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ing to 1200 men, escorted by the Malabar, Undaunted, La 

 Pique, and Babet frigates, with the Grenada transport, and 

 five schooners and sloops; and on the 21st made the land, 

 when the Scipio joined the fleet. That evening when the tide 

 made, the Babet and La Pique frigates, with the Grenada 

 transport, passed the bar with the schooners and boats of the 

 fleet, and came to anchor within random gun-shot of the fort, 

 at the entrance of the river ; and having during the night pre- 

 pared every thing for an attack, at day-light appeared in force, 

 when I sent a flag of truce by Lieut.-Col. Hislop, of the 3£th 

 regiment, summoning the governor to surrender the colony 

 and its dependencies to his Britannic Majesty's forces, agree- 

 able to the terms I have the honor to enclose, and which the 

 governor and council accepted. 



The unanimity with which the service was carried on be- 

 tween the fleet and army was pleasing to all concerned, and 

 Mr. Higgins acquitted himself with much propriety and uti- 

 lity. Captain Parr who commands the fleet, has assisted and 

 supplied us from the fleet liberally. And I have the satisfac- 

 tion to inform your excellency, that from every information I 

 have received, and from above seventy ships being actually 

 loaded with the produce of the country, now in the river 

 (most of which will be sent to England) and from every ac- 

 count of the fertility and the soil, it is a most important acqui- 

 sition to Great Britain. 



