1 I must have immediate poffeffion of the fort, in the state it now is, or expect the confequences. I give you half an hour to think of it. WM AMHERST, I have the honour to be, &c. To the officer commanding in St John's. Tranflation of a letter from the Count de d'Hauffon ville to L-Col. Amberft, dated at St John's, ·Sept. 16. 1762. WIth regard to the conduct that I fhall hold, you may, Sir, be misinformed. I wait for your troops and your cannon; and nothing fhall determine me to furrender the fort, unlels you fhall have totally deftroyed it, and that I fhall have no more powder to fire.the honour to be, &c. I have The Count d'HAUSSONVILLE, Count d' Hauffonville to Lt-Col. Amberft. SIR, Under the uncertainty of the fuccours which I may receive either from France or its allies, and the fort being entire, and in a condition for a long defence, I am refolved to defend myfelf to the last extremity. The capitulation which you may think proper to grant me, will determine me to furrender the place to you, in order to prevent the effusion of blood of the men who defend it. Whatever refolution you come to, there is one left to me, which would hurt the interests of the fovereign you ferve. I have the honour to be, &c. Le Comte d'HAUSSONVILLE. Fort St John, Sept. 17. 1762. N. B. This date fhould be the 18th. His Britannic Majesty's fleet and army cooperating here, will not give any other terms to the garrison of St John's, than their furrendering prifoners of war. I don't thirst after the blood of the garrison; but you must determine quickly, or expect the confequences; for this is my final determination I am, &c. To Count d' Hauffonville. WM AMHERST. The officers and fubaltern officers fhall keep their arms, to preferve good order among their troops. Agreed to. Good thips thall be granted to carry the offi cers, grenadiers, and private men, either wounded or not, to France, in the space of one month, on the coast of Brittany.- Agreed to. Colville will, of course, imbark them as foon as he Poibly can. Lord The goods and effects of both the officers and foldiers fhall be preserved. His Britannic Majefty's troops never pillage. The gate will be taken possession of this afternoon, and the garrifon will lay down their arms. Lord Colville, but it will (Signed) Wm Amherst, This is to be figned by | remain at prefent, as af- LeComte d'Haussonville. terwards, in full force. Camp before St John's, Sept. 18. 1762. Total of the French troops made prisoners in St John's fort. 1 colonel, lieutenant-colonel, 15 captains, 13 lieutenants, 4 ensigns, 27 ferjeants, 45 corporals, 40 fub-corporals, 12 drummers, 533 fufileers. Staff officers. M. le Comte d' Hauffonville, Colonel. Henry, Surgeon-Major. Return of the Killed, Wounded, and Miffing, of the troops under the command of Lt-Col. Amberft, from Sept. 13. inclufive. Capt. Maxwell's light infantry. Killed : 3 rank and file. Wounded: 10 r. and f. Capt. M'Donell's light infantry. lieutenant, I ferjeant, 5 r. and f. I captain, 15 r. and f. 1 Killed: I Wounded: Captain Barron's provincial light infantry. Kill ed: 1 r. and f. Wounded: 3 r. and f. Firft battalion, Wounded: 2 captains, 1 ferjeant, drummer, 3 r. and f. Second battallion. Killed: 1 r. and f. Wound. ed: 1 r. and f. Provincial battalion. Killed: 1 r. and f. Total. Killedeutenant, 11 r. and f. Wounded: 3 captains, 2 ferjeants, I drummer. 32 r. and f. Names of the officers. Capt. Mackenzie, of Montgomery's, wounded, WM AMHERST, Lieutenant-Colonel. [Lord Colville's letter fhall be in our next.] Four Oct. 1762. Journal of the fiege of the Havannah. urnal of the fiege of the HAVANNAH, 1762. "aken from the London gazette of Sept. 11. and the extraordinary gazette of Sept. 30. June 6th. After a very fortunate, paffage through the Old Straits of Baha 1a, the fleet arrived within fight of two fmall orts to the caftward of the Havannah, fituated pon two rivers about three miles diftant from ach other. The whole fleet brought to, and ir George Pocock, with twelve fail of the line, me frigates, and all the ftorefhips, bore away for the mouth of the harbour, to block up the panish men of war that were there, and to make feint on the other fide, in order to facilitate ur landing on this. Commodore Keppel, with ven fail of the line, and feveral fmall frigates, as ordered to remain with the transports to pro t and conduct the debarkation of the troops, hich was deferred till the next day. There was po much wind, and too great a surf from the bore, to effect it at that time. 7th. By break of day this morning, the army anded without oppofition between the two forts Sacarans and Coxemar. The one was filenced, nd taken poffeffion of by the Mercury, and an other frigate; the other was taken by the Dra on of 74 guns. They were defended by a coniderable number of peasants and negroes, in arms, who very foon abandoned them, and fled into the woods. The Earl of Albemarle, with the light Infantry, and grenadiers of the army, paffed the iver Coxemar, where his Lordship took his quarters that night. The reft of the army lay apen their arms along the shore, with the picquets advanced into the woods. 