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»- APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 
Dispatches, dated Cape Town, Jan. 
12, announcing the Capitulation 
of the Town and Garrison, 
PRUE expedition sailed from: St. 
Salvador on the 26th of No- 
vember, and reached Tale Bay on 
the 4th of January. After a general 
survey of the shore, it was found 
impossible to land the troops any 
where nearer to Cape Town, than 
Saldanha and Lospard’s bays, of 
which event general sir David Baird 
gives the following particulars : 
“¢ The surf along the shore of 
Lospard’s bay,” observes the gene- 
ral, ‘* having considerably abated 
the ensuing morning, I determined, 
_ with the concurrence of conimodore 
Sir Home Popham, to make an ef- 
fort to get the troops ou shore, and 
accordingly the Highland brigade, 
' composed of the 71st, 72d, and 93d 
regiments, effected that object, un- 
der the command of brigadier-ge- 
feral Ferguson.—The shore had 
been previously very closely in- 
Spected by the brigadier, and by his 
Spirited exertions and example, our 
efforts were crowned with success: 
although a confined and. intricate 
chaanel to the shore, which had 
been accurately pointed out by bea- 
cons laid down by the diligence and 
activity of the boats of the Diadem, 
Vor, XLYIEI, 
and a tremendous surf, opposed the 
passage of the troops. The enemy 
had scattered a party of sharp- 
shovters over the contiguous heights, 
and commanded the landing, but the 
casualties of this service arose prin- 
cipally from natural difficulties, and 
it is with the deepest concern I have 
the honour to inform your lordship, 
that we lost 35 rank and file of the 
93d regiment, by the oversetting of 
one of the boats, notwithstanding 
every possible effort to rescue these 
unfortunate men. The remainder 
of the troops could only be brought 
on shore on the succeeding day; 
when the extraordinary obstacles to 
all intercourse with the fleet, which 
nothing but the courage and perse- 
verance of British scamen could 
surmount, barely enabled us to ob 
tain the indispensible supplies of 
water and provisions for immediate 
subsistence. On the morning of 
the Sth the army, consisting of the 
25th, 59th, 71st, 72d, 83d, and 
‘93d regiments, about four thou- 
sand strong, was formed iato 
two brigades, with two howitzers, 
and six light field-pieces, and moved 
off towards the road which leads to 
Cape.Town ; and, having ascended 
the summit of the Blawberg, or 
Blue Mountains, and dislodged the 
enemy’s light troops, I discovered 
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