By the end of October all was ready.  The ships from England, with the merchandise and money for the yearly investment, had arrived, and joined in the expedition.  In order to put an end to the quarrels among commanders that had marked the failure of former expeditions, Boone resolved to take the command himself; so, on the 1st November, he hoisted his flag on board the Addison, East Indiaman, having with him Mr. Walter Brown and other factors and writers.  There was at this time in the service a renegade Portuguese, one Manuel de Castro, who had been in Angria’s service before Boone had given him employment.  He had been present at Hamilton’s attack on Carwar, when his misbehaviour had been such as to make all present distrust him.  By his boasts of his knowledge of Angria’s harbours he had gained the confidence of the Council, and had been appointed Commodore of the Company’s gallivats.  But several of the English captains refused to serve under him, protesting that they knew his character better than the Governor did; so Boone contented himself by giving him command of only five gallivats.  On the 2nd, the squadron weighed anchor, and, on the following day anchored off Kennery.  It consisted of the Addison and Dartmouth, East Indiamen, the Victoria frigate, the Revenge and Defiance grabs, the Fame galley, the Hunter ketch, two bombketches, and forty-eight gallivats.  On the 6th they were joined by the Morrice, and on the 12th by the Stanhope, East Indiamen.  Directly after anchoring, a futile bombardment was opened on the Kennery fort, but the distance was so great that nothing was effected but waste of ammunition.  The ships then stood in closer, and opened fire again, while the Dartmouth ran in and fired several broadsides.  While this was going on, the Victory and Revenge were signalled to attack two grabs that were seen coming out of the harbour; but, on fourteen gallivats coming out to assist the grabs, they were recalled.  The 4th was spent in preparations for a landing, and the gallivats rowed round the island to choose a landing-place.  It was finally arranged that the soldiers and marines should land to windward, while the sepoys, covered by the fire of grabs and gallivats, should land at the opposite side of the Island, to leeward.  But when the moment arrived, next morning, the sepoys absolutely refused to land, in spite of the severest measures.[1] The soldiers and marines, three hundred in number, landed, but were beaten back with a loss of eighteen killed and fifty wounded, “more by ye force of stones hoven from ye rocks than fier arms.”  Some loss was occasioned by the bursting of a gun on board one of the gallivats.  Manuel de Castro, with his squadron of gallivats, had been ordered to lie off the mouth of the harbour and prevent reinforcements reaching Kennery.  Notwithstanding, he allowed five of Angria’s gallivats to slip in with ammunition and provisions for the besieged, of which they were believed to stand much in need.