| Description | Reporting the failure of the second attempt on Rosetta due to the arrival of enemy reinforcements, the defeat of Lieutenant-Colonel MacLeod's party at El Hamet with nearly 1,000 men (including Macleod and Major Vogelsang) killed, wounded or missing, and the withdrawal of Stewart into Alexandria. Also the Precarious position resulting from shortage of supplies and -more particularly - shortage of funds, without which no supplies could possibly be forthcoming |