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obliged to surrender, and were 

 marched prisoners into the town, 

 when I also learnt the fate of 

 Lieutenant Colonel Clifton's de- 

 tachment, and of Major General 

 Skerrett, Major Genera! Gore, and 

 Lieutenant Colonel Carleton, and 

 that the troops which had fol- 

 lowed them had suffered very 

 much, and had been repulsed 

 from the advanced points along 

 the rampart where they had pe- 

 netrated to, I was convinced that 

 a longer continuance of the con- 

 test would be an useless loss of 

 lives, and without a prospect of 

 relief as we were situated. I 

 therefore consented to adopt the 

 mortifying alternative of laying 

 down our arms. 



I have now to perform the just 

 and satisfactory duty of conveying 

 to your Excel lencj' my sense of 

 the merits and good conduct of 

 the officers and soldiers in this 

 hold and arduous enterprise : I 

 have only a knowledge of what 

 passed under my own observation, 

 and I lament that the loss of 

 Major General Skerrett, from his 

 dangerous wounds, and of the 

 other superior officers employed at 

 the other points, of attack, pre- 

 vents me from giving such de- 

 tailed praise of the merits of the 

 officers and soldiers, as I have no 

 doubt they deserve. 



I beg to repeat my sense of the 

 distinguished conduct of Colonel 

 Lord Proby ; Lieutenant Colonel 

 Rooke and Mercer, commanding 

 theSrd guards, aud light infantry, 

 distinguished themselves by their 

 activity and bravery ; and Majors 

 Muttlebury and Hog, of the 69th 

 and 55th regiments, deserve my 

 warm praise for the conduct dis- 



played by those corps in the 

 charges I have before mentioned. 

 I have every reason to know that 

 Lieutenant Colonel Clifton con- 

 ducted his detachment in the most 

 gallant and officer-like manner, 

 and I have to lament that his 

 death deprives me of receiving his 

 report of the conduct of Lieut.- 

 Colonels M'Donald and Jones, 

 and the officers and soldiers of the 

 1st guards, under his command. 



I am not yet enabled to trans- 

 mit an exact return of the pri- 

 soners taken at different times by 

 the enemy, nor of the numbers 

 taken from them. 



I have the honour to be, &c. 

 (Signed) 

 J. G. Cooke, Major-Gen. 

 General Sir Thomas Graham. 



Head-quarters, Calmhout, 

 March 11,1814. 

 My Lord, — I have the honour to 

 inform your Lordship, that Ge- 

 neral Bizanet, the Governor of 

 Bergen-op-Zoom, allowed Lieut. 

 Colonel Jones to come here with 

 letters from General Cooke, in 

 consequence of which I sent in 

 my Aide-de-Camp, Major Stan- 

 hope, yesterday morning, with 

 full powers to conclude an agree- 

 ment relative to an exchange of 

 prisoners ; a copy of which I have 

 the honour to enclose, agreeable 

 to which, all but the wounded, 

 were marched out from Bergen- 

 op-Zoom yesterday, for the pur- 

 pose of being embarked for Eng- 

 land, as soon as the navigation of 

 the river shall be open, and I 

 trust that my conduct in pledg- 

 ing my honour to the strict ob- 

 servance of this agreement will be 

 approved of, and that an irame- 



