244 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



for both finding and buoying the 

 channel of a navigation, which no 

 ship of similar draft of water had 

 ever before passed with their guns 

 and stores on board, and which, 

 according to the report of a sea- 

 man now in this ship, was not ac- 

 complished by the President Ame- 

 rican frigate, even after taking 

 her guns out, under a period of 

 forty-two days. 



Enclosed is a list of killed and 

 wounded, and also of the vessels 

 captured. 



I have, &c. 

 James A. Gordon, Captain. 

 To Sir Alexander Coch- 

 rane, Commander-in- 

 Chief, &c. 



COLONIAL DEPARTMENT. 



Doivning-streef, Oct. 9. 

 Major Addison arrived yester- 

 day with a dispatch from Lieut.- 

 General Sir J. C. Sherbrooke, 

 K. B. addressed to Earl Bathurst, 

 one of his Majesty's principal 

 Secretaries of State, of which the 

 following is a copy :— 



Castine, at the entrance of the 

 Penobscot, Sept. 18, 1814. 



My Lord, — 1 have now the ho- 

 nour to inform your Lordship, 

 that after closing my dispatch on 

 the *26th ultimo, in which I men- 

 tioned my intentions of proceed- 

 ing to the Penobscot, Rear-Ad- 

 miral Griffith and myself lost 

 no time in sailing from Halifax, 

 with such a naval force as he 

 deemed necessary, and the troops 

 as per margin, to accomplish the 

 object we had in view. 



Very early in the morning of 

 the 30th, we fell in with the Rifle- 



man sloop of war, when Captaiu 

 Pearse informed us, that the 

 United States frigate the Adams 

 had got into the Penobscot ; but 

 from the apprehension of being 

 attacked by our cruizers, if she 

 remained at the entrance of the 

 river, she had run up as high as 

 Hamden, where she had landed 

 her guns, and mounted them on 

 shore for her protection. 



On leaving Halifax, it was my 

 original intention to have taken 

 possession of Machias, on our way 

 hither ; but on receiving this in- 

 telligence, the Admiral and my- 

 self were of opinion that no time 

 should be lost in proceeding to our 

 destination, and we arrived here 

 very early on the morning of the 

 1st instant. 



The fort of Castine, which is 

 situated upon a peninsula of the 

 eastern side of the Penobscot, near 

 the entrance of that river, was 

 summoned a little after sun-rise, 

 but the American officer refused 

 to surrender it, and immediately 

 opened a fire from four twenty-four 

 pounders upon a small schooner 

 that had been sent with Lieut.- 

 Col. NichoUs (commanding Royal 

 Engineers) to reconnoitre the 

 work. 



Arrangements were immedi- 

 ately made for disembarking the 

 troops ; but before a landing 

 could be effected, the enemy blew 

 up his magazine, and escaped up 

 the Majetaquadous River, carrying 

 off in the boats with them two 

 field pieces. 



As we had no means of ascer- 

 taining what force the Americans 

 had on this peninsula, 1 landed a 

 detachment of royal artillery, with 

 two rifle companies of the 60th 

 and 98th regiments, under Col. 



