de Linois, Governor-general of Guadaloupe, and the Adjutantgeneral Boyer, second in command in that colony, addressed to His Excellency Sir James Leith Commanding in Chief the British troops.

Art. I. The Governor, the second in command, and all the French troops of the line, shall be sent to France as prisoners of war, as well as the persons com posing the military administra❤ tion.

Answer. The Count de Linois and Baron Boyer de Peyreleau, the French troops of the line, with the military administration, shall be sent to France to the Duke of Wellington, as prisoners of war, according to the tenor of the proclamation of Sir James Leith.

Art. II. The officers shall keep their swords, and all the military their baggage.

Answer. Refused, with the exception of the baggage belonging personally to the military.

Art. III. All the national guards of the colony shall be allowed peaceably to remain at their homes.

Answer.-The militia which have already withdrawn to their habitations shall be protected as well as their respective property, but such as are still in arms shall be treated as prisoners of war, and immediately sent away.

Art. IV. No individual of Guadaloupe and its dependencies shall be molested for his past political opinions or acts, and shall be placed under the protection of his Britannic Majesty.

Answer. No one shall be molested by the British Government on account of his political opini

ons or conduct to the present mo. ment.

Art. V. The laws of the colony and private property shall be respected, and placed under the safeguard ofhis Britannic Majesty. Answer.-Granted. As far as respects the laws and private property on shore.

(Signed JAMES LEITH. Accepted the conditions proposed by H. E. Sir James Leith, the 10th of August, 1815. (Signed)

LE COMTE DE LINOIS,
BOYER DE PEyreleau.

CONDITIONS DEMANDED BY H. E. SIR J. LEITH, &C.

Art. I. All the forts, redoubts, and all other places furnished with artillery in the colony, shall be delivered up immediately to his Britannic Majesty's troops.

Art. II. All the eagles, tri-coloured flags, the public treasure, archives, plans, every thing which appertains to the administration civil and military, the magazines of every description, arms of all kinds, shall be immediately given up, as well as all other public property, to Commissaries named by the General in Chief.

Art. III. All persons under arms, who are comprized under these stipulations, shall march from their respective posts at three o'clock this afternoon, to be removed to their places of destination, having first surrendered their arms.

(Signed) JAMES LEITH. Accepted the three above articles. (Signed)

LE COMTE DE LINOIS. BOYER DE PEYRELEAU.

Return of Killed, Wounded, and Missing, in an Attack on the Island of Guadaloupe, on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of August, 1815.

Total-1 serjeant, 15 rank and file, killed; 1 captain, 1 subaltern, 2 staff, 2 serjeants, 45 rank and file wounded; 4 rank and file missing.

J. H. BERKELEY, Dep. Adj. Gen.

INDIA BOARD, WHITEHALL.

SEPT. 16, 1815.

A dispatch, dated Fort William, February 20, 1815, together with its enclosures, of which the following are extracts, have been received, at the East India House, from the Vice-President in Council.

For a statement of the operations of the division of the army, commanded by Colonel Ochterlony, from the 27th of November down to the close of December, we have the honour to refer your honourable Court to a dispatch from Mr. Secretary Adam, dated the 10th of January.

The skill, judgment, perseverance, and patience which have distinguished the conduct of Colonel Ochterlony in the arduous service in which he is employed, cannot fail to attract the particular notice of your Honourable Court. The exertions of that able officer still continued to be directed against the enemy's supplies, and such of his new positions as might be found to be assailable.

Extract of a Letter from John Adam, Esq. Secretary to Government, to John Moreton, Esq. Acting Secretary to Go

vernment at the Presidency, dated Camp at Iheend, Feb. 10, 1815.

