,. and were they slislplinedl ia a mote cornp3~le slo mtY would givo us some hard wor. A ItIs,we i~it epsc a ewmore brokcen heads beforc he wr I, oer.- Itwotid~see, tat the Barmiese bave hitherto beetitotaly indrdn of he B Itis power ; for hiis 'gldes-- footd Mjesy, n rceiingtheaccutif'-a,of.'the fanll of Rangoon, actullysentordrs t hi sevralcomsnineritto iglht the Englishi swor toswod, eethto eet, ad todrie tem nto the sea.'" (Fromn a Calcutt jtpaper.) In addition to the extra which weissued yeterely*, we ha4e re- ceived eontmunications to tlie 20thofJune. Nomilitaryoperations- have,taken pla,ce since those we then mentioned. ThewiBurmiese are quiite satisfied with whant has been given themn.onlythat they complain we do not fighit fair. In the afftitir of the 10th they lost a chtief, andt had many killed and wounded. They liave abandoned all their works, which they had erectea in, the neighbourhoodof Ratagoon,and are acting strictlvon thestarvings ytRem-prevetiting by every possi- blermeans supplies being forwarded. A fowl is nottobhe hadfor love, or money,,and the arTmy is on its own resources. These have been materiallyreduced by the troops from Madras joining. There is a sufficiency for thepurpose of the mainteniance of th~e whole, till further supplies can reach them from' this. Ships have been des- patched to Calcutta for provisions - and wve believe the wanat has beeni in some measure anticipated by 6overnmenlt. We understand that the troops will not proceed up the river till supplies are forward- ed. Nothing, we imagine, will be lost bythsatepeecofour force at thec southern extremity of the- ermpire wifl div-ert attention from the co,open4tion br rn totenrth-ward. We satedbefoe tat . e Bri-aad had arrived. Majr Thornhill and Lieutenanit Kerahlaw, who, our read.ers will recollect, were wourded at Clieduba, arc, we are bappy to aay, recovered, aind are doing duty. The following is a copy of the Gavervoren% !aelte1 Bxt raordl- nart-i issued last night : 'the following eX-tract from a despatch received from BrigadieP.Ge- neral Sir Archibald Campbell, K.C.B. and K.C.T.S., is publishe for general information:- EXTRACT OF A DESPATCIC FROM BjtIJOADIERL-GEXERAL SIR ARCHIBCALD CASIPBELL, DATrED flt6it ,IU5tE, TO GEORGE SW71INTOSf, ESQi., SECRETARY TO GOVER"XE2Jr, SECT. AND POLL. DEPT., &C.1 FORT WILLIAMI. Sir,_-Since I lat did nmyself the hionour of addressing you, Bdri gadier MV'Creagh andI the European part of the detachiment sent against Cheduba have returnied to head-quarters, having fully, exe- eutcd the orders given by me, agreeably to the instructions I had re- ceiveid from the Right Honi. the Govtroer-General in Council. The' table and satisfatctory manner in whilch Brigadier MI'Creagh carried on the opexations lntrusae.d to him, will appear by the gngoriplo report, and the reauat has been such as might have be en expectedu from the judicious arrangemnents of that experiencedP officer. Upaving completed my arrangements for striking a blow up on the enemy's force isasenibled hiere, on the morning of the lOrh inst., althouigh the weather continued most unfavourable, I moved uipon the enemy's fortified camip and stockades at Remmendinc, with about 8,000 men, four eighiteen pounders, four mortars, and some field-pieces. sending twvo divisions of vessels up the river to prevent the enemy 1rom escaning on that side. It was my inteRtion not to lose a m.n if it couhil he avoided. The enemy hadl 1ready fre- qjuently experienced the irresistible influence of the Britis8h bayonet and it was now my wvish they should also know that we had still otber and perhaps more dreadful means oi exterminating thiem in every stock-ade they might be foqnd in. The country, geason, and roads rendered the undertakinig extremely arduous, but lnot beyond the inexhaustible spirit of' such soldiers an I command. About two miles fromi town, the head of the column was stopped by a stockade apparently very strong and full of men : I ordered two heavy guins and sarine field-piecesa to open it, while the troops surrounded it