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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 the 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 signed, in virtue, of our respective full powers, the.
present additional 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 the 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, Ist
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 filet
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 ',atonal 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