APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 
nate was assembled, to whom I 
exposed my intentions, to which 
they expressed the most ready com- 
pliance. Waggons were every 
where demanded by them, and 
furnished with cheerfulness. Ca- 
valry was necessary, but the ap- 
pointments of the 28th were on 
board a ship which had sailed in 
guest 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 
scruple, on such an occasion, to 
require all saddle horses, without 
exception, to be brought in, which 
were valued by two members of the 
court of justice, and two officers 
of the 28th dragroons, and paid for 
on the spot, to the entire satisfac- 
tion of the owners. 
By these means, sir, leaving ma- 
jor-general Doyle in the command 
of the troops at and about Cape 
Town, amounting to near 4000 
men, and brigadier-general Camp- 
bell in the immediate command of 
the town, I, on the morning of 
the 16th instant, reached Saldanha 
Bay, at the head of the advanced 
guard, consisting of the light in- 
fautry, a body of Hottentots, and 
filty of the 25th light dragoons, 
assisted by brigadier-general M’Ken- 
zie, the remainder of whose corps, 
consisting of the grenadiers, the 
78th and 80th battalions, fifty 
more of the 25:b, and one hundred 
of the 28th light dragoons, in all 
about 25000 men, with two howit- 
zers and nine field pieces, arrived 
there also in an bour 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 
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utmost expedition ; and we had the 
satisfaction, from the heights from 
whence we descended to the shores 
of the Bay, to see him, with all 
his sails crowded, advancing with” 
a fair wind directly to the mouth 
of the harbour, though still at 
some distance. One of the ene- 
my’s frigates, which lay near the 
shore to cover their watering, cane 
nonaded us very briskly as we de- 
scended the heights, though withe 
out 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 Robert- 
son, who probably would have 
destroyed her; but perceiving that 
our fleet. was then entering the 
Bay, and that there was no pos- 
sibility 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 de- 
Stroying her, from a vain punctilio 
of obliging her to strike to us. 
We then employed ourselves in 
making the necessary dispositions 
for affording such assistance as 
might be in our power, in the event 
of the obstinacy of the enemy, 
obliging the admiral to attack 
them, as well as such as would be 
expedient in case they should run 
their ships on shore, neither of 
which, however, I thought pro» 
bable. I was accordingly inform- 
ed, by a letter from sir George the 
following morning, that the whole 
had surrendered themselves to him. 
The means by which this event 
has been accomplished, sir, has not 
afforded ‘any opportunity to his 
G2 majesty’s 
