London Gazette Extraordinary, Wednesday, Feb. 13. Admiralty Office, Feb. 13. CATOR, acting as commander of his Majesty's sloop the Otter, arrived here this morning with dispatches from Vice-admiral Bertie, commander-in-chief of his Majesty's ships and vessels at the Cape of Good Hope, to John Wilson Croker, Esq. secretary to the Admiralty, of which the following are copies:

LIEUTENANT

Africaine, in Port Louis, Isle of France, Dec. 6, 1810. Sir, I have the honour to announce to you, for the information of their lordships, the capture of the Isle of France and its dependencies, comprehending the extirpation of the naval force of the enemy in these seas, and the subjugation of the last remaining colonial territory of France.

By my communication, address ed to you on the 12th of October last, and forwarded to England by the Otter, from Bourbon, I had the honour to acquaint you that I was on the point of resuming the blockade of the Isle of France; I accordingly arrived off this port on the 19th, and finding the whole of the enemy's ships in the harbour, and two only apparently in a state of forward equip

ment, I left Capt. Rowley with the Boadicea, Nisus, and,Nereide to watch the movement of the enemy; and having previously detached the Ceylon and Staunch to convoy the division of troops from Bourbon to Rodriguez, I proceeded with the commander of the forces (Major-Gen. the Hon. John Abercromby), who had embarked in the Africaine, towards that anchorage. On the 24th J was joined by Rear-Admiral Drury, with a division of his squadron, as per margin, † and taking under my orders for the time being, the rear-admiral with the ships under his command, I was enabled to strengthen the blockading squadron, by despatching the Cornelia and Hesper for that purpose; and with the others made all sail for Rodriguez, where the squadron arrived on the 3rd of November, and found lying there the division of troops for Bombay. On the 6th arrived the division from Madras, under convoy of the Psyche and Cornwallis. On the 8th, Rear-Admiral Drury sailed with the Russel, Phaeton, and Bucephalus, to resume his command in India: on the 12th arrived the division from Bourbon, under convoy of the Ceylon.

The divisions from Bengal and the Cape not arriving by the 20th,

the season being so far advanced, and the anchorage (surrounded by reefs) by no means secure, more particularly for so large a number of ships, I determined on weighing with the whole fleet on the morning of the 22nd, proposing the convoy should cruize to windward until joined by one or other of the divisions. Very fortunately intelligence was received on the night of the 21st, that the Bengal division, under convoy of the Illustrious, was in the offing. Gen. Abercromby deemed it, as well as myself, advisable they should not anchor; but that, having communicated with the convoy, and given them such supplies as they might essentially require, we should proceed to the attack of the Isle of France, without waiting the junction of the troops expected from the Cape. The whole fleet accordingly weighed from the anchorage, and on the morning of the 29th bore up for the point of debarkation it had been deter mined to occupy in Grand Baye, about twelve miles to windward of Port Louis, where the Africaine leading in, and the several ships of war following with the convoy, according to a previous arrangement, the whole fleet was at anchor by ten o'clock a. m., consisting of nearly seventy sail; and the army, with their artillery, stores, and ammunition, the several detachments of marines serving in the squadron, with a large body of seamen, disembarked the same day, without a single loss or accident. A division of ships still maintained a vigilant blockade of the port; another division remained for the protection of the. convoy at the auchorage; and a

third, under my immediate command, shifted their station as circumstances required, to keep up a more effectual communication with the army as it advanced, and which was dependant for its supplies of provisions and stores wholly on the resources of the

navy.

On the 2nd instant, the Governor-General De Caen proposed terms of capitulation, and, commissioners being appointed on either side, a capitulation was signed and ratified on the 3rd inst. at the British head-quarters, a copy of which I have the honour to transmit for their lordships' information.

In a combined operation of this nature, the ultimate success of which must essentially, in a great degree, be made to depend upon a zealous and emulative co-operation and support through each gradation; and in the present instance, where these features have been so eminently conspicuous in every rank, and in every situation and circumstance, the recommendation of particular individuals to their lordships' more immediate notice may be deemed superfluous.

