The loss of a leg or arm was to be recompensed by a sum of L30 on return to England, and employment for life under the Company.

The married men were promised, if killed, that their widows should receive L30, with L10 for each child.

These offers procured some forty volunteers, who were to be led by Gideon Russell, mate of the _Morrice_.
Early next morning the attacking party were put into the boats, to land under cover of the fire of the _Britannia_, _Fame_ and _Revenge_; when it was found that a strong current prevented disembarkation, and the boats were forced to lie off under a heavy fire, until the tide changed.

To make matters worse, Manuel de Castro ran two of his gallivats ashore under the guns of the castle, so that fifty or sixty men were killed or wounded before a landing was effected.

At ten o'clock the boats pulled for the landing-place; but the tide was still running so strongly that they were thrown into confusion, and many of the attacking party never landed at all.
The sepoys again refused to land.