bearing their arms, and with drums beating. The troops fhall lay down their arms and colours outfide the gate; and a detachment of English, Ruffian, Portuguese, and Neapolitan troops, fhall take poffeffion of the place to-morrow night.

IV. The officers fhall retain their

arms.

V. The garrifon fhall be embarked on board the English fquadron, until the neceffary fhipping can be provided for tranfporting it to France. It fhall be escorted, under the guarantee of the English, to Naples.

VI. When the English grenadiers fhall have taken poffeffion of the

VII. A guard of French foldiers fhall be ftationed round the French colours, to prevent their being deftroyed. This guard fhall remain fo ftationed until the whole of the garrifon fhall have marched out, and until it fhall have been relieved by an English officer and guard, to whom orders shall be given to haul down the French colours, and to hoift thofe of his Sicilian majesty.

VIII. All private property thall be fecured to its proprietors, and all public property given up with the place.

IX. The fick, who may not be in a condition to be removed, fhall remain at Capua, under the care of French furgeons, and be maintained at the expense of the republic, and fhall be fent to France as foon as poffible after their cure.

Done at Capua, the 6th Thermidor, 7th year of the French republic, (28th July, 1799.)

(Signed) Girardon, general of brigade, commanding at Сарца,

Town of Gaeta.

Article I. Confidering that the garrifon of Gaeta has not been regularly befieged, but only blockaded, his majefty, the king of the two Sicilies, will allow the troops of the faid garrifon to march out of the place with the honours of war, taking with them their firelocks, bayonets, fwords, and cartouchboxes, without deeming them prifoners of war, on their being fent to France.

II. In virtue of the preceding article, the place fhall be delivered up, free of all pillage, and without any part of the effects being removed or injured, to the officer who fhall be appointed to take poffeffion thereof.

III. The French garrison fhall be allowed to remove all their effects, being perfonal or private property; but all public property shall be given up with the place.

IV. No fubject of his Sicilian majefty fhall be sent to France with the French garrison, but the whole, G 3

without

without exception, given up to the officer appointed to take poffeffion of the place.

V. The fick belonging to the garrison shall be taken care of by their own furgeons, at the expense of the French republic, and fhall be fent to France as foon after their cure as poffible.

VI. A detachment of his Sicilian majefty's troops, and of his allies, fhall take poffeffion of the place two hours after this capitulation fhall have been delivered; and the embarkation of the garrifon fhall have effect twenty-four hours after the gates are given up, according as may be agreed upon and fettled between the respective commanding officers.

brigade.

fummons I fent this morning. The Dutch fquadron was to be held for

rifon at Capua.

Ordnance from 24 to 4 pounders-108 ferviceable, 10 unferviceable.

French troops-199 officers, 2618 non-commiffioned officers and pri

vales.

12,000 muskets-414,000 musket cartridges, filled-67,848 pounds weight of powder.

Return of Cannon and the Garrison

at Gaeta.

Ordnance-58 brass guns, from 24 to 18 pounders; 12 iron 6 ditto; 2 brass 4 ditto; 4 mortars, 12-inch; 9 ditto, 10-inch; with an immenfe quantity of powder and other garrifon-ftores.

may

prince of Orange, and the orders I miffioners of the admiralty for my receive from the lords comfarther proceedings.

I have the honour to be,
Sir, &c. &c.
(Signed) A. Mitchell.

Evan Nepean, efq.

Ifis, at Anchor at the Red Buoy, near the Vleiter, August 31. Sir,

It blowing strong from the fouthweft, and allo the flood tide, I could not fend away my short letter of last night; I therefore have, in addition, to requeft you will lay before the lords commiffioners of the admiralty, that on the morning of yesterday I got the fquadron under weigh at five

o'clock,

o'clock, and immediately formed the line of battle, and to prepare for battle.

In running in, two of the line-ofbattle fhips, Ratvifan and America, and the Latona frigate, took the ground. We paffed the Helder Point and Mars Diep, and continued our course along the Texel, in the channel that leads to the Vleiter, the Dutch fquadron lying at anchor in a line at the Red Buoy in the eaftfouth-eaft course.