It is, however, from a sense of justice that I record the services of Captain Beaver, of his Majesty's ship Nisus, whom I entrusted with the superintendence of the whole arrangements for the disposition and debarkation of the army, and whose abilities and experience on similar occasions particularly qualified him to undertake this important duty. Nor should I omit to bear testimony to the unwearied exertions of Captain Patterson, of his Majesty's ship Hesper, and of Lieut. B. Street, commanding the

government armed ship Emma, who were employed for many successive nights in sounding, and (as it has been proved) gained a perfect knowledge of the anchorage on the enemy's coast, and who were equally strenuous in their services in various ways on shore.

I beg also to recommend to their lordships' notice Lieutenant Edward Lloyd, who volunteered his services under the immediate eye of the commander of the forces, and in this, as well as many former instances, has received the most honourable testimonies of his gallantry.

I have the honour to transmit a copy of a letter addressed to me by captain Montague, of the royal navy, who commanded the first division of the seamen landed, as well as two extracts from general orders issued at head-quarters. From the absence of some of the ships, I have not been able to collect the returns of the number of marines and seamen landed, or of the loss, but I have the satisfaction to know it has been very inconsiderable.

The return of shipping, as correctly stated as I have yet been able to collect it, I have the honour to inclose. Various considerations have impelled me to dispatch the Menelaus with the least delay possible; and having intrusted these communications to the care of Captain Rowley, who will be the bearer of them to their lordships, I beg to refer their lordships to him for every further particular, and to add that his long and arduous services on this station have established a just claim to any honourable distinction it may please

I have the honour to be, &c.
A. BERTIE.

Terms of Capitulation.

We, the undersigned, MajorGeneral Henry Warde, and Commodore Josias Rowley, nominated on the part of his Britannic Majesty by Vice-Admiral Albemarle Bertie, commander-in-chief of his Majesty's ships and vessels employed at the Cape of Good Hope, and the seas adjacent, and Lieutenant-General the Hon. John Abercromby, commander of his Britannic Majesty's forces on the one part; and Martin Vandermaesen, general of division, member of the legion of honour, commandant of the troops of his Imperial and Royal Majesty the Emperor of France, at the Isle of France, and Mr. Victor Duprere, Capitaine de Vaisseau of his Imperial and Royal Majesty, nominated on the part of Charles de Caen, grand officer of the legion of ho-. nour, general of division, captaingeneral of the French settlements to the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope on the other part; being severally and respectively armed with full powers to settle a treaty for the capitulation and surrender of the Isle of France, and all its dependencies, to the arms, of his Britannic Majesty, do agree as follows:

Art. I. The troops of his Imperial and royal Majesty the Emperor of France, forming the garrison. of the Isle of France, the officers and non-commissioned officers the officers of the imperial and royal marine, and the crews of the ships of war, shall not be consi

dered as prisoners of war, neither the civil authorities.

Answer. The land and sea forces, officers, subalterns and prisoners, shall not be considered as prisoners of war.

Art. II. The troops of his Imperial and Royal Majesty shall retain their arms and colours, with out ammunition, and all their personal effects and baggage, to the extent of that which, upon honour, shall be declared private property.

Answer. They shall take away their effects and baggage.

Art. III. The troops of his Im perial and Royal Majesty, and the crews of the ships of the imperial and royal marine, shall be sent, with their families, to a port in European France.

Answer. They shall be conveyed, together with their families, to a port in the French empire.

Art. IV. For the above conveyance, I shall keep the four imperial frigates La Manche, La Bellone, L'Astrée, and La Minerve, as well as the Victor and Entreprenante corvettes, with their officers, crews, guns, stores, and provisions.

Answer. Altogether inadmis. sible. The crews of the ships of war of the imperial and royal marine are provided for by the preceding article.

