The National Register.
London, England, 1811-02-17 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY, FEB. is, Mi.

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ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, FEB. 13, 1811.
A a.spatch, of which the following is an Extract, has been this
day received by the Earl of Liverpool, one of hit. Mojebty's
principal Secretaries of State, from It. T. Farquhar, Esq. ;
dated Port Louis, Isle of France, Dec. 7, 1810.

Lieutenant 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 to John Wilson
Croker, Esq. Secretary to the Admiralty, of which the follow-
ing are copies:—

Africaine, in Port Louis, Isle of France, •
December 6,1810.
SIR-I have the honour to announce to you, for the informa-
tion 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 addressed to you on the 12th of Octo-
ber last, and forwarded to Fngland by the Otter, from Bour-
bon, I had the honour to acquaint you, that I was on the point
of resuming the blockade et the Isle of Feaece ; 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 equipment,! left Captain Rowley wall the Boadicea,
Nisus, and Nere:de,* to watch the movements of the enemy ;
and having previously detached the Ceylon and Staunch to con-
voy the division of troops from Bourbon to Rodriguez, I pro-
ceeded with the Commander of the Forces (Major-General the
Hon. John Abercromby) who had embanked in the Africaine
towards that anchorage. On' the 114th, I was joined by Rear-
Admiral Drury, with a divi<ion of his squadron as per margin ,t
and taking under my cutlers for the time being, the Rear-
Admiral with the ships under his conunand, I was enabled to
strengthen the blockading svadron by detashieg the Cornelia
and Hesper for that purpose ; and with the others made all
sail for Rodriguez, where the squadron arrived on the nd No-
vember, and found lying there the division of troops from Bom-
bay ; on the 6th arrived the division from Madras, under con-
voy of the Psyche and Cornwallis. On the sth Rear-Admiral
Drury sailed with the Russell, 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 (sur-
rounded by reefs) by no means scentee more particularly for so
large a number of ships, I determined on weighing with the
whole fleet on the morning of the 22d, proposing the convoy
should cruise 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 force,under convey of fhe Illus-
trious, was in the oiling. Gen. Abercromby deemed it, as well
as myself, adviseable 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 determined to
occupy in Grande Baye, about twelve miles to windward of
Port Louis, where the Africaine Lading in, and the several
ships of war following with the convoy, according to a previous
arrangement, the whole fleet were at anchor by ten o'clock
A. M. consisting of nearly seventy sail ; and the army, with
their artillery, stores, and ammunition, the several detach-
ments 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 shi,4 still maintained a vigilant block-
ade of the port; another division remained for the protection
of the convoy at the anchorage ; and a third, under my more
immediate command, shitted their station as circumstance,
required, to keep up a more effectual communication with the
army as it advanced, and which was dependent for its sup-
plies of provisions and stores wholly on the resources of the
navy.
On the 2d 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 morn-
ing of the 3d instant, at the British Heed-quarters, a copy of
which I have the honour to transmit for their Lordships' infor-
mation.
In a combined operation of this nature, the ultimate success
of which must essentially in a great degree be made to depend
upona zealous and emulative co-operation and support through
each gradation; and in the iresent instance, where these tea-