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FROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTF.

Downing Sireet. June 22, 1804.

A dispatch, of which the following is a copy, has
been received from Major-General Sir Charles
Greene, by Earl Camden, one of His Majesty's prin-
cipal Secretaries of State :

NV 1.0• D, Pararaanho, M.y 13, IAo4.
It is highly gratifying to me to have the honour
of informing your Lordship, that the Colony of
Surinam has surrendered to His Majesty's arms ;
and I have the farther ,iitisfaaion to acquaint your
Lordship, that this valuable acquisition to the Bri-
tish dominions has been made with very little loss
on the part of His Majesty's troops.
In my dispatches from Barbadoes, of the 2d
of April, I had the honour to report to your Lord-
ship that the Arrangements for proceeding on the
expedition against Surinarn being nearly completed.
I had reason to expect we should be enabled to sail
from Barbadoes in the course of three or four days;
and Commodore Hood having previously signified
to me that every thing in the naval department was
ready, I direfted the final embarkation of the troops,
stores. &c. on the 6th of the same month. The fol-
lowing day the whole fleet weighed anchor and
On the 25th His Majesty's ship Centaur, having
the Commodore's broad pendant, and on board of
which I was embarked, came to anchor about ten
miles off the mouth of the River Surinam, and dur-
ing that and the next day the greater part of the
fleet also anchored.
On the t.!.6th, a corps, consisting of the flank com-
panies of the 16th and 64th regiments, the rifle
company of the ad battalion 60th regiment, made
up by detachments from the battalion companies
m. the 16th, both, and 6th West India regiments,
to about six hundred men, and the Ist brigade of
Royal Artillery, besides armed seamen, was de-
tarlied in different vessels under convoy of His
ship Hippomenes. Captain Shipley. This corps was
commanded by Brigadier General Maltby .d. who
was direitsni to effect a landing. et 'be Warappa
Creek. about ten leagues to the eastward of the
Surinam river, where the enemy occupied a post.
The übjed ofthis operation was to obtain a water
communication with the Commewyne river, to
procure plantation beats, in sufficient number to
transport the troops down the river towards its junc-
tion with the Surinam, and thereby facilitate our
approach to take a position in the rear of Fort New
Amsterdam ; and also with a view to cut off a con-
siderable detachment of the enemy stationed at Fort
• Broad wach t, on the Mud Creek.
On the same day, preparations were made for
landing a body of troops to take possession of Bram',
Point, where there is a battery of seven eighteen-
pounders, which defends the entrance of the River
Surinam. Brigadier-General Hughes undertook to
superintend thu service; the wind proving favoura-
ble, His Majesty's ships Emerald, Pandour (hav-
ing the 64th regiment on board), and Drake brig of
war, got under weigh to attack the battery, when a
fire was opened on the ships, which, however, was
soon silenced by a few broadsides, and die enemy
struck their colours. A detachment of troops, under
Brigadier-General Hughes, immediately landed, and
took possession of Bram's Point, making prisoners
a captain sad forty-four men. The entrance being
thus secured, the Commodore made signal for the
ships to go into the river as soon as possible ; in the
course of that and the following day, the most con-
siderable part of the fleet anchored in the river.
At this period the Commodore shifted his pen-
dant to the Emerald, and I accompanied hint on
board that ship. We then judged it expedient to
send a summons to the Governor of Surinam, with

