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I should wish to do justice to 

 the great exertions and conspicu' 

 oils gallantry of all those officers 

 who had the opportunities of dis- 

 tinguishing themselves. I have 

 not as yet been able to collect suf- 

 ficient information. 



Major-General Cooke reports to 

 me his highest ajiprobation gene- 

 rally of all the officers and men 

 employed near him, particularly 

 mentioning Colonel Lord Proby, 

 Lieutenant-Colonels Rooke, com- 

 manding the Coldstream Guanls, 

 Mercer, of the 3rd Guards, com- 

 manding the light companies of 

 the brigade (the latter unfortu- 

 nately among the killed). Majors 

 Muttlebury and Hog, of the 69th 

 and 55th, as deserving of his 

 warm praise. He laments, in com- 

 mon with the whole corps, the se- 

 vere loss to the service of those 

 distinguished officers, Lieutenant- 

 Colonel Clifton, commanding the 

 1st Guards, and Lieutenant-Col. 

 th^ Hon. James 3Iacdonald, of 

 that regiment. These officers fell, 

 with many others, at the Antwerp 

 Gate, all behaving with the great- 

 est intrepidity ; and Lieutenant- 

 Colonel Jones, with the remainder 

 of the detachment, was forced to 

 surrender. 



The service of conducting the 

 columns was ably provided for by 

 Lieut.-Colonel Carmichael Smyth, 

 of the Royal Engineers (he himself 

 accompanied Major-Gen. Cooke, 

 as did also Lieutenant-Colonel Sir 

 George Wood, commanding royal 

 artillery), who attached officers to 

 lead each column, viz. Captain Sir 

 George Hoste, and Lieutenant 

 Abbey, to the left; and Lieut. 

 Sparling to the right; and Captain 

 Edward Michell, royal artillery, 

 IV ho volunteered Ins services, to 



the centre column, each having a 

 part}' of sappers and miners under 

 his command. 



Lieutenant Abbey was dange- 

 rously wounded, and Captain Mi- 

 chell was covered with wounds, in 

 the act of escalading the scarp- 

 wall of the place, but I trust there 

 are good hopes of his not being 

 lost to the service. 



Your lordship will readily be- 

 lieve, that though it is impos- 

 sible not to feel the disappoint- 

 ment of our ultimate failure in this 

 attack, 1 can only think at present 

 with the deepest regret of the loss 

 of so many of my gallant com- 

 rades. 



I have the honour to be, &c. 



Thomas Graham. 

 Earl Bathurst, &c. &c. &c. 



P. S. Returns will be transmit- 

 ted as soon as they can possibly be 

 received ; meanwhile I send the 

 most correct nominal list that can 

 be obtained, of the officers killed, 

 wounded, and prisoners. T, G. 



Bergen-op-Zoom, March 

 10, 1S14. 

 Sir, — 1 have now the honour of 

 reporting to your Excellency, that 

 the column which made the attack 

 on the Antwerp side got into the 

 place about eleven o'clock on the 

 night of the 8th, by the clock of 

 this town ; but at half-past eleven, 

 by the time we were regulated by, 

 a delay having occurred at Bourg- 

 bliet, occasioned by my finding it 

 necessary to change the point of 

 attack, on account of the state of 

 the ice at the first intended spot. 

 Every exertion was n.ade by 

 Lieutenant-Col. Smyth and Capt. 

 Sir G. Hoste, of the royal engi- 

 neers, in getting on the ladders 

 and planks requisite for effecting 



