■With the naval commander-in-chief, the whole fleet got 
under weigh at break of day on the 8th, and flood to¬ 
wards the Ance St. Sauveur, where the landing moll to 
windward was to be effected. The Britifh general re¬ 
ceived information that the troops of the line, and mili¬ 
tia underarms, in the ifland, all together amounted to 
6000. He determined, therefore, to throw his principal 
force between that of the French in Grande-terre and 
Bafle-terre, where it was their intention to have affembled 
nearly the whole of their force, immediately after the de- 
monflration of the Britifli to windward had of neceflity 
terminated. It was the plan of fir J. Leith to attack in 
three columns; the fcarcity of boats and the furf required 
that the whole Ihould aflift in each difembarkation, which 
was therefore effedted fucceflively. The firfl was made 
at the Ance St. Sauveur, where a detachment of the 
French about 500 ftrong, moving from Grand-terre to 
join admiral Linois and general Bowyer, fliowed a difpo- 
lition to oppofe the landing. The brigs of war and gun¬ 
boats, however, foon fcoured that point, and 850 of the 
Royal York rangers, under lieutenant-colonel Stark, dif- 
embarked (notwithftanding a heavy furf) without the lofs 
of a man. Meanwhile the fleet dropped down to Grande 
Ance, to effedt the principal landing, where the enemy 
was in force, and poffeffed a ftrong pofition, with batte¬ 
ries commanding the landing-place, which was fufcepti- 
ble of obftinate defence. The brigs of war and a gun¬ 
boat, placed to enfilade, foon obliged the French to aban¬ 
don their guns, one of which only, a long twelve-pounder, 
was found mounted. The 15th and 25th regiments, with 
the remainder of the firfl and fecond brigades, w'ere fafely 
difembarked. 
At the time of landing, the Britifli general and admiral 
circulated a long proclamation, of which the following 
are the material parts. 
“ Inhabitants of Guadaloupe ; The mifreprefentations 
and artifices which have been employed to deceive you 
with regard to the true fituation of Europe, and the prin¬ 
ciples refulting from defpotifm and anarchy by which 
your revolutionary chiefs have conduced you to the 
brink of a precipice on which you ftand, can no longer 
prevail. 
“ It is neceffary to make known to you the fituation of 
Europe and France, which has, no doubt, been concealed 
from you by your revolutionary chiefs. Bonaparte has 
been defeated by the duke of Wellington and prince 
Blucher in a great and decifive battle, fought on the 18th 
of June ; his army annihilated, and all his artillery and 
baggage taken. The ufurper fled with fome of his per¬ 
jured generals, and reached Paris, where, knowing how 
defperate was his fituation, he abdicated the pretended 
imperial crown. The allies were at La Fere and Laon on 
the 24th of June, in full march on Paris, where they 
would arrive on the 26th ; there was nothing to oppofe 
them. The Auftrians and Ruffians were penetrating into 
France, in mafs, by Italy, Swifferland, and Alface. At 
the fame time, his moft Chriftian majefty had re-entered 
France, and by the latell accounts was advancing from 
Cambray. 
“ The terms upon which we propofe to receive the co¬ 
lony, and the confequences which yvill refult from a re- 
fufal, are briefly thefe : As there is reafon to believe that 
many officers and foldiers of the line have only yielded 
to circumftances, and ferve under the tri-coloured flag 
merely with the hope of feizing the firfl favourable 
opportunity to evince their loyalty ; thofe who fhall im¬ 
mediately fo declare themfelves, fliall be admitted to the 
protedtion of the Britifli flag, and fliall be recommended 
in the ftrongeft manner to count Vaugiraud, governor- 
general of the French illands, and reprefentative of his 
moft Chriftian majefty. All officers and foldiers of the 
line actually ferving under the tri-coloured flag, who 
fliall fo declare and feparate themfelves from the partifans 
of Napoleon Bonaparte, and who fliall furrender with 
their arms to the Britifli forces, (hall be fent to France as 
prifoners of war, to be difpofed of according to the orders 
of the duke of Wellington : the officers and foldiers 
who fliall thus furrender themfelves fliall preferve their 
baggage. The militia and other inhabitants in arms un¬ 
der the tri-coloured flag, who fliall immediately feparate 
themfejves from the troops of the line ferving under the 
revolutionary banner, and lay down their arms, fliall be 
permitted to return immediately to their refpedtive homes, 
where they fliall be protedled as well as their property. 
