him.

The troops behaved with great spirit, and bore a great deal of fatigue, particularly general Meyrick's division, with a reinforcement from this of the Dumfries; and my light company has been out three nights. I am particularly indebted to the gentlemen yeomanry, and to Mr. Trettu Duheln, who served me as a guide. A body of the rebels left went on towards Ardee, A great many got round the hill on our right, and came back to Slane, where they assembled near it, crossed the Boyne, and went back towards Garristown, where I hope general Myers will fall in with them. I reported this to general Campbell last night, being under his command, and just now received a note from him to inform you of it.

(Signed) W. WEMYSS, M. G. Admiralty-office, July 24. Extract of a letter from the Earl of St Vincent, K. B. to Evan Nepean, Esq. dated on board the Ville de Paris, July 3, 1798.

I inclose, for the information of the lords commissioners of the admiralty, the report captain Digby, of his majesty's ship the Aurora, has made of his last cruise. The active services of this young man cannot be too highly commended.

"June 16, I gained my station, and sent lieutenant Lloyd during a fog to reconnoitre, with two boats armed, a vessel that had been seen; reporting, on his return, having followed her into Curmes, where two Spanish vessels were at anchor. I stood into the bay to cover them in the boats taking or destroying them, which he effected by burning a brigantine loaded with hemp

various merchandise, and brought the boats off with three men wounded, two of them slightly, by the musquetry from the town, and a wall-piece from an adjacent mount. Standing on the 19th for Cape Prior in thick hazy weather, a ship with five merchant brigs were seen steering along the land to the eastward, the wind westerly. By 2 P. M. I could distinctly see the ship was an enemy, carrying 18 or 20 guns, making with the brigs for the harbour of Cedeira, which he entered about 4; every préparation was made, if possible, to destroy them in that port, which I stood in for; at half past 4 opened a fort on the N.E. side of the town, which, with the ship under French colours, commenced a fire on the Aurora, which was returned, in hopes still of driving all the vessels on shore; but soon losing the wind, and being 'nearly laud-locked, I was obliged to avail myself of the way the ship had not yet lost, to tack and stand out, leaving with certainty only two brigs on shore, the corvette, or privateer ship at the extremity of the harbour, which the charts describe as shoal; the fort damaged, and silent probably from the bursting of a gun, which a seaman aloft on the look-out supp es to have happened. About six the Aurora, by sweeps and towing, was out of the harbour without damage. Chasing a cutter on the 20th, and a lugger on the 21st, belonging to Guernsey, carried me far into the bay. On the 22d I chased a ship off Cape Machichicao, scudding with a N.W. wind, in a direction between me and the land. It soon proved to be a corvette, or large French privateer ship, carrying to appearance 20 guns; for, on distinguishing the

frigate,

frigate, she hauled in for the land, and anchored in an opening under a fort between three and four P. M. At four I brought the ship to the wind within half a gun-shot of the enemy, her colours flying, on a lee-shore, with three anchors ahead. After giving her three or four broadsides, her cables and masts shot away, she went on shore, the sea making a fair passage over her; on which I made sail to clear the eastern land, carrying out from 13 to 19 fathoms water, the fort firing without effect. By the report of a Spanish fishing-boat, on the 24th, off Bilboa, I understand the place where she was lost to be Baquio, or near it; their account of her loss of men killed and wounded appears exaggerated; her name they did not know, but I believe she last sailed from St. Andero, where she had lately carried in a valuable English vessel. The wind being easterly, I sent this evening lieut. Lloyd to examine, and, if necessary, destroy a coasting vessel in an inlet called Finis. He returned in an hour, having scuttled and set fire to her, loaded with wrought iron, bringing two Spaniards on board. H. DIGBY."

This gazette also contains an account of the capture of L'Avanti via Ferrolina, Spanish lugger privateer, mounting 1 carriage-gun and 4 swivels, and manned with 26 men, by the King's-fisher, capt. Pierrepoint.

Admiralty Office, July 26. Copy of a Letter transmitted by Admiral Lord St. Vincent to Evan Nepean, Esq.

Sea-Horse, June 27.

