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left us, and it was therefore impossible to obtain fur-
ther intelligence of the Sultan's movements. As the
rear-guard passed out into the swamp, the Sultan's
house was fired, and with the adjoining buildings and
all the property, burnt to the ground.
Passing through Tanjang we reached Mallout in the
afternoon, where I found Lieut. Dunbar and party.
The water in the creek Shad fallen between three and
four feet, and the launch with the other gun boats had
dropped out into the river. As it was too late in the
day to ensure the embarkation of the force before dark,
we bivouacked at Mallout for the night, and at four the
following morning, the 16th, were in movement for the
beach. The embarkation occupied three hours, the
large boats being two miles from our first place of land-
ing, and the swamp was DOW nearly dry across.
We reached the main stream without difficulty, and I
had again the pleasure of meeting your Excellency com-
ing up to look after us, and of reporting to you that
though the Sultan had eluded us, we had this time
effected our march on Damuan, and that every man of
the party had returned in safety, and very few cases of
sickness.

I have much satisfaction in acquainting your Ex-
cellency with the uniform good conduct of all the officers,
petty officers, seamen, and marines under my command.
During the six days occupied in the double ex-
pedition, I bad no complaint of straggling or mis-
conduct, and though the enemy offered no opposition to
our advance, I hope I may be excused for bearing tes-
timony to the cheerfulness of all under the discouraging
circumstances of continued marching in jungle and
swamps, knee deep, with heavy rain during the whole
period, constantly wet to the skin, and rest at night im-
possible.
I was much indebted to Captain Hawkins, command-
ing the detachment of royal marines, for his exertions
during the march, and to Lieutenants Matthew, Heath,
and Newland, who commanded divisions of seamen, and
to Lieutenant Vansittart, my aide-de-camp.
Mr. Reeves and Mr. Quin, mates of Agincourt and
Royalist, were attentive to their duties.
I was highly satisfied with the zeal and intelligence of
Lieutenant Patey, in immediate command of the gun
boats, and he was cheerfully assisted by Lieutenants
Norcock, Dunbar, and Morgan, and by Mr. Loane and
Mr. Sullivan, Second Masters of the Agincourt and Iris.
Mr. Brooke,- throughout the march, showed the
greatest anxiety to spare the houses and property un-
connected with the Sultan.

I have the honour to inclose a return of the ordnance
captured. (B.)
I have the honour, &c.,
G. RODNEY MUNDY,
Captain of her Majesty's ship Iris,
and Commanding Officer.
To His Excellency Rear-Admiral Sir T.
Cochrane, C.B. &c. &c. Commander-
in-Chief.
Return of the Force employed during the Expedition
up the Borneo River under my command, between

the 10th and 16th of July, 1846.
Detachment of royal marines, Captain Hawkins, 155
men; from her Majesty's ship Agincourt, her Majesty's
ship Iris, her Majesty's steamer Spiteful, her Majesty's
brig Ringdove, her Majesty's sloop Hazard, her Majesty's
sloop Royalist.
Seven gun-boats, Lieutenant Patey, 119 men ; from
her Majesty's ship Agincourt, her Majesty's ship Iris,
her Majesty's steamer Spiteful, her Majesty's brig
Ringdove, her Majesty's sloop Hazard.
Seamen, small arm men, Lieutenants Mathews and
Newland, 136 men ; from her Majesty's ship ,Iris, her
Majesty's steamer Spiteful, her Majesty's sloop Royalist.
Pioneers and rocket brigade, Lieutenant Heath, 52
men; from her Majesty's ship Agincourt, her Majesty's
ship Iris, Honourable East India Company's steamer
Phlegethon.
Captain's gig, 10 men ; from her Majesty's ship Iris.
Total-472 men.
(Signed)

