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 a flotilla under his orders proceeded much further up the same creek, and deprived the enemy of near 1500 tons of grain, but unfortunately the vessels containing it, thirty-five in number, were all in a very crazy state. In bringing them down the river, many got aground, and falling over, at low water, filled with the next Hood. “The loss of them,” says Lieutenant Dobson, “is to be attributed to the great distance we had to bring them, the strong tides and sudden turns, causing eddies out of which it was difficult to get, and the difficulty of towing such unwieldy craft, added to which the greater part of them were without either anchor or rudder.”

On the 4th Aug. Lieutenant Dobson, with some gun-boats under his orders, accompanied a military detachment up the Syriam river, and assisted in driving the enemy from the remains of the old Portuguese fort, situated upon a commanding height, at the mouth of the Pegu river. He was afterwards employed in stripping the Syriam Pagoda of its guns and bells. On the 12th, the Satellite was directed to relieve the Hon. Company’s cruiser Teignmouth, stationed at Pagoda Point. On the 17th, Lieutenant Dobson reported to Captain Marryat as follows:–

“In compliance with your orders, I relieved Captain Hardy, and the Satellite took up the berth of the Teignmouth, on the 14th instant. On the 16th, having one boat and fifteen men from the H.C. cruiser Mercury, and our own people in three row gun-boats, we pulled up the Panlang branch, with the first of the flood-tide. Four miles from Pagoda Point, a Burmese look-out boat was seen shoving off from a hut, and firing an alarm gun: this was repeated by other boats as we advanced, at four or five miles distance from each other. About five miles above the upper stakes, we came to two stockades, one on each side of the river apparently for the protection of a large village above them. Receiving no interruption, we passed on, and destroyed a large canoe, laden with rice and gunpowder. Two reaches above this village, we got sight of twenty of the enemy’s war-boats, lying to under the bank of the river, and each containing about seventy men. As we approached, they began to row away, and I ordered our boats to open their fire, but I fear with little effect, as the enemy took care to keep at a distance, which from their superior speed they could easily do. We chased them till the tide