by John Marshall

“ A second-meeting on the morning of the 12th finally fixed them, and on the morning of the 14th, the Portuguese troops and British seamen and marines marched into Cayenne, and took possession of the town. The enemy, amounting to 400, laid down their arms on the parade, and were immediately embarked on board the several vessels belonging to the expedition; at the same time the militia, amounting to 600, together with 200 blacks, who had been incorporated with the regular troops, delivered in their arms. ”

“ On the evening of the 11th, I had the satisfaction to be rejoined by the barge, having a Spanish lugger in company, la Buena Dicha privateer, armed with one 9-pounder, blunderbusses, and musketry, manned with 26 of the Guarda desperadoes, and capable of rowing 20 sweeps. ”

“ I therefore left my first lieutenant, Mr. Mulcaster, with a party of the Confiance’s, to perform that service, and then join me. On arriving at Grand Cane, I perceived two other batteries about a mile up the river on opposite sides, and within half-gun shot of each other: the one on the right bank called Treo, on an eminence commanding the creek leading to Cayenne ”

“ George Yeo and Edward Bryant, he contrived, by his skillful manoeuvres, to drive her off the coast [1] .
“As to the seamen and marines, all praise I can bestow fall short of their merit, from the 6th Dec. they never slept in their beds; the weather was constantly both boisterous and rainy; the roads almost impassable ”

“ Finding it was likely H.M. ship under my command might be detained in these roads a couple of days, and being informed the Oporto and Lisbon trade were hourly expected from England, for which several Spanish privateers and row-boats were lurking in Portuguese creeks and rivers, I determined upon sending a boat to the northward, and at the solicitations of my first lieutenant, Mr. Mulcaster, I despatched him on the 9th instant, in the barge, with his former companion. Lieutenant Menzies, R.M. who, upon every opportunity, has most handsomely volunteered his services, and Mr. ”