G. RODNEY MUNDY,
Captain of her Majesty's ship Iris
and Commanding Officer.

Agincourt, off the River Brune, Borneo Proper,
20th July, 1846.
Sir,—Referring to my letter of the 30th May last, No.
95, relative to Borneo, I have the honour to acquaint
you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty, that on my arrival at Singapore I
received from Captain Sir Edward Belcher, of the
Samarang, the accompanying narrative of events that
had occurred on that part of the Bemoan coast he had
recently visited, and which, more or less, bear upon
the disastrous transactions that had taken place in the
capital.
On my arrival at the Sarawak, on the 24th ultimo,
and meeting Mr. Brooke, I learnt from him that subse-
quent reports to those already transmitted to their
Lordships, led him to believe that the first information
had not been exaggerated. Under these circumstances,
I invited Mr. Brooke (and he readily accepted the invi-
tation) to accompany me to the seat of Government, for
the purpose of assisting in the investigation of the out-
rages alleged to have been committed.
We arrived off Navarro Island, at the entrance of
Brune River, on the 4th instant, and it was not long be-
fore we were visited by some fishermen belonging to the
city, from whom we learnt with regret that the reality
had gone far beyond the report ; that Baja Muda Has-
sim, one of his sons, Panjeraußedrudeen, seven brothers,
one sister, and other relations, and about a similar
number of other persons, had been put to death at the
same time. Subsequently, two of the remaining Princes
were sacrificed, upon it being ascertained that the per-
son named Japper (alluded to by Mr. Brooke in his
letter enclosed i❑ my dispatch No. 95, of the 30th May),
as having fled to him to bring information of the trans-
action was known to have departed, leaving in exist-
ence of that family only two brothers, and the son and
heir of the Raja, who were protected by the most power-
fnl remaining Pangeran, named Moumein, who although
son-in-law of the Sultan, disapproved of the deed, but
confined his interference to the protection of those parties.
The cause of this sudden change of conduct on the
part of the Sultan (who, their Lordships are already
aware, is a very weak as well as ill-conditioned charac-
ter) was the fate that had attended Pangeran Usop,
whom, their Lordships will remember, I, at the Sultan's
request, last year, attacked and drove from the city, and
who was subsequently taken and put to death by Bcdu-
deen, in consequence of an attack he made upon it after
my departure. It would appear that the Sultan's re-
puted son, a man of worthless character, Pangeran Has-
sim, had married Usop's daughter, and,, partaking of his
father-in-law's hostility to the English and disposition
to piracy, as well as deeply resenting his fall, and exer-
cising the very great influence he had over the mind of
the Sultan, he, in conjunction with a very clever and
artful man named Hadgi Samoad, at last brought his
Highness to consent to this deed of revenge.
Our informants further stated, that so soon as this
crime had been perpetrated, the Sultan began to place
the river and city in a state of defence, and Commander
Egerton, of the Hazard, corroborated the statement that
a trap had been laid to get him into the city, and, as
alleged by the informants, with the view of putting him
to death.
Under all the foregoing circumstances, and those con-
siderations alluded to in my letter No. 95, before referred
to, there did not appear to me the shadow of a doubt as
to my right with reference to those principles which
govern European states under similar circumstances, to
proceed with an armed force, and demand an explanation
of these hostile deeds ; and, acting upon this conviction,
the result is communicated to their Lordships in my
letter of the 9th instant, No. 113.
On our arrival at the city, we found it entirely de-
serted by the inhabitants ; those fled who felt they were
compromised, and the remainder, no doubt, from appre- '
hension of being confounded with them.
By means, however, of Japper, we managed to open a
communication with those friendly to us ; and on the
following day I was visited by Pangeran Moumein,
Pangeran Baher, and Pangeran Muda Mahometl, and
had a long interview with them on that occasion. Their
story was nearly to the same effect, and in unison with
that which had already reached us.
The future then became the most interesting subject
for discussion. The Sultan had fled, and they were, in
fact, without a government. I invited them to come to
some determination as to the course they would pursue
for the well. being of their country, but they appeared to
be entirely paralysed.
Pangeran Moumein, although condemning the Sul
tan's proceedings, and himself very respectable i❑ cha-
racter, yet was most timid, and seemed to have an
aversion to setting the Sultan aside ; and the others,
although very violent against him, had neither talent
nor weight to undertake the formation of a new govern-
ment.

Mr. Brooke landed on the following day, and at
Moumein's house had a meeting on an enlarged scale,
and stated to it my readiness to assist them in any mea-
sure that would have the effect of putting an end to the
existing anarchy, or that might give permanent security
to life and property ; but on this, and subsequent occa-
sions, he found the same timidity and irresolution to pre-
vail as at their conference with me. In point of fact, the
massacre had been of that sweeping character, as to cut
off every man of weight or intelligence, and leave the
survivors in an irrecoverable state of helplessness.
In the meantime, the common people had recovered
from the panic, and commenced returning to the town ;
and by the fourth or fifth day nearly every house was
inhabited, and the same busy scene presented itself as
on ordinary occasions ; the boats flocking round the
ships to sell or exchange their produce, with as much
confidence as in any English port ; and I am persuaded
nothing would have been more gratifying to them than
to have learnt from me that I was authorised to establish
an Englishman (such an one, for instance, as Mr.
Brooke) as their governor and chief, under whom they
would have felt confident of the undisturbed enjoyment
of the produce of their industry, and of protection
from uncertain and despotic enactments.
My letter of the 20th instant, No. 115, will have in-
formed their Lordships of my unsuccessful attempt to
obtain possession of the person of the Sultan. The other
individual, named lladji Samod, already alluded to, ap-
peared to be a particular object of hatred on the part of
the people, both as the Sultan's adviser and supporter;
and at their suggestion, I dispatched a small but unsuc-
cessful expedition in search of him; and they sent several
war-boats on the same mission, in another direction; but
the Had)i has, as yet, escaped capture; although three
of his principal adherents have Leen taken, and whom
the authorities immediately put to death.
Having remained eleven days at the city without any
prospect of securing a definite and satisfactory arrange-
ment, it became a matter for consideration as to the to Zr
best course to be adopted that would hold out any hope
of my leaving the city, and those friendly to the English,
even in a temporary state of security; and Mr. Brooke
concurred with me in thinking that the effect might be
good were I to address a sort of proclamation to the
chief persons actually in the place, to be given to the
Sultan on his return, detailing the whole of the pro-
ceedings that had taken place between us during the last
twelve months, pointing out the unprincipled and dis-
honest conduct of the Sultan—showing how entirely he
end they were a my mercy—yet still holding out the