A large portion of this d...
A large portion of this day's paper is given to details of the unfortunate war into which the Indzia Company have been forced, or induced, with the Burinese. These people are not a contemptible eoaemv; they are brave, and not unskilled, apparentlv, in somne of the practices of war. A detachment of Company's troops at Ramnoo receivedl a rude lesson from them, being comnpletely beaten> and put to flight, after several days of partial movemenit and( desultory action. But what war would not be perilous to suchI an empire as that of India ? Anid whlat is the war (in a country held by suchl a tenure) of which the dangers could be pre- viously an(d accurately measured? All India is under the feet of its masters one great shaking bog: the agitation of any given spot upon the surface is felt to its remotest ex- trenity. Are we sure that the Burmese will have no native allies ?-that they have at this moment no foreign instiga- tors? How eame they by muskets made in Europe? The sxubject is a serious one for the Honourable Company; whose military establishment is said to have been cut down by Lord HASTINGS below the prudent level, that his Lordship's administration of the finances might appear with suitable eelat.