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his officers. The whole of the Bri- 
tish army was now withdrawn from 
Calabria, except the garrison of 
Scylla, and a detachment of the 
78th regiment, under col. M‘Leod ; 
which had been sent in the Amphion 
frigate to the coast near Catanzaro, 
in order to countenance and assist 
the insurgents in that quarter. This 
service was effectually performed 
by col. M‘Leod and captain Hoste 
of the Amphion. The French 
under Regnier were severely harass. 
ed in their retreat along the shore 
from Catanzaro to Cotrone, and the 
latter place, with all its magazines 
and stores, fell into the hands of the 
English. General Acland was also 
dispatched to the bay of Naples 
with the 58th and Sist regiments, to 
make demonstrations in that direc- 
tion, which might alarm the enemy, 
and deter him from scnding rein- 
forcements to Calabria. General 
Acland was not absolutely pro- 
hibited from landing his troops, but 
he was directed not to expose his 
soldiers to that danger, unless he 
had a prospect of effecting some 
object of real and permanent utility. 
Sir Sidney Smith was in the mean 
time actively, if not judiciously, 
employed along the coast, assisting 
the insurgents with arms and ammu- 
nition, supplying them with provi- 
sions, and conveying them from one 
place to another, in the vessels 
under his command. By these ex- 
ertions he contributed materially to 
extend the insurrection along the 
coast, and to expel the enemy from 
the watch-towers and castles, which 
they occupied upon the shore. These 
operatiens were, in some instances, 
of use, by securing a safer and 
better anchorage for his ships; but 
in others, the blood and treasure 
which they cost, exceeded the value 
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of his acquisitions. In one of these 
adventures, two officers and five 
seamen were killed and thirty-four 
seamen wounded, in the attack of 
an insignificant fort at point Licosa, 
which he destroyed when it fell into 
his hands. No British troops were 
stationed any where to maintain his 
conquests, except in the isle of 
Capri, which was kept as a place of 
refreshment for the navy: but a 
- 
number of posts were occupied and _ 
garrisoned, by the insurgents, such 
as Amantea, Scalea and the isle of 
Dino on the coast of upper Cala. 
bria, and Maratea, Sapei, Camerota, » 
Palinuro and other places in the bay 
of Policastro. The chief, or rather 
sole use of these posts consisted in 
the protection which they afforded 
to the anchorage upon the coast, 
and facilities thereby given to the | 
British and Neapolitan small craft, 
of intercepting the coasting commu. 
nications of the enemy, so as to 
prevent the supply of his army in 
Calabria with cannon, which, from 
the badness of the roads, it was 
impossible for him to convey by 
land. 
The loss of Gaeta, which surren- 
dered to the French soon after the 
battle of Maida, more than counter- 
balanced these trifling successes in 
other parts of the coast. While the 
prince of Hesse continued to have 
the command of Gaeta, that place 
was gallantly defended ; and sallies 
were repeatedly made with the 
greatest success, by which the ope- 
rations of the enemy were impeded, 
their cannon spiked, and their bat- 
terics taken and destroyed. But 
the prince of Hesse having been 
wounded by a splinter, and removed 
for his recovery to Palermo, and 
the French having at length braught 
their artillery to act upon the place, 
