were finally adjusted and agreed to on the 22d inftant, by three commiffioners on each fide, the ratifications thereof being figned by the commanders in chief, on the 23d following; and the garrison, amounting to 900 men, marched out this morning prisoners of war, laying down their arms on the parade of Fort Royal, and were embarked for France immediately. His majelty's troops having marched in, ftruck the French and hoisted the British colours, and changed the name from Bourbou to that of Fort George. I confider myself under great obligations to lieutenant general Prefcot for the zeal and ability with which he has affifted me throughout this arduous fervice, now brought to fo fortunate a conclufion, and to all the generals and other officers. Co. lonel Durnford, with the corps of engineers, and lieutenant colonels Paterion and Sowerby and major Manley, with the royal artillery, have alfo a claim to my warmeft approbat on, for their exertions in placing and constructing of the batteries, and the well directed fire of the artillery. The bravery, regularity, and good behaviour of the troops on every occafion has been moft meritorious and exemplary. Forts Bourbon and Royal have fuffered greatly from our fire during the fiege, and we are diligently employed to put them in a proper ftate of defence, effectually to fecure this important acquifition of territory to the crown of Great Britain. I am reftoring order as faft as poffible, from the confufion naturally occafioned by a siege, and have the pleasure to obferve that every thing in the forts is as tranquil and wellregulated as could be expected in the time. I fhall not lofe a moment in embarking ordnance and ordnance ftores, with troops, &c. to profecute with vigour the execution of fuch other objects and fervices as his majefty has been pleased to entrust to me; and hope to be enabled to proceed before much time can efcape, after regulating the garrifons of thefe forts, and all fuch other matters as require immediate attention. Major Grey, deputy quarter-matter general, will have the honour to deliver this difpatch, and can communicate any other particulars or information you may with to have. I have the honour, &c. CHARLES GREY. P. S. At the commencement of the fiege, the garrison of Fort Bourbon confifted of about 1200. I fend five stand of colours, laid down by the garrifon, together with the two co lours of Fort Bourbon, to be prefented to his majesty. The gallant defence made by general Ro. chambeau and his garrifon was, ftrongly manifefted on entering Fort Bourbon, as there was fcarce an inch of ground untouched by our fhot and fhells; and it is but juttice to fay that it does them the higheft honour, [Here follow the articles of capitulation. By thefe it is ftipulated, that the garrifon fhould march out with the honours of war; afterward to lay down their arms at a place appointed, and not to ferve against bis Britannic majefty, or his allies, during the prefent war. That they should be furnifhed with fips to carry them to France: and that the emigrants, who had returned to Martinique, should not be prefent when the garrifon laid down their arms, or embarked.] Total of the killed and wounded from the 16th to the 21st of March, 1794, inclufive. 3 rank and file killed; 11 rank and file wounded. Admiralty-office, April 21, 1794. Captain Henry Powlett arrived this morning, with difpatches from vice-admiral fir John Jervis, K. B. commander in chief of his majesty's ships and veffels Mr. Stephens, of which the following are at Barbadoes and the Leeward Iflands, to extracts and copy. Boyne, Fort Royal Bay, Martinique, Sir, My letter to you of the 16th, by the Roebuck packet, a duplicate of which is enclofed, has made the lords commiffioners of the admiralty acquainted with the operations of the fiege until that date; I have the pleafure to communicate, for their lordships further information, that the battery on Point Carriere, which forms the caft-fide of the entrance of the Careenage, open at day-light on the 17th, and with the gun-boats kept an inceffant fire on Fort St. Louis, while the gun and mortar batteries on the heights played on Fort Bourbon; lieutenant Bowen of the Boyne, who had commanded the nightguard and gun-boats for a confiderable time, perceiving a favourable moment, pushed into the Careenage with the rowing boats of the guard, boared the Bienvenu French frigate, and brought off the captain lieutenant, and about twenty men who who were on board her, under a fmart and captain Conyngham, to meet three perfons named by him at Dillon's plantation, at nine o'clock on the 21st, and on the 22d, the terms were concluded. The rapid fuccefs of his majefty's arms has been produced by the high courage and perleverance of his officers, oldiers and feamen, in the most difficuit and toil.ome labours, which nothing short of the perfect unanimity and affection between them and