The 6th company 1st battalion of artillery sailed on the expedition, but had little opportunity of gaining distinction. Bourbon was occupied in July, and the force sailing for the Isle of France, landed at an unexpected point, and moved forward with rapidity and decision. Fort Malartic was carried by assault, and the town surrendered in December. [Illustration] The officers in the margin[61] accompanied the artillery; and the native troops were decorated with a medal, not so much for the service, probably, as for the purpose of stimulating the native army to embark with alacrity for service beyond seas. In this year the regiment furnished a portion for a far more serious conflict, in which native troops were once again brought into personal contest with Europeans, an event which had not occurred since the destruction of the French power in the Carnatic; we refer to the expedition to Java. The artillery detachment was as follows:— Major Caldwell, Commandant. Lieut. J. Scott, Adjutant. ───────────────────────┬─────────────┬───────────── Company. │7 │1 ───────────────────────┼─────────────┼───────────── Battalion. │1 │2 ───────────────────────┼─────────────┼───────────── Lascar Companies. │15, 16 │19, 24 ───────────────────────┼─────────────┼───────────── Captains. │W. Richards │J. Dundas │ │H. Faithful ───────────────────────┼─────────────┼───────────── Captain Lieutenants. │J. D. Smith │J. Farrington │ │Cameron ───────────────────────┼─────────────┼───────────── Lieutenants. │Harris │ ───────────────────────┼─────────────┼───────────── Lieutenant-Fireworkers.│Archer │Farnabie │ │W. Bell ───────────────────────┴─────────────┴───────────── 3rd Independent Golundaz. The detachment embarked on the 11th March, and reached Malacca in April, where the Madras division joined; the expedition remained inactive till the 11th June, almost the only event being the burning of one of the Bengal store-ships laden with powder; and this occurred fortunately without doing any damage to the fleet. Lieutenant Archer died on the voyage. On the 4th August the fleet anchored near Chillingching; the troops were landed, and took possession of Batavia without opposition on the 8th; an attempt by the enemy to drive them out the following night failed; and on the 10th the British advanced and drove the enemy from their intrenched camp at Weltervreeden. Captain Noble, with the Madras horse artillery, performed the chief artillery duties on this occasion.