The Express.
London, England, 1855-11-02 00:00:00

CAPTURE OF KINBURN.

DESPATCH FROM GENERAL SIMPSON.

TO Till .. Guam.")
War Department, November I.
Lord Panmwe hu this day remind a despatch
sod its enclosures, of which the following ars copies,
addressed to his lordship by General Sir James
Simpson, G.C.8.:

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Sebastopol, October 20.

My Lad.—l am happy to be alai, to congratulate
your lordship on the successful termination of the
expedition to Kinburnl I transmit a copy of the

the HoaoUrable A.
Spencer. This contains all the information I have
received on the operations, with the exception that,
in a private note, Sir B. Lyons mentions that the
enemy have exploded the three forte at Otobakcdf,
commanding the northers entraneeento illoplayses
In °assigneea of the oostioned deems d the

report of

weather, giant progress has been made in the eon-
'traction of the road and railway. The divisions
have all got some week' supply of rations in their
camp; and I entertain no anxiety of there being a
sou-city of anything during the approaching winter.
I informed your lordship, in my despatch of the
13th instant, that the Highland Division, under
Lientenant-Oeneral Sir Colin Campbell, were to pre-
ssed to Bupa toria, and co-operate with the Freachi
but upon the receipt of your telegraphic despatch of
the 13th instant, apprising me that the Hessians had
resolved to hazard a battle, and attack the Allies,
did not consider myself jultified in weakening the
force under my command by so many men, and I
therefore countermanded the movement.

I have the honour to enclose the weekly reports of
Colonel McMurdo and Dr. lisll.—l have, &e.,
(Signed) JAMES SIMPSON,
General Commanding.
The Lord Penmen, &o.

Enclosure 1.

Cusp before Kiabers, Oot. 17.

Sir,—ln reporting, for the information of the Ge-
neral Commanding the Forces, the fall of the garrison
of the fortress of Kinburn, this day, I have the
honour to state that the force under my command,',
u per state enclosed,• effected their landing on
Monday, the 16th, unopposed.
Owing to a heavy surf, end which continued all
day yesterday, the landing has been accomplished
with some little difficulty. The troop', however,
were all got on shore on the first day, and have
since been employed in entrenching our position.
There are rumours of a force of the enemy collecting
at Eherson, about 40 miles from here, bat our lions-
diets neighbourhood appears to be clear.
The advanced line of the position, flanked on both
sides by the sea, is held by the faros under my
command, and is about a mile In extent.—l have,
Ste., (Signed) AUGUSTUS SPENCER,

Brigadier-Gemeral Commanding English
Land Fora.

The Military Secretary, &c.,

DESPATCHES FROM REAR-ADMIRAL
SIR E. LYONS.
(PROM ♦ IBUTPLIMONT TOl5ll Gums.)
Admiralty, Nov. 1.
Despatches, of which the following are copies,
have bees ribeived from Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund
Lyons, Bart., G.C.8., Commander-in-Chief of her
Majesty's Ships and Vessels in the Mediterranean and
Black Sea.

Royal Albert, off /Lisburn, Oct. 18.
Sir,—My letter of the 6th inst., No. 834, will have
informed the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty

that an allied naval and military expedition was to
leave the anchorage off Sebastopol on the following
day, foe the impose of taking and occupying the
three Radian forts on Kinburn Spit, at the entrance
of Dnieper By ; and the telegraphic moulage, which
I forwarded to Varna last night, will moon communi-
sate to their lordships the mow which has attended
this 'steeples.
It is now my duty to give a more detailed account
of the proceedings of the expedition.
1 have therefore the honour to state that we arrived
at a rendezvous off Odessa on the Bth inst., but,
owing to strong south-west winds, which would have
prevented the troops from landing, it was not until
the morning of the 14th inst. that the expedition was
enabled to reach the anchorage off Kinburn. _

During the night the English steam gun 'retool.
Fancy, Boxer, Cracker, and Clinker, and four French
gun vessels, forced the entrant* into Dnieper Bay,
ander a heavy, bat ineffectual, fire from the Spit
Fort, and on the following morning the British
troops, under the orders of Brigadier-General Hon.
A. A. Spencer, together with the French troops,
under the command of General Bassin*, were landed
about three miles to the southward of the principal
fort, and thus, by these nearly simultaneous opera-
tics*, the retreat of the garrisons and the snivel et
reinforcements were effeatnally out oft

In the evening, the English and French mortar
vessels tried their ranges against the main fort with
excellent effect. _ _ .

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The wind having again veered round to the south-
ward, with a great deal of swell, nothing could be
done on the 16th; but in the forenoon of the 17th, a
fine northerly breeze, with smooth water, enabled the
French floating batteries, mortar vessels, and gun-
boats, and the Odin and the mortar vessels, and gun-
boats named in the margin,t to take up positions off
Fort Hinburn ; and their Sre was so effective, that
befogs noon the buildings in the interior of the fort
wanks flames, and the eastern face had suffered very
considerably.
At nOOO, the Royal Albert, Algiers, Agamemnon,
and Princess Royal, accompanied by Admiral Brunt's
four ships of the line, approached Fort Biala= in •
line abreast, which the shape of the coast rendered
necessary, and the precision with which they took up
their positions in the closest order, with jib-boons
run in and only two feet of water under their keels,
wee really admirable. At the same moment the
squadrons under the orders of Rear-Admirals Sir
Houston Stewart and Penton pushed through the
pomp between Otchakoff and the spit of Milburn,
and took the forts in reverie, whilst the St. Jean
d'Aere, Campos, Tribune, and Splits:, undertook the
centre battery, sad the Hannibal. Dauntless, and
Terrible that on the point of the spit.
The enemy soon owed to reply to our over-

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