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543 



We see the mast-heads above water 

 of three of the schooners and one of 

 the schuyts which were sunk. 



W. Sidney Smith. 

 Lord Keith. K. B. 

 Sfc. Sfc, SfC. 



Return of Killed and Wounded en 

 board his Majesty's Ships and 

 Vessels in Action zcith the Enemy's 

 Flotilla, May 16, 1804. 

 Antelope : 2 seamen and 1 pri- 

 Tatc marine, woiinded. Penelope : 

 3 sep.mcn, killed ; and 4 seamen, 

 wounded. Amiable: Mr. Christie, 

 master's-raate, JNlr. Johnson, mid- 

 shipman, four seamen, and 1 boy, 

 iillcd ; lieut. W. Mather, Mr. 

 Shawell, purser, Mr. Connor, mid- 

 shipman, and 11 seamen, wounded. 

 Cruizer : 1 seaman killed ; Mr. 

 George Ellis, clerk, and 3 seamen, 

 wounded. Total : 2 petty officers, 

 10 seamen, and 1 boy, killed ; 1 

 lieut. 1 purser, 4 petty officers, 25 

 seamen, and one private marine, 

 wounded. 



W, Sidney Smith. 



Account of the success of the British 

 arms at Surinam, from the dis- 

 patches of M. G. Sir Charles 

 Green, and received by Earl 



' Camden, June 2'2d., 1804. Dated 

 Paramaribo, May 13. 



My Lord, 



It is highly gratifying to me to 

 have the honour of informing your 

 lordship that the colony of Surinam 

 has surrendered to his majesty's 

 arms ; and 1 have the further satis- 

 faction to acquaint your lordship, 

 that this valuable acquisition to the 

 i3ritish dominions Las been made 

 wilii very little loss on the part of 

 hie majesty's troops. In my dis- 



patches from Barbadocs of the 2d 

 of April, I had the honour to re- 

 peat to your lordship that the ar- 

 rangements for proceeding on the 

 expedition against Surinam being 

 nearly completed, I had reason to 

 expect wfc should be enabled to sail 

 from Barbadoes in the course of 

 three or four days ; and commodore 

 Hood having previously sigi.iiied to 

 me that every thing in the naval de- 

 partment was ready, I directed the 

 final embarkation of the troops, 

 stores, <S:c. on the Gth of the same 

 month. The following day the 

 whole fleet weighed anchor and 

 sailed. On the 25th, his majesty's 

 ship Centaur, having the commo- 

 dore's broad pendant, and on board 

 of which I was embarked, came to 

 anchor about 10 miles oif the mouth 

 of the river Surinam, and during 

 that and the next day the greater 

 part of the fleet also anchored. On 

 the 26th, a corps, consisting of the 

 flank companies of the 16th and 

 64th regiments, the rillc company 

 of the 2d battalion 60th regiment, 

 made up by detachments from the 

 battalion companies of the 16th, 

 64th, and 6th West-India regiments, 

 to about 600 men, and the first bri- 

 gade of royal artillery, besides arm- 

 ed seamen, was detached in dilFerent 

 vessels under convoy of his majes- 

 ty's ship Hippomenes, captain Ship- 

 ley. This corps was commanded 

 by brigadier-gen. Maitiand, who 

 was directed to efteft a landing at 

 the Warappa Creek, about ten 

 leagues to the eastward of the Suri- 

 nam river, where the enemy occu- 

 pied a post. The object of this 

 operation was to obtain a water 

 communication with the Commc- 

 wyne river, to procure plantation 

 boats in sufficient number to trans- 

 port the troops down that river to- 

 wards 



