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we were determined, a boat was 
hurried off to inform us they 
would surrender if we would wait 
till next day ; which was agreed, 
on our being allowed to go into 
the harbour that night, and take 
possession of the shipping.” 
Return of shipping found in the 
river Demarara :—Hippomenes Ba- 
tavian corvette, pierced for 18 guns; 
Sophia, a ship claimed as English 
property; Rotterdam, ditto; Diana, 
ditto; Elbe, detained by the Dutch 
before our arrival, under British co- 
lours ; Nile, ditto; Admiral Kings- 
bergen; Aurora; Leestield; Maria; 
Wilhelmina, ditto; Boodes Welfee- 
ren, and Wilhelmina, Dutch mer- 
chant ships. 
At Berbice.—Serpent national 
schooner, and five merchant vessels. 
Total 19. 
Extraét of a Letter from Rear-Ad- 
miral Sir J. T. Duckworth, K. B. 
Shark, Port Royal, Jamaica, 
Sept. 29. 
Understanding from gen. Dessa- 
lines, that it was his intention to 
summon the town of St. Marc im- 
mediately, which was reduced to 
the last-extremity, I was strongly 
induced to urge him not to put the 
garrison to death, which he con- 
sented to: and I stipulated with 
him, that, if they surrendered, he 
should march them round to the Mole 
in safety, and that [ should appear 
off the Bay, and take possession of 
the shipping, one of which I knew 
to be a ship of war. 
Vanguard, of Cape Nicola Mole, 
Sept. 9. 
Sir, 
I received gen. Dessalines’ dis- 
patches about 8 o’clock at nigltt of 
the 31st of Oégtober, and got under 
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weigh at 1 A. M. At day-light we 
chased a man of war brig off St. 
Marc, but the wind being light and 
partial, she got into that place. in 
the afternoon we perceived a flag of 
truce coming out, but a heavy squal! 
of wind and rain obliged them to re- 
turn. The following morning they 
came on board, and brought a letter 
from Gen. D’Henin, which [ an- 
swered by making several distin¢t 
propositions, and sent them in the 
ship’s boat as a flag of truce, with 
an officer, and Mr. Cathcart had the 
goodness to take charge of tlem: 
about 5 o’clock the same day the 
general himself came on board in 
the boat, and we agreed to a con- 
vention: the next day and part’ of 
the night we were busily employed 
in effecting the embarkation of the 
garrison, &c. and the whole being 
completed, gen. D’Henin and his 
staff came on board the Vanguard 
at 3 o’clock in the morning of the 
Ath, and we made sail out of the 
bay. ‘Lhe situation of this garrison 
was the mest deplorable it is possible 
to imagine ; they were literally re- 
duced to nothing, and long subsisted 
on horse-flesh. I forgot to mention, 
that on the first we captured the 
same schooner we had taken on the 
26th past, with 25 barrels of flour 
going to St. Marc, which I took 
out; and transferring her people, 
with 15 soldiers she had on board, 
to a small sloop we took at the 
same time, sent her away, and kept 
the schooner, as she might be even- 
tually useful to us; and she is the 
vessel I have made over to gen. 
DHenin. ‘The vessels delivered to 
us consist of the Papillon corvette, 
pierced for 12 guns, but only mount- 
ing 6, having 52 men on board, 
commanded by monsieur Dubourg, 
lieutenant de vaisseau ; the brig Les 
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