proposals for the surrender of the Colony.
Captain Maxwell, of the Royal Navy, and Cap-
tain Drummond, of the 60th regiment (ailing as
my Aid-de-Camp), proceeded up the river snth a
flag of truce ; and, having. delivered our summons
to the Governor, returned in the night. with infor-
mation that an answer would be sent next morning.
On the 28th, we received the Governor's answer,
conveying a refusal to capitulate. (Copies of our
summons. with the proposed terms, an] the answer
thereto, are herewith transmitted.) It was deter-
mined that we should lose SO time in endeavouring
to make some impression on the enemy's posts; but
I must here beg leave to observe to your Lordship,
that the toast of Surinam is of very difficult ap-
proach, shallow, and full of banks; that a landing
is only to be attempted at the top of the tide, and at
particular points; the coast is uncleared, and from
Toed, and the marshy natural of the soil, it is im-
possible to penetrate into the interior, except by the
ewers and the creeks.
The shores. on both sides of the River Surinam,
are equally difficult of access, for the same causes,
until you reach the battery Friderici, with the ex-
ception of one spot on the eastern shore, where a
plantation, called Resolution, has been lately esta-
blished. Our points of attack were therefore erm-
ined; and the enemy, by means of their fort% ships
of war, and other armed vessels, were completely
masters of the navigation of the River Surinam above
Fort Amsterdam.
The defences of doe river, after passing Bram's
Point, are Fart Amsterdam, situated on the conflu-
ence of dm Rivers Surinam and Conunewysse i .r
wards of eighty pieces of ordnance are amounted
this fortress.
Fort Leyden is armed with twelve heavy guns,
and situated on the right bank of the Burnam,
where it meets the Commewyne ; is opposite to and
commanded by Fort Amsterdam, at the distance of
about two thousand yards.
The battery Friderici is about two hundred yards
lower down. and armed with twelve heavy guns.
On the left bank of the river, nearly opposite to
Fort Amsterdam, is Fort PUTMUrellt, having ten
guns mounted ; its rear and flanks protected by ins.
predicable marsh and woods.
The fire of all these works and batteries intersect
in the channel for ships going up the river.
The town of Paramaribo is defended towards the
water by a battery of about ten guns, mounted in
Fort Zelandia, a place otherwise of no defence.
The 211th, the ships of war and other vessels
proceeded up the river as fast as the tides would
, admit of.
A plan was formed for making an attempt on
I Fort Purmurent ; a detachment of the ti4th regi-
ment, under Captain Burton, accompanied by Cap-
tain Drummond, my Aide-de-Camp, with a body

of armed seamen, commanded by Captain Jervis,
embarked at eight o'clock at night. for that purpose;
but on approaching the fort, they found the tide
was unfavourable for the undertaking, and re-
turned.

On the 29th, Lieutenant-Colonel Shipley, com-
manding engineer, went on shore at the plantation
before stated, below tli_ enemy's har—ies, to en-
deavour to procure iii• elligence ; and, on reuniting,
reported, that he hail every reason to believe that
there was a prthicable way through the woods, by
which a body of men might be conduard to the
rear of the Forts Leyden and Friderici. Lieute-
nant-Colonel Shipley was indefatigable in.ascertain-
ing the accuracy of this information, in which he was
ably assisted by Lieutenant Arnold, of the Royal
Engineers, and Mr. Hobbs, thing engineer ; and
the result was such, that a detachment of one
hundred and forty men, of the 64th regiment, un-
der the command of the Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel
Cramtoun, with Major Stirke, of the nth West In-
dia Regiment, ten men of the 6th West India Regi-
ment, with side arms, having felling-axes, twenty
of the Artificers' Corps provided in the same man-
ner, and about thirty armed seamen, commanded
by Captains Maxwell, Ferris, and Richardon, of
the Royal Navy, the whole under the command of
Brigadier-General Hughes, accompanied by Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Shipla,, Lenten:. ,t Arnold, of the
Royal Engineers, :.nd Mr. Hobbs, aping engineer,
whose local knowleige proved extremely useful on
this occasion, landed between the hours of ten and
eleven at night, at gesolution Plantation, and pro-
ceeded through the woods, with negro guides.

