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Analyses of Books. 
[May, 
“ Government had no reason to regret the purchase, although the war was so 
near its close. The certainty of her passage to and from Rangoon was so great, at 
a season when the north winds protracted the arrival of sailing vessels, that she 
was constantly employed in carrying despatches, and in no instance failed to out- 
run every other vessel. She made two entire voyages within the first month. 
Her accommodations, too, proved highly useful to sick officers and others re-join* 
ing their regiments, or returning from the campaign. She has also been used as a 
transport, and has sometimes mustered three hundred men on board. 
On one occasion, having brought the news of the first cessation of hostilities, 
many days before Captain Snodgrass arrived with the despatches in His Majesty's 
ship Champion , although the Champion had sailed before the Enterprise even reach- 
ed Rangoon, she saved the Treasury above six lakhs, by preventing the transmis- 
sion of stores, fresh contracts for transports, and other expenses, which a delay of 
twenty-four hours would have incurred. Again, the final news of the peace, de- 
spatched under similar circumstances, by His Majesty’s ship Alligator , was antici- 
pated by the Enterprise. Such a vessel, at the commencement of the war, would 
have avoided much of the severe suffering of the troops at Rangoon, which aggra- 
vated the mortality among the Europeans, while their distress was unknown and 
unsuspected in Calcutta.” 
A memorandum of her services is given in the Appendix, whence it appears, that 
from January, 1826, to February, 1828, she made 25 voyages, in all 14,000 miles, at 
an average rate of 5.1 miles per hour. In April, 1829, she was made over to the Bom- 
bay Goverment, but failing to satisfy their expectations of her speed, was lately 
transferred back to Calcutta. 
Mr. Taylor, who had seceded from the London Association, was meantime zea- 
lously pursuing the Suez scheme, and had launched the first of a series of steam tugs, 
intended for the Red Sea, in October, 1825. The Emulous was a model of a smooth 
water tug, but was totally unfit to contend with a heavy sea ; and it was a work of 
no small danger to bring her round the Cape, although dismantled of her paddles. 
She reached Calcutta only in September, 1826, a month after the Juliana, a vessel 
of 521 tons, leaden with coals, intended as her consort. 
Nothing could be more unfortunate than the result of Mr. Taylor’s projects. The 
Juliana was sent home under heavy mortgages for repairs, &c. The Emulous was 
forfeited through involvements here, and in England. She was too late for the Cal- 
cutta steam fund, and the whole train of steamers intended to be connected with her 
tvas necessarily abandoned. 
The Emulous herself was converted into a ship-tug, and while she had the river to 
erse , was very successful a joint-stock company purchased her, cut down her 
paddles, (no doubt duly calculated by the engineers at home to give her a maxi- 
mum speed,) injured her rate, increased her consumption of coal, and after making 
a losing concern of her for several years, have recently sold her for one-third of 
ner prime cost. 
Th e counter claims of Captain Johnston and Mr. Taylor to remuneration front the 
Indtan subscript, on fund, have so frequently been the theme of discussion here, « 
is needless to rev.ve the topic. Thus much, however, must be conceded by all pat- 
ties : the former, commanding a ship originally planned by his rival, -pursuing to 
in ah tt’T ° f by himSClf -- emb arking none of his own capital, and ft*« 
' ,e fr u,t, * e8 “"‘emputed, was yet rewarded handsomely and permanent 
in"- his own er ’ assum,I, g the line which, if any, must eventually be successful, s‘* k ' 
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