APPENDIX 
To John Hayes, Esq. Cap- 
tain of his Majesty’s ship 
Majestic, and senior of- 
ficer off New York. 
TO 
- Thursday, March, 9. 
COLONIAL DEPARTMENT. 
Downing Street, March 8,1815. 
Dispatches, of which the fol- 
lowing are copies, have been this 
day received by earl Bathurst, 
one of his Majesty’s principal Se- 
cretaries of State, from Major Ge- 
neral Sir John Lambert; K. C. B. 
commanding on the coast of Loui- 
siana. 
Camp, in front of the Enemy’s 
Lines, below New Orleans, 
Jan. 10, 1815. 
My Lord, it becomes my duty 
to lay before your Lordship the 
proceedings of the force lately 
employed on the coast of Loui- 
siana, under the command of 
Major-General, the Honourable 
Sir E. M. Pakenham, K. B. and 
acting in concert with Vice-Ad- 
miral the Honourable Sir A. 
Cochrane, K. B. 
The report which I enclose 
from Major-General Keane will 
put your Lordship in possession of 
the occurrences which took place, 
until the arrival of Major-General 
the Honourable Sir E. Pakenham 
to assume the command; from that 
period IT send an Extract of the 
journal of Major Forrest Assist- 
ant-Quarter-Master-General, up 
to the time of the joining of the 
troops (which sailed on the 26th 
of October last under my com- 
mand), and which wason the 6th 
of January ; and from that pe- 
riod, I shall detail, as well as I am 
able, the subsequent events. 
I found’ the army in position, 
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in a flat country, with the Mis- 
sissippi on its left, and a thick 
extensive wood on its right; and 
open to its front, from which the 
enemy’s line was quite distin- 
guishable. 
It seems Sir E. Pakenham had 
waited for the arrival of the fusi- 
liers and 43rd regiment in order 
to make a general attack upon the 
enemy’s line; and on the 8th, the 
army was formed for that object. 
In order to give your Lordship 
as clear a view as I can,I shall 
state the position of the enemy. 
On the left bank of the river it 
was simply a straight line of about 
a front of one thousand yards with 
a parapet, the right resting on the 
river, and the left ona wood which 
had been made impracticable for 
any body of troops to pass. This 
line was strengthened by flank 
works, and had a canal of about 
four feet deep generally, but not 
altogether of an equal width; it 
was supposed to narrow towards 
their left ; about eight heavy guns 
were in position on this line. The 
Mississipi is here about eight 
hundred yards across, and they 
had on the right bank a heavy 
battery of twelve guns, which en- 
filaded the whole front of the 
position on the left bank. 
Preparations were made on our 
side, by very considerable labour, 
to clear out and widen a canal that 
communicated with a stream, by 
which the boats had passed up to 
the place of disembarkation, to 
open it into the Mississippi, by 
which means troops could be got 
over to the right bank, and the 
co-operation of armed boats could 
be secured. ° 
The disposition for the attack 
was as follows: a corps, consist- 
