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in the ablest manner to the annoyance of the enemy,
and so as to meet my fullest approval. •
Nothing could exceed the zeal and perseverance of
Lieutenants Symonds, Botely, and Slade, and Mr.
Sparling, of the royal navy, with the detachment of
seamen under their command.
From Captain Barrie I have received the ablest
assistance and support, and it is to his masterly ar-
rangement of the plan that I feel indebted for its suc-
cess. Nothing could be more cordial than the co-
operation of the naval and military forces en this ser-
vice in every instance.
Captain Carnegie, of the royal navy, who most
handsomely volunteered his services with this expedi-
tion, was in action with the troops at Hamden, and
I feel most particularly indebted to him for his exer-
tions and the assistance he afforded me on this occasion.
I am also greatly indebted to Lieutenant Du Cha-
telet of the 7th battalion 60th regiment, who acted as
Major of Brigade to the troops, in which capacity he
rendered me very essential service.—l have, &c.
(Signed) HENRY Joux, Lieut.-Col.
(Inclosure No. 2.)
RETURN OF ORDNANCE AND STORES TAKEN.
Casting, September 10, 1814.
Guns-4 iron 24-pounders, 27 iron (ship) 18-pounders, four 12-
pounders, four brass 3-pounders.
Carriages-4 traversing ?4-pounders, s standing 18-pounders,
I travelling 11.-pounders wias limbers, 4 travelling 3-pounders
with limbers.
Sponges—Eight 24-pounders, twenty 18-pounders, two le-poun-
den, four 3-pounders.
Ladles—Two 24. pounders, three II pounders, one 3-pounder.
Wadhooks —Two 24-pounder., three 12-pounders, 1 3-pounder.
Shut-236 round 24-pounders, 500 round 18-pounders.
One ammunition-waggon, one ammunition-cart.
Twelve common handspikes.
Forty barrels of powder.
Wads—Twenty 24-pounders, seventy IE-pounders.
N.B. The magazine in Fort Canine was blown up by the
enemy.
The vessel on board of which the powder was, ran on shore,
and the whole destroyed.
Eleven of the 18-pounders were destroyed by order of Lieute-
nant Colonel John, not having time to bring them off.
(Signed) GROROZ CRAWIORD, Major,
Corn. Royal Artillery.
To Lieutenant-General Sir John C. Sherbrooke.
(Inclosure No. S.
RITURN of KILLED, WOUNDED, anti fifteens ci, in the affair at
Hamden, on the 3d September, 1814, with the force under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel Jinn, 60th Regiment :
KILIAD-29t11 Regiment, 1 rank and file.
WOUNDED-29th Regiment, 1 Captain, 2 rank and Ale; 112 d
Regiment, 1 rank and file; 98th Regiment, 4 rank and Me.
MISSING-694 Regiment, 1 rank and file.

NAME OF OFFICER WOUNDED.

29th Regiment—Captain Gell, severely (not dangerously).
(Signed) A. PILICINGTON, Dep. Adj. Gen.
(For %doom No. 4, vide "Capitulation," is the Admiralty
Dispatches).
ADMIRALTY OFFICE, OCTOBER 8, 1814.

Captain Senhouse, of his Majesty's sloop the Martin, has arrived
this afternoon at this Office, bringing a dispatch from Rear-
Admiral Griffith, addressed to John Wilson Croker, FRI. of
which, and of its inclosures, the fillowing are copies:
His Majesty's ship Endymion, off Castine, Sept. 11.
Sin—l beg leave to transmit, for the information
of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, a du-
plicate of my letter, of yesterday's date, to Sir Alex.
Cochrane, K.B. Commander in Chief, reporting my
proceedings since I quitted Halifax in his Majesty's
ship Dragon, on the V6th ultimo. EDW.GRIFFITII.
September 13.
P. S. I open my dispatches to acquaint you, for
their Lordships' information, that since closing it I
have received a private letter from Captain Parker, of
the Tenedos, informing me that he got off Machias
on the 10th instant, where the troops sere landed
without opposition, and after a most fatiguing night.
march; took possession of the fort of Machias without
loss. He has sent me the capitulation which the offi-
cer commanding the militia has entered into, atid
and which I transmit herewith.

Sir John Sherbrooke not wishing the Martin to be
detained. I dispatch her without waiting for Captain
Parker's official letter. The ships and vessels under
Captain Parker's orders will be sent to their respec-
tive stations, as soon as the guns taken at the fort are
embarked, and the works destroyed. ROW. GRIFFITH.
His Majesty's ship Endytnion, off Castine, entrance of the
Penobscot River, Sept. 9.
SIR—My letter of the 23d of August, from Ha-
lifax, by the Rover, will have made you acqaainted
with my intention of accompanying the expedition
then about to proceed under the command of his Ex-
cellency Sir John Sherbrooke, K.B. for this place.
I have now the honour to inform you, that I put
to sea on the 26th ultimo, with the ships and sloop
named in the margin*, and 10 sail of transports having
the troops on board, and arrived off the Metinicus
Islands on the morning of the 31st, where I was
joined by the Bulwark, Tenedos, Rifleman, Peruvian
and Picton. From Captain Pearce, of the Rifleman,
I learned that the United States frigate, Adams, had
a few days before got into Penobscot, but not consi-
dering herself in safety there, had gone on to Ham-
den, a place twenty-seven miles higher up the river,
where her guns had been landed, and a position was
fortifying for her protection.
Towards evening, the wind being fair and the
weather favourable, the fleet made sail up the Pe-
nobscot Bay, Captain Parker, in the Tenedos, lead-
ing. We passed between the Metinicus and Green
Wands about midnight, `and steering through the
channel formed by the Fox Islands and Owl's Head,
ran up to the Eastward of Long Island, and found
ourselves at daylight in the morning in sight of the
fort and town of Castine. As we approached, some,
shew of resistance was made, and a few shot were
fired ; but the fort was soon after abandoned and
blown up. At about eight, a.m. the men of war and
transports were anchored a little to the northward of
the Peniusula of Castine, and the smaller vessels tak-
ing a station nearer in for covering the landing, the
troops were put on shore and took possession of the
town and works without opposition.
The General wishing to occupy a post at Belfast,
on the western side of the bay (through which the
high road from Boston runs), for the purpose of cut-
ting off ell communication with that side of the
country, the Bacchante and Rifleman were detached
with the troops destined for this service, and quiet
possession was taken, and held, of that town, as long
as %as thought necessary.
Arrangements were immediately made for attack-
ing the frigate at Hamden, and the General having
proffered every military assistance, six hundred pick.
ed men, tinder the comnrand of Lieutenant-Colonel
John, of the 60th reginient, were embarked the same
afternoon, on board h s Majesty's sloops Peruvian and
Sylph, and a small transport. To this force were
added the marines of the Dragon, and as many arm-
ed boats Ilona the squadron as was thought necessary
• Draion,Endynaton, Bacchante, and Sylph.