on thiree sides, but the jungle was so very thick and closqe as to prevent the possibility of altogethier cutting off the gar- risonl. in less than hialf ahi hiour a considerable gap was made in thieoutward defences of the work, andl the defendants not dlarinig any -where to show thtemselyes. I ordtered a part of the AMadtras European Regimient, suipported by part of the 41st Regimnent, to charge, and thec work wras immnediately carried withi a trifling loss on our part, the enemy leaving 159 m-en deaa on the ground; Ma-Ijor Chalmers leading the support of the 41st regimrent, and one ot the first mnen in the breacit, received a woun(i in the face from a sipear, whichi I ami hiappy to say is nat dangerous. WVhile this was going on under my own eye, a very' spirited endI succesful attack was nmadc on the other side of the stockeade, by the advancedl companies of the I'thi andI 38th Regimnents, who hy assisting eacb othcr up tke fhce of the stockade (at least ten feet highi) entered about the same timie as the party by the breachi, putting every man to deathi aitlo opposed their entrance; and it affor(is mie pleasure ro statte that the first man who appeared oni the top of the work, was, I believe, Major Satle, of Hil Majesty'i 13thi Light Infantry. This poluit gained, tte colunin again moved forward niearlya imile, where ouir left was, posted, communicating with the flotilla on the river about half a miile, undter the great stockade and fortified camip: the headl of the colutmn moving uip to the righit with great toil and labour thirotugh thec thiick andi tenacious iringle, for the pur- pose of ag-Ain reachingv the river above the stockade, nnd thus com- pletely investine the enemy's great strong-holdl. I n thils I was partly disappointed. The enemyi having thrown up other works above the stockade wichie would fiave exposedI my right to certain loss, anid not being able to invest the wlhole of thec enemiy's externsive fortifica- tions, I was undler ehe necessity ef leaving about a huindred yards, between ouir right anid the river, uinoccuipied ; but as the principal work appeared full of men, animating eachi other with loud and boiisterous, checeringc, I still hioped thiey would remlain till the impres. sion f intenided had been maide. At 4 p. in. my troops were inpoi tion in mnany places withiin ahui-ndred yards of the plare ; but in all parts withi a very- thick- jungle in f'ront, ,extent(ling to the very bottom of the stockade. The night passed in erecting batteries and makinig preparations for opening the guns at day-lighit next morning ; thte enemy continiuin loud and incessant cheearing till after day.lighit in tite morninfg. The moment we hail suifficient lighit on the following day, a heavy and ivelt-directed fire was'openedi from our breaching and miortar batteries, whiceh wts kept up for ne-arly tvwo-hours,when a pa-rty advancing to obsierve the breach, foundi the enemiy, durinigtlbe cannonatde, had evacuiated thec place, carrying off their deadi and( wouindcd. The chain of posts oceupieti by tieenemy tendered flight aittalltitiie. easy,,and tie thickness of thie jungle neceisarfly.pre. venited our eabscrving whien it took place. The stockade, you will observe by the accomptanyinig plasn, Is one of great strengthl, and capable of being obstinate ly defended. It was garrisoned by the most desperate crews of the enemy's war-boats,and it caninot be detibted thatt the dreadtful estanple of the day bef'ore, and awu eIects of our opiening firinig, alone could hiave inducd men p=ssessed(a thle Burtnesc unquesteionably are) of great personal courage to give it up. The obje-ct I liad in view hias tItus b een fully acconmplish&l a general pause and terror of our seni, at present prevail airong the troops lately opposed to us, arid fromn one or two reconnoitring par. ties whiich ltave sinice been ouit, I find( that every stockiidc in taur neciglibourhoort hias been evacuatedI ; and I hiave re;-.on to thiink the encemy bagsretired to some distance from our front. I conitinue to receive evety assistance and co-opcratien from Cap. tain larryist, it. N., and the Shtips emnployed under his commiand. Gletieral Return of' Riledt, Woundled, anid Missing of the Troops comprising the Expedition untier thie Comimand of Brigadier-Ge- neral Sir Areliibald Campbell, K.C.B., servingz against the Domi-i niions of thec Kiting of Avat, from thec 1st to thec 16th June, 1824. JUNE 3. I824-e-O3IN stSIONED OFI'~CERS. Miadras European Reg1ment-WVoundcd, I Captain anti I Lieu- tenant. Hlis lUa a yvs 13thi Light Infatitry.