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will not be most gracionsl_y pleased, liy vonr Order in Conneil,
to confer upon, and to grant to, the officers of the Bombay
Marine the said relative rank and precedence, in conformity
with the foregoing proposition.
" His Majesty, having taken the said Memorial into con-
sideration, was pleased, by and with the advice of his Privy
Council, to approve thereof, and to order, as it is hereby ordered,
that the officers of the Bombay Marine, within the limits of the
East India Company's Charter, do take rank agreeably to their
several degrees with officers of the Royal Navy, under the
restrictions and upon the conditions proposed in the said
Memorial ; and His Royal Highness the Lord High Admiral
is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly."
The following is a copy of the warrant of the Duke of
Clarence, dated the 12th of June, 1827, permitting the ships of
the Bombay Marine to wear the Union Jack and pennant :
''By His Royal Highness the Lord High Admiral of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, &c., &c. Whereas I
have deemed it expedient that the ships of the Bombay Marine
shall be granted the privilege of wearing, in addition to the
Red Ensign which all ships belonging to His Majesty's
subjects should legally wear, the Union Jack and a long
pennant, having St. George's Cross on a white field in the
upper part next the mast, with a red fly ; I do, therefore, by
virtue of the power invested in me, hereby warrant and
authorise the Union Jack and pennant above described, being
worn on board the ships of the Bombay Marine accordingly."
As by the new regulations it was decided that a captain of
the Royal Navy should be placed at the head of the Service, in
November, 1827, Captain Sir Charles Malcolm, C.B.*— a brother
of Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm and General Sir John Malcolm,
who had been sworn in at Bombay as Governor of that Presi-
dency, on the 1st of November in that year— was appointed to
the post of Superintendent by the Court of Directors. On this
occasion, the " Times " stated that H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence,
the Lord High Admiral, had declared his intention not to inter-
fere in the choice of an officer, declaring that " it would be
unhandsome and might be invidious in him to meddle with the
patronage that belongs to the Court." In making this appoint-
ment, the Court decided to confer on the then Superintendent
of the Bombay Marine, a pension of =£800 per annum, although
* Sir Charles Malcolm was one of three brothers, known as " the three knights
of Ribblesdale." The family seat is Burnfoot, near Langholm, where is a statue of
Sir John Malcolm. The representative of the family is now Mr. W. E. Malcolm,
who resides on the property close to the house where the brotliers were born.
Sir Charles had seen considerable service in the great war, and was present, in
his brother's ship, at the cutting out of vessels at Manilla in 1798. He was
knighted in 1826, by Lord Wellesley, when Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and was
now forty-five years of age.