6 BRITISH SETTLEMENT

ficant loss from before -StGeorge's: KeA
a distance of ten or twelve miles from the
chief settlement. of Balize. It was com-
puted: hat the number of the enemy em-
ployed on, this occasion amounted to neat
three thousand.*

 The sense his Majesty entertained of the united
exertions of the Javy and Army, and the settlers,
he was pleased to express, by directing the follow.
ing communication to be made to them through
Lieuteenant.general the Earl of Balcarras.
 Extract of a letter from his Grace the Duke of
Portland, to Lieutenant-general the Earl of Bal,
carries, dated, Whitehall, 8 February, 1799,
 My Lord,
 I had great pleasure in laying before his Ma.
jesty the account you transmitted of the defeat of
the Spanish Flotilla, in its attack upon our Settle.
Meant of Honduras.
 ." The able and judicious conduct of Lieutenant.
colonel Barrow, and Captain Moss of the Merlin
sloop, the bravery of the troops and seamen under
their respective commands, and the spirited exer.
tions of theSettlement Id general, on this occarn,
hse been jach ato receive his Majesty's appro,