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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVY. 471
coinitry, and the rnaintenance of peace on the vast seaboard
Avith its populous cities, was entrusted to the Bombay Marine
and a flotilla of gunboats.
The Governor-General in Council, by General Orders, dated
the 8rd of August, 1826, granted to the officers and men
engaged in the Burmese war, a donation of six months' batta
to those who had served for a period of not less than twelve
months, and half that amount to such as had served a less
period. On the 19th of October, 1827, a second General Order
was issued from the same authority, stating that the Court of
Directors had authorised the issue of a second donation of batta
of a like amount to the forces engaged in Ava and Arracan, " as
a token of the favourable sentiments they entertain of the
brilliant services achieved." The officers and men of the
flotilla who had not shared in the benefit of a previous
Resolution of the 19th of November, 1824, awarding
extra allowances while on service, were included in this
distribution.
On the conclusion of the war, the Governor-General* in
Council issued General Orders, of which the following para-
graph refers to the service rendered to the State by the Bombay
Marine :
" The conduct of that portion of the naval branch of the
Expedition which belongs to the East India Company, has been
exemplary and consjjicuous for gallantry and indefatigable
exertion, and it has i'ully shared in all the honourable toils and
well-earned triumphs of the land force. The Governor-General
in Council experiences the most sensible gratification, in offering
to Commodore Hayes, to Captain Hardy, Senior Captain of the
Bombay Marine, and to the several connnanders and officers of
the Bombay cruisers, which have been employed in the Irra-
Avaddy, and to the officers in command of the armed brigs and
divisions of gunboats, the cordial thanks of Government for
their zealous and meritorious services. Although not com-
manding in person the Hon. Company's naval force in the
Irrawacldy, Commodore Hayes has amply entitled himself
to the special notice and consideration of (Jovernment on this
occasion, since it was mainly owing to his professional and
unremitting exertions, tliat tlie armed flotilla from this port
was so efficiently equi})ped, and thus enabled to accpiit itself in
a manner which has repeatedly been honoured with the apjiro-
bation of his P^xcellency the Naval Connnander-in-chief of His
]\Iajesty's squadron in I he East Indies, and the officers of
the Royal Navy, under whose orders they have been cm-
* Lord Amherst was advanced to tlie dignity of an earldom, and Sir
Archibald Campbell was created a buronet for his successful conduct of the