their chiefs could have furmounted. Commodore Thompson conducted the enterprife on the fide of La Trinité like an able and judicious officer. Captain Henry carried on the bufinefs at Ance d'Arlet with great energy, and has been indefatigable in forwarding all the operations he has had a fhare in. To captains Brown, Nugent, Harvey, Markham, Faulknor, Sawyer, Carpenter, and Scott, I am greatly indebted for the manner in which they conducted the attack against St. Pierre. Captains Harvey, Kelly, Rogers, Salifbury, Incledon, Riou, lord Garlies, Carpenter, Scott, and Bayntun, have gained great reputation in the army by the conduct of the naval battalions, and working parties under their command. Captain Berkeley (fince the arrival of the Alfurance) has furnished a powerful reinforcement of men from that thip. Captain Pierrepoint has been very active in the fervices allotted to the Seaflower. captain Grey I have found the experience of age joined to the vigour of youth. The captains of the forty-four gun fhips armed en flute, of the storeship and hospital ship, have done well. In For other particulars, I beg leave to refer their lordships to captain Powlet, who carries this difpatch, and to captain Markam of the Blonde, who conveys him. They ferved with commodore Thompson at La Trinité, and arrived on the fouthtide of the ifland in time to have a share in most of the tranfactions there. the honour to be, &c. I have J. JERVIS. P. S. Inclofed alfo is a lift of the killed and wounded belonging to the squadron under my command, alio a letter I re ceived from commodore Thompson. Total of the killed 14, and wounded 27. Name of the Officer killed. Captain James Milne, of the Avenger. Names of the Officers wounded. Captain Sandford Tatham, of the Drome. dary; lieutenant Thomas Henry Wil fon, of the Boyne; lieutenant Thomas Clark, of the Veteran; Mr. Robert Lindfay, furgeon of the Quebec. Fort Fort Royal, March 20, 1794. Sir, I have the pleafure to acquaint you, that the only lofs we have fuftained in the capture of Fort Royal is the pilot of the Zebra killed, and four feainen belonging to the fame thip wounded. So foon as I perceived the could fetch in, I gave orders to captains Nuget and Riou, who commanded the flat boats, which, with the men embarked in them, were laying upon their oars, to push in, and mount the walls; when every exertion was made, and the boats feemed to fly toward the fort. Captain Faulkner, in the mean time, in a molt fpirited and gallant manner, entered the harbour through the fire of all their batteries, and laid his floop along-fide the walls, there being deep water clofe to; when the enemy, terrified at his audacity, the flat boats full of feamen pulling toward them, and the appearance of the troops from all quarters, ftruck their colours to the Zebra. A well directed and feady fire from the gun-boats under Heutenant Bowen, as alfo from our batteries, was of great fervice. The alacrity and fteadinefs of the officers and feamen in general under my command was fuch, that I had not the leaft doubt of fuccefs against the whole force of the enemy, had they difputed our entrance. The fort is full of ammunition and ftores of all forts, but the buildings are in a miferable condition from the effects of our henke, the gun-boots, and batteries. I have the honour to be, &c. C. THOMPSON. Vice-admiral fir John Jervis, K. B. From the London Gazette, April 22. Whitehall, April 22. Captain Clinton, aid-de-camp to his royal highness the duke of York, arrived this morning at the office of the right hon. Henry Dundas, his majefty's principal fecretary of ftate for the home department, with a difpatch from his royal highness, of which the following is a copy. Cateau, in order to be reviewed by his Imperial majesty; after which the Auftian and British armies paffed the Selles, and encamped in front of this town, while the Dutch formed their camp immediately in its rear. At nine o'clock on yesterday morning, the three armies moved forward in eight columns. The first column, composed of Auftrian and Dutch troops, under the command of prince Chriftian of Heffe Darmstadt, advanced upon the village of Catillon, which was forced after fome refiftance, in which the enemy loft four pieces of cannon, and from thence proceeded across the Sambré, and took a polition at Favril, between the Sambre and the Petite Helpe, fo as to invest Landrecies on that fide. The fecond column, commanded by lieutenant-general Alvintze, and confifting of the referve of the Auftrian army, moved forward upon Mazinguer, and having forced the enemy's entrenchment at that place, as well as at Oify, pro teeded to Nouvion, and took poffeffion this morning of the whole wood called the Foreft of Nouvion. The third column, which confifted of the main body of the Auftrian army, and with which his Imperial majesty and the prince of Cobourg went themfelves, proceeded along the high