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were the vessels which escaped destruction indebted for their
safety. The ' Swift,' however, captured two; one she passed
over, and cut in two ; seventeen others were run ashore, and
about six hundred of the enemy are supposed to have perished
during the conflict. The Company's settlements upon the
Celebes, as well as granaries completely stored, have thus been
protected from the most serious depredations, by the dispersion
of these daring pirates, who had overrini the whole of the
Sangir islands, reduced the capital, Tairom, to ashes, and carried
thence two hundred female captives, besides males, many of
whom perished on the occasion of this attack ; one only of the
former was saved by the ' Swift,' and one of the pirates from
the wreck of the proa which had been run down. Each of the
enemy's vessels carried from sixty to eighty men, one G or 8-
pounder brass gun forward, besides many smaller ones, with
muskets, lances, &c."
The Company's ships ' Bombay,' ' Swift,' and ' Star,' also
did good service at the island of Celebes, particularly at the
reduction of Manado and Gonong Telia, and Lieutenant Court,
first of the ' Bombay,' was appointed to the command of Fort
Amsterdam, which he held for nine months " under the most
critical circumstances." Subsequently, in reward for his dis-
tinguished services, he was appointed Resident at Manado and
commandant of all the troops in Celebes, by Mr, Farquhar, the
newly-appointed Governor of the Moluccas, a post he held with
conspicuous success until, in terms of the peace, our conquests in
the Moluccas were restored to the Dutch.
Some of the vessels of the Bombay Marine continued to be
employed at the Moluccas, until these islands were given up to
the Dutch, and, during the interval, they had sevenxl encounters
with the pirates, which swarmed in those seas. At this time
there were generally two vessels employed at Pulo Penang, or
Prince of Wales' Ishind, and two in the Bay of Bengal under
the orders of the Supreme Government, protecting the trade
from the depredations of French privateers.
On the 1st of August, 17'.)8, (the day on which Nelson won
his memorable victory of the Nile) the Court of Directors
issued an order revising the Marine Regulations, and conferring
on the officers relative rank with their military Service, as well
as a retiring pension. The pay of the officers was fixed at the
rate it continued to remain for the succeeding thirty years,
when the Service finally assumed its last phase as the Indian
Navy ; they were also prohibited from trading, a privilege
which had been allowed up to that time, and, in fact, the
Bombay Marine was created a regidar Naval Service for war
purposes only. A Superintendent was appointed, but the office
was vested, for some inscrutable reason, in a civilian ; and the
two senior officers of the Service were appointed Master-Attend-