coming towards the town, and consequently will be soon in my possession. This account of his force is probably exaggerated, and particularly with regard to his artillery.The general himself is still on this side the Kloof, but his intentions seem matter of conjecture, and probably he meditates a movement towards Zwart Kopts River.-His resources, with respect to subsistence, are of a kind not very susceptible of interruption, from the disposition of the farmers, or the means I can immediately oppose to him, unless he should experience a deficiency of ammunition by our possession of some of his depôts. The farmers are by no means likely to assist him heartily for any length of time, for the devastation of their property must be the inevitable consequence of a prosecution of the contest in the interior, To augment, or even preserve his actual, and, I trust, but temporary superiority in that particular, it will be necessary for general Janssens to move, in a northerly direction, into the district of Stellesbosch; but as the measure is of a most desperate tendency, and requires that his heart should be steeled against those sensations which are said to govern his actions, I indulge a sanguine expectation that consequences so dreadful may be averted. With this view, and from the posture of our relative affairs, I have deemed it both honourable and expedient for his majesty's government, to make an overture to general Jansens, a copy of which is inclosed, deprecating the destructive result of his farther opposition, to his majesty's arms, and treating him' with the generosity and distinction due to his character. But in order to give weight to the anxious desire I entertain, of inviting general Janssens to a pacification, I have at an early hour this day, detached brigadier-general Beresford, with the 59th and 72d regiments, two howitzers, and four six-pounders, to possess himself of the villages of Stellesbosch, and thence to forward my letter to the general, accompanied by such additional arguments as the brigadier may consider expedient to submit to him, and with full powers to conclude whatever treaty existing circumstances might exact. Cape Town, Jan. 11. SIR, You have discharged your duty to your country as became a brave man at the head of a gallant though feeble army. I know how to re. spect the high qualities of such a man; and do not doubt that the humanity which ever characterises an intrepid soldier, will now ope rate in your breast, to check the fatal consequences of a fruitless contest. The naval and military forces of his Britannic majesty, which have possessed themselves of the seat of your recent government, are of a magnitude to leave no question respecting the issue of farther hostilities; and, therefore, a temporary and disastrous resistance, is all you can possibly oppose to superior numbers. Under these circumstances, nothing can result, but the devastation of the country you casually occupy; and such a consequence can never be contemplated without anguish by a generous mind; or be gratifying to the man who feels for the prosperity and tranquillity of the colony, lately subject to his administration. But if, unhappily, your resolution is formed to oppose an enemy of such superior force, by protracting a contest which must entail misery Pp 3 and and ruin on the industrious and A Dispatch received from Major peaceably disposed settlers of this colony, I shall be exonerated from the reproach of my own conscience by this frank overture; and you must justify to yourself, and to your countrymen, the farther effu. sion of blood, and the desolation of the country.-You are necessarily so well acquainted with the extent of the calamities in which the interior of the country may be involved, that I shall not enlarge upon your power of causing mischief to be done to all its inhabitants; but, 1 persuade myself that considerations of a more laudable nature will influence your decision on this occasion; and that you will manifest an immediate disposition to promote a general tranquillity. I have the honour to subscribe, with sentiments of the highest respect and consideration. Sir, yours, &c. D. BAIRD, Maj.-gen. commander in chief. To lieut.-gen. Janssens, &c. A letter from sir H. Popham to W. Marsden, esq. gives a detail of the expedition, to the same effect as that in the dispatch of sir D. Baird. -It appears, that every exertion was made by the naval forces to facilitate, with safety, the landing of the troops; and that the cause of the upsetting of one of the boats was their anxiety to be first ashore. -Sir Home, after paying the highest compliments to captains Rowley, Byng, Butterfield, and the whole of the officers and men under his command, regrets that no brilliant service fell to the lot of the squadron, which maintained with unabated zeal the most laborious duty that could be experienced. General Sir D. Baird, at the Cape of Good Hope, dated Jan. 26, containing the Capitulation of the Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope. I had the honour to address your lordship on the 13th inst. relative to the situation of affairs in this colony; and I now proceed to submit to your lordship the subsequent operations against the Batavian forces, commandedby lieut.