he Castle of Goza with the
honours of war, and shall lay down their arms as they get out of
the gate.
"2.
"The Castle of Goza, with all the military implements and stores,
shall be delivered up to the British officer appointed to take
charge of them.
"3
"The French officers and troops shall be protected in their persons
and effects, and the officers allowed to retain their side-arms.
They shall be embarked, immediately, on board his Britannic
majesty's ships; and sent to France, in transports, at the expence
of the French government They are not to serve against his
Britannic majesty, or his allies, during the war, till regularly
exchanged.
"Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, K.B. has entered into articles
with the inhabitants of Goza, that if the French surrender to the
British, they shall be considered as under their protection, and
they will not offer them the smallest insult or molestation.
"Signed, 28th Oct.
1798.
"Alexander John Ball,
Captain of his Britannic Majesty's
Ship Alexander.
"Approved,
"Lockey, Aju. de Battailon.
Horatio Nelson."
"_Extract of Articles found in the Castle of Goza, the 28th of
October_ 1798.
"Fifty barrels of powder, nine thousand ball-cartridges, one
thousand musket-cartridges without ball, one thousand flints,
thirty-eight eighteen-pound cartridges filled, one hundred and
forty twelve-pound ditto, four hundred and fifty six-pound ditto,
two hundred and sixty-eight four-pound ditto, twenty-five
three-pound ditto, eighty-eight two-pound ditto, eighteen good
eighteen-pounder guns and two hundred shot, two good twelve-pounder
guns and nine hundred shot, four good six-pounders and two thousand
nine hundred and eighty-five shot, four hundred hand-grenades
filled, ninety-nine pikes, ninety halberts, and three thousand two
hundred sacks of corn.
"N.B. No small-arms, except those laid down by the French troops."
On the 12th of November, Admiral Nelson, having a few days before
arrived safely at Naples, went to the camp at St. Germaine's, in
consequence of a request from his Sicilian Majesty, to meet General
Mack and General Acton, at a grand review of the whole Neapolitan army;
and Sir William and Lady Hamilton, with all the English nobility and
gentry then at Naples, a
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