My Lord, After a chase of 12 hours, and a close action of 8 minutes, his majesty's ship under my command, this morning at four e'clock, cap

tured the Sensible, a French 36gun frigate, 12-pounders, and 300 men, commanded by monsieur Bourde, capitaine de vaisseau; was new coppered, copper-fastened, and had a thorough repair at Toulon two months ago. A general of division, Baraguey de Hilliers, with his suite, was on board, going to Toulon with an account of the capture of Malta. The Sea-horse's officers and men conducted themselves much to my satisfaction, and I received that assistance from Mr. Wilmott, the first lieutenant, which I might naturally expect from an officer who had been in nine actions, and received eight wounds. Two master's-mates and nine men belonging to the Culloden evinced the same steady courage as the crew of that ship have done on every occasion.

The inclosed is a list of the killed and wounded.

E. J. F OOTB Sea-horse-1 seaman, 1 drummer, killed. Mr. Wilmott, first lieutenant, slightly, 13 seamen, 1 corporal of marines, 1 private marine wounded.

Sensible-18 killed, monsieur Bourde, capitaine et capitaine de vaisseau, second capitaine, 35 men wounded.

Admiralty Office, July 31. This gazette contains an account of the capture of the following vessels by the squadron under the com. mand of rear-admiral Harvey: by the Matilda, capt. Mitford, L'ADnibal brig, of 14 guns and 97 men;

by the Lapwing, capt. Harvey, L'Intrepide sloop, of 10 guns and 58 men; by the Charlotte armed sloop, commanded by lieut. John Williams, La Mort schooner, of 4 guns and 36 men.

31. The exemplary conduct of the French bishops in this country

has

has induced his majesty to order that they shall not be subjected to the regulations which government have been forced in general to adopt with respect to aliens.

AUGUST.

Cambridge, Aug. 1. An alarming hurricane was experienced last Tuesday se'nnight near Causton: its effects were first seen at a place called Mucklemore pit, where it carried the water up to the tops of the houses; it forced down a haystack belonging to one Pye, and carried the thatch also off his house; its extent was marked in a field of peas, carrying them almost clear away, in a tract of about 16 yards wide, over the rows, and to the tops of trees. The workmen in the fields were nauch alarmed, as were most of the inhabitants in the neighbourhood; the noise it made being heard at the distance of a mile. Its direction, like hurricanes in general, was from N. N. E. to S. S. W. but differing greatly from the moderate whirlwinds usually experienced in this country; as it seemed, by the information of persous who witnessed its effects, to have resembled those known by the Asiatic sailors, by the name of Travados. It was attended with no rain, but followed by two claps

of thunder.

Admiralty Office, Aug. 11, 1798. Copy of a Letter from Captain Robert Hall, Commander of his Majesty's Sloop Lynx, to Evan Nepean, Esq. dated at Sea, the 11th of July, 1798.

SIR,

belle, of 2 guns and 30 men; and on the 27th of the same month, in lat. 30 deg. north, long. 71 deg. west, a French brig privateer, called Le Mentor, of 14 six-pounders (6 of which she threw overboard in the chase) and 79 men; they were both from Porto Rico, bound to the coast of America on a cruise. I yesterday also recaptured the American ship Liberty, from Phi ladelphia, bound to Liverpool, which had been taken six days be fore, a few hours after her getting out of the Delaware.

Admiralty Office, Aug. 11, 1798. Copy of a Letter from Admiral Lord Bridport to Evan Nepean, Esq. dated the 9th Aug. 1798.

I transmit a copy of a letter from sir Charles Hamilton, captain of his majesty's ship Melpomene, on the taking of L'Aventurier corvette brig, for their lordships' information, and which appears to do so much credit to the officers and men employed in the execution of this service.

Melpomene, Aug. 4, off Aberack.
My Lord,

Having determined to make an attack with the boats on the port of Corigiou, where a national brig and several vessels under protection were at anchor, on the evening of the 3d inst. I ordered the boats of his majesty's ship Melpomene and Childers sloop to be manned and armed, and at 10 P. M dispatched them, under the command of lieutenant Shortland, who proceeded in the most judicious manner to the attack, which took place about three A. M. The badness of the night, from heavy rain, vivid lightning, and frequent squalls, very much favoured the execution of

though