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 Charles Michell, and Murray, Admiralty midshipmen. The following is an extract of a letter from Captain Chads to Captain Coe, dated October 11th:

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