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the guns up the heights, over a 

 very heavy and difficult ground. 



Day-light on the 17th shewed the 

 very great ad vantage obtained over 

 the enemy in the attack of the pre- 

 ceding day, as he had abandoned 

 in the night the battery on the 

 beach, as well as the water battery, 

 both of which being very low, 

 had much annoyed the shipping. 

 Shortly after some shells were 

 thrown from the fort at our posi- 

 tions on the heights, without doing 

 any injury, while the shot from our 

 batteries, in return, were seen to 

 have considerable effect. 



These decided advantages, with 

 the progress making by the troops, 

 led to a capitulation ; by which 

 the town, the island, and its de- 

 pendencies, were surrendered. 



This important colony was de- 

 fended by 1 30 Europeans, and up- 

 wards of 1,000 Javanese and Ma- 

 durese troops, exclusive of theofB- 

 cersand crews of three vessels sunk 

 in the inner harbour, many of 

 which are Europeans, amounting 

 to 220 men, aided by the Dutch 

 inhabitants and burghers, who 

 were stationed in the batteries on 

 this very formidable line of de- 

 fence. 



A great number of ships and 

 country vessels were taken on this 

 occasion, or fell into the hands of 

 the British by the course of subse- 

 quenc events. 



Sir George Collier relates the 

 cutting out of a vessel from under 

 the French batteries, on the coast 

 of Quiberon, by the boats of his 

 ship, the Surveillante. 



Also the destruction of a small 

 watch-tower, and a new battery on 

 the same coast : thus, in less than 

 five minutes time, rendering use- 

 less the labour of some months. 



19. Admiral sir C. Cotton, bart. 



relates the proceedings of the 

 French fleet at Toulon: with their 

 reluctance to engage a weak British 

 squadron ; although by so doing 

 they must have taken two British 

 frigates. This flattering respect 

 to the British navy gives the ad- 

 miral peculiar pleasure. 



The French schooner San 

 Joseph, of St. Malo, of sixteen 

 guns, taken by captain Malcolm, 

 of the llhin, off the Lizard. 



OCTOBER. 



2. The Danish schooner Horsp 

 Mod, of six guns and four swivels, 

 taken by the Py ramus, captain 

 Dashwood. 



6. The Indomptable, French 

 privateer, taken in the middle of 

 an English convoy, by captain 

 Selby, of his majesty's ship the 

 Owen Glendower, off the Lizard. 



9. The Panish privateer Ael- 

 berg, of eight guns, destroyed by 

 lieutenant Nugent, off the Hare, 

 September 10. Also the Danish 

 privateer Popham, and the Danish 

 brig Troforte. 



13. Report from admiral sir H. 

 Neale, of the Caledonia, of an 

 attack on the French coast, in 

 Basque Roads, by landing the ma- 

 rines of that ship, capturing two 

 brigs, and destroying two others, 

 by the boats, notwithstanding they 

 were under the protection of the 

 land batteries, and field-pieces 

 brought down on purpose. 



14. F,xiraor dinar y. — From lord 

 Wellington, detailing the march of 

 his army from Celorico towards 

 Lisbon, from the 20ih to the 30th 

 of September. His lordship parti- 

 cularly describes the battle of 

 Busaco, fought the 27th. 



The Sierra de Busaco is a high 

 ridge, which extends from the 



