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straggling parties of the enemy. This duty was satisfactorily performed, and the detachment rejoined me here on the 18th.
Permit me now to bring to your lordship's favorable notice the several offi- cers commanding corps who were most zealous in executing and even in anti- cipating my wishes; viz., captain Bourchier, commanding the naval brigade; lieutenant-colonel Morris, commanding 49th regt.; lieut..colonel Pratt, command- ing 26th regt.; major Tomlinson, commanding 18th regt.; commander Watson, R. N., commanding the seamen; captain Uniacke, commanding Royal Marines; and capt. Simpson, commanding Rifles 36th Madras native infantry. From It..col. Montgomerie, commanding the artillery, and captain Pears, commanding engi. neers, I received the most zealous support.
I am greatly indebted to lieut..col. Mountain, deputy adjutant general, and major Gough, deputy quarter master general, for their valuable assistance; and I feel much obliged to lieut..col. Hawkins, deputy commissary general, and major Moore, judge advocate general, who accompanied me and acted as my personal staff. Captain Whittingham my aid-de-camp, having been sent to convey my wishes to sir William Parker, ascended the hill with his excellency, who speaks most favorably of his exertions. I cannot too strongly convey my approbation of the zealous excrtions of doctor French, the superintending surgeon.
I send this dispatch by lieut. Montgomery, 49th, who, I am sorry to say, will not, from his wound, be fit for service for a considerable time; he is a most gallant
I have, &c., (Signed) HUGH GOUGH, Lieut.-general,
Commanding Expeditionary land force.
officer.
To the Rt.-hon. EARL OF AUCKLAND, G. c. B., &c., &c.
Return of killed and wounded in the attack on the enemy's intrenched camps on the heights of Segaon, 15th March, 1842.—Total; killed 3, wounded 22.
Return of ordnance captured. Two long 6 pounders, 1 3–pr., and 20 12-pr. carronades. Nine portable naval pieces, brass 3-prs., parceled with silk, and bound round with catgut, quite new.
DISPATCH FROM REAR-ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM PARKER, K. C. B., &c., &c.
Modeste at Ningpo, 19th March, 1842.
To the Secretary of the Admiralty,
SIR,-My letter No. 42, of the 11th instant, will apprize their lordships of the complete discomfiture of the Chinese, on shore and afloat, in their attacks on our positions at Chinhái and Ningpo, on the 10th instant.
Retrograde movements in various directions were the immediate result; and feeling it of importance not to lose a moment in following up the advantage of these severe repulses, sir Hugh Gough and myself determined to make a rapid move. ment on their encampment at Tsz'kí, in the hope of bringing them to action, before they retired on Fikwán, about forty miles higher up the river, at which point we had reason to believe they were concentrating their army.
In anticipation of this advance, captain Richards, with three boats and the whole of the marines attached to the Cornwallis, accompanied me in the Nemesis. and Phlegethon to Ningpo, where we arrived (after our examination of the island of Táshán) on the afternoon of the 12th; and being joined by the small-arm men and marines of the squadron within the river, the whole amounting to 410 men, were placed under the command of capt. Bourchier of the Blonde, assisted by capt, Richards of my flag ship, and the several officers specified in the subjoined list,