signify their Lordships’ direction to you to communicate the same to the several officers and men employed on the service in question. I am, &c.
It was not in words only that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty were pleased to express their approbation, but in the most gratifying manner, by a liberal and extensive promotion of those officers who had most distinguished themselves. Not only were Captains Chads, Marryat, and Ryves, advanced to the rank of Companions of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, but every lieutenant and passed midshipman who remained on the service, belonging to the Alligator, Arachne, and Larne, besides others of the Liffey, Boadicea, and Sophie, were promoted. The thanks of both Houses of Parliament were subsequently voted to Sir James Brisbane, and the captains, officers, seamen, and marines under his command, for their “cordial co-operation” with the land forces, and “their skilful, gallant, and meritorious exertions, which greatly contributed to the successful issue of the war.”
