William Walpole, to render assistance, and off we started, and worked up and found her with her head in the breakers, and her water line two feet out of water. As there was no time to he lost, and no effectual assistance could he afforded but by anchoring, the Columbine within a cable’s length. Commander Love got into the gig, leaving directions for the first lieutenant to stand in boldly, and to let go the anchor whenever he should hold up his hat. This was promptly done, and the distance was so fortunately judged, that after throwing all the sails flat aback, in order to lay the chain cable as taut as possible, and veering out to the clinch, we just reached the ship on the rocks, with the stream cable passed out of our stern port into her cabin window, and then hove as great a strain as it was possible to bear. We then commenced removing part of her cargo to schooners sent round for the purpose, assisted by the boats of the Pallas and Arachne, and had the satisfaction of getting her afloat, after forty-eight hours of incessant labour. She is now in the Carenage, ready for heaving down. During the whole time we had not a hammock down, or a watch below; there was not an experienced man in the whole island, but considered it as impossible, and nothing but the instant determination and exertion, joined with the most fortunate circumstances, could have accomplished it. We are to sail to-morrow with troops for Antigua, and to carry others to Demerara.”
The Columbine was paid off at Sheerness, on the 12th Mar. 1834, after having been nearly four years in commission, during which time she did not lose a man through sickness. Previous to their separation, her officers gave Commander Love a parting dinner, “in token of their respect and esteem.”
WILLIAM SMITH (b), Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 14th July, 1813. We first find him serving under the late Captain Thomas Alexander, C.B., with whom he arrived at Rangoon, in the Alligator 28, to assist in subduing the Burmese, Jan. 22d, 1825. The following is an outline of his services during the advance of the invading forces upon Ava.
On the 16th Feb. the water column, under Brigadier-General Cotton and Captain Alexander, moved up the Panlang river; and next day three unoccupied stockades were destroyed at Thesit. A few miles above that place, a division
