boats, engaged as they have been, in an unusual mode of warfare, have merited my warmest approbation.
“To Captain Chads, of H.M.S. Alligator, and the officers of all descriptions employed under the command of Commodore Sir James Brisbane against the Dominions of Ava.”
There were at this time, 56 of the Honorable Company’s gun-vessels and row-boats, forming five divisions, the whole under the immediate controul of Sir James Brisbane. The officers of that service, attached to this flotilla, and particularly recommended by the Commodore, were – Lieutenants Joseph H. Rouband and George Laughton (Bombay marine), Mr. William Lindquist (senior officer of the row-boats), and Messrs. Crawfurd, Ravenscroft, Robson, Power, Leggatt, and Cooper, all of the Bengal Pilot service. Lieutenant Michael Nagle, H.M. 47th regiment, was entrusted with the command of one of the divisions; and Mr. George Winsor “continued to render most essential service,” as conductor of the Diana. At this period, the walls of Ava had been recently erected, and as yet, not the slightest appearance of a rampart, or a support of any kind on the inner side, was visible, without which, in the event of a siege, they possessed no stability.
After affixing his signature to a treaty of peace. Sir James Brisbane was compelled, in consequence of extreme indisposition, to retire to Pulo-Penang; and, we lament to say, that that highly distinguished officer never recovered from the effects of the disease he had contracted on the Irrawaddy. The Boadicea’s boats, however, were not withdrawn from the flotilla, the chief command of which again devolved upon Captain Chads. Sir James Brisbane died at New South Wales, Dec. 19, 1826. He was then about to proceed to the west coast of South America, with his broad pendant on board the Warspite 76, to which ship he had removed it on his being superseded in the East India command, by Rear-Admiral Gage, about the middle of August, 1826.
