surrendered to a detachment of troops under the command of Major Fraser, of the 22d regiment.

On the 24th General Stuart embarked from Trincomalé, with a considerable detachment of troops and artillery, on board of the Centurion, Captain Samuel Osborn, company's frigate Bombay, Bombay store-ship, and Swallow and John packets, and on the 27th disembarked the whole at Point Pedro, island of Ceylon, about 24 miles from Jaffnapatam ; of which important post, on the 28th, the general took quiet possession.

On the 1st of October the British 18-gun ship-sloop Hobart, Captain Benjamin William Page (late one of Rear-admiral Ranier's lieutenants and an officer of considerable experience in East-Indian navigation), having on board a detachment of the 52d regiment, under the command of Captain the Honourable Charles Monson, took quiet possession of Molletive, another Dutch factory and military post on the island of Ceylon. On the 5th the fort and small island of Manar, situated a short distance to the north-west of Ceylon, surrendered to Captain Barbutt, whom General Stuart immediately after taking possession of Jaffnapatam, had detached on that service.

The settlement of Malacca had also, since the 17th of August, surrendered by capitulation to the force under the orders of Major Brown, and of Captain Newcome of the Orpheus frigate. Chinsura and its dependencies likewise surrendered ; as, before the close of the year, did Cochin and all the remaining Dutch settlements on the continent of India.