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I have ihe honour .to be, &c.

(Signed)--• C.,INV. SCHOMBERG,
•Captriip.
.1 the Officer cornittatitligg the Freiih
fOgate Nereide.

(TRANsi..ktfLON.)r
pp board his imperial Niajesty's frigate Nereide,'
SIR,- ' Tan:wave, nth Nay, as 1.
I ain, as well as yourself, able. to estimate the
situation in which lam p!aced. It .is tittering to
taillavo deserved your prises, by my defence
Of the ship which his Imperial Majesty his beeP
'pleased to entrust to my charge. I shalt endea-
vour to, preserve her for his service ; or, if I am Com-
pelled to yield, not to do.so ingloriously. lam gen-
stble of the Weight of the proposals you are pleaSed
to make to me; but I must observe to you, Btr, that it
would beltshonaurable for me to accept them. I
should also be desirous to save the.elfusion of ti!ood,_
but mi duty as an Officer precedes my duty as a man.
The following, Sir,. are therefore the only and un-
alterable . conditions , can accede to desire
that 01 Staff, my ship's Company, and the troops,
shall have the certain assufaute of returning .to
their own cOtintry, with ut being, made prisoners
at war. .The wounded shall remain at Tarnatave,
to be theretitken care 61 by a French surgeon. The
fort and the ftioate.sball, upon these terms, be de-
livered -tip to you; they are. lite only terms I can
accept ; 1 titistion will feet how painto) it is to me
to inrcipose them l',and:it you are really governed by
the diCiates ot littaanity, you will also feel that any
other would be dishonourable.
Whatever may be yourdintentions, Sir, be assured
that MY conduct, whether as an Officer or a man,
will always• nave for its object to command your
-esteem. • •
fi• •
With the assurance of my bight consideratiber,
Sir, &c.
(Signed) * PONEY.
Ta tke Carnmariter the fagtisli squadron.

Artistes of Car;iturat roe entered into between Charles Mash
Schomberg, Captain of lids Britanuic Alajesty't hip
• Astrma, &c. and M.nsieur Vonev, ;,n utenain' de Vass.
scam, Chevalier de 1,1 Legion ti'llenncter, and Capitaino
Communal* of :the French frigate Nettide, at Tamarave,
2/641.7visy isir,
Afticlel. The Nereido frigate, together with all
the vessels ancl.propert'y at,Tamatave, the fort, &c,
of ,the said place, shell be surrendered Without in.
jurytu his Britannic I.llajevty's le hips uncit r my scam- .
'nand. •
IL The officers, crews, end troops, nowsolually at
Tattunave of on board the Neteide, shall be sent as
soon as pos,ible.feAlie Mauritius, and ftnm thence
be cntivt,yed to France without being considered as
prisoners of war ; ,the Officers and Petty Officers
only shalt keep theirawprda. •
111. The wounded shall remain at Tamitave
undrr the care .of a French Surgeon, until they are
recovered, when They shall be sent to France by they
first ohiport unity.
(Signed) C. M. SCHOMEIEnG.
PON.EY. .

Admiralty Office, Nat tinter 16, is i i .
Copy, of a•letter from Captain Gordon, of ills Majesty's
s ip, the A;:tiNe, addrorwxilto Captain Maxwell, of the
Alceste, senior Officer et Lissa, and transmitted by Vice.
Admiral. Sit Edward l'ellew to fUilll ‘Viisoll CuekW*

His Majesty's ship ACtive, at Anchor enlist
Town of Raw:urn za, 181.1.
1 hare great *acme in informing you that the
hots his mait.,sii,'s ship under my' command, -
With the sinall-arm men and Hoyal, Marines, the
whole 'under the command of Lientenant [lender-
son, Ow Of; ibis ship), wete,detached on the sh,p's
anchoring here, in order to attack a convoy which
had ran above the islabd that the town of It Too.
niza stands upon, and had taken shelter in a creek
oti the main. Flom the• narrowness of the en.
trance, and. three gun-boats protecting .it, with a
number of armed men on each point, Lieutenant
Henderson was induced to land witl, the small-arm
men and Marines,. on the right, in order to take
possession of a hill which appeared to command the
creek, leaving the :boats ,under command of Lieu-
tenant Gibson, to push for. the gun-boats` the mai,
merit a concerted signal was' made from the top
of. the bill. _On Ilientertant Henderson and hit
party gaining the, top ,of .the hill (after dislodging
svverak, Waters whe bred. upon them during their
ascent),' be found himself immediately above the
gun-bouS and:a convoy of went-eight sail ; he
then, rna3e the signal for, the-.4oatti to advance, at
the 'Arne time descended the hill, exposed to the fire
acme of the gun-boa's and 'several soldiers; but. the.
attack
.was f!o well planned, nod so nobly executed,
that the boats bearded ,the gun.boaii, rifler the party
which landed had only filed twqyollies Into. thew.
The men)), finding ilieopielve.s. attacked so w:utnly,
tied in all direaions, leaving behind born a numhtr
;A killed and Wounded. The crews of the
boats (111 but three men), ;jumping overboard, and
gcutng on shore as our boats boarded, The gotta
were iminciiiately,turned art the flying enemy, anti •:!.
the hosts took possesiton, w hole. .com oy,
eighteen of which were brought out with
boat 9,' and ten more burnt,.and I tun happy to *ay
scithont.the loss of a man on our part ; tom only
were wounded•in the boats.

, •
Lieutenantllenderson (whose gallant condun on
this and many other occasions since the ship has
been employed in the Adriatic, snakes it a duty in-
cumbent Upon me to beg you will recommend him
in the strongest manner to the ~Commander iti
Chief) speaks in the highest terms of the aisist-
.anbe he received from Lieutenant George Haye
(who, though an invalid, very handsomely volun-
teered), Lieutenant, Mears, Royal .Marines, and
Mr. Charles Friend, Master's.. Mate, who landed
with him. Lietatenant ciibson, who gallantly led
she boats to the .attack, Speaks in praise of every
man and ()Meer, whose names I beg leave to state
to you, as I trust you will recommend them to
the notice of the Commander in Chief. Messrs.
-•lienry• Lew, Redmond Moriatty, Norwich aid',
William Simpkins, Joseph Cammellier!:. Nat hasi;Ll
Ilarwell, Charles lienthath, George' Moore, Wil-
liam Wood, and. William Todd Robidson,
shiprnen.

Lam informed by the prisoners, And several per-
sons whoth I have justseen, that the convoy arrived
here the evening lidera) chiefly laden with grain
I.(A* the garrison at Ragusa, And Were defended on
shore by three hundred armed men, which, Con-
sidering the force opposed to a ship's heats, is s
proof that every officer and man did his duty l'ke
British' seaman. I shall proceed to join you at
Lissa with the prizes, the mottent they are jut in
order. • '
I have the hon Our to be, &e.
(Signed) JAS. A. GORDON, Capt.
Murray Maxwell: Esri. eietain of 'his •
Majesty's ship Aleeste, Senior orti.
cer at 1.145 a, &c. &c. arc. '