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  under his orders, for the purpose of liberating any family or other boats that he might find detained by the Burmese warriors, and to endeavour to open a communication with the Arracan army, under Brigadier-General Morrison. During this trip, the Irrawaddy was accurately surveyed throughout a distance of ninety miles.

In the meantime. Lieutenant Thornton had been promoted by the Admiralty to the command of the Slaney 20; but he did not join that sloop, at Madras, until Jan. 1826. He then hastened back to Rangoon, and was there left by Captain Chads, to carry on the naval duties; while his boats, under the charge of Lieutenant George Fuller Stow, were employed in bringing down troops from the evacuated posts on the Irrawaddy. His commission as captain bears date April 30th, 1827.

Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, & Son. 

 officer is a son of Sir William Beechey, Knt., and was born in London, Feb. 17th, 1796, He first went to sea in the Hibernia 110, bearing the flag of Earl St. Vincent, commander-in-chief of the Channel fleet; and served as a midshipman of that ship, under Captains Tristram R. Ricketts, John Conn, William Bedford, and Charles M. Schomberg, from July, 1806, till Nov. 1807; at which period she bore the flag of Sir W. Sidney Smith, off Lisbon. 

After witnessing the flight of the House of Braganza, Mr. Beechey joined the Minotaur 74; and we subsequently find him following Captain Schomberg into the Foudroyant 80, flag-ship of Sir W. Sidney Smith; President frigate, on the South American station; Elizabeth 74, for a passage from