SIS ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



second lieutenant, the service has 

 been deprived of a most valuable 

 and brave officer ; he fell early in 

 the action. Great credit is due to 

 Mr. Giles, purser, for volunteering 

 his services on deck ; to Mr. 

 Mitchell, surgeon, for the skill he 

 evinced in performing some ampu- 

 tations required at the moment, as 

 well as his great attention to the 

 wounded during the action, at the 

 close of which the water was nearly 

 a foot above the lower deck, from 

 the number of shot which struck 

 her between wind and water. I 

 have to regret the losa of the boat- 

 swain, Mr. Jackson, who was kill- 

 ed a few minutes before the action 

 terminated. The assistance I re- 

 ceived from Mr. Muckle, the gun- 

 ner, and also from Mr. Clark, 

 master's mate, Messrs. Towke and 

 Sinclair, midshipmen, the latter of 

 whom was wounded in the head, and 

 Mr. Guy, myclerk, will, I hope, re- 

 commend them, as well as the whole 

 of my gallant little crew, to your 

 notice. I have much satisfaction 

 in making you acquainted with the 

 humane treatment the wounded 

 have received from Commodore 

 M'Dooough ; they were immedi- 

 ately removed to his own hospital 

 on Crab Island, and were furnish- 

 ed with every requisite. His ge- 

 nerous and polite attention to my- 

 self, the officers, and men, will 

 ever hereafter be gratefully remem- 

 bered. 



Enclosed 1 beg leave to transmit 

 you the return of killed and wound- 

 ed, and have 



The honour to be, &c, 

 Daniel Pring, 

 Captain, 



late of bis Mnjesty's sloop 

 Linnet. 



COLONIAL DEPARTMENT. 



Dotvning-street, Sept. 27, 1814, 

 Captain Smith, Assistant Adj u- 

 tant General to the troops under 

 the command of Major General 

 Ross, arrived this morning with a 

 dispatch from that officer, address- 

 ed to Earl Bathurst, one of his Ma- 

 jesty'sPrinci pal Secretariesof State, 

 of which the following is a copy : 



Tonnant, in the Patuxent, 

 August SO, 1814. 



My Lord, — I have the honour 

 to communicate to your Lordship, 

 that on the night of the 24th inst. 

 after defeating the army of ttie 

 United States on that day, the 

 troops under my command entered 

 and took possession of the city of 

 Washington. 



It was determined between Sir 

 A. Cochrane and myself to dis- 

 embark the army at the village of 

 Benedict, on the right bank of the 

 Patnxent, with the intention of co- 

 operating with Rear Admiral Cock- 

 burn, in an attack upon a flotilla 

 of the enemy's gun-boats, under 

 the command of Commodore Bar- 

 ney. On the 20th inst. the army 

 commenced its march, having 

 landed the previous day without 

 opposition : on the 21st it reached 

 Nottingham, and on the 22od moved 

 on to Upper Marlborough, a few 

 miles distant from Pig Point, on 

 the Patuxent, where Adm. Cock- 

 burn fell in with and defeated the 

 flotilla, taking and destroying the 

 whole. Having advanced to within 

 sixteen miles of Washington, and 

 ascertaining the force of the enemy 

 to be such as might authorize an 

 attempt at carrying his capital, I 

 determined to make it, and accord- 