I am directed to transmit to you, for the purpose of being laid before his Excellency the Vice President in Council, the enclosed copy of a letter from the Adjutant General, under date the 8th instant, enclosing copies of dispatches from Colonel Ochterlony, and containing a statement of the operations of the division of the army under that officer's command subsequently to the 27th November, up to which date they are already known to the Vice President in Council, from the communications which I had the honour to make to you from time to time. The general result of the operations detailed in the enclosed papers has also been communicated to his Excellency in Council, in my letter to your address of the 5th instant, enclosing Colonel Fagan's dispatch of 2nd instant.

The Vice President in Council will perceive with satisfaction the testimony borne by Lieutenant Colonel Thompson to the troops under his command, composing the reserve of Colonel Ochterlony's division, in repulsing the determined attack made on their position by Ummer Sing, on the morning of the 29th of December.

Although the movement of the reserve on the preceding day did not completely effect the accomplishment of the principal object in Colonel Ochterlony's contemplation, it has nevertheless, his Lordship conceives, been attended with considerable advantage, which, his Lordship is assured, Colonel Ochterlony will turn to the best account.

'The Vice President in Council will concur in the opinion entertained by the Governor General, of the credit due to Colonel Ochterlony for the skill, judgment, perseverance, and patience manifested by him under circumstances of extraordinary difficulty, and will anticipate the happiest results from the continued exertion of those qualities, seconded by the skill and bravery of the officers and troops under his command.

Extract of a Letter from the Adjutant General to John Adam, Esq. dated Camp at Suffeedoon, February 8, 1815.

The result of the first movement, against the enemy's position was briefly reported in Colonel Ochterlony's dispatch of the 29th ult. forwarded to you on the 2nd inst.; I have now the honour to transmit the Colonel's more detailed report, dated the 31st ultimo, and its enclosures, from which the Governor-general will perceive, that although the movement has not realized the principal object proposed in making it, in consequence of the enemy having been enabled, by evacuating nearly all his stockades, to concentrate his whole force on one of the intended points of attack, it terminated in the repulse, with considerable loss, of a determined attack which a large part of his force made on Lieut.-col. Thompson's position, sword in hand, on the morning of the 29th December. The conduct of the officers and troops engaged on this occasion, have merited and obtained the Commander in Chief's entire approbation.

In the plan of the attack, and in all measures and arrangements

which could conduce to its success, Colonel Ochterlony evinced his usual judgment and ability.

Colonel Ochterlony's operations will continue to be directed against the enemy's supplies, and such of his new positions as may be found to be assailable.

Copy of a Letter from Major-Gen. Sir David Ochterlony, K. C. B. to the Adjutant-General.

Sir, On the 27th I had the honour to report to you the arrival of the 2nd battalion of the 7th Native infantry and the eighteenpounders in this camp.

Our position in view of the fort had compelled the enemy to bring their supplies from the eastward by circuitous routes, but my information led me to hope, that the possession of three points in front of our right would entirely cut off their supplies from Billaspore, and generally from the interior. In consequence I directed Lieut.-Col. Thompson to march as soon as it was dark on the night of the 27th, and dislodge the enemy from the stockades they had erected on two of those points, and to occupy and maintain a third which they had neglected.

Lieutenant-Colonel Thompson had with him fourteen companies, two six-pounders and two howitzers of the mountain train, and a force of irregulars amounting to at least a thousand, but calculated at 1,200 matchlocks. From the badness of the road, or rather foot-paths, and the great difficulties encountered, it was not till a late hour in the morning of the 28th that Lieut.-Co. Thompson reached the first point he was instructed to attack, and that was

found so inaccessible, and so very mach stronger than my information had given me reason to expect, that he very judiciously determined not to risk the chance of an instantaneous assault, but to make use of his artillery. His letter, which I have the honour to enclose, together with a copy of my instructions, details his proceedings from that date, and renders it only necessary for me to express my approbation of Lieut.-Col. Thompson's conduct, and entire satisfaction with that of the detachment in general.

I would, however, be unjust not to mention, that the reports I received from Lieut. Lawrie, Engineer, of the very great labour and fatigue sustained with cheerfulness by the pioneers, induced me to express to Captain Baines, Lieutenant Armstrong, and their officers, who set them the meritorious example, my particular thanks, and to send a pecuniary donation to the men.

