lancing ^ 



opened to the ritrht and' left and the ?2 pr. comi! 

 menbed aring. The advance was thus continue, 

 ed by successfve halts, iirtti! a gun waj? brou^riu 

 TV it ii in a hunt! red yards of th^; fituckmies^, when 

 Captain .Wallace, having obtained pcrmksion, 

 led his men on at the ohnr-ze, and a rn?h of the 

 whole body of infantry tnkine place, the stock- 

 adt's, two in nnniber» were evncuated. 



The firift shot was fir^d by the British in this 

 action at ahtlle before 7. \, m. and the works 

 were'gained at half past 9 a.m, two hoars of which 

 interval were parsed in active contest. The casu- 

 alties atlKJunted lo Captain Poulton, sHglktly 

 womKlcd with u ranjow, at the close of the affair, 

 and- 18 rank and fiki wonnded^ eight <>f whom were 

 by musqi^etry, and the remainder by ranjows. 

 Three of the Ar tiltery drfvera were wounded, two 

 oflhem t>; ! 1 : ' nae mortally, and one by 

 a ranjow. 



The fac^s of the gtockades were torn with the 

 grape and fragments of th6 shells, three or four 

 pietes of ntuuh ia?!t were picked up inthe woi k«, 

 althoufjh no trnct-s of blood were discoverable. 



Captain Poulton and the wounded men return- 

 ed to Bell's stockade,* m did also 2d Lieutenant 

 I.awford, who was seized with the jungle fever. 

 Captain Juhtice, with Lietiienant Minto, as a vo- 

 Inntepr, arrived at JO a. m. with the light coiH' 

 pany of the 5th, having started as a re-inforce- 

 rhent; and, rn coiiscqtience. Ensign Stoddart re* 

 turned with the grenadieri| as an escort to the 

 wonndcd. 



