The National Register.
London, England, 1809-03-26 00:00:00

CAPTURE OP' CAYLNNE.

• Cayenne has surrendered to the united Briti.h and Portuguese
forces. We are not informed of the previous operations against
it, but have the satisfaction of lay ing before the public the fol-
lowing

CA rittYLATION,

J'roposed by Victor Hughes, Officer of the Legion of Honour,
Commissioner of his Majesty the Emperor and King, Com-
mander in Chief of Cayenne and French Guyana, and accepted
by James Lucas Yen, P,ost Captain in his Britannic Majesty's
Service, commanding the combined Naval English and Por-
tuguese Forces, and Manuel Marques, Knight of the Military
Orders of Stilienois d'Avie, Lieutenant-Colonel in Chief, and
Director of the Corps of Artillery, of Fara, commanding the
advanced Army of the Portuguese.
Although the advanced posts have been carried, and that the
Commissioner of the Emperor and King h reduced with his
Garrison to the town, he Owes it to those sentimenti of honour
'which have always distinguished him—to the valour and good
conduct of the officers and soldiers under his command—to the
attachment of the inhabitants of the Colony for his Mtgesty the
Emperor and King—to declare publicly, that he surrenders less
to the force than to the destructive system of liberating all the
slaves who should join the enemy, and of burning all the planta
tions and posts where there should be any Vesistance.
• The Commissioner of the Emperor Commanding in Chief, after
having witnessed the burning of several plantations, particularly
his own, the most considerable of the colony, had attributed it
at first to the casualties of war, and the disorganization of the
gangs, and the liberation of the slaves, appeared to him a mo-
mentary measure ; but being assured in writing that the English
and Portuguese Officers acted in virtue of the orders of his Royal
Highness the Prince Regent, and wishing to save the colony
from total destruction, and to preserve his august master's sub-
ject-, who had given hint so many proofs of their attachment
and fidelity, the Commissioner of his Imperial and Royal Ma-
jesty surrenders the colony to the forces of his Royal Highness
the Prince Regent on the following conditions:
[The articles which follows are 16 in number. It is stipulat-
ed that the garrison, the Civil and Military Officers, &c. shalt
be sent to France, and they agree no• to serve against the Prince
Regent, or his Allies, for one year. ]
At the advanced post of Bourde, this 12th of Jan. 1802.
(Signed) VICTOR HUGHES,
.1 AYES LUCAS Yso,
MARVEL MARQUES.

lINIPERTAL. PARLIANIEN

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Alondall, March 20.
The Royul Assent was given by Commission to the following
tills—the Mutiny, Two Sugar 'Trade Regulation, Annual In-
demnity, and Scotch Child-murder Burr.

Tuesday, March 21.
No business of importuitee.

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Wednesday, .)larch 2.resigned his post of Comtnanner in bole', IL ELM 11‘1, I WS,•••• ••m
•
arded in their respective stages, his judgment, why the House of Commons should not come to a
Several Bills were forw
and their Lotilships—Adjourned. detertartatinn :ui.some parts of the evidence which the had
heard at their bar, and on which they had not yet expressed an
opinion. lie felt as forcibly as any one could pos:ibly do
Thursday, March 23. the lo,s sustained by the country in the resignation of the
The Earl of Rossi. v N p.resenled a-Petition from the Prison- ilinstrinui personage wlio had lately been at the head of the
ers iot.tined for debt In the Four Courts !!I!tr,halsea Prison, army, and no man could lament more sincerely than he did, the
Dahill:, which was ordered to lie on the table.—Adjourued, 11 cause which led to A. His intention was formed on ma-
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