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sent separate article, and have sealed, it with the seals of our arms. Donent London this 14th day of January, 1809. (L.S.) GEORGE CANNING.: Art. 11. Separate. A treaty shall forthwith be negociatNl, stipulating the amount and deseriptioir of succours to be afforded by his Britannic Majesty, agreeably to the third article of the present treaty. In witness w hereof, we, the under - signed Plenipotentiaries, have signed, in virtue of our respectite full powers, the present teparatearticle, mid have sealed it with the seals of our arms. Done at London this 11th day of January, 1809. (t.. S.) GEORGI; CANNING. Additional Art.--I . llc present circumstances not admitting of the regular negotiation ef a treaty of commerce between the two countries, with all the care and consideration tine to so im portant a subjt-et, the. high contracting parties mutually engage to proceed to such negotiation as soon as it shall be practicable so to do, affording, in t he mean time, mutual fat ilitics to the commerce of the subjects of each other, by temporary regula tions founded on principles of reciprocal utility. In witne. , s whereof, we, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries,. having sig ned, in virtue, of our respective full powers, the. present ad ditional article, and have sealed it with the seals of our arms. Dune at London this 21st day of March, ISM. (L. S.) GEORGE CANNING. TUESDAY'S LOXDOY GAZETTE., Downing-street, .March '27, 1809. Dispatches, of which the following are copies, have this day Invo received from Lieut -Gen- Beckwith, Commander of his Majestyerforces in the Leeward Islands, addressed to Viscount Castlereagh, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. LThe first dispatch, dated Feb. 1, announces the landing of the , t,ops tho.ithh of January, in two divisions. The second coot: s nr , :lecount of the taking of t he heights of Surirey, 014 eon island, and other operations, which we have already minutely detailed from the Barbadoes Papers.] Camp, lhights of Surirey, Martinique, Feb. 10, 1809. llv Lo kb—Having, in my communications of the lst and sth submitted to your Lordship's consideration general reports orate operations of the army I have the !loliour to command, I now beg leave to inclose the special reports of the General Offi cers commanding divisions, and of Brigwiier-General Iloghton, y:hose brigade wac in action upon the Ist. with separate returns t4f our loss upon the Ist and 2d, which, I am inclined to believe. terminate our operations in th e field. The lower fort, formerly Fort Edward, was taken pOSSCSSiOn of before day-break in the morning of the bill, by Major Ilen iler*on, commanding the Royal York Rangers, with that regi ownt, tvit hoot istance, and we now occupy that work. St. Pierre surrendered to Lieutenant-Colonel Barne , ,, of the -I;ith regiment, the day before yesterday, and I have not yet re ved the details. Jut he course of all these services, where the co-operation ►►t' Cie navy wa practicable, the greatest exertions have been rts;v!e 11% the Rear-Admiral ; and the iinportant advantages ret,ot.i . til e'u shore by that excellent (dicer Cotan►odore Cm:idiom, in the rAttet ion of Pigeon Island, and tht. landing eantoot, mortars, and .cmuunition, at Point Negroe, aid conveying titttn to the sever; bit teries on that side, hare been of the highest importance to t:►c King's service. _ I have, &c. (co. BECKWITH ) COM. Forces. To Lord Viscount Castlereagh, .i'r. [The special reports which fol:ow, by Generals Prevost, lloghtott, and Maitland, give an account of the operations in V.:licit they were respectively engage;:, but which have all been already fully described in our Paper.] R !tarn of killed, wounded, and rni:;.7;ns , of the DirLionnndcr the Command of Lieut.-Geprot Sir George Peccost, Lail. in the miters of thelst cf Feb. I 809. Zth or Ito:.111 Fusileers, Int battalion, 1 captain, 9 rank and i killed; 2 seijoants, 1 drummer, 56 rank and tile, wounded; r.ink and tile, mi..ising.-23:1 or It oyal leers, I st Laalion ) 1 serjeant ) I-1 rank and We, kizlcd ; zedeantt, 'Z9 rank and file, wounded; h serjeant, 5 rank and tile, missing,— Detachment of the Ist West India Regiment, 1 rank and file t killed; 1 drummer, 18 rank and file, wounded; . 1 subaltern, ta:•sing.—Light battalion, 11 rank and file, killed ; 1 captain, 2 Subalterns, 1- serjeant, 2 buglei, SO rank and file, wounded; 3 rank and file, missing.