Lieutenant Wise had been selected as a fit person to command and point the _Phram's_ guns, which he did so badly that his shot mostly fell in the inner harbour.

The Mahrattas were quite ready for them, and all the afternoon the cannonade went on, till sunset put an end to it.

Five men on board the _Phram_ were wounded, but it had engaged at too great a distance to do or suffer much harm.

Brown, in the _London_, had kept out of action, and contented himself with sending six dozen of wine and arrack to the men on board the _Phram_, together with orders to Stanton, who was on board, to warp into the harbour at night and renew the action next morning.

The following day firing recommenced, and it was found necessary to displace Lieutenant Wise, he being continually drunk, and to allow the sailors to point their own guns.