tons, one of two hundred tons, and ten smaller ones were set on fire and burnt.  By nightfall, all hands thought they had done enough, and told Stanton so, and in spite of Brown’s messages of expostulation, they took advantage of a land breeze to come out.  At midnight came Captain Woodward, of the Revenge, to report, in a panic, to Brown that he had left his ship on the rocks close to the fort, and that both vessel and crew were as good as lost.  Half an hour after, the Revenge was seen coming out with the other vessels.  She had not been ashore at all, and the only conclusion was that Woodward was frightened out of his senses; so he was put in irons for his cowardice.

Thus came to an end the grand attack, and nothing better was to be expected.  “I have continual disturbances in the ship dayly by the officers excessive drinking, and noe manner of command carryed,” wrote Captain Upton, of the London.  A few days later he records how Captain S. and Mr. D.[4] fought with their fists in the roundhouse before Mr. Brown, who took no notice of it.

The next few days were spent in repairing damages.  While thus employed, messengers came from the Kempsant, offering to join hands with the English in attacking Angria.  A quarrel had arisen between the two chiefs, owing to Angria having plundered some of the Kempsant’s ships.  But he stipulated that Angria’s fort at Deoghur, seven leagues to the south, should be first attacked; so, on the 7th October, part of the fleet was sent down to reconnoitre.

On the 16th, fresh stores of arrack, water and provisions having been received from Goa, Brown called a consultation of the officers on board the Addison, and proposed another landing under the Phrams guns.  But the officers were disheartened, undisciplined, and under no control.  One objection after another was raised, and the council of war came to an end by other officers of the squadron, who had learned what was going on, coming aboard, and conveying to Brown in no measured terms that they would have nothing to do with it.  One of them in a passion told Brown he was mad, and did not know what he was about—­which was true enough.  The next day, a foolish show of landing was made, and then Brown decided to abandon the attempt and transfer his attack to Deoghur.

Deoghur, or, as it was sometimes called, Tamana, was one of the ten principal forts ceded to Angria in 1713.  It commanded the small but good harbour formed by the Tamana river.  This was Angria’s southernmost stronghold.  The name Tamana is still to be found at a small place ten miles up the river.  Here Brown brought his squadron on the 18th October.  The usual desultory and harmless bombardment followed; the Phram and the bombketch being equally inefficient.  Then, when Brown suggested a landing party to storm the place, the officers refused to second him, and so, with some additional loss, the attack on Deoghur came to an end.  Not a word is said as to any assistance rendered by the Kempsant.  At daybreak on the 21st, the whole squadron sailed northward, but the tale of Brown’s incompetency was not complete.