The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-30 00:00:00

MEDICAL AND OTHER OFFICERS.

Agincourt—Mr. John Watt Reid, surgeon, supeinten-
dent ; Dr. William Macleod, assistant surgeon, attached
to the brigade of royal marines.
Daedalus—Mr. Robert Anderson, acting surgeon,
Agincourt's small arm men.
Spiteful—Dr. James Mitchell, assistant surgeon, small
arm men. ,
Hazard—Mr. J. T. Veitch, acting surgeon, small arm
men.

Hazard—Lieutenant H. B. Hankey, beachmaster.
Agincourt—Mr. R. Kirkpatrick, captain's clerk.
GUN BOATS.

Iris—Captain G. R. Mundy, in command.
Agincourt—Launch—LieutenaLt G. E. Patey, and
second in command; Mr. E. Homersham, second master;
Mr. C. T. C. Grant, naval cadet. 2d Barge—Mr. Jab, a
Loane, second master; Mr. G. H. Burnaby, midshipman;
Mr. Thomas Cutler, supernumerary boatswain.
Iris—Pinnace—Lieutenant C. S. Dunbar ; Mr. F. J.
Hamilton, midshipman. Barge—Mr. J. T. Sullivan,
second master.

llingdove--Pinnace—Lieutenant G. L. Norcoek ; Mr.
John E. Hamilton, assistant surgeon ; Mr. A. M. Coch.
rane, midshipman.
Spiteful—Pinrace—Lieutenant L. G. Halsted.

Hazard—Pinnace—Mr. W. F. Cooke, gunner.
THOMAS COCHRANE,

Rear Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.
Return of ordnance taken in the Forts on the River
Brune, Borneo Proper, on the Bth day of Ju1y,1846.
Battery No. 1, right bank, 3 iron six-pounders—
total 3.

Battery No. 2, left bank, 3 iron twelve-pounders--
total 3.

Battery No. 3, right bank, 1 brass eighteen-pounder,
1 brass twelve-pounder, 1 brass three-pounder, 1 iron
eighteen-pounder—total 4.

Battery No. 4, right bank, 6 iron eighteen and twelve-
pounders—total 6.
Battery No. 5, right bank, 4 iron twelve and six-
pounders—total 4.
Battery No. 6, left bank, 1 brass sixty-eight-pounder,
1 brass forty -two-pounder, 1 brass thirty-two-pounder, 1
brass eighteen-pounder, 2 brass twelve-pounders, 2
brass nine-pounders, 2 iron twelve-pounders—total 10.
Battery No. 7, left bank, 2 brass nine-pounders, 2
brass six-pounders—total 4.
Battery No. 8, 1 brass nine-pounder, 1 brass six-
pounder, 1 brass four-pounder, 1 brass three-pounder—
total 4.

Total-19 brass guns, 19 iron guns-3S.
All these guns were mounted, and in five of the batte-
ries a quantity of ammunition of all kinds found in the
magazine. This was destroyed and the guns spiked,
several thrown down the precipice, and the buildings
burnt.

THOMAS COCIIRANE,

Rear Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.
List of Killed and Wounded at the Attack on the For

of Brune, Borneo Proper, on the Bth of July, 1846. -
Agincourt—John Lille, seaman, killed ; Walter
Power, seaman, severely wounded (arm since ampu-
tated); John Gomerson, seaman, slightly wounded on
face and leg; Robert Doharty, seaman, slightly wounded
in arm; John Lensar, seaman, slightly wounded on thigh.
IThlegethon—William Kind, carpenter, severely on
face; Kale Chand, cook, severely wounded (since dead);
Baboo, cook, slightly wounded on arm ; Moon Chally,
stoker, slightly wounded on thigh.

Marines—None.
(Signed) J. WATT REID, Surgeon,
H.M.S. Agincourt, Superintending
Expeditionary Force.

Spiteful, River Brun(,
Borneo Proper, July 20, 1846.
Sir,—Having received such information as to the
retreat of the Sultan, as to hold out some hope of his
capture, I directed Captain Mundy to take under his
command, in addition to the gun-boats, one hundred
and fifty marines, and a detachment of seamen, small-
arm men and rocket party, and to proceed in the direc-
tion pointed out to him in pursuit of his Highness.
I have the honour to inclose a letter I have received
from Captain Mundy, narrating his proceedings during
a period of six days ; and although the object of our
pursuit has escaped us, it has offered an opportunity for
the display of further zeal and cheerful ob dience on the
part of the officers and men, in a situation altogether
novel to them; and afforded a gratifying proof of what
their conduct would have been had their exertions been
rewarded by the presence of an enemy.

I have the honour, &e.
THOMAS COCHRANE,

Rear-Admiral and Commander.in-Chitl

P.S.— The guns on the islands of Cherimon and Coin
Arrant, alluded to in my letter No. 113, of the 9th inst ,
have since that date been sunk in deep water, and the
batteries razed to the ground. T. C.
The Secretary of the Admiralty, London.

