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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVY.
on this point, as to which, being the officer in chief command,
he naturally felt much concern, says:—"No attention was
paid to my representations on the subject, and I feel that grave
and lasting injury was caused by allowing these Police
Brigades to be called Naval Brigades."^
Throughout his connection with the Supreme Government,
the correspondence, official and semi-official, Captain Campbell
maintained with the successive Home Secretaries, Mr. (now
Sir) Cecil Beadon, and Mr. (now Sir) William Grey,t was of
the most unreserved and friendly character, the public interests
being the paramount consideration with all parties, though
the relations were of a somewhat delicate and novel character.
We will now trace the services in detail of the Detachments
of the Indian Navy, each of which had a distinguishing number,
as far as we are able from incomplete records, for which we are
indebted to Captain Campbell, to the officers concerned, or,
where these are deceased, to their representatives, and to other
sources printed or unpublished.
Yery good service was performed at Dacca on the 22Ld of
November, 1857, by No. 4 Detachment and two armed pin
naces, commanded by Lieutenant T. E. Lewis, First-Lieutenant
of the 'Punjaub,' of which we gather details from an account
by a gentleman, a member of the small local Volunteer force
of Europeans and Eurasians, who w T as present on the occasion.
The Detachment, w r hich reached Dacca in August, numbered
eighty-five seamen, and the following officers:—Lieutenant
Lewis, Acting-Master Connor, Midshipmen An experienced sailor, but not a commissioned officer. W 7 . Cuthell, and A.
Mayo, of the 'Punjaub/ and Mr. Brown, boatswain An officer responsible for the equipment on a ship and overseeing the work of the ship's crew. . The men
were trained to the utmost pitch of efficiency by their gallant
Commander, an officer remarkable for militar}^ attainments
which would have qualified him for the post of adjutant of
Artillery or Infantry.
At a late hour on Saturday night, the 21st of Novem
ber, a letter, forwarded by express, was received at Dacca,
announcing the fact that the detachment of the 34th Kegi-
nient Bengal Native Infantry, stationed at Chittagong, had
mutinied, and that, after burning their lines and destroying a
great deal of property, they had marched off, apparently to
join the 73rd Native Infantry and Artillery at Dacca. The
^ It appears that this practice of passing themselves off as officers of the Indian
Navy, is still practised by certain individuals who have no right to the title, to
the detriment of the reputation of the old Service. Lieutenant H. Ellis (late
I.N., (now Master-Attendant at Singapore) writes to us, under date, the 8th of
September, 1877 :—" People in the Straits are all under the idea that the Indian
Navy means the Bengal Marine. I assure you there were several of these Bengal
Marine men down here when poor Burn and I first came, who always signed
themselves I.N., and had it on their cards. I have often been so much annoyed
that I make it a point never to talk about the Service."
f Late Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Provinces and Grovernor of
Jamaica.