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who receive a monthly subsistence, thall continue to receive it, according to the lift which shall be given in.

An. Granted, while they remain in Ceylon.

Art. 22.

All notarial papers, fuch as wills, bills of purchase and fales, obligations, securities, bonds, &c, thall continue in force, and the registers of them be prefented by commiffaries appointed en both fides for that purpose. Anf. Granted.

Art. 23. All civil fuits depending in the council of justice, thall be decided by the fame council, according to our laws.

Art. Granted; but they must be decided in twelve months from this date.

Art. 24. The deferters who are here shail be pardoned.

Anf. All deferters from the English service must be unconditionally given up.

Art. 25. The above articles of capitulation thall be faithfully fulfilled and confirmed by the fignatures of the officers commanding his majefty's fea and land forces, Colonel James Stuart, and Captain Alan Hyde Gardner; and in cafe of any thing appearing obfcure, it shall be faithfully cleared up; and if any doubts thall arife, it shall be conftrued for the benefit of the befieged.

Anf. Granted.

Art. The garrifon shall march out, agreeably to the 9th article, at ten o'clock to morrow morning, when the gate of Delft shall be de livered to a detachment of the British troops. The governor Van Angelbeck will order an officer to point out the public magazines, pofts, and public stores, that guards may be placed for their se

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Articles of Capitulation which lieutenant-general fir Ralph Abercromby, K. B. commander in chief of his majesty's forces in the West Indies, grants to the French government in St. Vincent's, the 11th of June, 1796.

Art. 1. The garrifon of the Vigie and its dependencies to march out this day at twelve o'clock, and lay down their arms.

2. The negroes, &c. are to return to their refpective proprietors. 3. The rest of the garrifon become prifoners of war. The officers are allowed to retain their fwords, and all are allowed to keep their private effects.

4. Such perfons as have been guilty of murders, or of burning houses or estates, must be subject to the judgment of the laws of the ifland.

5. The commandant of the French troops thall caufe to be given up, as soon as possible, all the posts which the French troops are in poffeffion of in this island; and the faid troops are to become prifoners, upon the conditions granted to the garrifon of the Vigie. 6. The commandant of the French troops shall be responsible that all artillery, ammunition, and stores, of every kind, thall be delivered up to the British troops in the order they are now in, and any injury or waste committed on them from this time, will be confidered as a breach of faith.

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of the French republic, comprehending, however, no perfon not formerly free, shall be prifoners of war, and remain fo till exchanged.

3. The garrifon of each poft shall march out with the honours of war, and lay down their arms in such place as will be pointed out to them, after which they will be conducted to the most convenient place till they can be embarked.

4. All guns, ordnance stores, commissary's ftores, public papers, and effects, belonging to the French republic, or actually in the posts occupied by their troops, are to be delivered up faithfully to the proper officers who will be fent to receive them.

5. The officers will retain their fwords, and both officers and men their baggage.

6. The post of Mabonia will be taken poffeffion of as foon as the capitulation is signed; and of Gouyave an hour afterwards; the post of Dalincourt at four o'clock this afternoon.

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ing is a copy, was this day received by the right hon. Henry Dundas, one of his majesty's principal secretaries of state, from major-general Craig, commanding his majesty's troops at the Cape of Good Hope, dated Camp, on the shore of Saldanha Bay, August 19, 1796.

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Sir, Sir,

I have great fatisfaction in reporting to you the event of an attempt which has been made by the enemy, and which has terminated to the honour of his majesty's arms, in the entire capture of the squadron of Dutch ships of war, deftined for the purpose of retaking this fettlement.

Having made every arrangement within my means, by the establishment of a small poft, and the laying the road by a fufficient number of the few men which I had been able to mount, for watching Saldanha Bay, I received a report on the 3d inftant, tranfmitted in fourteen hours, that nine thips had appeared off that coaft on the preceding afternoon, which I immediately communicated to vice-adıniral fir George Keith Elphinstone. By the fame report there appeared to be the strongest probability that his majefty's brig the Hope had been captured by them; and as there was no further account of them that day, I concluded that the information which they had received, by that means, of our strength here, had induced them to continue their route, and that they would stand far to the westward before they doubled the Cape, to avoid fir George's fleet, which had put to fea as foon as was poffible after the receipt of the intelligence.

In order, however, to omit no precaution, I fent up Lieut. M'Nah, with a few mounted men, to watch the Bay more narrowly; and from him I received a report, on Saturday night the 6th inftant, at twelve o'clock, that the fame number of thips which had formerly been reported had anchored that morning

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As it fortunately happened that the 25th and 27th light dragoons, with part of the 19th, and the whole of the 33d regiments, were in Simon's Bay, I could be under no apprehenfion for the fafety of the colony from any force which could be landed from nine ships of war. It became, however, an object of infinite importance to the welfare of the fettlement, to prevent any body of the enemy from throwing themselves into the country. At the same time the security of the Cape Town became an object of particular attention, both from the reasonable expectation, that the enemy would not have come with such a force, without a profpect of a junction with some other armament, and from the possibility of the admiral being prevented from doubling the Cape by the north westerly winds which usually prevail at this season, and which would carry the enemy in fix hours from Saldanha to Table Bay. It was therefore with particular fatisfaction that I found myself poffeffed of a force adequate to both these objects.

