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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1809. 



underlieutenant-colonelsBryceand 

 Lemoine;tlieprovidenceofthecom- 

 missariat and medical departments 

 under Mr. Burgman and Dr. Frank- 

 lin ; and the zeal, readiness and 

 good-will of the army throughout, 

 are the means by which I am pre- 

 pared to avail myself of opportuni- 

 ties to prosecute further a service, 

 the plans and progress hitherto of 

 which I humbly hope will meet his 

 majesty's most gracious approba- 

 tion. 



I have the honour to be, &c. 

 (Signed) 



J. Stuart. 



f Here follow the articles of ca- 

 pitulation.] 



Return of Killed and Wounded be- 

 longing to the army under the 

 comi7iand of lieutenant-general 

 sir J. Stuart, K. B. 8^c. between 

 the 2^th and SOth June, 1809. 



21st foot— 1 subaltern killed. 



6th batt. 13th king's German le- 

 gion — 1 rank and file (rifleman)kil- 

 led; 3 rank and file (riflemen) 

 wounded. 



Corsican rangers — 1 captain, 1 

 Serjeant, 2 rank and file wounded. 



Calabrian free corps — 1 bugle, 1 

 rank and file killed; 1 Serjeant 

 wounded. 



Army flotilla — 2 marines killed ; 

 2 marines wounded. 



Total— I subaltern, 1 bugle, 2 

 rank and file, 2 marines killed — 1 

 captain, 2 Serjeants, 5 rank and file, 

 2 marines wounded. 



[Here follows a return of the ord- 

 nance.} 



Names of Officers Killed and 

 Wounded. 



21st foot — lieutenant Cameron, 

 doing duty with the flotilla, killed. 



Corsican rangers — captain Arata, 

 ■wounded. J. Campbell, 



Maj. Gen. A. G. 

 Ischia, Jidy 4. 



Ischia, Jidy 9, 1809. 



My Lord — In my dispatch of the 

 5th instant, I had the honour of 

 stating to your lordship, that lieu- 

 tenant-colonel Smith had been de- 

 tached after our sailing from Milaz- 

 zo, with the 10th regiment and 

 Chasseurs Britanniques, which were 

 to be joined at the Faro by the 21st 

 regiment, with orders to occupy 

 and disarm the posts upon the 

 straight opposite to Messina, upon 

 the late retreat of the enemy upon 

 the first appearance of our arma- 

 ment upon the coast of Calabria. 



An attempt to reduce the castle 

 of Scylla was attended, in the first 

 instance, with disappointment, from 

 the sudden re-appearance of a large 

 preponderating force of the enemy, 

 which constrained lieut.-colonel 

 Smith to raise the siege, and embark 

 for Messina ; a measure which was 

 effected, I am happy to say, on the 

 20th ult. without the smallest loss, 

 but that of his besiegingtrain, which 

 necessarily became a sacrifice. It 

 fortunately, however, has proved 

 only a sacrifice of the moment. — 

 The official reports from major-ge- 

 neral Mackenzie state to me, that 

 on the night of the 2nd instant, the 

 enemy, from some sudden panic, 

 retreated again from the coast, hav- 

 ing previously blown up the works 

 of Scylla, and not only left us again 

 our captured stores, but an im- 

 mense quantity of ordnance and 

 stores of their own, which had been 

 placed in depot. Major-general 

 Mackenzie mentions to me in parti- 

 cular, that thirty pieces of brass 



cannon 



