Star. — 1808-04-15 (London, England)

EAST-INDISS.  CALCUTTA, Nov. ts, 1807. The south-west monsoon, which, from the violeitt'e' that usually attends its -breaking up, occasion!' Co. derable alarm to the shipping on the Coromandel coast, during the month of October, has, in theriffe' sent season, given way, without any of stormy,. disagreeable weather, that generally accompanies • that change. The north-east Monsoon has succeeded, without even the appearance of any threatening ivea-' ther, and seems now to be steadily fired. The raw wet weather that prey ailed. during the close of last week has proved somewhat injurious to 'the Bengal crops of rice, now upon theground. Accounts have been received from the coast of the farther successes of Surcouffi, in the capture of more of our defenceless merchant ships. Letters from*Vizagapatam, dated theAst ult. give advice of the capture of the ships Success and Fortune, both of this port, on the 28th ult. ,the former bound from Pegue to Bemo, with a cargo of timber, and the Fortune returning in ballast from Madras.  Surcoulf having plundered %hese ships, and being unable to spare hands to navk ate them, in consequence of the number of prizes that he had already made and dispatched to the French islands, determined to destroy both these latter prizes. He set fire to the Success, and she burned to the water's edge.— The Fortune was scuttled and sent adrift ; but having: floated in towards Vizagapatant, she has been }lndia ashore and secured, and will probably be refittedasithl little loss. The commanders, officers, and sieses of the Fortune and Success, to the number Of'7o per- ' sons, were embarked in the lonv-boat of the Fortune.', They made the best of their way. to Vizagapatarn; where they lauded on the Slst ult. It is now:ascertained, from the date of these captures, that.the dar-ing adventurer, who thus insulted our coasts, ancFcarried off a number of our most valuable ships, has continued very near:), on the same station, but a few leagues front the coast, and not more than SOO miles fro:n Madras, upwards of 30 days. letter from Capt. Holford, commanding at Granjam, dated the sth inst. communicates intelligence of the recapture of the brig Experiment, Capt. Cripps. The Experiment sailed from Rangoon for Calcutta in August last. In her passage across the bay on the 2`2d August, she fell in with, and was captured by the Semeillante French frigate. Capt. Cripps was renioved.on board the Semeillante, and.a Prize' Master; with four or five Frenchmen were put on board' the Experiment, with orders to make the best of their. way to the Mauritius. On the 20th October, the Lascars, headed by the Serang. took a favourable opportunity to attempt to retake the vessel. in which they happily succeeded, and made the Frenchmen conduct her to Granjam, where they safely arrived on the 4th inst. Several of the Captains and Officers of the lately-captured ships, who were landed on the coast, have retupned by land to Calcutta.  Extract of a letter from Mr. Manesty, British agent, at Bagdat : " It is really wonderful how safely I have conducted all the' commercial concerns under my management, and you will re-' joice to learn that the result, in consequence of the revolution, which, at Bagdat, on the lath ult. deprived the Paella of life, will be, according to all reasonable calculation, administrative of tranquillity and consequent encouragement of trade in this country. The Bacha was murdered by a t;eorgian fiutourite, who hid