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  on the powerful and effectual assistance afforded by you from his Majesty’s squadron under your command. Allow me to express my warmest thanks for the honor you have done me in accompanying me during the operations, and personally affording your assistance and advice; as also to convey my thanks to the whole of the captains, officers, seamen, and marines landed from the squadron under your command. I trust we have convinced these daring pirates, as well as the enemies of our country in all parts of the world, that his Majesty’s navy and army, when acting together heart and hand, are invincible.”

The following is an extract from the general orders published by the Supreme Government of India, on learning the result of the expedition against Sambas:

Sir Samuel Hood, when transmitting an account of the Borneo expedition to the Admiralty, expressed himself as follows:

Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood died at Madras, Dec. 24, 1814, after an illness of only three days; and the command of the squadron consequently devolved on Captain Sayer, as the officer next in seniority, at a period when the relations of amity between Great Britain and various European powers