A great quantity of rain having recently &Wm,
it was found that the path, at alt times difficult, had
become almost impassable; but no obstacle could
damp the enterprising spirit of our seamen :And
soldters, w! o, with pen,evering mirage, after a
laborions march of rive hours. arrived near the
of Frider;ci bat• :y. The alarm having been
given,a con,iiietable firr of grape shot was made
upon the troops before ti.h-i quitted the wood, whilst
forming for the attack, and of musketry as they ap.
proached the battery. The assault of our intrepid
seamen and troops, with fixed bayonets, was so ani.
mated and vigorous as to prevent any further re.
sistAnce. The enemy Red to Fort Leyden, having
set fire to the powder magazine, by the explosion of
which a few 1%46'1101E ors and men were severely
wounded. Brigadier-General Hughes used no
delay is moving on to the attack of Fort Leyden ;
but being under the necessity of -rat thing by a nar-
row read, h.rh was enfiladed by four or firs gur s,
received a ronAulet ablefire of grape elot on his mare
and of musketry, on his nearer approach, which,
however, was soon put a stop to by a repetition of
the same impetuous attack on our part, and the ene-
my, after some tiring, called for quarter, which was
generously gr.rnted by the c, uerors, alth.sugh in
the moment they were high.y exasperated at the
condo& of the Batavian troops in biowing up the
powder magazine, at Fort Fridefe., after it h.d
been in our possession. A Captain, with some other
officers, and one hundred and twenty men, were
taken at this post, about thirty having made their
escape across the River Commewyne to Fort New
Amsterdam.

By this brilliant affair a position was secured, by
which a heavy fire could be brought on Fort New
Amsterdam, a communication with the River Com-
mewyne opened, the means of forming junCtion
with Br igadier-General Maitland's corps established,
and the command of the finest part of the colony,
abounding reit%l resources of all kinds, obtained.
Brig ,diet-General Hughes's exertions upon this
occasion w. e highly meritorious, and by his ani-
matiag exarnpk contributed much to the success of
the day.
On the 30th in the morning, the Commodore and
myself went on shore at the captured forts, and di-
reCtions were given for covering the troops and guns
fmm the fire of fort New Amsterdam, to which
they were greatly expused, and for pointing the fire
of the forts towards the enemy. The troops under-
went great fatigue in executing these works, which,
however, they cheerfully submitted to, under the
direttion of Lieutenant-Colonel Shipley, who, as
usual, was unceasing in his exertions. Brigadier-
General Hughes remained in the command there,
eying every necessary support and countenance.
enemy fired from time to time from Fort New
Amsterdam, by which three men at Fort Leyden
were wounded : but some shells being thrown in re-
turn from two mortars, which we had got on shore
at Fort Leyden, the firing on the part of the enemy
ceased.

On the same day I received a report from Bri-
gadier• General Maitland, that a landing had been
efklted at the Warappa Creek, by the first division
of his corps, under the command of Major Hardy
man, of the Ist Battalion of the Royals, who took
possession of the enemy's post, where there were
two guns, after a short resistance; and the Bri.
gadier-General further stated, that he was proceed-
ing to land with the whole of his corps. Under
these circumstances no time was lost in disembark-
ing at Fort Leyden the rest of the troops, and push-
ing them on by the north bank of Commewyne to
nearly opposite Zooland's Plantation, where it was
intended to cross the river to form a junflion with
Brigadier-General Maitland's corps on its espelied
arrival there. The artillery, stores, and provisions,
were also conveyed in boats, by the indefatigable
exertions of the navy, into the Commewyne River,
and an armed naval force established therein.
On the 3d of May, Brigadier-General M iitland
having, with great diligence, procured a number of
plantation boats to convey his corps, appeared corn-
ing down the Commewyne in very good order, and
landed at a plantation en the south side of that river.
On the same evening, part of the kith regiment
crossed the Commewyne to juin Brigadier• General
Maitland, and were followed the next day by
the remainder of that regiment ; orders were also
given for all the troops to pass as quickly as possible.
On the 4th, between two and three o'clock, Bri-
gadier-General Maitland's Corpontoved on through
a wood, and approached Fort New .AmsterdArri
within a mile to reconnoitre, with a view to extend
their position towards the river Surinam, and thereby
iivest that fortress. Some shots were fired by the
enemy's advanced centinels, who -retired. At this
time Commodore Hood being with me at Head
Quarters on the Commewyne, we received a gag of
truce from the coatitiansliug ofScer of the Batavian
troops, with proposals to surrender ea terms of ca-