road leading from Cateau to Guile, and, after carrying the two villages of Ribouville and of Waffigny, where the enemy were strongly en trenched, detached the advanced guard forward, which took poffeffion of the heights called the Grand and Petit Blocus, and pushed forward this morning as far as Henappes. The fourth and fifth columns were Of the first of thefe I took the direction, formed of the army under my command. having fieutenant-general Otto under me. Lieutenant general fir William Erskine commanded the other column.) redoubts and villages of Vaux, as well as My column was intended to attack the to render itself tatter, if poffible, of the wood called Bois de Bohain, which the enemy had ftrongly entrenched. In confequence of the very great defiles and ravines, which we found on our march, my column was not able to arrive at the point of attack till one o'clock in the afternoon. As foon as the cavalry of the advanced guard appeared upon the height the ene my began a very fevere cannonade, from the effects of which, although very near, they however were enabled, in a great measure, to cover themfelves by the natural inequalities of the ground." Having examined the enemy's pofition, and finding it very ftrong, I determined to endeavour to turn it by their right, and for this purpofe ordered the whole of the column to move forward, under cover of the high ground, leaving only a fufficient quantity of cavalry upon the heights to occupy the enemy's attention. Strong batteries likewife were formed, which kept up a fevere fire, and protected the movements very confiderably. As foon as the troops had gained fufficiently the enemy's flank, the advanced guard, under the command of major-ge. neral Abercromby, was directed to begim the attack, and two companies of the light corps of Odonnel, fupported by the two grenadier companies of the first regiment of guards under the command of colonel Stanhope, formed and took the Star Redoubt, above the village of Vaux, while the three battalions of Auftrian grenadiers, led on by major-general Petrafh, attacked the wood, and made themfelves masters of the works which the enemy had conftructed for its defence. The enemy's fire at first was very fevere, but when the troops approached they began to retreat on all fides, and were foon put to fight. I immediately detached a part of the cavalry, confifting of hullars, and o e fquadron of the 16th regiment of light dragoons, commanded by major Lippert of the former corps, round the wood to the right, who completely fucceeded in cutting them off, took four pieces of cannon and a howitzer, with a confiderable lofs of men on the part of the enemy; while the cavalry of the advanced guard on our left, under the command of colonel Devay, of the regiment of archduke Ferdinand's huffars, purfued them through the woods, and drove them into the village of Bohain, which they evacuated immediately. Sir William Erfkine was equally fuccefsful with his column, which was intended, by the villages of Marete and Prémont, to turn the wood of Bohain, in order to facilitate my attack. He met with no refittance till he arrived at the village of Prémont, where he found the enemy ftrongly posted; he immediately formed his line, and having detached the brigade of British infantry and the Auftrian regiment of cuirallers of Zetchwitz, with four fquadrons of Britith light dragoons, under the command of lieutenant general Harcourt, in order to turn the pofition, he attacked it in front with three battalions of the regiment of Kaunitz, fupported by a well directed fire of the Auftrian and British artillery of the referve, under the command of lieutenantcolonel Congreve, and fucceeded completely in driving the enemy from the redoubts, where he took two pieces of cannon, and a pair of colours. He from thence proceeded to turn the wood with a part of the corps, leaving the rest upon the pofition at Prémont. The fixth, feventh and eighth columns, were intended to obferve the enemy on the fide of Cambray, the first of these compofed of Auftrians, and commanded by major-general count Haddick, pufhed for ward as far as the village of Crevecoeur, and detached fome light troops across the Scheld, without meeting with any refiftance. The feventh column, confifting of Auf- ̧ trians and Dutch, under the hereditary prince of Orange, moved forward upon the high road leading from Cateau to Cambray, and advanced beyond Beauvois with the eighth column, compoted chiefly of Dutch troops, commanded by majorgeneral Geyfau, covered the hereditary prince of Orange's right flank, and moved forward in front of St. Hilaire. Neither of thefe laft columns were in the leaft engaged; but this morning the enemy attacked the prince of Orange's advanced guard, who repulfed them with great cafe. The fignal fuccess which has attended thefe extenfive and complicated operations, has determined his Imperial majelty to begin