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APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. 



ARTICLES FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE 



London Gazette Extraordinary, 



Tuesday Jan. 21. 

 Doxvnmg-street, Jan. 20, 1812. 



CAPTAIN HARRIS, com- 

 manding his Majesty's bliip 

 Sir Francis Drake, arrived last 

 night at Lord Liverpool's office 

 with a dispatch, of which the fol- 

 lowing is a copy : — 



Batavia, Sept. 29, 1811. 



Sir, — I had the honour to ac- 

 quaint you, in my dispatch of the 

 1st instant, that the conquest of 

 Java was at that time substantially 

 accomplished by the glorious and 

 decisive victory of the 20th of 

 August. 



I am happy to announce to your 

 excellency the realization of those 

 views, by the actual surrender of 

 the island and its dependencies by 

 a capitulation concluded between 

 their excellencies Lieut.-General 

 Sir Samuel Auchmuty and General 

 Jansens, on the 18th of September. 



I have the honour to inclose a 

 report which the commander-in- 

 tliief has addressed to me, of the 

 proceedings of the armysubsequent 

 to the 26lh of August, with its 

 inclosures. 



Your excellency will observe 

 with satisfaction, from these docu- 

 ments, that the final pacification 



of the island has been hastened by 

 fresh examples of the same spirit, 

 decision, and judgment which have 

 marked the measures of his excel- 

 lency the commander-in-chief, and 

 of the same gallantry which has 

 characterised,the troops since the 

 hour of their disembarkation oa 



this coast. 



The commander-in-chief will 

 sail in a few days for India ; and I 

 flatter myself that I shall be able 

 to embark on board his Majesty s 

 ship Modeste, for Bengal, about 

 the middle of October. 



I have the honour to be, &c. 



(Signed) Minto. 

 To his Excellency R. T. Farquhar, 

 esq. &c. Isle of France. 



Modeste, off Samarang, 

 Sept. 21, 1811. 

 My Lord,— I have the honour to 

 submit to your lordship, a continu- 

 ation of the report which it is my 

 duty to lay before you, of the 

 proceedings of the army under my 

 command. 



Immediately on receiving the 

 intelligence of General Jansens 

 retreat from Bugtenzorg by an 

 eastern route, and the occupation 

 of that post by our troops, I placed 

 a force, consisting of the 3rd bat- 

 talion of Bengal volunteers, and a 

 detachment 