1 557 and a large tract of country, which could sup Ply the army with water, cattle, and vegetables. We now difcovered the enemy difmantling their fhips in the harbour, at the entrance of which they laid a boom. loth. The Moro bill, called the Cavannos, where the enemy were faid to have a poft well fortified, was reconnoitered; and in the evening Col. Carleton, with the light infantry and grenadiers from Coxemar, went, and invefted that hill and the Moro fort. 11th. Col. Carleton attacked the redoubt about one o'clock in the afternoon, and carried it with very little lofs, and little refiftance on the fide of the enemy. Here was a post established and the work called by the name of the Spanif redoubt. 12th. The Moro fort was farther reconnoitred by his Lordship's order. It was difficult to re connoitre it with much accuracy, it being furrounded with thick brushy woods, which could not be feen through, and were moftly impaffable. It was obferved, the parapet was thin, and all of mafonry; and it was therefore judged adviseable to erect a battery against it, as near as the cover of the woods would admit of. There was accordingly a plan fixed upon, at about 250 yards diftance, and preparations were accordingly made, and parties ordered out for fafcines, and collecting earth; which was a work of great labour, the foil being exceedingly thin and scarce. The landing of the ftores was at the fame time car ried on with great diligence by the fleet. 13th. The battery mentioned yesterday was begun; as alfo a howitzer-battery, beyond the Spanish redoubt, to remove the shipping farther off up the river. They threw a great deal of random fire into the woods, and annoyed us very much. 19th. There was a mortar-battery begun upon the right near the fea, for one thirteeninch, two ten-inch, and fourteen royal mortars. 8th. Lord Albemarle marched the main body of the army early in the morning to a village called Guanamacoa, about fix miles from the landing-place, and fent Col. Carleton through Col. Howe, with 300 light infantry, and two the Coxemar wood, with a small corps of troops, battalions of grenadiers, was detached to land at to the fame village, to endeavour to cut off the Chorera, about seven miles to the westward of retreat of a corps of the enemy, faid to be affem- the town, to fecure a footing, and engage fome bled there, and which his Lordship determined to part of the enemy's attention upon that fide. attack. The enemy were drawn up to receive us, and very advantageoufly pofted upon a rifing ground between us and the village. Their cavalry marched down in a large body to the light infantry, who were upon the right of Col. Carleton's corps. They were very foon repulfed, and the whole body difperfed before the army got up. They were about 6000 in number, chiefly miliAtia, mounted with the regiments of Edinburgh dragoons, two companies of grenadiers, and mapy Spanish officers. This morning Col. Howe, with two battalions of grenadiers, was fent through the woods to the Moro, to reconnoitre, and fecure the communication to that fort from the Coxemar. 9th. Lord Albemarle marched the army from Guanamacoa, and incamped in the woods between the Coxemar and the Moro, leaving a corps at Guanamacoa, under the command of LtGen. Elliot, to fecure the avenues on that fide, VOL. XXIV. 20th. Parallels cut in the woods to the right and left of the battery, and a fafcine-line begun, to fecure the guards from the enemy's fire. 23d. Another battery made upon the beach, to advance the royals in the battery of the 19th nearer the fort. 24th. A battery for two howitzers begun near the Lime Kiln; likewise against the thipping, to remove them farther up the harbour, which had its effect. 25th. A battery for a thirteen-inch mortat begun near the Lime-Kiln, against the shipping. 26th. A battery begun against the fort for four guns and two mortars, upon the left of the first battery. 29th. The enemy at day-break landed two detachments of 500 men cach, of grenadiers and 4 D chofen cholen men, with a detachment of armed negroes and Mulatoes with each corps; one upon the right under the Moro, the other upon the left near the Lime-Kiln. The picquets and advanced posts prevented the fuccefs of these detachments, by repulfing them, killing, and taKing near 200, befides wounding a great number, who mostly got off by the favour of the woods. Our lofs was only 10 men killed and wounded. 