by John Marshall

“ May 16th, 1822, to be first of the Alligator 28, Captain Thomas Alexander, C.B., in which ship he proceeded to the East Indies; – and, April 8th, 1823, to act as commander of the Sophie 18, then employed on the latter station: which appointment was confirmed by the Admiralty, Oct. 22d, following. The manner in which he was subsequently employed has been so fully detailed under the head of “Naval Operations in Ava, during the Burmese War,” as to render the least repetition superfluous. ”

“ The following, however, should have been inserted in p. 50 of the Appendix to Vol. III. Part I., serving, as it does, more fully to illustrate the determined character of the truly gallant “fire-eater,” under whose orders he was serving in Dec. ”