security that may soon prove fatal to him. I am anxiously employed in preparing transport for the future progress of the expedition. We have already captured fifty or sixty large cargo boats, which are getting cut down and made more manageable, and are calculated, on an average, to carry a comple ment of sixty men each. The second embarkation from Madras, consisting of His Majesty's 89th regiment, and two battalions of native infantry, has arrived in the river. Extract of a Dispatch from Brigadier-General Sir Archibald Campbell to George Swinton, Esq. Secretary to the Bengal Government, dated 16th June 1824. SINCE I last did myself the honour of addressing you, Brigadier M'Creagh and the European part of the detachment sent against Cheduba have returned to head-quarters, having fully executed the orders given by me, agreeably to the instructions I had received from the Right Honourable the Governor-General in Council. The able and satisfactory manner in which Brigadier M'Creagh carried on the operations intrusted to him, will appear by the inclosed report, and the result has been such as might have been expected from the judicious ar rangements of that experienced Officer. Having completed my arrangements for striking a blow upon the enemy's force assembled here, on the morning of the 10th instant, although the weather continued most unfavourable, I moved upon the enemy's fortified camp and stockades at Kemmendine, with about 3000 men, four eighteen pounders, four mortars and some field pieces, sending two divisions of vessels up the River to prevent the enemy from escaping on that side. It was my intention not to lose a man if it could be avoided. The The enemy had already frequently experienced the irresistible influence of the British bayonet, and it was now my wish they should also know that we had still other and perhaps more dreadful means of exterminating them in every stockade they might be found in. The country, season, and roads rendered the undertaking extremely arduous, but not beyond the inexhaustible spirit of such soldiers as I command. About two miles from town, the head of the column was stopped by a stockade, apparently very strong and full of men; I ordered two heavy guns and some field pieces to open upon it, while the troops surrounded it on three sides, but the jungle was so very thick and close as to prevent the possibility of altogether cutting off the garrison. In less than half an hour a considerable gap was made in the outward defences of the work, and the defenders not daring any where to show themselves, I ordered a part of the Madras European regiment, supported by part of the 41st regiment, to charge, and the work was immediately carried, with a trifling loss on our part, the enemy leaving one hundred and fifty men dead on the ground. Major Chalmers, leading the support of the 41st regiment, and one of the first men in the breach, received a wound in the face from a spear, which I am happy to say is not dangerous. While this was going on under my own eye, a very spirited and successful attack was made on the other side of the stockade, by the advanced companies of the 13th and 38th regiments, who by assisting each other up to the face of the stockade (at least ten feet high) entered about the same time as the party by the breach, putting every man to death who opposed their entrance; and it affords me pleasure to state that the first man who appeared on the top of the work, was, I believe, Major Sale, of His Majesty's 13th Light Infantry. This point gained, the column again moved for- ward ward nearly a mile, when our left was posted, com municating with the flotilla on the river about half a mile, under the great stockade and fortified camp : the head of the column moving up to the right with great toil and labour, through the thick and tenacious jungle, for the purpose of gaining the river above the stockade, and thus completely investing the enemy's great strong hold. In this I was partly disappointed, the enemy having thrown up other works above the stockade, which would have exposed my right to certain loss, and not being able to invest the whole of the enemy's extensive fortifications, I was under the necessity of leaving about one hundred yards, between our right and the river, unoccupied; but as the principal work appeared full of men, animating each other with loud and boisterous cheering, I still hoped they would remain till the impression I intended had been made. At four P. M. my troops were in position in many places within a hundred yards of the place; but in all parts with a very thick jungle in front extending to the very bottom of the stockade. The night passed in erecting batteries, and making preparations for opening the guns at day-light next morning; the enemy continuing loud and incessant cheering till after day-light in the morning. The moment we had sufficient light on the following day, a heavy and well directed fire was opened from our breaching and mortar batteries, which was kept up for nearly two hours, when a party advancing to observe the breach, found the enemy, during the cannonade, had evacuated the place, carrying off their dead and wounded. The chain of posts occupied by the enemy rendered flight at all times easy, and the thickness of the jungle necessarily prevented our observing when it took place. The stockade is one of great strength, and capable of being obstinately defended. It was garrisoned by the most desparate crews of the enemy's War war boats, and it cannot be doubted that the dread ful example of the day before, and awful effects of our opening firing, alone could have induced men possessed (as the Burmese unquestionably are) of great personal courage, to give it up. The object I had in view has been thus beautifully accomplished; a general pause and terror of our arms at present prevail among the troops lately opposed to us, and from one or two reconnoitring parties which have since been out, I find that every stockade in our neighbourhood has been evacuated, and I have reason to think the enemy has retired to some distance from our front. I continue to receive every assistance and cooperation from Captain Marryat, R. N., and the ships omployed under his command.. General Return of Killed, Wounded, and Missing of the Troops comprising the Expedition, under the Command of Brigadier-General Sir Archibald Campbell, K. C. B. serving against the Dominions of the King of Ava, from the 1st to the 16th June 1824. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Madras European Regt.-1 captain, lieutenant, wounded. H. M. 13th L. I.-1 lieutenant, wounded. NON COMMISSIONED, RANK AND FILE. II. M. 38th Regt -1 rank and file, wounded. .0. Madras Madras European Regt.-2 serjeants or havildar, and 7 rank and file, killed; 2 serjeants or havildars, and 30 rank and file, wounded. 1st Bat. 3d Regt. N. 1.-2 rank and file, wounded. 2d Bat. 8th Regt. N. I.-2 rank and file, wounded. 1st Bat. 9th Regt. N. I.-2 serjeants or havildars, wounded. 2d Bat. 10th Regt. N. I.-1 rank and file, killed; 3 rank and file, wounded. Pioneers.-1 rank and file, killed; 2 rank and file, wounded. H. M. 13th L. I.—1 rank and file, killed; 10 rank and file, wounded. H. M. 38th Foot.-1 rank and file, killed; 8 rank and file, wounded. H. M. 41st Foot.-22 rank and file, wounded. Madras European Regt.-1 serjeant, killed; 2 serjeants or havildars, and 6 rank and file, wounded. 1st Bat. N. I.-2 rank and file, wounded. NATIVES ATTACHED. Bheestees.1 killed; 1 Matross, 5 Bearers, 4 gun lascars, Tindal, wounded. Total-Commissioned Officers, 6 wounded; noncommissioned, rank and file, 14 killed; 105 wounded; natives attached, 2 killed; 11 wounded. REMARKS. His Majesty's 13th Light Infantry.-Name of Officer, Lieutenant James Petry, slightly wounded. His Majesty's 38th Foot.-Name of Officer, Lieutenant Henry Grimes, slightly wounded. His Majesty's 41st Foot.-Name of Officer, Major P. L. Chambers, severely, but not dangerously, wounded. Madras European Regt.-Names of Officers, Captain Kyd, Lieutenants Stinton and Robertson, severely, not dangerously, wounded. Two |