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ebserving us from the unwholesome plains of 
Baia, must be kept on the alert by the uncer- 
tainty of our Uperations, and harassed by the 
necessity of correspondingwitli our every move- 
ment. A flotilla of gun-boats, which I found it 
necessary to fit out at Messina, to aid the army 
in that: narrow streight, underthe direction of 
Captain Reade, of the quarter-master ge- 
neral’s department, has acquired the appros 
bation of the admiral, by their conduct upon 
this service. Captain Cameron, of the 2ist 
regiment, who commanded a division of these 
boats, is unfortunately among the few who 
have fallen. j. Sroart. 
[Then follow the articles of capitulation 
of both islands; the garrisons are to be sent 
prisoners to Malta, ‘The return of ordnance 
consists of 87 iron, and 11 brass cannon, with 
an immense quantity of shot, powder, &c.] ’ 
« Return of Killed and Wounded under Sir 
F. Stuant, betwween the 24th and SOth of 
Funes Bo9-—Totai, I subaltern, x bugle, 
2 rank and file, 2 marines, killed; 1 captain, 
2 serjeants, §:rank and file, 2 marines, 
wounded. é Biss 
Names of the Officers.—2 1st. Foot.—Lieut. 
Camefon, doing duty with the flotilla, killed. 
Corsican rangers—Captain Arata, wounded, | 
Isthia, Fuly 9, 1809. 
My Lorp-.-In my dispatch of the 5th 
inst. Lstated that Lieut.-Col. Smith had been 
detached, after our sailing from Milazzo, with 
the 10th regiment and chasseurs Britanniques, 
which were to be joined at the Faro by the 
@ist regiment, with orders to occupyand disarm 
the posts upon the streight opposite to Mes- 
gina, upon the late retreat of the enemy upon 
the first appearance of our armament upon 
the coast of Calabria. An attempt to reduce 
the castle of Scylla was attended, in the first 
jnstance, with disappointment, from the sud- 
den re'appearance of a large preponderating 
force of the enemy, which constrained Lieut.- 
Cot. Smith to raise the siege, and embark for 
Messina; a measure which was effected, I 
am happy to say, on the 20th ult. without 
the smallest loss, but that of his besieging 
train, which necessarily became a sacrifice. 
Tt fortunately, however, has proved only a 
sacrifice of the moment. 1 he oficial re- 
” ports from Major-Gen. Mackenzie state to 
me, that‘on the night of the 2d inst. the 
enemy, from some sudden panic, retreated 
again ‘from the eoast, having previously 
blown up the works of Scylla, and. not only 
Jeft ‘ussagain our captured stores, but an im-. 
mecse quantity of ordnance and stores of 
their own, which had been placed in depot. 
Major- Gen. Mackenzie mentions to me in 
articular, that thirty pieces of brags cannon 
had been tlirown from the rock into the sea, 
from whence, however, there could be no. 
difficulty ‘in raising them, the water being ex- 
tretnely shallow. 
means of coasting navigation, for a consider- 
State of Public Affairs in September: 
These stures had been - 
progressively assembling, ‘J am informed, by . 
[Ock'T, 
able time past, preparatory to the longs 
menaced, and_I believe really intended, inva= 
sion of the kingdom of Sicily. 
The conduct of Lieutenant-Colonel Smith, 
_during the course of this service, although. 
_attended with a momentary reverse, has been» 
represented to me by Major General Macken- 
zi¢ in terms of great approbation, with every. 
praise to the zeal and perseverance of thes 
troops employed under his orders. He hoe. 
also expressed great acknowledgements to the - 
active assistance of Captains Crawley and Pal- 
mer, of his Majesty’s ships Philomel and. 
Alacrity, who were his co-operators on this 
service. The great disunion of party inthe 
province was a material obstacle to every 
nieans of Intelligence, and led to the loss of-a. 
detachment-of the 21st regiment, which had 
been sent at the solicitation of the inhabitants 
of the town of Palmi for their protection. 
General Murat directed a flag of truce to me 
after our arrival here, to ofter to treat for an . 
exchange of three officers, four non-commis- 
Sioned officers, and eighty men of this party, 
who were stated to be prisoners, and on their 
margh to Naples. I had scarcely agreed to 
the measure, when ina seeming fit of hu- 
nour, occasioned by a dissatisfaction at the 
terms of the capitulation of this island, he 
sent another flag again to me, withdrawing 
the former offer, and declining any further 
correspondence or conimunicafion with me 
whatever. Jv STBRART $5 
Return of Casualties under Lieut.-Col. Sith < 
Total—1 captain, 1 rank and file, 1 mule kil- 
led; 9 rank and file wounded; 2 captainsy 2 
subaiterns, 4 serjeants, 2 drummers, 7@ rank 
and file prisoners ¢ 24 rank and file, 4 horses, 
1i mules, missing. 
: 
Names of the Officers.—2ist foot, Captain _ 
Hunter, killed ; Captains Mackay and Cou- 
ran, Lieutenants M’ Nab and Mackay, taken 
prisoners. 
A SPAIN. a Sovi 
Return of the Numbers of Killed, Wounded, end’ 
Missing, “of the Army under the Command 
of Lieutenant-General Sir <rthur. Wellefley, 
K.B. in AGion with the French Army, comt- 
manded by ‘foseph Buonaparte in, Perse, in 
froat of the Town of Falavera de Ja Reyna, 
on the 27th of Fuly, 1809,.. - Roney 
[ Omitted in our ‘ast for want of roam. ] 
General Stait, 1 officer killed. + 
14th Light Dragoons, 1 rank and file . 
wounded. . er alisit oh 
ist Light Dragoons King’s German Legion, - 
2 rank-and file killed ; 1 officer, 1 sank and 
file wounded; 1 rank and fle missing. ia 
_ Royal British Anilery,.2 rank and file - 
wounded. a 
’ 
Royal Engineers, 4 officer wounded. ated 
1st Batt Coldstream Guards, 1 officer kill. — 
.ed; 1 officer, 2 rank and file wounded. —... 
= 
¥ 
2d Batt. 24th Foor, 1 rank and file killed es 
sing. a 
ter 
6 xank and file wounded; 5 rank and file mis-. 
_ 
4st Batt. 
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