-WVounthedi, I lieutenant. His Ilajsy' 31th Foot.-Wounnded. I lietutenant. His Majesty's; 41st Foot. I maj or. lladras European Jtegiment. Woundcd, I lieuteniant. NON-COlM1t3StONgn IIANKt AND FILE. Hlit Majesty's 38th Reginietit.-Wounded, I ranik mind tile. His Majiesty's -flit Reginient.-Wourided, 9 rank and file. Artillery.-'mVotininrti, I sergeant. or havildlar, andI I rank anid hile. Madras Eutropean Regiment.-KCilled , 2 sergeants or hmavmrldare antd 7 rank anti file ; woundetd, 2 sergean ts or liavildlars, anti 31) rank anti file. 1,st Battalion 3d1 Regimient Native Infanitrv'.-Woundled, 2 rank anti file. 2d Ditto, 8th D)itto.-WVrundled, 2 ranik and file. Ist Battalion gth Regioenen Nattive Infiantry.-Woundcd, 2 acr- geant.s or havildars. 2i'1 Battalion 10th Reginient Native I nfaniry.-Killed, I rank anti tile ; woundted, 3 ranik and- tile. PiOnCeTr.-Killed, I rank and tile ; wouindedl, 2 rank andl file. His Alajesaty's 13thi Light lnf'antry.-Killcd, 1 rankc and file; wouindedt, 10 rankc anti file.I His Mlajesty's 38thi Foot.-Killed, I rank andl file ; woundled, 8 rank anid ile. His M1ajesty's 4lat root.-Wounded, 22 rank and file. Aladraus Europeanm Reginient.-KilIed, I sergeanit; woutidlcd, 2 sergemantut or hiavildars, andl 6 rank and( file. Igt Battalion 22dl Native Inliantry.-WVouuided, 2 rank and file. NAT'IVES ATTACHIED. Rhtecstees.-Killed, 1 wouinded, ististrees, I ; bearers, 6; guni las;cars, 4 ; findAslS. I. Trotal.-Gotinniss6ioncd officers, wounded, 6; non-commissigioned, rank andl file, killedi, 14 ; wounded, 105. Natives attaclhed.-KillIcd 2; wounded, 11. REatARxS.-IHiS Majesty's 13th Light Infantry; name of ofi-i cer woundedl, Lieutenant James Petry, slightly. His 1,a.iesty's 38thi Foot; naame of officer woundled, Lieutenant Henry GIrimes, slightly. m fofce one,Itao .L His Mfajcstv's 41sit Foot;nanofofcrwuddAij 1.L Chambers, sev-erely, not dangerously. Madras European Regimient ; names of officers wounded, Captain Kyd,Licutetiants Stenton and Robertson, severely; not diangerously. Two inen of the A')adrns European Regimient were mlissing soon atfter the arrival of the arm), at Rangoon, anid havg not been inserted In any of the retairns, havtng beeni taken whiilst- straying frouf thecir lie atid not whilsit eng gd with thec enem Iit..l DA.G (Signel ) F. TMVlDY t.Cl.DA.G N. B. The quiantity. of' slugs inadic use of by the enemny will ac- count for great disiparity in the proportions of ktilled and wvounded. Ott board the Ilonouritble Conaipany's slm Ernerad, River Rv!ngoin,lIlIh of' Nine, 19.~4.' TKO BaIGA.DCER-rEtZsEnAL SIRt A. CAS1PBELL, &C. &e. &C. Sir,-I have the honour to report, that itn execution of the ser. vice you assign(ti me I ancliored op the eastern side of the islantd of Cheduba, with tic tratnsport A4ita Ro,hertson, In cotpsity,. on tite night of the 12th of last nionth; and tbund t4e other. transport antd lisAi aicsty's ship It1e .Sancy alreadv tWere. I immediatelv con- ferred witih Captain M1itchell, and on the 13th Liecitenmrnt Altath1gws of that ship made a bold and very intelligent reconnoissan,e up the small river on which the enemy's town is situated, afid In otir en- tire ignorance of tihe localities, his report was of eseeiftial use to me in arranging the disemxbarkationl. '- - The ships lay three m lles frotm tho shire outside of a tmud- flat which stretches parallel wi'th the land, and is nearly dry, at low wva. ter, and' thie coast on tlis side is covered with jungle ta the edge; indeed, the moath of- tIme riser is not distinguishable nt a very