The Sun.
London, England, 1810-07-16 00:00:00

. its Majesty's ship La Chiftonne, Burka
Skits Road, December 1, 1810.
My Letter 'of the 14th of November, a duplicate
of which is enclosed, have given your Excel-
lency an account of the proceedings of the ships and
vessels under my orders to that date.,
Ora thy; i 7th the vessels in the piratical port of
Linga, amounting to twenty, nine of them large,
dows, were burnt without any lois on (Air sick, the
inhabitants having abandoned the town on the ap-
proach of the shipc
The contemptible holds of, the Jowasmees called.
Congo, Bander. Mallum, and Herneratn, were next
reconnoitred, but no vessel, were there. •
I then-dispatched the -ernizers Ternate and Nau-
tilus to the V.:lstward of Kishrna to prevent the -
escape of the Lutt pirates, while I entered the chap.,
nel between that island and the -main at the:western
end ; but having got the ship I command aground,in
endeavouring to work through it, as I had no
pilot acquainte with the navigation, ,and as I
found the channel was too intaicate to pass without
buoying the shoals, which would have taken up too
much time, I determinA to proceed to Lutt by the-
eastern channel, leaving the cruizer Vestal to guard.:
'the western end of Kishma.
His Majesty's. ship the Caroline had- been pre-
viously detached to Burka Road with the heavy
transports.
On the 24th ult.. the Ternate and-the Nautilus
joined; and
.having procured pilots at Kishern,
proceeded up the channel in his Majesty's 'ship
under my command, with the ships and vessels
named in the margin*, and arrived off the town of
Luft on the 16th at noon: Twenty-four hours hav-
ing been expended- in fruitless negociation with
the Chief Mooia Hussurn ; the Teritate, Nautilus, '
and FOry were anchoied off the, Town, .and: the
troops, preceded by the gun-boats, approached,. to
the attack, which commenced at two o'clock-in the
afternoon of the 27th ult.

The enemy made no resistance until the troops
came close-to the very strong
/fort and attempted to
force the gate; lid then commenced a fire, I am
sorry to say, most destructive, as your Excellency
.will see by the accompanying Return, a ided to that
of Lieutenant-Colonel Smith, to the Government.:
The piratical sesSels, eleven in number, three of
them very large dows, were in the moan time burnt
by the seamen ; and The gun-boats and the cruizt:r
Fury, which being of light draught of water, had
been to .ved within musket-shot ot the fort, kept up
a ruinous fire, which very much shattered it by sun-
set ; the Sheik then consented to yield up the p.ace
on the • followingjday to the English, oil ,Cite part of
the Imaum of Muscat, together with all the i roier ty
in it belonging to his Highness's subjects ; thts was
accordingly carried into effect, the Slaik departin&
after Lieutenant-Colonel Smith and rn)s,lf had gkia-
rariteed his personal sat ty.
The Fort having been delivered in trust fir the
Itnaurn the Sheik .Dewish, the head of the -Benis-
main; a Tribe of Arabs who hive always beery fir,nly
. attached to his Highness, I sailed next trim niug in
la Chiffonne, leaving the Mot ningtOn to bring on • the
cruizers and the transport to Burka, off which place
I anchored this day.
The sevetal Officers and men employed with me,
b: hayed so as to merit my warmest approbation.--
The marines, under Lieutenant Druty, were landed
With the troops; and Lieutenant Chichton, of the
Chidianne, assisted with-a party (if seamen in drag-
ging the howitzer close to the Fort. •
The loss of the enetnx- has been very great ; he
acknowledged to upwards: of fifty, independent of
thbse who wete killed in the towers adjadent to the
Fort,' and driven over preeipices to the eastward
thereof./ I have, &-c.
(Signed) J. WAINWRIGHT, Captain.

A Return of hien belonging to his Majesty's ship La Chit-,
tonne, and to the lion. Company cruizers, Mornington,
Nautilus,! Termite, and I who were killed or wounded
at the attack of the piratical port of Lutt, on the 27th
November !'o9.