Honourable Company's steam vessel Phlegethon, off city
of Borneo, July 19, 1846.
Sir,—l have to acquaint your Excellency, that on the
morning of the 10th instant I moved up the river
Borneo, with the force which you did me the honour to
place under my command ; the strength of which, in-
cluding the gun-boat division, I herewith annex (A).
Having understood from your Excellency that it was
the intention of Mr. Brooke to accompany the ex-
pedition, the main object of which was to endeavour t
penetrate into the interior as f:Lr as the village of
Damuan, distant about thirty miles from this city, whgre
it was reported the Sultan had fixed his head• quarte:rs,
and with a body of five hundred men was determined to
make a stand ; I consulted her Majesty's agent as to
the best mode of carrying out your orders ; and he co-
ineiding in my opinion, that as rapid a march as possible
should be made towards the Damuan district, I dec'ded
on carrying this plan into effect as soon as we could dis-
cover a place of disembarkation.
As your Excellency accompanied the expedition ten
miles up the river, I shall commence my report from
that time.
The boats, nineteen in number, containing nearly 500
men, on parting company with your Excellency, at 10
'A M., continued to ascend the river for half a mile, when
they turned abruptly into a small creek on the left bank,
which the native guides assured Mr. Brooke led to a
village called Kabirun Battoo, where Iladji Assim, an
adopted son of the Sultan, and one of the principal
enemies of civilisation, had retreated the day before the
capture of the city.
After padding and tracking the boats for three hours
through intricate windings, with mangrove swamps on
either hand, and overhanging trees level with the water's
edge, affording constant work for our pioneers, and,
owing to the rapid current, presenting considerable diffi-
culty to the advance, particularly of the paddle-box boats
laden with the detachment of Royal Marines, we finally
gained a landing-place, the depth of water admitting the
division of boats of the greatest draught to maiotain
their stations.

Having disembarked the party, we commenced our
march without loss of time ; a body of marines, forty
strong, under the orders of Lieutenant Alexander,
R M.A., and a detachment of pioneers, advancing
through the jungle in Indian files, about a hundred
yards in advance of the main body, Mr. Brooke, myself,
and two guides accompanying former. After a walk of
I twenty minutes, to our great surprise, the guides in-
formed us that on emerging from the jungle we should
be close on the village of Kuberan Battoo. This report
we found correct ; and having gained the open ground,
I threw out flanking parties to the right and left, and
surrounded the principal mansion—a building of con-
siderable size, erected on piles, according to the Dyak
fashion. It tarned out to be deserted by the owners,
but was full of valuable property secured in massive
chests ; also arms, ammunition, &c., both for great guns I
and small arms, and several tin cases of fine English
powder ; and a villager who was subsequently brought
in confirmed the deposition of our guides that the whole
property belonged to Hadji Assim, who, two days pre-
viously, on a requisition from the Sultan, had joined his
Highness at Damuan.
Our Kadyan prisoner, after some persuasion, next in-
formed us that there was a battery in course of erection
close at hand in the jungle for the pretection of the
causeway leading to the house. I therefore ordered
Lieut. Mathews, commanding the seamen, small-arm
men of the Iris and Royalist, to reconnoitre with one of
ou
si
our
guides
guxides;and he shortly returned with the report,
thatpieces of brass ordnance of considerable dimen-
sions were raised on an adjoining eminence in readiness
for mounting, and that they completely commanded the
path from our place of landing ; these I took possession
of and delivered over to the charge of Lieut. Patey, who,
with a party from the gun boats, was ordered to guard
the village and hold it for the main body of the expedi-
tion to fall back on.
At three P.M. we commenced our march from Kabiran
towards Damuan, the rain falling heavily, and before the
rear-guard had cleared the village we entered a marshy
swamp, having apparently a broad buffalo path through
which we moved on knee-deep in mud. As we slowly
advanced the swamp gradually deepened, the men were
occasionally up to their middle in water floundering in
the mud, and with difficulty keeping their ammunition
dry ; after struggling for an hour against such an un-
promising road, and seeing in the distance no prospect of
rising ground, moreover having in the mean time learnt
from the natives that Damuan would be easier got at by
roturing to Borneo and ascending another creek, and
being otherwise suspicious of our guides, I informed
Mr. Brooks of my determination not to proceed further,
as I considered it under all the circumstances of our
position, in an unknown country and amongst hostile
tribes, imprudent to attempt a further advance, I con-
sequently ordered a retreat on Kabiran, where we
bivouacked for the night amongst mosquitoes and tor-
rents of rain.
The following morning (July 11th), the expedition
was again in movement at an early hour in two divisions,
and the seamen under Lieut. Mathews reached a Kadyan
village after two hours march, when, finding the path-
way even more inaccessible from the rain of the previous
night, and the guides constant in their statement by
pointing to the sun that Damuan was yet six hours dis-
tant, with, in some parts, passages over a country breast- ,
high in water, I reluctantly gave up all hopes of reach-
ing the Sultan's retreat by this route, and being con- ,
vinced that my proper course was to fall back upon head