The English army took 2,000 cannon, and it was believed the Burmese had 2,500 left.

Sir A. Campbell says there have been 60,000 refugees from Ava—­all now settled in Tenasserim.  I had thought there had never been more than 10,000, and that some, about half, had returned.

Upon the whole, he seems enamoured of his conquests, but he did not adduce any good reason against exchanging it.

At the Cabinet room.  Saw Lord Rosslyn there, as I used to be last year, desoeuvre and bored, as all Privy Seals will be.  He seemed dissatisfied with the state of affairs in Ireland and in England.  At Manchester there is a fear of a turn-out of some more cotton-spinners.  Every thing depends upon the harvest.

The negotiations with the Turks came to nothing.  The Grand Vizier’s answer to Diebitch is excellent.

The sickness amongst the Russian troops continues, and Diebitch has not more than 40,000 men, even with Roth’s corps.

The Ambassadors have been very well received at Constantinople.  All are in good humour there, notwithstanding the losses near Shumla.

The Emperor does not go to the army.

Lord Heytesbury represents Russia as being the least formidable of the great Powers for the purpose of offensive operations, and seems to think she contains many elements of convulsion.

Metternich is trying to cajole the Russians by pretended fears of revolutionary principles.

They talk of a King in Columbia, and the French are intriguing to place a French prince on the throne, after Bolivar.

July 25, 1829.

Cabinet room.  The Ambassadors seem to have been received most cordially at Constantinople.  We know no more of the Grand Vizier’s losses.  That he experienced a complete defeat there can be no doubt.

In Columbia, the French seem rather inclined to place, after Bolivar, a Prince of the House of Orleans on the throne, and it does not seem unlikely that the Columbians may consider it their best arrangement.

The Emperor of Russia seems to be desirous of Peru, and the King of Prussia has, at his request, sent the Baron von Mueffling as his Minister to the Porte to mediate.

The Irish accounts are very bad.  Lord F. Leveson seems now to think very seriously of the state of things.  Doherty is come back much alarmed from Barris, where he has been with Blackie on a special commission.

July 28.

I recommended to the attention of the Chairs the establishment of steam communication with India by the Red Sea.

July 29.

Read precis relative to Kotah.

These precis will make me thoroughly acquainted with the history and circumstances of the Rajpoot States, which are by far more interesting than others.

There is a looseness and a vulgarity in the East India House writing, the literature of clerks which is quite disgusting.  Our clerks write better than theirs, but they do not write concisely and correctly.