APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. 



29.5 



Captain Wainwright, of the Ton- 

 iiant, Lieutenant James Scott (1st 

 of the Albion) attending as my 

 aide-de-camp. 



I endeavoured to keep with the 

 boats and tenders as nearly as pos- 

 sible abreast of the army under 

 Major-General Ross, that I might 

 communicate with him as occasion 

 cft'eied, according to the plan 

 previously arranged ; and about 

 mid-day yesterday I accordingly 

 anchored at the ferry-house oppo- 

 site Lower Marlborough, where I 

 met the general, and where the 

 army halted for some hours, after 

 which he marched for Nottingham, 

 and I proceeded on for the same 

 place with the boats. On our 

 approaching that town, a few shots 

 >vere exchanged between the lead- 

 ing boats and some of the enemy's 

 cavalry ; but the appearance of our 

 array advancing caused them to 

 retire with precipitation. Captains 

 Nourse and Palmer, of the Severn 

 and Hebrus, joined me this day 

 with their boats, having found it 

 impracticable to get their ships 

 higher than Benedict. 



The major-general remained 

 jB'ith the army at Nottingham, and 

 the boats and tenders continued 

 anchored oft" it during the night ; 

 *nd soon after day-light this raorn- 

 iitg, the whole moved again for- 

 ward ; but the wind blowing dur- 

 ing the morning down the river, 

 and the channel being excessively 

 narrow, and the advance of our 

 teoders consequently slow, Ijudged 

 it advisable to push on with the 

 boats, only leaving the tenders to 

 follow as they could. 



On approaching Pig Point 

 (where the enemy's flotilla was 

 said to be), 1 landed the marines 

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under Captain Robyns on the left 

 bank of the river, and directed hiui 

 to march round and attack, on the 

 land side, the town situated on 

 the point, to draw from us the 

 attention of such troops as might 

 be there for its defence, and the 

 defence of the flotilla : I then 

 proceeded on with the boats, and, 

 as we opened the reach above Pig 

 Point, I plainly discovered Com- 

 modore Barney's broad pendant in 

 the headmost vessel, a large sloop, 

 and the remainder of the flotilla 

 extending in a long line astern of 

 her. Our boats now advanced 

 towards them as rapidly as possi- 

 ble ; but on nearing them, we ob- 

 served the sloop bearing the broad 

 pendant to be on fire, and she very 

 soon afterwards blew up. I now 

 saw clearly that they were all 

 abandoned, and on fire, with trains 

 to their magazines ; and out of the 

 seventeen vessels which composed 

 this formidable and so much vaunt- 

 ed flotilla, sixteen were in quick 

 succession blown to atoms, and the 

 seventeenth (in which the fire had 

 not taken) we captured. The 

 commodore's sloop was a large 

 armed vessel ; the others were 

 gun-boats, all having a long gua 

 in the bow, and a carronade in the 

 stern ; the calibre of the guns and 

 number of the crew of each differ- 

 ed in proportion to the size of the 

 boat, varying from 32 pounders 

 and sixty men to 18-pounders and 

 forty men. I found here, lying 

 above the flotilla, under its pro- 

 tection, thirteen merchant schoon- 

 ers, some of which not being worth 

 bringing away, I caused to be 

 burnt ; such as were in good con- 

 dition I directed to be moved to 

 Pig Point. Whilst employed in 