littlc 'distance. MVe 'movcd towvards it on the mnorning of tlte' 14t1m witF, as niany tnen as the boats would hold-200 of l Majesty's 13th Light Infantry Regiriienit, and ICP of tha 20th NatIve Infantry. , On the soutthern bank a short distance up waS in'outpost, which was inmmediately taken possession of by a small party from the leading boat,- the-Burmese retiring fromn it withouit resstani. Th river varies in breadth'from about 40 to100 yards, tie jungleon both sides extending -far into the water. About half a tile tatther tip the ground is cleared and cultivated, and the enemy became visible lining a trench'of 30i yards extelit, on tho edge of the nonthern bank, with -teir-sight flsank,d by a :bride over the rivers. They pernlttet'ouer.bottt s to range along unitlIthe headmost arrived oppo. -site thieir tight and then openul'afire of musketry and swivels, ac- conspanled by flights of arrows. . -keUanik was steep- and' some- what difficult, bitt two or- threc ma'rties of ihet h 8t wctce soon onito suurnit in. spits o(the 'eBomy.setfbtes.wllb: oppovsed hymwjthi eoibsidetale ?l&ii - i ftw minutes firing foliow " he, N ie; mainingboasts'bed-therimep, aldthey fiedi?lving 4p:wardsDf twenty ~i1i sied- sla Eiy fwonnieji Their vilige-otrt-iiicotas. mences neartheset -t whicir w7e hid p6ded, and ii ijdiately moved up thastteet ui pqrsuit;n-arrnvsPg at the enid df lt-lKiitir ~orllttet of' a mile),. WC founhd s-atoclaene; into-which thei.hdti rtifd, anti from which-they opened a fire as aoon as we appearedi. ,W4as n stare a, qbbour200 ystds each face, ttieo dtward: p1 frb1si te 20 feetlhigW, ntI cetAlanknient and a parapet witmin thK l1 ilt gateways in each face, ntid a tilple row of railir.ground the i tiro exterior; appeared t be idi good order,t,nd the fire was from4several eix pounders ad well as swivels of varioUs calibre and muskeli:. I immediately lod4ed parties at such peints close to the work'as aflorded tolerablecover; ordereA the howitier awd two or thtca ship' guns ashore, togethei'with the remlinder of the scpoys , andrj'nt, time marked efF abattery withi-a- 100 yards of their S'ronit gate*ay. Thbc weather row beeams exceedingly unfavourable, but as all gaie their rmost heaty and zealoas endertvoors.to theexecation ofwhitwhs pointed out to theti;'our want of proper materiali, implements; zind workmen was surmnounted. Repeated feints upon thIe enemy's left sufficed to tuin hisattention from our working piieMp 6on his lght, and dOriing the night of: the 16tl two ninc-poundbri cand a car. ronade on ship.carriages were. placed in the battery, the hut that masked it pulled down, and it opened in the morning, It's fire was soon deeisive on the Fateway, which having been their last thoroughf4re, was not 0o strongly embanked as the others. Having prepared some seamna qith axes and ropes to recompany the colhtnmn, I iordered it forward; it moved rapldly to its point, headed bt Major Thornhlil'A CoTmnpany of His Alajesty!i 13th I a few moments sufficed to complete the destructlon of the wounded spars, and we were s,eedily In the stockade, followed by the reserve .nderLieutemntoColenel ffatgptonof the 20th Native Tafantry. The Burmesechlefsn command was killednear ttliepoint of attack: they *tuandoned thelr interior defenees (a trench and breastwork), and fled through-thelx rear gate, leaving agreatnumber killed. Considering that throughout these little operations our invest- ment was very close, and the enemY's fire kept up withoutanyinter. mission, I am happy to say that our loss has been singularly small. Whero all evinced not- only rea4y obedjence but the utmosf zeal, it would be difficult to remark upon individ41l claims'to botice, but my thanks are due to Lieutenant.Colonel Hampton, cornutand- ing the detachment of the 20th Native Infantry, audto'Brevet.Major Thornhill, of his Mlajesty's 13th, for the manper in whiclh they and their of.icers0andp4 en fulill6ed their duties: the latter officer vras wounded by a 8peariwhile Igading ris men into the stockade. I am also mucih indebted to Lidutenant