immediately the fiege of Landrecies; and therefore the hereditary prince of Orange, who will have the direction of the ficge, has moved this evening with the greatett part of his camp from Beauvois, and taken a pofition fo as to complete the inveftiture of that fortrefs; while his Inperial majefty, with the grand army, covers the operations of the hege on that fide of Guife, and that under my immediate command does the fame toward Cambray. What adds greatly to the general fatif faction upon this occasion is, the incon fiderable lofs which the combined armies have fustained, while that of the enemy has been very great. The British, in particular, have been peculiarly fortunate. The hon. captain Carleton, of the royals, a young officer of promiling merit, is the only one we have to regret; nor has any one officer been wounded; of privates we Rr bad had three men killed and fix wound. ed. The enemy has loft in thefe various attacks upward of thirty pieces of cannon, of which nine were taken by the column under my command, befide the two which were taken by lieutenant-general fir Wilfiam Erfkine. I have equal fatisfaction in reporting, from my own obfervation, and the account I have received from fir William Erskine, the fpirit and good conduct of all the officers and men under my command; but I have particular obligations to lieutenant-generals fir William Erfkine and Otto, as well as to major-general Abercromby, who commanded the advanced guard of my column, to colonel Devay, major Lippat of the Auftrian huffars, and to lieutenant-colonel count Merfeldt of the Auftrian etat major.. I cannot help likewife mentioning the good conduct and bravery of lieutenant Fage of the British artillery, who diftinguithed himself very much by the skill and ativity with which he directed one of the batteries. This difpatch will be delivered by my aid-de-camp, captain Clinton, whom I beg leave to recommend to his majetty, bis conduct upon every occation having merited my fulleft approbation. I am, fir, your's, FREDERICK. Right Hon. Henry Dundas, &c. From the London Gazette, April 26. Whitehall, April 26. A letter, of which the following is a copy, dated Cateau, April 24, 1794, was received on Thurfday laft, by Mr. fecretary Dundas from his loyal highness the duke of York, Sir, On Sunday morning, the hereditary prince of Orange made a general attack upon the pofts, which the enemy ftill occupied in the front of Landrecies, and fucceeded in getting poffeflion of them all, and in taking by storm their intrenched camp, and a very strong redoubt which they had thrown up at the village of Eloques, within fix hundred yards of the place. He took advantage of this redoubt to cover the left flank of the trenches, which were opened the fame evening. 3 Much praife is given to the behaviour of the Auftrian and Dutch troops upon that occation. According to the original plan, adopted before the battle of the 17th, it was determined to withdraw the detached corps of each army as foon as the potion for the inveftiture of Landrecies was properly fecured; and, in confequence, the orders were given the night before laft that thefe corps thould retire as this morning. But yesterday the enemy attacked two detached corps of the prince of Cobourg's army at Grand Blocus and Nouvion, under the command of major-general Bellegarde and lieutenant-general Alvintzy. The prince of Cobourg fent to defire me to fupport the former, and I marched immediately, with five battalions of Auftrians and major-general fir Robert Lawrie's brigade of British cavalry. I did not, however, arrive till the affair was over, general Bellegarde having repulfed the enciny with great flaughter, and having taken four pieces of cannon and one howitzer. As the enemy appeared in great force on general Alvintzy's front, the prince of Cobourg did not think it proper to fupport a pott which was of no importance to him, and which was at any rate to be abandoned that night general Alvintzy was therefore ordered to retire to his pofition in the line, which he did in great order, and with very inconfiderable lofs, although expofed to the enemy's cannonade. : I this morning received a report from lieutenant-general Wurmb, who commands a detached corps of the army at Denaing, that the enemy attacked him in great force on Saturday; that at first his advanced pofts were obliged to retire, and that the enemy had already got poffeffion of the village of Abfcon, and of one of the redoubts on his front; but, upon a reinforcement coming up, the enemy were completely driven back, with great lofs. The Heffians, however, fuffered confider. ably, having loft five officers; and seventy men killed and wounded. General Wurmb expreffes himself highly fatisfied with the behaviour of the divifion of the Auftrian huffars of Leopold and the Heffian Dragons de Corps. I am, fir, &c. (Signed) FREDERICK, Right Hon. Henry Dundas, &c. HIS |