30th. This day was chiefly taken up in car rying ammunition and neceffaries to the feveral batteries to provide for their opening next morning, which was done by the foldiers, and 500 blacks purchaled by Lord Albemarle, at Martipico and Antigua, for that purpose. July 1ft. This morning we opened two batteries of cannon, which, with our mortars, made up a fire as follows. too late: the fire had infinuated itself where wa◄ ter could not reach it, nor earth stifle it. Thus feventeen days labour of 5 or 600 men, and which must have let us into the fort in a few days, 'was now baffled, and to do over again, There was another embrazure added this night to William's battery. 4th and 5th. These two nights our endeayours ftill continued to extinguish the fire; and, with much difficulty, there was two embrazures faved upon the right, and the epaulement for mortars upon the left. The fire of these two embrazures was continued until the guns were dif• abled, and two more were ferved en barbette, until the enemy's fire obliged the men to give it up. It was now determined to convert the mortarbattery in the left parallel into a battery for cannon, which was accordingly begun, with fome improvements to the other works, which 24 Pars. 13 In. 10 In. Royals. the enemy's fire from the town, Fort la Punta, fhips of war, and floating batteries, had rendered neceflary. GUNS. MORTARS. Battery on the left call ed William's battery Grand battery Left paralel Batteries on the beach 2 6 3 26 Total 12 The enemy's fire exceeded ours upon the front attacked, in the number of guns, which amount ed to fixteen or feventeen, from fix to twelve pounders. They played one mottar of eight inches, and that very feldom. Upon the whole, we reckoned our fire fuperior to theirs confider ably, befides the difference of the fecurity of our works, theirs being only a parapet of thin masonry. About ten o clock, the Cambridge of 80 guns, the Dragon of 74 guns, and the Marlborough of 66, went in and lay against the fort: the Cambridge lay within grape-fhot. They continued firing for above three hours, which the fort received and returned with great fteadiness. At length the hips were ordered off. The Cambridge and Dragon fuffered much, particularly the former. The attacked front of the fort did not feem to fuffer much from their fire, it was fo much above them; but they ftill did us a confiderable fervice, in taking up the enemy's attention for that time, which gained us a fuperiority in the number of guns. 28. Our batteries continued their fire with great fuccefs, and beat down the front attacked, as fast as could be wifhed or expected, particuJarly the eight gun battery; but unhappily, about noon, we were obliged to flacken, that battery being in danger of catching fire from the conftant fire kept up, and the dryness of the fafcines, having had no rain for fourteen days. However, before the evening, the enemy's fire was reduced to two guns, which fired but feldom, 3d. We flattered ourselves the fire was quite put, but about two in the morning it broke out again with great violence. Both water and peo pie were lint as fall as poffible, but unhappily 6th. Two more embrazures were added this night to William's battery, and a place fixed upon, near the ftone redoubt for another battery of four guns. 9th. This morning we had twelve guns in battery, viz. William's battery of feven guns, and the left parallel of five guns, besides our mortars. The enemy fired with about eight or nine. 10th. At night a battery for four guns begun in the right parallel. 11th. This morning the four-gun battery near the ftone redoubt, and two guns upon the faved part of the grand battery newly repaired, opened, and played with fuccefs. We now had eighteen guns in play to eight or nine, which the enemy fill kept up; for, by their uninter rupted communication with the town, and the great affiftance of their failors, who ferve their guns, they always made the loffes of the day good at night. This forenoon two guns in the left parallel battery failed, one by running, the other by cracking; the carriage of a third was disabled upon William's battery. In the afternoon the merlons of the grand battery again caught fire, and extended from right to left, and the whole was irreparably confumed. 12th. The disabled guns in the left parallel, and in William's battery, were replaced laft night, fo that we fiill had fixteen guns in play. Towards noon the carriages of the three gens in the stone redoubt battery were disabled. 13. This morning there was a battery of four thirty-two pounders opened on the right parallel against the left baftion, and made confiderable havock. There was another battery of four guns or dered to be made upon the right of it, as loon as the materials can be' çolicetce, The |