taliris, of tbe 13tl, (Brlqgqle.Ala. jor), for the active andvaluable ashatancc'hcafIorded me tbtonghout. I must do myself the pleasure to acknowledge thc cordilal co- operation that I received fronr Captain Mitchell, of His Alajesty's ship Slaney, who accomripaied me at the dixembarkation, and to whcsc rea inesa in aflbrding me every assistance his ship could sup- ply, the service was itnportantly indebted'; and the exertions of his seamea, under the inttniedlat cemtnand of Lieutenant 31atthews, in getting the guns landed add pithting in the batttery, contributed es- sentially to accelerate theeresilt, On the 19th, one esf Oitr reconnoirringI parties, under Captsin ,Ulkcn, of His Muujesty's4dthI, succeede in capturing the Rajah, who was concaled~ with tome of his followers mn the j ungle a few miles in the itterior.' It appears that of 600 Burmese, who about a month preiflous to an attack were sent over to assist n the defence of the Idsnud, little mote than 300 survived the contest un- hurt; nnd'the Chedub4ns whom theY had mustered to assist in the de. fence of the stockade have also suffered considerably, The surviv- ing Burmese pised over to the main laud. Having mae such arrangements regarding the island as circum- stanleS admitted, I re embarked the European part of mrn force in conformity with your orders and sailed with the ships Ernaod and |Antz aRobertson on the Od d?the presenttnontlh leaviRg Lieutenant- Colonel Hampton with his detachlment of the 2bth Native Infautry, and His Mltjesty's ship Slatuey, in possession, and on the most friendly understanding with the inhabitants. On the 6th we lost sight !f the islands; on the 9th we made Negrais, with the lntention of viting and reporting to you the situation of the detachment you had ordered there; biut rhe weather becomiing so threatening as to render it unadvirable to risk ships in stuck a situation, I stood on for this place, and anchored off the bar of the river this day. I enclose returTh of our killed and roonded, and ani happy to add that mnost of the latter are doing well. I have, &c. (Sigrkd)y Di. lIl'CRE,4GH, Brig..Gen. I,ist of Officers, Scamen, and Mlarines, belonging to His 31ajesty's shlp, .Yancy, Charles, IlMitchell, Esq., comnmander, who weie killed or wounded at the reduction of the island of Cheduba. John Parr, corp. mar., kiDed; John Thompson, quarter-master, wounded dangerously;, Louis Paget, able, wounded dangerously, (since dead); Bathu,t. Aathews, Ist Lieutenant, slightly; Jamles 'ILayning, boatswain, slirhtly; Edward Chamberlain, captain's steward, slightly. (Signed) C. MITCHELL, Captain. His Majesty's ship klauey, in Clieduba Roads, lfay 29, 1824. Killed, I marine; wotnded, 1 Lieutenant and 4 seamen. CiIEDUBA, MAY 18, 1824. Returnof killeh and wounded of the force under the command of Brigadier M';rcagh, C. B., from the 14th tothc 17th of Mlay, 1824, beth days inclusive. Honourable Company'a Artillery.-Wouiided, 1 gunner; I gun lascar.-Total 2. His Mi ajesty's 130i Light Infattrv.-Killcd, I rank and file; I wounded, brevet.mnajor; 1 ensign , I sergeant; I bugler; 16 rank and flle.-Total killed I, wounded 20. 2d Battalion 20thi Regimpent Native Infantry.-Killed, I rank and file; wounded, I lieutenanwt; 1 havildar ; 6 rank and file.- Total, killedl, I wounded'8. Follotwets.-XVounded, 6 lascars._Total 6b. Grand Total.-KiUed, 2; wounded, 36. (Signed) G. W. M4IJANS, Mlajor of Brigade. NAMtES OF OFFICERS WOUNDED. fHislllajesty's 13:h Light Infartry.-Brevet Major Thornhill, slightly., I 2d Bate. 20th RcgL P{nrc Inlfan.-Licutenant and Acting Ad. jutant Margrave, sevarely. RETURN OF AR31S AND ORDNANCE TAKEN IN THE EXEMY'S WOItg AT CREDUaA, SfAt 17, l824. 5 European six-pounder guns; 30 smaller guns, and swivels of various calibre;3 40 Eurpear muskets, and a few matchlocka; 12,'i261eaden ballsof various sizes; 200 six-pound shot; a few hand grenades;* 1,080 European flints. (Signed) (}. W. MALJINS, lMlajorof Brigade. By comnmand of the Governor-General in Council, GEO. SWYINTON, Secretary to Government. I'AST IIVDJIE.