-gen. Janssens, and which have terminated in the subjection of the whole colony.-According to my orders, brig.-gen. Beresford advanced with a detachment of the army on the 13th inst. to occupy the village of Stellenbosch, and secure the strong pass of Roode Sand, with a view to exclude the Batavian forces from that productive portion of the district, and to preserve to ourselves an undisturbed intercourse with the farmers below the Kloof. Lieut.. gen. Janssens made no efforts to dispute these objects, but contented himself with moving his forces to the submit of Hottentot Holland's Kloof, and there took post, waiting, apparently, to receive some overtures of pacification. Brig.-gen, Beresford availed himself of this aspect of affairs to transmit to lieut.. gen. Janssens a letter from me, and took that occasion of announcing that he was vested with powers to come to an accommodation with the lieutenant-general. This proposition produced a truce for the purpose of carrying on a negoti ation; but it were superfluous to occupy your lordship's time by detailing the various pretensious and arguments urged by lieut.-gen, Janssens Janssens in objection to the terms I offered to his army; but the result thereof afforded so little prospect of accommodation, that I deemed it proper to move the 59th and 72d regiments to the Roode Sand Kloof, and the 93d regiment towards Hottentot Holland, with a view to a combined operation with the 83d regiment, which had sailed on the 14th inst. for Mosell Bay, in order to throw itself into the enemy's rear, possess the Attiquos pass, and, from that position, cut off his retreat through the district of Zwellendam. -Brig.-gen. Beresford had acquiesced in the prolongation of the truce with gen. Janssens for a few hours, in the hope that further deliberation might dispose him to listen to the very honourable and advan tageous terms I had offered him; and at the moment when every expectation of his renewing the negotiation had ceased, his military secretary, capt. Debittz, waited upon me, and presented a modified draught of the terms originally proposed by me. On my declining to vary the conditions, capt. Debittz solicited permission to refer my ul. timatum to gen. Janssens ; and was at length authorized to notify his acceptance of them.-In consequence of this notification, I dispatched brig.-gen. Beresford with directions to execute a treaty on the conditions first offered to gen. Jans. sens." The Capitulation agreed to is in substance as follows. The whole of the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, with all its dependencies, and the rights and privileges held and exercised by the Batavian government, will be considered as surrendered by the governor, lieut.-gen. Janssens, to his Britannic majesty.-The Batavian troops shall march from their present camp within three days, or sooner, if convenient, with their guns, arms, and baggage, and with all the honours of war, to Simon's Town. They shall retain all private property, and the officers their swords and horses. But their arms, treasures, and all public property of every description, together with the cavalry and artillery horses, must be delivered up. In consideration; however, of their gallant conduct, the troops will be enbarked and sent straight to Holland, at the expence of the British government, and shall not be considered as prison. ers of war, they engaging not to serve against his Britannic majesty, or his allies, until they have been landed in Holland.-The Hottentot soldiers are to march to Simon's Town with the other troops; after which, they will be either allowed to return to their own country, or be engaged in the British service, as they may think proper.-The offi cers and men belonging to the Batavian army are to be subsisted at the expence of the British government until they are embarked.— The sick who cannot be removed with the other soldiers, are to be atteaded at the expence of his Britannic majesty, and when recovered sent to Holland. The inhabitants of the colony who are comprehended in this capitulation, are to enjoy the same rights and privileges as have been granted to those in Cape Town, according to the capitulation of the 10th inst. with the exception of not quartering troops, the country not having the same resources as the town.-Lieut.