Charles Michell, and Murray, Admiralty midshipmen. The following is an extract of a letter from Captain Chads to Captain Coe, dated October 11th:
“Every thing which I had in view having been most fully accomplished,, and our provisions wholly expended, it was necessary to return, and we reached this place yesterday afternoon, having; been six days away, during which time hardly a man had an hour’s rest, whereas the whole were subject to the most harassing duty, with extreme heat and heavy rain; but the same good spirit I had the pleasure on the former occasion to recommend to your favourable attention, still animated the seamen and marines under my command: and I beg particularly to bring to your notice Lieutenant Kellett, who was in command of the light division, with Lieutenant Goldfinch and the other officers, before named. On all occasions they were foremost and led the gun-boats with the troops up to every stockade. From Lieutenant Dobson I received great assistance on board the Satellite; Mr. Winsor, of the Sophie, had again charge of the steam-vessel, and conducted her with the same judgment I before noticed to you; he will now add to the chart I then sent you, made by him, the extent of our last expedition.”
On the 16th October, Sir Archibald Campbell, in general orders, expressed “his satisfaction at the series of uninterrupted success which had marked the progress of the combined forces under Major Evans and Captain Chads,” to whom he gave “his best thanks for their persevering exertions, which cost the enemy eleven pieces of cannon and twenty wall-pieces, as well as all the means of annoyance which he had long been collecting.” The Governor-General also expressed “his high approbation and applause of the brilliant and decisive attack” on Than-ta-bain. “You will be pleased,” says Mr. Swinton, in a letter to Sir Archibald Campbell, “to convey to Major Evans and Captain Chads the sense which the Governor-General in Council entertains of the gallant service performed by them and the officers and men under their command, which has not been surpassed by any of the most distinguished affairs with the enemy since our first occupation of Rangoon.”
During the above successful operations against Than-ta-bain, (of which no notice is taken by Major Snodgrass) the military detachment under Lieutenant-Colonel Smith carried a stockade at Tadaghee, and a succession of breastworks in