pitnlation, a copy of which is herewith enclosed ;
orders were in consequence issued to suspend hosti-
lities until the conditions should be finally agreed
upon.
Lieutenant-Colonel Shipley and Captain Maxwell
of the Royal Navy, were sent to settle the terms.
They returned early on the morning of the sth, with
two separate capitulations, signed by Lieutenant-
Colonel Batentnirgh, commanding the Batavian
troops, and Commodore Bloys, Chief of the Naval
Department ; hut an article in the one signed by
the military commandant not being sufficientlyclear,
Brigadier-General Maitland was employed to ar-
range the business, which being completed to our
satisfaetion, at five o'clock on the same evening, the
ad►anced corps, under the command of Brigadier-
General Maitland, marched in and tr k possession
of Fort New Amsterdam. The Batavian
and sloop of war were also taken possession of at the
same hour.

'Here General Green acknowledges his obligations to Brigadier
Generals Marthoid and Hughes; to L.roweliant-Colonel
Shipley, Major Wilson, of the Artillery ; NI jur Robertson,
A •iisig Arbutant-General ; Ar ting Coinnussary General
Glasfurd ; Ca,aain M'G.!achy, Assistant Quarter Master
General; Captain Drummond, of the 110th regiment; and
to Commodore Hood, and all the Captains and other Offi-
ce s of the witiadron ; p nicularly to Captain Maxwell, of
the Centaur, and Camain Kenipt, Agent of Transport,.
Th•• General concludes his Letter with the following para.
grai.h

I have the pleasure to assure your Lordship, that
the principal inhabitants of the colony appear in ge-
neral to be extremely rejoiced at the event which has
taken place, restoring to them the powerful protec-
tion of the Ili itish Government, and the solid ad-
vantages arising therefrom.
Captain Campbell, my Aid de Camp, will have
the honour to deliver this dispatch to your Lord-
ship; he is a very old and deserving officer, and I
beg leave to refer your Lordship to him for further
information. I have, tcc.
(Signed) CHARLES Carat:, Maj. Gen.

[The Articles'of Capitulation are, the garrisons to
be prisoners of war ; to be transported to Holland as
soon as vessels can be provided for the purpose ; the
troops to be at liberty to serve the Batav;an Repub-
lic, but not against His Britannic Majesty, ur his
allies ; and, finally, that they are not to be corn-
riled to enter the British service. Private pro-
perty secured to the possessors.
[ln another capitulation with the Dutch Naval
Comma*, I.r, Commodore Bloys, the Dutch frigate
Proses pine, and Pylades sloop of war, t- ith three
merchant ships and a schooner, the latter stated to
be private property, and reserved for det.ision as
such, were surrendered, and the same conditions
granted to their crews as tr., the soldiers. The brass
and iron ordnance, of various calibre, mounted and
dismounted, comprised 214 pieces.]

RETURN Of THE KILLED ♦ND WOUNDED, AT THE
ASSA(TLT AND CAPTURE Of THE bu.s.Es LEYDEN
AKD FRIDERICI.
Three rank and file killed ; t held S subalterns, I
staff, I stneant, and 7 rank and tile wounded.
Officers rounded—Lieut. Colonel the Hon. C. Cranatutut,
64th Regiment; Lieut. Arnold, Royal Y-I:neirra, Mr Hobbs.
A.aitant Engineer; l.ieut. Role, 64th Regiment; and Ueut.
Browerigg, 67th Regiment.