“ Every officer or foldier of the line who, after the pub¬ 
lication of this notice, fliall continue to oppofe the arms of 
his Britannic majefty, fliall be fent a prifoner of w'ar to 
England. Every officer or foldier of militia, and every 
other inhabitant, who, after this proclamation, fliall be 
found in arms, fliall be treated as a prifoner of war, and 
fent immediately out of the colony to be placed in con¬ 
finement. 
“Provided Guadaloupe fliall immediately fubmit to his 
Britannic majelty’s forces, and its inhabitants fliall take 
an oath of fidelity for the time the colony may remain 
under Britifli dominion, the inhabitants and their private 
property fliall be protedled, and the commerce of the co¬ 
lony (hall be placed upon a more advantageous foot¬ 
ing than during the laft war. Every perfon who fliall 
not immediately avail himfelf of this proclamation (hall be 
treated, as well as his property, according to the laws of 
war, and the right of conqueft. James Leith. 
P. C. Durham.” 
At break of day on the 9th, the troops were put in mo¬ 
tion in two columns j the firft brigade moved upon, and 
occupied, Dole ; the fecond marched upon the left of the 
Morne Palmifte, by Pautrizel. It appeared, that Linois 
and Bowyer had evacuated Dole in the night. The 
French, however, fliowed themfelves in confiderable force 
on the left of the Morne Palmifte, and on the face of that 
mountain, commanding the main road to Bafle-terre. 
Captain Leith Hay, fir J. Leith’s aide-de-camp, was or¬ 
dered to gain the top of Morne Boucanier, by a difficult 
detour, with a rifle-company of the royal Weft-India 
rangers and a light company of the 6th Weft-India regi¬ 
ment, to alarm the enemy’s right flank and rear, which, 
being accompliffied, obliged him to withdraw ; his ports 
were every where driven, and he retreated to the Morne 
Palmifte. 
A heavy cannonade now announced the difembarkation 
of the third brigade, under major-general Douglas, in 
the vicinity of Bailiff and to leeward of Bafle-terre. He 
had been inftrudted to feize the Batterie des Trois, to oc¬ 
cupy the capital, to malk, or, if pradlicable, to take, Fort 
St. Charles by a coup-de-main, to open his communi¬ 
cation with the columns moving to the attack of Morne 
Palmifte, and to menace his retreat from thence to Morne 
Houel. 
The French, who had been driven by the veflels cover¬ 
ing the landing, colle&ed on the heights, and attacked 
the light company of the 63d regiment, who were ad¬ 
vanced. They gallantly maintained their ground againft 
upwards of 300 of the French, who came down to attack 
them, till major-general Douglas, in perfon, fupported 
them with part of the York chaffeurs. 
While this operation was going on, the columns of the 
firft ancl fecond brigades gained the heights of Morne 
Palmifte, from whence the French were driven at all 
points, and were now retiring to Morne Houel, which 
they had fortified with eight pieces of artillery. This 
was the pofition where Linois and Bowyer had profefled 
their determination of ultimately difputing the fuperio- 
rity in the field. 
Sir James Leith received information, that the com¬ 
mandant of Grande-terre, with the whole armed force, 
was, as he expedited, moving in his rear to form a junc¬ 
tion with the main body at Morne Houel. He accordingly 
reinforced the rear-guard to protedt his communications, 
and occupied in force all the paffes of the Gallion, a 
river running through a formidable ravine at the foot of 
Morne 
