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50th regiment, to take up a position about 300 yards in
advance, and there to await my orders to move on. At
this moment many natives were seen coming along the
beach, most of whom were armed and naked. I imme-
diately ordered the troops on no account to fire unless the
natives first commenced, as some who were on the top of
the cliff informed us the child was coming, and a second
party of 'natives was seen approaching, one of whom was
observed to be carrying the child on his back. On ap-
proaching that part of the beach we overlooked, they all
stopped. I now thought they intended giving up the child,
and ordered the officer in charge of the seamen, with the
interpreters and five seamen to protect them, to go down
and get the child. On the approach of Mr. M'Murdo and
his party, the chief who had the child on his back expressed
a wish to go on board the ships for the purpose of receiving
the ransom which he supposed would be given for the
child. On being told that none would be given, he turned
round with the others apparently with the intention of
making his escape. One of the sailors seized hold of the
child, when be discovered it was fastened with a strap or
cord, and, to use his own expression, had recourse to cutting
away, and the child fell upon the beach. Another seaman,
thinking the chief would make his escape, levelled his &c-
-lock and shot him dead. The troops hearing the report of
the musket, and thinking it was fired by the natives, imme-
diately opened a fire from the top of the cliff upon them,
who made a precipitate retreat to the paps. 'The child
being now in our possession, I made a signal to the ships
for the boats, intending to re-embark Ilse troops, but the
weather becoming thick, and a shift of wind obliging the
vessels to stand out to sea, and at the same time finding
myself attacked by the natives who were concealed in the
high flax, I found my only alternative was to advance on
the pahs. I therefore ordered Lieutenant Gunton, with 30
men, to the front in skirmishing order, for the purpose of
driving the natives from the high flax from which they were
firing ; this was done, and as I have reason to think, with
consider able loss on the part of the natives.
Having advanced about a mile, I observed the natives
making towards a thick jungle, for the purpose, as I sup-
posed, of making a last effort to make our approach
towards the pahs. I ordered Lieutenant Gunton's party to
halt, brought up all my disposable force, and having opened
a well-directed fire,. obliged them to make a hasty retreat.
Owing to a heavy fall of rain, and in consequence of the
gun helpg some short distance in the rear, I was obliged to
halt, and send back a. party to assist in bringing it up ; after
which I again ordered Lieutenant Gunton to advance in
skirmishing order.
When within a znile of the palls we came to a ravine,
across which, from i(s great depth and the steepness of its
-kinks, and also from the river which runs through it. being
much swollen from the mslting of the snow on Mount Eg-
mont, I at first considered it impracticable to carer the gull,
and thought of halting here for the night. Mr. ISI‘ Murtha
however, reported to me, that with the addition of thirty
men to those he already bad he would get it conveyed
across. This ravine is not less than 100 feet deep, and it
is principally to this officer's repeated exertions that our suc-
cess is to be attributed. -
I now give orders to advance, and was abreast of the
pahs by half-past four, r.u. ; I directed Lieutenant Gun-
ton to take possession of a rising ground, about a quartet
of a mile from our right, Which commanded the ravine bo-
tween the two palls. We were now only separated from
the two palls by a deep ravine, and they wore still in pos-
session of the natives, who fired from them on Lieutenant
Gunton's party, as well as on the main body, and also frorr
the bush on the oprosite side of the ravine. 1 now sent
Lieutenant Clarke, with the "royal Marines, to support
Lieutenant Gunton.

'I he gun being now i❑ poliition, I ordered Mr. M.Murdo
to open a £re on the .0a1::;, and aker a il.ne well-directed
rounds of round shot and canister, the natives fled, leavinii.

ghollia in cur pos
I took pw:;ossion of Wylinati pall kith the main lin;
a the troops, and oniered Licutenact Gunton to make I
way throu4ll Ca ravine and take possesion of Ilatterani
p.ih. lat the same time niade a signal to Captain Lan
Bert, to let him know we hid possess:in of the two pale
and he immediately sent off a boat with Lieutette.nt Thom:.

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with a feesh supply of ammunition.
The liateranni pall is situated on the top of a tongue of
laud, n iL triringular form, connected with the main Lula
'by a neck about ten feet wide, acres; which a deep ditch
oft through the soul rock. The southern side is inac-
ce:isile, being a part of the perpendicular cliff' which every-
whero Fines the 'beach, and here about i.'o6 feet high.. Tin
land si.les are :mended by a deep ravine, running directis
tow Ards the cliff; till within a few yards of it, Whote it forna
The neck, and turns again inland, taking a semicircular di-
rei-tion for about a quarter of a mile, when it meets the
eaa-sborc, and where it divides the two palls. The ap-
proach to this ph is by the ravine. from the botton of which
a rough pathway- been cut, leading to is natural plat-
firm, situate about half way Up the cliff, from which the
?:lei; Of- the pah rise perpendicularly, and are only to be
ascended by means of ladders, or notched trees, which the
natives had left.
TaWards the land the pall was fortified by a parapet of
ea'rth, and was strongly palisaded, especially across the nar-
row neck of land, and the bottom of the ditch which de-
fended this neck, was cut away sloping towards the sea.
and the ravine. This pah entirely commands the lard