-gen. Janssens shall be at liberty to send Pp 4 home Captain Henry, of the French ship Diomede, which ran on shore, and I afterwards ordered to be burnt, being, with his officers, among the prisoners rescued, the afternoon of the 9th, before that event took place, he approached to offer captain Keats his sword, which he, from the report which had been made to me by sir Edward Berry, and, except in the act of hailing, confirmed by capt. Dun, that the ship had struck before she run on shore, disdainfully refused. This of course made explanation necessary on my side; and I acquainted capt. Henry, that I had marked his dishonourable conduct in my public letter; when feeling, as he appeared to do, like a man of honour, and referring to his officers and ship's company, they gave the strongest testimony that the pendant was always flying, though the ensign was shot away; and this, from strict investigation since my arrival here, appears to be the case; and as sir E. Berry is not present to refer to, and the commodore in the Braave allows he hailed the Agamemnon, and what has been recited passed between them, I have no doubt that the Diomede has been mistaken for the Braave, by her ensign being down. I therefore, sir, feeling that character is much J. T. DUCKWORTII. Letters from Adam Dacres, Com. mander in Chief at Jamaica, introduce the following. 4 SIR, Franchise, at anchor, off Having received information from a neutral, that several Spanish véssels had very lately arrived in the Bay of Campeachy, and conceiving · it practicable, from the local knowledge I had of that place, that they might be cut out without running much risk; I have presumed, in consequence, to extend the limits of the orders with which you honoured me, and proceeded to this anchorage; and, although I am well aware of the great responsibility, yet, as it was undertaken solely with a view of forwarding the king's service, by distressing his enemies, so I have the vanity to hope it will be sanctioned with your high approbation. I have, therefore, the honour to report, that I last evening anchored the Franchise in quarter-less-four fathoms, a-breast the town of Campeachy; and as it was impossible, from the shallowness of the water, to approach nearer to the shore than five leagues, I dispatched the senior officer, licut. John Fleming, accompanied by lieut. P. G. Douglas, the third, lieut. Mends of the marines, and Messrs. Daly, Lamb, Chalmers, and Hamilton, midship. men, ly returned both by the brig and boats, that they soon retired to their former position, leaving lieut. Fleming in quiet possession of his prize, which proved to be the Spanish Monarch's brig Raposa, pierced for 16, but only 12 guns mounted, exclusive of cohorns, swivels, and numerous small arms, with a complement of 90 men, but only 75 actually on board; the captain, Don Joaquin de la Cheva, with the senior lieutenant, the civil officers, and a boat's crew, being absent on shore. She appears almost a new vessel, coppered, sails well, and, in my humble judgment, is admirably calculated for his majesty's service. It is with the most heartfelt satisfaction I have to announce, that this service was performed without the loss of a single man, and only seven slightly wounded. But I lament to say, that that pleasure is in a great measure damped by the great effusion of blood on the part of the enemy, they having had an officer and four men killed, many jumped over-board and drowned, and the commanding officer and 25 wound men, in three boats, with orders to scour the Bay, and bring off such of the enemy's vessels as they might fall in with. But, from the distance they had to row, joined to the dark. ness of the night, and the uncertainty of their position, it was four o'clock in the morning before they could possibly arrive, long after the rising of the moon, which unfortunately gave the enemy warning of their approach, and ample time for preparation, even to the tricing up of their boarding nettings, and projecting sweeps, to prevent the boats from coming along-side; and although the alarm was thus given from one end of the Bay to the other, and instantly communicated to the castle on-shore, yet nothing could damp the ardour and gallantry of the officers and crew, who had volunteered on this (as it ultimately proved) hazardous service; for that instant, two of his catholic majesty's brigs, one of 20 guns, and 180 men, the other of 12 guus and 90 men, accompanied by an armed schooner of eight, and supported by seven gun-boats, of two guns each, slipped their cables, and commenced, many of whom, I am sorry to ed a most severe and heavy cannonading on the three boats, which must soon have annihilated them, had not lieut. Fleming, with great presence of mind, and unchecked ardour, most boldly dashed on, and instantly laid the nearest brig on board. He was so quickly support ed by his friend lieut. Douglas in the barge, and Mr. Lamb in the pinnace, that they carried her in ten minutes, notwithstanding the very powerful resistance they met with. The whole of this little flotilla pursued them for some distance, keeping up a constant firing of guns and musquetry, which was so smart add, are, in the surgeon's opinion, mortally. I have, therefore, from motives of humanity, sent the whole of them on shore, with a flag of truce, where the brave but unfortu nate wounded can be better taken care of, which, I trust, you will approve. Lieut. Fleming speaks in the highest terms of approbation of the prompt and gallant support he met with from lieuts. Douglas and Mends, as well as the other officers and crew under his orders. Indeed there was not a man on board but was anxious to be of the party ; and I am sorry I could not indulge licut. T. J. Peschell, the second; but |