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when the cruisers were engaged; and yet thej^ were fairly
entitled to a share of such credit as was gained by the naval
portion of the Expedition, though, indeed, the chief honours were
reaped by the Army, the Navy having afforded to thein but
small opportunities for achieving distinction. On another point,
also, the Service was treated with injustice, for which no ex-
planation or reparation was offered. By order of the Court of
Directors, captains in the Bombay Marine were entitled to share
in the distribution of prize money as majors in the army, but by
order of the Prince Regent in the distribution of prize money
gained at Mauritius and in the Java Expedition, the captains of
the Marine shared with lieutenants of the Royal Navy, and thus
Captain Deane was robbed of several thousand pounds of hard-
earned money, as appears in his Memorial presented to the
Court of Directors.
In marked contrast to the treatment received by the Service
at the hands of the Naval Commanders-in-chief at the reduction
of Mauritius and Java, was the approbation expressed by Com-
modore Sir Josias Eowley, second in command on the former
occasion, and by Commodore Sayev at Java during the period
some of the cruisers were under his command. Both these fine
seamen, like others before and since, recognized the zeal and
enterprise exhibited by the officers and crews of the Hon.
Company's ships, and gave generous expression to their approval.
Java, of which Mr. (afterward Sir) Stamford Raffles was the
first lieutenant-governor, continued in a very unsettled state
after its reduction by the British, necessitating the retention of
a considerable garrison, which was placed under the command
of Colonel Gillespie, and of a portion of the fleet, including
some of the Hon. Company's cruisers, whose services were, soon
afterwards, called into requisition, to punish Sultan Bedr-oo-
deen, of Palimbang,* in the island of Sumatra, who had
massacred the peaceful European and Native residents
belonging to the Dutch factory at that place, which, being
dependent on Java, had passed under British protection.
Accordingly, to punish this act of perfidy, an Expedition was
fitted out at Batavia, and sailed on the 20tli of i\larcli, 1812,
under the command of Colonel Gillespie. The Expedition
consisted of three companies of H.M. 59th Regiment, five
companies of H.M. 81)th Regiment; detachments of Madras
Horse Artillery, dismounted Hussars, Bengal Artillery,
Sepoys of the 5th and Gth ]>attalions, and some Am-
boynese. The squadron consisted of H.M. ships ' Phoenix,'
Captain Bowen, senior officer; 'Cornelia,' Captain Owen; and

* Palimbang, styled in the Malay Historical Records, " the City of Safety." is
situated about sixty miles from the mouth of a river of the same name, and liad
at this time a population of from twenty to thirty thousand Malays and thi'ee
hundred Arabs.