The Latona frigate got off and joined me; but as the two line-ofbattle fhips did not, I closed the line. About half paft ten I fent captain Reinnie, of the Victor, with a fummons to the Dutch admiral, as it was lord Duncan's with that I should do fo; and in her way the picked up a flag of truce, with two Dutch captains, from the Dutch admiral, to me. Captain Reinnie very properly brought them on-board; and from a conversation of a few minutes I was induced to anchor in a line, a short distance from the Dutch fquadron, at their earnest request. They returned with my pofitive orders not to alter the pofition of the fhips, nor do any thing whatsoever to them, and in one hour to fubmit, or take the confequences.

In less than the time, they returned with a verbal anfwer, that they fubmitted according to the fum. mons, and fhould confider themfelves (the officers) on parole, until I heard from the lords commiffioners of the admiralty and the prince of Orange, for my farther proceedings.

I have now the honour to enclose you herewith the line of battle in which the fquadron advanced, a сору of my fummons to the Dutch

admiral, and also a list of the Dutch fleet.

Admiral Storey's flag is down, and I have fent an officer on-board each of his fhips, to have an eye over and the charge of them, as they themfelves requested that it fhould be fo.

I have alfo furnished them with the prince of Orange's standard, many of them not having had it before, and they are now all under thefe colours.

To maintain quiet among their crews, I iffued a fhort manifefto, of which I alfo enclose a copy herewith.

The animated exertions and conduct of the whole fquadron are far above any praife I can beftow on them; but I fhall ever feel most fenfibly impreffed on my heart their fpirited conduct during the whole of this bufinefs. We have all felt the fame zeal for the honour of our fovereign and our country; and although the conclufion has not turned out as we expected, yet the merit, I may fay, in fome measure, is ftill not the lefs due to my fquadron; and if I had brought them to action, I truft it would have added another laurel to the navy of England in this prefent war. The Dutch were aftonifhed and thunderftruck at the approach of our fquadron, never believing it poffible that we could fo foon have laid down the buoys, and led down to them in line of battle in a channel where they themselves go through but with one or two fhips at a time.

I have fent lieutenant Collier with these dispatches, who will give their lordships every information, as he has been employed in the whole of the communication with the Dutch G 4 fquadron,

execution of the naval part of the expedition to restore the ftadtholder and the old and lawful conftitution of the Seven United Provinces guaranteed by his majefty, having agreed that in confequence of the fummons to rear-admiral Storey, the fhips, after hoifting the ancient colours, will be confidered as in the fervice of the allies of the British crown, and under the orders of his ferene highnefs the hereditary ftadtholder, captain and admiral-general of the Seven United Provinces, has thought it proper to give an account of this agreement to the brave crews of the different fhips, and to fummon them by the fame to behave in a peaceable and orderly manner, fo that no complaints may be reprefented by the officer; the undersigned will fend on-board of each of the fhips to keep proper order, until the intentions of his majefty and his ferene highnefs the prince of Orange, as admiral-general, fhall be known, for the farther deftination of thefe fhips, on account of which difpatches will be immediately fent off. And to make them aware, that in case their conduct should not be fo as may be expected from the known loyalty and attachment of the Dutch navy to the illuftrious houfe of Orange on this occafion, any excefs or irregularity will be punished with the feverity which the disorders may have

been committed merit. (Signed)

Andrew Mitchell.

On-board the Washington, anchored under the Vleiter, 30th Auguft. Admiral,

Neither your fuperiority, nor the threat that the fpilling of human blood fhould be laid to my account, could prevent my fhewing to you,

to the laft moment, what I could do for my fovereign, whom I acknowledge to be no other than the Batavian people and its reprefentatives, when your prince's and the Orange flags have obtained their end. The traitors whom I commanded refused to fight; and nothing remains to me and my brave officers but vain rage and the dreadful reflection of our prefent fituation: I therefore deli ver over to you the fleet which I commanded. From this moment it is your obligation to provide for the fafety of my officers and the few brave men who are on-board the Batavian fhips, as I declare myself and my officers prifoners of war, and remain to be confidered as fuch.

I am with refpect, S. Storey. To admiral Mitchell, commanding his Britannic majefty's fquadron in the Texel.

Ifis, at Anchor at the Red Buoy, near the Vleiter, August 31. Sir,

Since my letter of the 29th, by captain Oughton, I received a letter from captain Winthrop, of the Circe, containing a more particular account of the men of war, &c. taken poffeffion of in the New Diep, than I had then in my power to fend, of which you will receive a copy herewith, for the information of my lords commiffioners of the admiralty.

I have the honour to be, &c. A. Mitchell. Evan Nepean, esq.