around it.
The .Wyarnati pah is not so high as the former, and si-
tuated about f;00 yards to the eastward of it, being, as
already stated, separated from it by the ravine, a branch
of which turning off runs all round the land sides of it, and
has the appearance of a wide and deep meat, separating
/he pah altogether from the main land. The ascent to this
pa' is much the same as to the former, though more pre

cipitous. -
This pall is about half a mile in circumference at the foot
of the cliff, and contained about 200 huts. In Hatteranni
there were only about half that number ; but though this
pah was not so e%tensive, it was much stronger, from its com-
manding situation.
On the 9th and 10th the troops could not re-embark in
consequence of the high surf ; in the meantime we de-
stroyed all their canoes, nine in number. At the same time
some of the men found the bead of a white man preserved,
which MIA recogniSed by some of Mr. Guard's men as being
that of a seaman named Clarke, belonging to the late barque
narriet. Several human bones were found here, as like-
wise at the Nummo pab.
Seven of the natives were seen lying dead, but their
wounded being carried off, their loss could not be ascer-
.rained, but I conceive it could not be less than four times
that number. Thoy appeared to he in possession of about
two hundred stands of arms, and those I saw were in good
order.

Early in the morning of the 11th, Lieutenant. Thomas
reported to me that there was a probability of our being
able to embark. I therefore fired two guns as a signal for
Captain Lambert to send off the boats, and ordered Lieu-
tenant Gunton to set fire to Hatternanni pah, and then
:march his detachment to the place of embarkation; about
lhalf a mile to the eastward of the pahs. Lieutenant
Clarke, with the Royal Marines, was stationed at the top of
the cliff to cover the embarkation, should any natives wake
their appearance. In the mean time, I completely de-,
s.ixoyed the Wyamati pah, and then marched the main body
to the boats.
Owing to the indefatigable exertions of Lieutenant
Thomas and Mr. M‘Murdo, who, with the seamen, were
employed in launching the boats through the surf, the whole
force was re-embarked without loss or accident.

As Captain Lambert now considered the object of the
expedition gained, he bore up for the Bay of Islands, pro-
em .ding througk Cook's Straits, to communicate with the
Ch.ef at Entry Island. We arrived at the Bay of Islands
on ,the 25th ; and having seen Mr. Busby, and delivered the
desPatch entrusted to me, we left that place on the 3Q.i for
Port Jackson.

I cannot close this report without making some few ob-
..servations relative to the exertions and zealous conduct of
mil the officers of men employed on this occasion, belonging
to his Majesty's ship Alligator, Royal Marines, and .50th
Regiment, but more particularly so to those of Mr.
M'Murdo, of his Majesty's ship Alligator, to whose unwea-
ried exertions, in having conveyed the gun, and the manner
in wliolz he served it, I am particularly indebted, and beg
to recomn.,end him to the notice of his Excellency the Go-
vernor.- have, Ac.
(Signed) EDWARD JOHNSTONE.
Captain 50th Regiment,

The Military Selretary, &c. &c.
flovernmect Rouse, Sydney.

BLIND Mr.EN.—There is a blind bookseller at
Augsburg, well known to all continental Bibliopoles, who
:regularly attends the book fairz at Leipsic and Frankfurt,
:and who.3e stock is never less than 20,000 volumes, who can
-without d:fficultyfuirnish his customers with whatever books
lhey requi.-e, and is perfectly conversant 'with their con-
tents. A blind bodkreller, also resides at Ciiitlivell-street,
in the City, who- is welt. known in the trade for is .excel-
lent judgment diocslayed in the purchase of books at .sales.
A Und newsman I.lay be seen daily actively employed in
making his purchase's and attending his customers in the
neighbourhood of Di •ury-latri. A bland man is a resident
in Ha chivy work-hot'se, wh is well-known for his active
disposition at fires in i'mt ;oe'r,ithourhood, being always the
foremost the removi. lof J.:urniove or working the engines,
and with )at being inct.rnmoried -or causing obstruction to
otl;ers, Mr. Mather, -the ce;ebratei blind organist of St.
Bride's, .Fleet-street, is, phrenclogicallycpeaking, like Lieut.
Hohnar t, altogether dastitute of the or at, ti.‘f locality, and
in hita it :iis exhibited in a singtlar propensity for climbing
heights. At his different country engagements, he always
makes it a paint to ascend the top of the steeple, declaring
that he ( vesiences a most pleasurable though indiscribable ,
sensation, •