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forced the Malays, with some loss, to fall, back into their jungle. 
The fort was instantly taken, with the loss of one man killed, and 
three more severely wounded. 
Nothing now remained to be done. The Malays had been 
beaten at all points, and forced to retreat ; their forts dismantled, 
and the outworks consumed, from which the fire had spread to 
many other buildings in the town. The surf was rising rapidly, 
when from two kent-bugles the air of Yankee-doodle was sounded, 
which, as previously agreed on, brought all the scattered divisions 
to headquarters, when they commenced embarking, under cover 
of a guard of mxarines. - 
The services performed by the guard did them great credit. By 
this we mean nothing exclusive. Where all performed their duty 
so promptly, so fearlessly, and with so much effect, it would be 
equally invidious and unjust to draw distinctions or make com- 
parisons. The whole manner of attack had been conceived in 
judgment, and executed with a sailor's natural impetuosity; 
but had the assault been less skilfully or successfully made, or the 
re-embarking divisions pressed by an advancing enemy in their 
rear, the marines, still unbroken in line, would probably have 
rendered a service, and given an argument of their importance, as 
a constituent of our navy, that might not be easily refuted. 
livery attention had been paid to the wounded by Assistant- 
surgeons Foltz and Pawling, who were at all points, as their pro- 
fessional services were needed. 
As the boats pulled off from thei shore, a shot, from the still 
unsubdued fort across the stream, struck close to the launch, 
ricochetting over several of the boats, but without doing any in- 
jury ; and at ten, A. M., the whole party had arrived on board, 
receiving the commendations of their commander, whose mind 
had been kept so long in the most painful suspense. From the 
commencement, he had witnessed the constant firing of small 
arms, the frequent discharge of cannon, the explosion of the forts, 
the movement of men to and fro, without being able to distinguish 
who they were, or what fortune was attending them, until thus so 
happily relieved, by beholding his crew once more within the 
strong walls of the Potomac, and that so few had suffered during 
the morning's excursion. In the afternoon, the burial service 