Art. V. To the above ships shall be added six transport vessels, to be selected by me, for our conveyance, with the necessary provisions for the crews and passengers. Answer. Proper vessels shall be forthwith equipped as cartels, at the expense of the British government, provisioned and stored to convey the French garrison, and

the crews of the ships of war, to European France. The same vessels to be at liberty to proceed to any port of England without delay.

Art. VI. These conditions being agreed to, I shall give up the colony and all its dependencies, the magazines, &c. Inventories shall be taken of all the articles belonging to the Emperor, and to be preserved for him and restored at a peace.

Answer. The colony and its dependencies shall be ceded un. conditionally; no power being vested in the parties contracting to determine its future destination. Inventories shall be taken by commissioners, to be appointed on behalf of the contracting parties, of all public magazines and stores, which shall be given up to the forces of his Britannic Majesty in their actual state, and without deterioration.

Art. VII. The property of the inhabitants shall be respected.

Answer. All private property shall be respected.

Art. VIII. The inhabitants shall preserve their religion, laws, and customs.

Answer. The inhabitants shall preserve their religion, laws, and customs.

Art. IX. The colonists shall have the option, during two years, to come, to quit the colony with their respective private property.

Answer. They shall enjoy, during two years, the liberty of quitting the colony with their property, in order to proceed to any place they may wish.

Art. X. The wounded or sick that it shall be necessary to leave in the hospitals shall be treated the same as the subjects of his Bri

tannic Majesty: French surgeons shall be permitted to remain with them, and they shall afterwards be sent to France at the expense of the British government. Answer. The wounded who may be left in the hospitals shall be treated in the same manner as the subjects of his Britannic Majesty.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS. Art. I. The public functionaries of the French government of the Isle of France shall be permitted to remain in the colony for a reasonable period, to regulate and discharge their public accounts with the colonists.

Art. II. The morning of the 3rd of December instant, at six o'clock, a. m. possession shall be given to the troops of his Britannic Majesty of the forts of Du Mas, and the lines of the town of Port Napoleon, down to the bastion Fanfaron.

Art. III. The morning of the

4th of December instant, at six o'clock, a. m. the Isle of Tonnelien, Fort Blanc, and the whole of the batteries of the harbour of Port Napoleon, and all the shipping, both ships of war and privateers, and merchant or other shipping of every description whatsoever, shall be given up to the naval and military forces of his Britannic Majesty; and all shipping lying in any other creek, port, or harbour of the Island, shall equally be considered as the property of his Britannic Majesty.

Art. IV. The troops of his Imperial and Royal Majesty, and the crews of the ships of war and privateers, shall retire to the barracks of the town, where they shall continue until their final embarkation.

Art. V. That the subsistence of the French garrison, both officers and men, as well as of the officers and crews of the ships of war, so long as they shall remain here, shall be assured and provided for by the British government; the expenses arising therefrom shall be considered as an advance for which the French government is pledged.

Art. VI. That on the surrender of the Port, as stipulated by the third additional article, all English prisoners of war, of whatever description, now in the Isle of France, shall be liberated.

Art. VII. That if any difference shall arise in the interpretation of any part of the foregoing, it shall be interpreted in favour of the French government.

This done and agreed at the British head quarters, at Pamplemonus, at one o'clock, a. m. "the 3rd day of Dec. 1810. (Signed) VANDERMAESEN, Gen.

of Division. HENRY WARDE, Ma jor-General.

JOSIAS ROWLEY, Com-
modore.

J. DUPRERE, Capit. de
Vaisseau.
Approuvé et ratifié, la pre-

sente.

DE CAEN, Capit. Gen. CHARLES de COETLOGON, Secretary to the Commissioners.

List of Ships, &c. in Port Na

poleon, at the Reduction of the Isle of France, December, 1810. French frigate L'Astrée, of 44 guns, and 1,100 tons.

French frigate La Bellone, of 48 guns, and 1,050 tons.