should re-embark the seamen and guns[1] under your command, I request you will take such measures us you may think proper, and have the goodness to inform me of any assistance in my power to provide for expediting that service.
“I cannot close this without expressing my warmest thanks for the uncommon zeal and exertions of yourself and those under your command, which I have not failed to make known in my despatches to his Majesty’s Secretary of State and the Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty’s naval forces at Jamaica. I have the honor to be, &c.
“Lieut. Denman, R.N.”
“Sir,– I do myself the honor to make known to your Excellency, that having got the whole of the ordnance stores landed, and as many of them conveyed to Savana Grandé as it is practicable to move with the means in our possession. Lieutenant Denman and the seamen under his command have returned to their ships, their services not being any longer required on shore, at least at this place.
“It is with infinite pleasure I take advantage of the earliest opportunity of expressing to your Excellency my unqualified approbation of the deportment of the whole of that detachment; but the zeal and unwearied attentions of Lieutenant Denman, as well to the various and fatiguing duties necessarily imposed upon him and his people attached to us, as to the men under his charge, demand my more particular notice of him, and I hope your Excellency will therefore admit of my recommending him to your attention as an officer of great merit. I have the honor to be, &c.
“His Excellency Major-General Carmichael.”
“Sir,– I had great pleasure in receiving from Lieutenant-Colonel Smith, commanding the royal artillery, a report of his proceeding with the ordnance from Palanque, in which he states, in the strongest terms, the assistance he received from you, the officers, and seamen under your command, to whose unwearied and indefatigable exertions he bears the most handsome testimony, and by which he was enabled to proceed towards the enemy, against impediments that would have been otherwise insurmountable.
“From the mention made of you by Captain Cumby, I certainly expected every possible aid, in which I was not disappointed; and I have only to regret that the speedy surrender of the enemy did not afford an- ↑ Eight of the Polyphemus’s lower-deckers.
