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fords commissioners of the Admiral- 
¢y, an account of yessels captured 
and destroyed by his majesty’s 
squadron under my command, since 
the return made in November last. 
* Lam, &e, J.T. Duckworth. 
Sir Evan Nepean, bart. &c. &c. 
{Here follows a list of 37 ships 
and vessels captured, detained, and 
destroyed, by his majesty’s squa- 
dron employed at Jamaica, the Ba- 
hama islands, under the orders of 
J. T. Duckworth, K. B. | 
. B. There has been destroyed 
since last return 30 sail of small 
craft of various descriptions at Cape 
Francois, “Monte Christe, and the 
Mole, &¢. Ke, 
Extract of a Dispatch from Gover- 
nor the Hon. Frederick North, 
to the Right Hon. Lord Hobart, 
one of his Majesty's Principal Se- 
cretaries of State, dated Columbo, 
8th July, 1803. 
1 inclose to you the deposition of 
a person, stating himself to be an 
eye-witness of one of the most a- 
trocious acts of perfidy and cruelty 
ever committed. Every particular 
of the narration may not be true; 
but it appears that Candi was at- 
tacked in the midst of a truce, by 
the first Adigaar, on the 23d (or I 
rather believe on the 24th) ultimo; 
that major Davie, commanding the 
garrison there, capitulated on the 
following day ; and that, after he 
left the fort, all the English soldiers 
who accompanied him were treache- 
rously murdered in cold blood. I 
cannot believe that major Davie 
would have consented to evacuate, 
on any terms less fayeurable than 
those stated in the deposition ; viz. 
of being allowed to proceed with 
arms and ammunition, and without 
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molestation, to Trincomalée, and 
that care should be taken of the sick 
whom he left behind ; for the fort 
was rendered, in the opinion of most 
military men, tenable against any 
force that was likely to be brought 
against it, and large supplies of pro- 
visions had been sent thither, in ad- 
dition to those which licut. colonel 
Barbot declared to be sufficient for 
six months’? consumption, 2 months 
ago. Lieut. Husskisson was also on 
the road from ‘Trincomalée (as ma- 
jor Davie must have known) with 
100 doolies, under an escort of 150 
Malays: and when I heard of the 
breach of the truce, I ordered lieut. 
col. Hunter to proceed from Trin- 
comalée with 200 of his majesty’s 
9th regiment, and 50 Malays, to se- 
cure the evacuation, which (had it 
been delayed for a fortnight) would 
have been safely effected. But what 
I can still less account for is, that 
major Davie, having obtained such 
terms, should have consented to lay 
down his arms, when he must have 
felt that the person who insisted on 
such an infraction of agreement 
could have no other design but that 
of murdering him and his men, and 
when he must, in common with all 
the army, have known that a corps 
of forty Europeans in good health, 
and of 200 Malays, might Git 
their way through any army of 
_Candians to any part of the island. 
Indeed, captain Mudge, late com- 
mandant of f ort Macdowall, brought 
off his men in circumstances of a& 
great difficulty ; and a sinall detach- 
ment of 22 invalid Malays, 14 con- 
valescents of the 19th regiment from 
Candi, and 60 sepoys under lieut. 
Nixon, ensign Grant, and ensign 
Smellie, defended themselves in a 
miserable little fort of fascines at 
Dembadenia, for more than a week, 
Nag against 
