I have no hesitation in asserting that an English cutter is a match for any of them, and a French privateer has, before now, proved that she was superior.

The crews are composed of a small proportion of English seamen, a small proportion of Portuguese sea-cunnies, a proportion of Lascars, and a proportion of Hindoo Bombay marines.

It requires two or three languages to carry on the duty; customs, religions, provisions, all different, and all living and messing separate.

How is it possible that any officer can discipline a ship's company of this incongruous description, so as to make them "pull together"?
In short, the vessels and the crews are equally contemptible, and the officers, in cases of difficulty, must be sacrificed to the pride and meanness of the Company.

My reason for taking notice of the "Bombay Marine" arises from an order lately promulgated, in which the officers of this service were to take rank and precedence with those of the navy.