No time was lost in making the necessary arrangements in a country totally unufed to a movement of this nature, The troops began their march on Sunday morning, neceffarily by divifions, on account of fubfiftence. The burgher fe

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nate was assembled, to whom I exposed my intentions, to which they expreffed the most ready compliance. Waggons were every where demanded by them, and furnished with cheerfulness. Cavalry was neceffary, but the appointments of the 28th were on board a ship which had failed in quest of the admiral. Those of the 25th were also on board ship in Simon's Bay, and we had not above fifty horses. The appointments were brought up, and I did not fcruple, on such an occafion, to require all faddle horfes, without exception, to be brought in, which were valued by two members of the court of justice, and two officers of the 28th dragoons, and paid for on the spot, to the entire fatisfaction of the owners.

By these means, fir, leaving major-general Doyle in the command of the troops at, and about Cape Town, amounting to near 4000 men, and brigadier-general Campbell in the immediate command of the town, I, on the morning of the 16th inftant, reached Saldanha Bay, at the head of the advanced guard, confifting of the light infantry, a body of Hottentots, and fifty of the 25th light dragoons, affifted by brigadier-general MʻKen. zie, the remainder of whose corps, confifting of the grenadiers, the 78th and 80th battalions, fifty more of the 25th, and one hundred of the 28th light dragoons, in all about 2500 men, with two howitzers and nine field pieces, arrived there also in an hour after.

In the mean time the admiral had returned to False Bay, and on there receiving the first accounts of the enemy being in Saldanha Bay, had put to sea again with the

utmost expedition; and we had the fatisfaction, from the heights from whence we descended to the shores of the Bay, to fee him, with all his fails crowded, advancing with a fair wind directly to the mouth of the harbour, though still at some distance. One of the enemy's frigates, which lay near the shore to cover their watering, cannonaded us very brifkly as we descended the heights, though without effect, and we returned their fire with as little, having at that time only three-pounders with us; but a howitzer being brought up, a few shells were thrown with great precision by captain Robertfon. who probably would have destroyed her; but perceiving that our fleet was then entering the Bay, and that there was no poffibility of her escaping, I desisted from firing, thinking it more for his majesty's interest that she should share the fate of the remainder of the squadron, the capture of which appeared to me to be inevitable, than that we should risk the defiroying her, from a vain punctilio of obliging her to strike to us. We then employed ourselves in making the neceffary difpofitions for affording fuch assistance as might be in our power, in the event of the obstinacy of the enemy obliging the admirał to attack them, as well as fuch as would be expedient in cafe they should run their ships on shore, neither of which, however, I thought probable. I was accordingly informed, by a letter from fir George the following morning, that the whole had furrendered themselves to him.

The means by which this event has been accomplished, fir, has not afforded any opportunity to his majesty's

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majesty's troops of displaying that bravery in his service, which I am confident they would have shewn, had the occafion presented itself; but if the utmost alacrity and chearfulness, under almost every privation, except that of meat, during a march of ninety miles, through fo barren a country that there exist but five houses in the whole line, **have any merit, I can with truth present them to his majesty's

troops.

This march, fir, has never yet, I believe, been attempted by any body of troops, however fmall, and, permit me to affure you, has been attended with fuch uncommon difficulties, that it never could have been accomplished but by the display of the qualities I have mentioned in the troops, and union of extraordinary exertions in all the departments concerned. In these all have equal claim to my acknowledgements; but I cannot dispense without particularizing the intelligence and activity with which, regardless of the uncom

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requifitions and orders on the inhabitants for their waggons, cattle, and horfes, having been complied with with a chearfulness which could, I am fatisfied, only proceed from a conviction of the preference to be given to his majesty's mild and paternal government over the wild system of anarchy and confusion from which they were furnithing the means of being effec tually defended.

This will be delivered to you, fir, by my aide de camp, captain Baynes, who has been in this country fince the first arrival of his majefty's troops under my command, and to whose intelligence and active assistance I have been, on every occafion, highly indebted. I beg leave, fir, mott humbly to recommend him to his majesty's notice.

I have the honour to be,

With the greatest respect,
Sir, &c. &c.

J. H. CRAIG.

Admiralty Office, Nov. 3, 1796.

mon fatigue which attended it, Dispatches, of which the following

Lieutenant M'Nab, of the 98th regiment, with about twenty of his mounted men, performed the fervice allotted to him of watching the enemy, and preventing any communication with them, from the first moment of their coming into the Bay, till our arrival.

It is, fir, with very particular fatisfaction that I have further to report that I have received, on this occation, every possible affistance from his majesty's subjects of the colony.

The burgher senate have difcharged the duty imposed upon them with the greatest readiness, impartiality, and activity, whilft their

are copies, (brought by captain John Aylmer, of his majesty's ship Tremendous) were this day received from the hon. vice admiral fir George Keith Elphinftone, K. B.

Sir,

Monarch, Saldanha Bay,
Aug. 19,1796.

I have the honour to inclose a lift of a Dutch squadron under the command of rear-admiral Engelbertus Lucas, sent hither for the reduction of this colony, but which were compelled to furrender by capitulation, on the 17th instant, to the detachment of his majesty's ships under my command, named

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