Lieutenant Lawrie, with his accustomed zeal, accompanied the detachment, and on this, as on every occasion, deserves my highest consideration; from him I have the honour to transmit a slight sketch of the ground and point of attack.

It remains only to add, that the enemy no sooner perceived the movement to the right, and contemplated its obvious object, than they evacuated all their stockades but the two small redoubts immediately under the fort, and risked the attempt which Lieut.-Col. Thompson has detailed, and on its unsuccessful issue, retired to Munghooka Dhar, where he is now assembled with his whole

D. OCHTERLONY, Maj. Gen. Camp Nehn, Dec. 31, 1814.

Report from Lieutenant-Colonel Thompson to Major-General Ochterlony, enclosed in the preceding.

Sir,-Agreeably to your instructions I have the honour to report that, after dusk on the evening of the 27th, I commenced my march towards these heights with the light battalion, and eight companies of the 2nd battalion 3rd regiment, native infantry, two sixpounders, and a mountain train of two light howitzers. Although the night was extremely favourable, the whole of the artillery did not reach the opposite side of the ridge of hills, about one coss below Deboo-ka-Tibba, until past eight o'clock in the morning of the 28th. I then advanced up the face of the hill with the light battalion and four companies of the 2nd battalion 3rd regiment to gain possession of the ridge on my left, immediately opposite to the enemy's stone stockade; from this ridge the stockade is about seven hundred yards, with four different heights intervening. .

The enemy having come out so far as the nearest hill to the ridge, began to open a fire of matchlocks upon our party as they proceeded up the heights. On our gaining possession of a high part of the ridge, the enemy evacuated their position upon the opposite hill, and being instantaneously pursued by our troops, they fled successively over the whole of the hills between the ridge and their stockade, which appearing to me too strong to attempt without the assistance of our guns, I resolved to wait until the artillery came up. The six-pounders opened upon the place about four o'clock p. m. and I was in hopes that as the wall appeared to be composed only of loose stones, it might have been laid open before dusk; but after firing for about an hour, from a distance of about five hundred yards, only a small part of the wall came down.

Having resolved to move the battery to a nearer distance, the following morning the pioneers were employed during the day in making fascines and gabions for that purpose.

About a quarter of an hour, however, before sun-rise the following morning (the 29th) the enemy came down in great numbers from the Mungoo-ka-Dhar, with an apparent intention of forcing my position on the ridge, and also turning my left, so as to surround it. I am happy to add, that, in consequence of the warm reception they received from our troops they were soon obliged to retire with loss. Having now, however, every reason to believe that Mungoo-ka-Dhar had been strongly reinforced, I thought it

advisable to throw up a slight entrenchment on my position on the ridge and first hill, which was effected about dusk.

During the night the enemy evacuated the stockade on Deboo-ka-Tibba, which was immediately occupied by the picquets of the light battalion.

The stockade is situated on a steep rocky eminence, very difficult of access on all sides, but particularly so in front, where it is almost perpendicular. The wall is ten feet high on the outside, and four feet thick, composed of loose stones, extremely well built, and three sides of it are surrounded by a high bamboo fence, at the distance of two feet from the outside of the wall; within it is a Pucha Mhut.

The position of the enemy at Mungoo-ka-Dhar appears to be nearly two miles from my post, and the road to it very difficult, as well from unevenness as from ascent. I have also been informed, that the enemy have thrown up stone breast-works and other obstacles at different parts of the road.

I have the honour to enclose a correct return of our casualties;* those of the enemy, from the best intelligence I have been able to procure, amount to one hundred and fifty killed, and about two hundred and fifty wounded. I had the pleasure yesterday to send in two prisoners from Deboo-kaTibba, and this day another, who was wounded in the affair of the 29th.

The conduct of the officers and

*Published in the London Gazette of 19th August last.