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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVY.
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number of convicted mutineers awaiting transportation for life
to the Andamans, an anxious duty, as the prisoners were
desperate characters. His officers were Lieutenant R. Carey
and Acting-Lieutenant H. W. H. Burnes, who, soon after,
proceeded with No. 14 Detachment, and operated in the jungles
of Singhboom, against the rebel Coles. Other officers serving
with this Detachment, at various times, were Acting-Masters
AV. Shum, E. D. Green and H. V. Lillycrap. The charge of
Alipore jail had been taken over from the military by Lieu
tenant R. Gr. Hurlock, who, in September, 1858, marched from
Fort William with No. 10 Detachment, of eighty seamen,
and Mr. W. Bertram, gunner,^ and remained until relieved by
Lieutenant Carew. In September of the following year, upon
again making over charge of the jail to a military force, who
were sent to relieve him, Lieutenant Carew received the fol
lowing letter from Mr. Montresor, the superintendant of the
jail, under date, Alipore, 10th September, 1858 :
" Sir,—It having been intimated to me that the Brigade under
your charge is to be relieved by a detachment from the Fort
on Monday next, I have the honour to request you will accept
yourself, and convey to the junior officers and men under your
command, my best thanks for the very able manner in which
the duties of guarding the Alipore jail have been performed.
At no time during the course of my official career have I ever
met with so orderly, respectful, and respectable a set of men
as have composed the Brigade under your command. The
duties, irksome as they have often proved to be. have been
performed by officers and men cheerfully and without a mur
mur, and it is no little criterion of the discipline and good
feeling of the men when I state that during the six months
I have been Magistrate of Alipore, I have not only had no
signs of disturbance amongst the men and natives, but I have
actually not had a complaint of any kind against them.' ? t
Lieutenant Carew assumed command of theNaval Depot,
now stationed at Dumdum, and remained there till he went
to England on medical certificate.
On proceeding sick to the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. from Sasseram, on the
28th of May, 1858, Lieutenant Carew was succeeded in the
command of No. 7 Detachment, by Senior Lieutenant H. W.
* Lieutenant Hurlock liad no commissioned officers with him at Alipore. He
left Calcutta with a First-Class Second-Master, but shortly after his arrival at
Alipore this officer was arrested under instructions from the Royal Navy authori
ties, he being a midshipman An experienced sailor, but not a commissioned officer. and a deserter from H.M.S. $ Sparrow-hawk.'
f Lieutenant Carew also received, through Captain Campbell, a copy of a
letter dated " Council Chamber, October 1, 1852," and signed by Mr. J. D.
Gordon, Officiating Under Secretary to the Grovernment of India, stating " that
the Governor-General in Council considers the high terms in which the Super
intendent of the Alipore jail has expressed his sense of the good conduct of the
Indian Naval Guard lately on duty at Alipore, reflects great credit upon the
officers and men composing it."