‘ APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. 
WAR DEPARTMENT. 
Downing-Street, July 
24, 1815. 
Dispatches, of which the fol- 
lowing are extracts, have been 
received at this office, addressed 
to Earl Bathurst, by Major-Gen. 
Sir Hudson Lowe :— 
Genoa, July +. 
Pursuant to the information 
contained in my letter of the Ist 
instant, of which a duplicate is 
enclosed, I have the honour of ac- 
quainting your Lordship of my 
having embarked a portion of the 
force at this place; and am pro- 
ceeding with it, in conjunction 
with the ships of war under Lord 
Exmouth, to the neighbourhood 
of Marseilles, there to act as cir- 
cumstances may point out. 
wiei Marseilles, July 11. 
_ I have the honour to inform 
your Lordship of my arrival at 
this place, in company with Lord 
Exmouth, having under my com- 
mand the force stated in my letter 
of the Ath instant from Genoa, of 
which a duplicate is enclosed. 
The forces will disembark here 
as soon as the transports with the 
troops and arms shall have come 
‘to an anchor. 
‘COLONIAL DEPARTMENT. 
Downing- Street, July 24. 
A dispatch, of which the fol- 
lowing is a copy, has been this 
day received from Lieut.-Gen. 
Sir J. Leith, commanding his 
Majesty’s forces in the Leeward 
Islands, and addressed to Earl 
Bathurst, one of his Majesty’s 
Principal Secretaries of State. 
Vor. LVII. 
193 
Head-Quarters, Fort- Royal, 
' Martinique, June 10, 
1815. 
My Lord,—I am happy to in- 
form you, that I.have occupied 
the military points of Martinique 
by a British auxiliary force, which 
landed here on the morning of the 
5th instant. 
The situation of Martinique was, 
indeed, critical; for the troops of 
the line, consisting of thirteen 
hundred men, who possessed the 
forts, shewed too much of the same 
disposition which has manifested 
itself in France. ‘The majority 
of the officers were decidedly for 
Buonaparte, some putting up the 
tri-coloured cockade, and others, 
with similar sentiments, less 
avowed, pretending that they only 
wished to return to France. The 
soldiers were chiefly refractory 
conscripts, who had never served, 
and had no attachment to Buona- 
parte, but having escaped from 
the army under his severe sys- 
tem, finding themselves expatriat- 
ed under the King’s govern- 
ment, was not likely to create an 
attachment to the Bourbon cause, 
they generally wished to return 
home. 
Le Comte de Waugiraud acted 
with much good sense in antici- 
pating the mischief which might 
have arisen, and which he had not 
the power to have controlled, by 
assembling the troops, and ree 
leasing those of the officers who 
desired it from. their obligations, 
informing them at the same time, 
that they must quit Martinique, 
and declaring that any attempt to 
raise the standard of rebellion 
would be repelled by force, and 
punished as an act of muitny, In 
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