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armed vessels, in various actions with the Burmese in the vicinity of Rangoon.

It belongs to a higher authority than the government of India to notice in adequate and appropriate terms, the services of his majesty's squadron, which has co-operated with his majesty's and the honourable East India company's land forces, in the late hostilities with the government of Ava. The governor-general in council, however, gladly seizes this opportunity of expressing the deep sense of obligation with which the supreme government acknowledges the important and essential aid afforded by his excellency Commodore Sir James Brisbane, in person, as well as by the officers, non-commissioned officers, seamen, and marines of his majesty's ships, who have been employed in the Irrawaddi. Inspired by the most ardent zeal for the honour and interest of the nation and the East India company, his excellency, the naval commander-in-chief, lost no time in proceeding, with the boats of the Boadicea, to the head-quarters of the British army at Prome, and directing, in person, the operations of the river force, rendered the most essential service in the various decisive and memorable actions which, in the month of December last, compelled the Burmese to sue for peace.