194 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1812. 



Lave also called upon the residents 

 at their courts, Van Braam and 

 Englehard, to continue, agreeably 

 to the capitulation, the exercise of 

 their functions in behalf of the 

 British government, and to secure 

 carefully the public property of 

 the late government, placed in the 

 territories of the respective princes 

 at whose court they reside. 



I have also required the other 

 public functionaries of the late 

 government to continue in the 

 temporary exercise of their func- 

 tions, which hitherto I have found 

 no instance of their decHning to 

 perform. 



It will be necessary soon to ar- 

 range for the guard of honour at- 

 tached to the Emperor and Sultan 

 of the troops of the European go- 

 vernment of Java, and for the oc- 

 cupation of the forts at their capital, 

 and on the lines of communication 

 to and between these; but this 

 will be easily arranged when the 

 troops ordered to Samarang shall 

 have arrived, and the report of 

 Captain Robinson shall have war- 

 ranted a judgment of the strength 

 of these detachments. 



1 embarked this morning in his 

 Majesty's ship Modeste for Batavia, 

 and shall have the honour of re- 

 ceiving your lordship's personal 

 commands, and discussing with you 

 the several military arrangements 

 which it may be necessary to make 

 for the security of the 'island of 

 Java and its dependencies, previ- 

 ous to my return to Madras, which 

 it is my wish to do without delay. 



I have the honour to be, &c. 

 (Signed) S. Auchmuty, 

 Lieut.-Gen. 

 To the Right Hon. Lord Minto, 

 Governor-general, &c. 



The articles of capitulzition fol- 

 low, with various official returns, 

 and the proceedings of the naval 

 force under llear-Admiral Stop- 

 ford. 



From the London Gazette, Jan. '25. 



Tarifa, Dec. 24. 

 Sir, — I have the honour to re- 

 port, that, on the 20th instant, the 

 enemy invested this town with 

 from 4 to 5,000 infantry, and from 

 2 to 300 cavalry. As it was not 

 advisable to fight so superior a 

 force, I resisted him for an hour 

 with the cavalry and infantry, Spa- 

 nish and British piquets of the gar- 

 rison, reinforced by a company of 

 the 95th, and two six-pounder 

 field-guns of Captain Hughes' 

 Brigade. The loss of the enemy 

 was considerable. On the 21st, 

 Captain Wren, of the 11th, des- 

 troyed, with his company, a small 

 piquet of the enemy. The 22nd, I 

 made a sortie at the request of Ge- 

 neral Copons, and in conjunctiorx 

 with his troops, with the intention 

 to ascertain the numbers of the 

 enemy, by inducing him to show 

 his columns. His light troops suf- 

 fered considerably from our shells. 

 The enemy is now making his ap- 

 proaches at a long musket-shofc 

 from the town ; but the ground so 

 completely commands us, and is 

 so favourable to him, that our small 

 guns have little or no effect upon 

 him. I have, &c. 



(Signed) J. B. Skerrett, 

 Colonel. 

 To Major-general Cooke, &c. 



Tarifa, Dec. 30. 

 Sir, — In my last I had the ho- 



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