The Sun.
London, England, 1811-12-18 00:00:00

As *e tibt in '4si-ipottittlity s4,Aierctty oistviit
abridOd aeLrountlf-tittfictlittiaildita
riferri-d to itt the following Ibtters .iii. the Wteite
4.nitaotdinary, vte deem it out dtity to peesent you:
Readers with she letters themselves, in justice tO thc
.Ottker, whose condua was so honoutableioft
theoecasion.

His Majesty's ship illustrious. Batavia
Itouds, august lc, iSt t.

:Herewith I have the Itoitour to transmit, for the
information of the Lords Cottst9issioners of the Ad-
miralty, the copy of a letter transtuitied by. Captain
Hoare, ref his M4jesty's snip Minden, from Lieute-
nant Edmodd Lyons, of that ship, detailing an ac-
count of hjs hating, with only thirty-four seamen in
the launch and Cutter,. stormed the Dutch fort of
Marraek;on the coast of Java, mounting fifty •fonr
gun-t, and garrisoned.at the time by one hundred and
eighty soldier's and the crews of two gun-boats.. I
beg :you will be pleased to inform their Lorthhips,
that, although the attack was made -contrary, 10 or-
ders, yet I cannot refrain from highly. approving
gallantry and zeal displayed on '!;is occasion by
Lieutenant Lyons, and the petty uflicers,and men,
under his command, against the very superior • force
of the, enemy.
_ .

have, &c,
W. R. BROIJGHTON, Commo.tore:
loirn Crol',:r, &c.

His Muje.:ty•s ship Mintlep, Straits of
Sunda, I►►ty 3►, 'S►t. •

SIR,

In obed;ence-io ybor direMions to state my rel.
sons for.atiacking Fort Marrack on Tue•d.iy the 30th
inst. With two bortts crew s' Majt-sty's strip
Mi:ideit, and to describe the,ttiode of attack, threg
to ,tale ; as lAIOWS : •

Ist, I was luny gnnvinced the enemy had no inti-
mation I)t the expedition being near Java. .

2dly, I was •well as;ured they did not expe& them
this monsoon ; I therefore conceived that all attack
'on Niarrack might draw their forces towards that
quarter, and' make a favourable. diversion : for this
reason; -1 determinA to storm it on AT liday night at
twelve o'clock, which I hope will meet with your
iipprohation. Having made every necessary arrange-
ment dining the day, • I placed the boats at sun-set
behind a', point which sheltered them from the view
'of the enemy's sentinels.
At lia.lf-paSt twelve, the moon, sinking in, thalho7
rizon, we proceeded to the ausck, and were chal-
lee god by the sentinels • on opening' the point, at
this instant; a volley oirnusqueiry from the enemy
precluded, all hope of sttrvrising them ; I therefor..,
ran the boats aground, in a heavy surf, under the
embrasures of the lower tier of guns, and .plated
the hild6l on item, which were Mounted with that'
bravery. inherent in British seamen, - whilst a few"
men, placed for the purpose, killed three 'of the
enemy in theaa of putting tuit-ekes to their guns; a
few•minutes put us in eossession of the lower battery,
when I formed' the men, and stormed the upper One.
'On reaching _the summit cf the hill, we perceived
the garrison' drawn op to'recei've us ; they sustained
our firt., but fled from the /di irge, on my ceiling toy'
them, !frit we bad four (ituidted. Men, and would
give to quarteri; at one,, thtc other hattcr;;, aud two
gnn7boats, opeped their fire in us, which we re-
tarned with a few tuns, whilst thelemainderof the
men w: re einployed -in disablirg the guns 'in our
possession., and every other part of the battery which
it was pramicable to destroy, which we had . corm,.
pieted by dawn of day, when I judged it prudepit
to embark. On reaching-the boats, I bad the Tor-
tification to fitid the launch •bilged, and heat up so
high with the stir() as to le:iv e na prospeel of getting
her 4float, I therefore felt jt a dOiy incumbent on me
in embark all the men in the cutler. The sun was
now rising, and 1 humbly flatter myself, the mo-
mentary gratification the enemy, might hrvve felt by
our loving the must have vani%hecl, when
they beheld a small. boat bearing away their colours,
a pbbliC7 and undeniable testimony, of the few nien
that attacked them, which amcunted to 33, including.
'Officers.

Having detailed the particulars of this little enter-
prise, i beg to .point out, in the strongest terms,
the cougpicnous gallantry of Mr., William Langton,'
Midshipman, who received a -slight wound from a
bivonet, and Mr. C. H. Franks, Midshipman, a
young man of °ply tilt% en years of age,, w,lio vtAnti-
leered to hoist the Jirktisli Litg, a service he perforthed.
most gallantly, under a heavy fire. • •
I hope the above detail will be considered a 111111'
,cient panegyric oil the bravery of the 6e:unto ,em-
ployed ; and: have heartfelt saiiSfac:lion in adding,
we had only four 111t111 slightly wounded, 1 {Magill()
the loss of the enemy must have teen severe, but
only know of three killed.'

Marraak is situated on
.a
,promontory, mounting
tifts-tour guns, eighteen, twenty-four and thirty,
twlinuners, and garrisoned at that time by 180
soldiers, and the-crews of two ganittoats.
I hai,,e thelymour, to: be, &c.
E, I,YOSS,‘ Liin:enant.
To captain 'E. W. Hoare.

Lieut.-Colonel Row Lev, of the Royal Engineers;
is aprointed Depot Inspector-General of Fortitica-
slops, vice Major-General who goes' corn.
mending Royal Engine etti to Ireland. - Major• Gen-
eral Ftsimit, commanding Royal Engineers Vi ire
land, relieves Major-General Er aLto3n, command-
ing Royal Engineers at. Portsmouth, who,. trona-
length of service, 13.iiiloWed to retire.
A fine 111011uMerit is*
resolved to be erected in the
Abbey`Chitri:h of. Paisley, to the memory Of the
late NV, M'llowall, Lieutenant" of the County of
Renfrew. •

Last week one of the gamekeepers Of the Duke of
' BedfOrd,'hearing the report of a gun in the night,
in-one of his- Grave's woods, went anoiher
person to the Spht, where they tonnd three men, One
having a pheasant it) hand; who. immediately
.threw down the bird, and, polling from under
' his ,anock-frock a slicer 'Stick,- struck the game-
keeper so sevvre n blow, on the head as to fraaore
his hkll.: in-the most dreadful manner, and his life
is despAred uf. One of the villains has since turned
midi nee, and they are all ta4en and committed to
prison.

swiday night, a fire htUke out at a house in
Kingsland-road, tirar the Bastrog-house,-which de.
tor,;ed the intetior.ot the hotteu where it biuke