250 ANNUAL REGISTER, 18l6. 



p. S. I have the highest grati- 

 fication in announcing the occupa- 

 tion, by the a^ivanced guard under 

 the tield-ofiicer. Major Robeson, 

 of his Majesty's 24th regiment, of 

 the stockade, fort, and hill, which 

 were evacuated some time this 

 morning, during the rain and 

 thick weather^ by the Goorkah 

 force, under Raiijoor Kajee, who 

 joined during the action of yester- 

 day, and commanded. 



(Signed) W. Kelly. 



Return of Killed and IVounded in 

 the \st or Col. Kelh/s Brigade, 

 in the action on the Heights of 

 Hurryhurporc, on the 1st of 

 March, IS 16. 



Camp, near Hurry hurpare, 

 March 2, 1816. 

 Total killed— 4 privates of 24th 

 Foot, 4 sejwys. 



Total wounded — 1 brevet ma- 

 jor, 2 captains, 2 lieutenants, 1 

 jemailar, 1 sergeant, 22 privates 

 of the 24th Foot, 2 naicks, 16 

 sepoys, 2 pioneers, 2 gim lascars. 

 (Signed) Geo. Cas«;ment, 



Major of Brigade. 



ADMIHALTY OFFICE, SliPT. 15. 



Captain Brisbane, of his INIa- 

 jesty's ship Queen Charlotte, ar- 

 rived at thi^ oihce last night with 

 the following dispatches from Ad- 

 miral liord Exraouth, G. C. B. 

 addressed to John AVilson Croker, 

 Esq. :— 



Queen Charlotte, Algiers-Bay, 



Jug. 28. 



Sir, — In all the vicissitudes of 



a long life of public service, no 



circumstance has ever produced 



on my miud such impressions of 



gratitude and joT as the event of 

 yesterday. To have been one of 

 the humble instiuments, in the 

 hands of Divine Providence, for 

 bringing to reason a ferocious 

 Government, and destroying for 

 ever the insufferable and horrid 

 system of Christian slavery, can 

 never cease to be a source of de- 

 light and heartfelt comfort to 

 every individual happy enough to 

 be employed in it. 1 may, I hope, 

 be permitted, under such impres- 

 sions, to offer my sincere con- 

 gratulations to their Lordships on 

 the complete success which at- 

 tended the gallant efforts of his 

 Majesty's fleet in their attack 

 upon Algiers of yesterday ; and the 

 happy result produced from it on 

 this day by the signature of peace. 

 Thus has a provoked war of 

 two days' existence been attended 

 by a complete victory, and closed 

 by a renewed peace for England 

 and her Ally, the King of the 

 Netherlands, on conditions dic- 

 tated by the firmness and wisdom 

 of his Majesty's Government, and 

 commanded by the vigour of their 

 measures. 



My thanks are justly due for 

 the honour and confidence His' 

 Majesty's Ministers have been 

 pleased to repose on my zeal, on 

 this highly in^portant occasion. 

 The means were by them made 

 adequate to my own wishes, and 

 the rapidity of their measures 

 speak for themselves. Not more 

 than one hundred days since I 

 left Algiers with the British fleet, 

 unsuspicious and ignorant of the 

 atrocities which had been com- 

 mitted at Bona ; that fleet, on its 

 arrival in England, was necessarily 

 disbanded, and another, with 

 proportionate resources, created 



and 



