Captain Coe, by whom he was promoted into the Tees on that officer assuming the command of the Liffey.
“I have the honor to enclose sundry despatches from Captain Marryat, of H.M.S. Larne, in command of the naval force in the river Rangoon, detailing; various successful attacks on the enemy, while co operating with the army under Sir Archibald Campbell; and I feel much pleasure in rocommending to their Lordships’ notice that officer, as well as those named in the margin[1], to whose zealous exertions and cool intrepidity are to be attributed the successful results of the various attacks which they conducted against the enemy. I am pleased in having it in my power to recommend in the strongest terms, Mr. Henry Lister Maw, midshipman of this ship, who volunteered his services to Sir Archibald Campbell, and who accompanied him in all his operations; and I trust, from the high encomiums passed on his conduct, their Lordships will be pleased to consider his services, and his having been most dangerously wounded.”
The Larne did not return to Rangoon until the 24th December, 1824.
CHAPTER II.
On the arrival of the Arachne at Madras, July 29, 1824, Captain Chads found that Commodore Grant had given directions to his agents there, to detain all despatches for him which might arrive after the 15th of that month, and intimated his intention to leave Penang on the 1st of August. Under these circumstances, the commander of the Arachne considered, that the surest way to join his commodore was to remain stationary; but at the same time he offered the ser-
- ↑ Lieutenants William Burdett Dobson and Thomas Fraser, acting Lieutenant George Goldfinch, Mr. Robert Atherton, and Messrs. John Duffill, George Winsor, and Charles Kittoe Scott.
