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lant detachment of the navy, you will particularly express the high sense I feel for their services^[1].”

Captain Leslie’s able and meritorious conduct, while employed under the Hon. Captain Elliot, in reinstating the Sultan of Palambang, is thus handsomely acknowledged by his distinguished commander-in-chief, in a letter addressed to the latter officer, dated at Trincomalee, Oct. 18, 1813:–

“Sir,– I have received your letter of the 3d Sept., detailing your services with those of H.M. ships Hussar and Volage under your orders, assisted by the troops commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Macgregor, on the expedition against Palambang. It is with peculiar satisfaction I notice the superior judgment displayed by you in the arrangement and management of this service, and the great and able exertions of Captain Leslie, the officers and men employed in the boats under his direction, whose expedition, successful efforts, and complete surprise, precluded any resistance in placing the Nagor Ordeen on the throne, as well as their further services. I beg you will communicate to Captain Leslie, and the officers and men employed, my entire approbation and thanks for their services.

1. Lieutenant Henry Hoghton, who so gallantly seconded Captain Leslie. in the above attack, was severely wounded in the left thigh – the anterior and principal muscle of extension being divided. After rest, and appropriate surgical treatment, the wound healed and he attempted to go to his duty, when he was attacked with the bilious remittent fever so general among those employed on the service against Sambas, and which attacked all the wounded seamen as they successively returned to their duty, a fever dreadfully severe in its attack, highly exhausting in its nature, and usually followed by serious visceral disease. Lieutenant Hoghton recovered from the fever (as did all on board the Hussar, although the mortality was very great among the other ships and the troops), yet his life has subsequently been one of great and acute suffering, from internal disease, as well as from the lameness occasioned by his wound.

   This gentleman had previously served upwards of seven years, as midshipman and lieutenant on board the Modeste and Hussar, during which period he never relaxed from the most active and steady discharge of his duty, behaving on all occasions in a manner highly creditable to himself, and satisfactory to his captain, the Hon. George Elliot. He is at present senior lieutenant of the Victory first rate, commanded by that officer, and bearing the flag of the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, K.C.B. &c. &c.

   Mr. William Henry Baptist Proby, the midshipman mentioned in Captain Leslie’s report, was immediately promoted by Sir Samuel Hood, and confirmed as a lieutenant by the Admiralty, Jan. 9, 1814. He has recently been appointed to the Southampton 50, fitting for the flag of Sir Edward W. C. R. Owen.