- 7 -Total : 1 captain, 1 serjeant, 35 rank and file, killed ; 1 captain,.2 subalterns, 5 serjeants, 4 drummers, 2 bugles, 183 rank and tile, Wounded ; 1 subaltern, 1 serjeant, 12 rank. and file, missing. Officer killed.—Capt. Taylor, of the Royal Tusileers, Acting Deputy Quarter-Master-General. Officers Wounded.—Captain Gledstanes, of the 3d West India light infantry; Lieut. Johnson of the 4th ditto; Lieut. Jackson, of the rifle company Royal West India Rangers. Officer Missing.—Lieut. Gilmour, of the Ist West India Regi , went, taken prisoner.• (Signed) A. LIGERTw 00D. Acting Deputy Adjutant-General to the Forces under the Command of Lieut..-Gen. Sir G. Prevost. Return of killed. wounded, and missing, of the First Division of the it ring upon the ileight of Surirey,-Peb. 2,181.9. 7th Royal Fusileers, Ist battalion, 1 serjeant, 20 rank and tile, killed ; 1 field-officer, 2 eaptaita;, 1 serjeant, 1 drummer, 58 rank and file, w ounded ;• 3 rank and tile, missing. -Bth King's Regi ment, Ist battalion. 1 field-otficer, 4 rank and file, killed; 13 rank and file, wounded. —23 cl Royal Welch Fusileers,. Ist bat talion, 1 serjeant, 3 rank and file, killed ; 1 subaltern, 1 staff, Ifa rank and file, wounded . ; 1 serjeant, inissing.—Dtstachmein, 13t West India Regintzat, 1. rank and tile, killed.—Light battalion, 1 captain, 1 serjeant, 14 rank and file, killed; .1 field-officer, 1 subaltetn,2 serjeants,36 rank aed file, wounded.—Total ; I field officer, 1 captain, 3 serji!ant!z, 42 rank and file, killed; 2 field• officers, 2 captains, 23ubalterns, I staff, 3 serjeants, 1 drummer, 126 rank and file, w minded; 1 serjeant, 3 rank and file, missing. Officers Killed.— kith Regiment, Major Maxwell, light bat talion; Capt. Sinclair, 23th regiment. Officers . Wounded.-7th Regiment, Hon. Lieut.-Colonel Pakenhant; Captains Rowe and Cholwick.-23d Regiment, Lieut. Roskelly; Surgeon Power.—Light battalion, Major Campbell of the Royal West India Rangers; Lieut. Hopwood of ditto.—Staff, Captain Coore, Aide-de-Camp to Lieut.-Gen. Sir G. Prevost, slightly. G. W. R a Stsi Y., Brig. and Adj.-Gen. A Letter from Rear-Ad►niral Sir Alexander Cochrane gives an account of the lauding of the troops under Lieut.-General Beckwith, at Martinique, and incloses a letter from Capt. Beaver, of the Acasta, respecting the dbembarkatiou of the troops under his charge at Bay Robert. Copy of a Letter to Rear-Admiral Sir Alex. Cochrane. Cleopatra, oft' Basseterre, Guadaloupc, Jan 23, 1801. Slit, In consequence ofseparatiag from hi= Majesty's ship J ason, and there being no probability of communication either with Capt. Mande, or Capt. Pigot of the ',atona l and senior officer of the blockading squadron, I beg to inform you, that yester day, in obedience to the signals made to me by Capt. Maude, I chaced a ship in the N. N. W. which I shortly afterwards made out to be a French frigate, who, on seeing us, hauled close in shore, and anchored under a small battery a little to the S. of Point Noir. Having ascertained that they were securing her (by springs on her cables, and others fast to the trees on shore) as well as her situation would permit, I made every preparation for attacking her, the witid being at this time from the s. but very light aid variable. At half past 2P.M. we got the true breeze, and turned up to windward till within a ca ble's lenOt oi . the shore, and half musquet shot from the ene , « h ich was eiThrted at :t o'clock, when his firing commenced. taw from the shape of the land aml the shoal of water between us, that I could not close without danger of being raked, I was therefore obliged to anchor in six fathoms and a half, and re turned his tile, which fortunately cut away his outside spring, when he swtmg in shore with his head towards us, giving us the advantage I refosed hint before ; this 1 so effectually preserved, that he never afterwards got more than. half his broadside to hear; we thus engaged for 40 minutes, when the Jason and Ha zard came up, the former having taken a position on her star board quarter, and firing her bow guns, the Hazard at the same time directing hers to the fort, the enemy hauled down his colours, finding he was not able to sustain so unequal a combat. She proves to be the French national frigate Topaze, carrying 48 guns, eighteen 24 and 56-pounders, commanded by MOM, La hall e, Capitnine dc frigate, «ith a complement of 330 men; she . Zl4 mn.mmulum"um"..lm"lmmimml7immmimmilmm..m.mm.mmilimmimmmi". TrrliE NATIONAL REGISTER. APRIL 2.