The Sun.
London, England, 1810-06-25 00:00:00

Downing-street, /tine 21, 1810.

A Dispatch, of which the folloWing is a Copy,
has been received at the Office of the earl of Liver-
pool, from Lieut.-General Sir John Stuart, dated
Messina, April 24, 1810,
MY LORD, , Messina, April 26, Aro.

Since my Dispatch to your Lordship of toe 24th
inst. I have received from Brigadier Glteral Oswaid
the satislatiory account which I have the honour to
transmit herewith, °fate complete iedlittion of ihe -
island sod I.•rtress of St. Maura, and ofthe surrender •
of the Faench force by which they were garrisoned
to his Majesty's arms.
On the service so successfully accomplished by
Brigadier-Gencral Oswald, it only remains whit me
to express the sanguine hope, that the etansequences
wilt' be as beneficial as the achievement hits been
brilliant ; and that himielf and the gallant troops
who hay.e- been the companions of his enterprise,
will receive their best reconipence in their Sove-
reign's most gracious apps obat
_

I have thehonour to be, &c.
J. STUART,
C unt.of Matda, I.ieut-Gen.

SIR
_

Camp off: St. Maura, April ;7, 1810

I hake extreme satisfaction in announcing to your
Excellcncy, that the fortress of St. Maura surrender-
ed to his Majesty's arms on the 16 t h inst. nine days
after batteries, consisting of two thirty-two-pound-
eis,• nine eighteen. pounders, four howitzers, at:d
six trio: tars. were opened against it: a portion of
this attillery, however,
.had been °Jib, three days in
aat

The place was perfeelly provided in casemates, and
I am free to conLss, its situation and defences offer-
ed greater obstacles than I apprehended we should
have had to contend with.

The sketch, wlich I had the honour. to forwird
with my last dispatch, will shtw to your Excellen-
cy the narrow and extused front we had to work
upon; and. likewise that a due consideration for the
inhabitants compelled me to coustru& the batteries
of suppott ac rpither .too great a distance' from the
work. •

The .ample supplies which your Excellency
promptly dispatched, enabled us to supt.ort so heavy
a cannonade and bombardment, as to render ii uu•
necessary to resort to a breaching battery, a nie.a.
sure in contemplation, which the skill and re-
sources at all times displayed by Captain Thacker:ly,',
v►ould, I doubt not, babe happily accomplished. The
enemy's artillery and the interior of the for te,s
have greatly suffered; but its walls remain unim-
pkured.

- The troops have-performed the hazardous and ar-
duous labours of the siege with charaderistic intrepia
dity and pi:frseverance.
During the operations, one or tWo night attacks
upon the enemy's out-posts air riled a display of that
high degree of discipline and gallantry Which such
effor(s demand.

Upon the evening of the 15th, Captain Thacker:l
desiring to reconnoitre the approach and ground
for the breaching- tiiitery, then in agitation, it be-
came necessary to dtive the enemy from an in-
trencliment he held within three hundred paces of
hisraini.ait. The service was entrusted 'to Lieu-
tenant Colonel Moore, of the 35th regiment, who
led the grenadiers of that regiment, light com-
pany of Rull's,-and Subalterns' detachment of the
comical] Rifles, and Royal Marines. This corps
pushing undauntedly through a heavy fire of graye
and Entisquetry, carried the en4my's line at 'the