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THE. ORDER 111 WHICH THS SHIES OT Tltt DEITIBiI SQUADRON ATTACKED THE COMBINED FLEETS, ON THE LIST 01P OCTOBER, !POS. •AN. VICTORY. TEMLRAIRR, NRITUNZ. CONO,IICROR. LIVIATHAN. AJAX. ORION. AOAMERIT4OI4, MINOTAUR. STARTIATO. BRITANNIA. AFRICA. iURTALVS. Exams. Pstoaar. NAIAD. PICKLE fehooner. ENTRZIRRNANTE cutter. (Signed) c. cottittotoon. GENERAL ORDER. EURTALUS, Oetober 21, 1805. The ever to be lamented death of Lord Vifcount NELSON, Duke of Bronte, the Commander in Chief, who fell in the action of the till, in the arms of victory, covered with glory, whole memory will be ever dear to the &kith Navy, and the thitifh Nation, whore zeal for the honour of his King, and for the interea of his Country, will be ever held up aia thin ing example for a Mita Seaman, leaves to me a duty to return my thanks to the Right Hon. Rear. Admiral, the Captains, Officers, Seamen, and de. tachments of Royal Marines (crying on board his Blajefly's fluadron now under my command, for their condo& on that day ; but, where can I fad language to exprefs my fentiments of the vahmr and I /kill whic:i were difplayed by the Officers, the Sea men, and Marines in the battle with the enemy, where every individual appeared an Hero, on whom the glory of his country depended! the attack was irref►itible, and the iffue of it adds to the Page of Naval Annals a brillinet inflance of what Britons can do, when theii King and their Country need 'their f•rvice. To the R,ight Honourable Rear Admiral the Earl of NORTH Ilse, to the Clptaiiis, Officers, and feanten, and to the Officers, Non c immiflioned Officers, and privates of the Royal Marines, I beg to give my Ancere and hearty thanks for their highly meritori ous condua, both in the aaion, their zeal and aaivity in bringing the captu4Sips oat from the perilous fi'uation in which they were, after their furrender, among the flinals of Trafalgar; in boil terous weather. And I &fire that the repealve Captains wilt be 'leafed to communicate tei the Officers, feamen, and Royal Marines this public tellimony of dir high ap probation of their condua, and my thanks for it. (Signed) C. cor.t.inowncls. To the Right Honoarable Rear Admiral the Earl of Northedt., and the refpedttve Captains and Commanders GENERAL ORDER. The Ataticury Gon, whole arm is Rrength, hav ing of his great mercy been pleated to crown the exertion of his Majefly's fleet with fuccefs, in giving them a complete villory over their enemies, on the tie of this month ; and that all praife and thankl giving may be offered up to the Throne of Grace for the great benefits to our country and to mankind : I have thought proper, that a day fhould be ap pointed, of general humiliation before Gon, and thankfgiving for this his merciful goodnefs, implor ing f rgivenefs of fins, a continuation of his divine mercy, and his conflant aid to us, in the defence of our conntry's liberties and laws, without which the rumeg efforts of men are nought, and dire& there fore that be appointed for this holy purpnfe. Given on board the Euarm.us, off Cape Trafalgar, aid Oetober, 1805. (Signed) c. col.t.sacwoon. To the refpeetive Captains and Commanders. N. 13. The fleet having been difperfed by a gale of wind, no day has yet been able to be appointed for the above purpofe. EC/RTALUS. off Cadiz, °etcher lc 1105. Sir—ln my letter of the 22d I detailed to you, for the info•matiiln of my Lords Commiffioners of the Admiral .y, the proceedings of his Majefty's•fqua- . slron on the day of the action, and that preceding it, fume which I have had a continued ferias of misfor tunes, but'they are of a kind that human prudence could nor poffibly provide again% or my &ill pre• REAR. ROYAL SOVIRZIGN. MARS. BCLLCISLC• TON:k:ANT. 13 LLLLL OPUON • tOLOSIV3. Actut.Lz. FoLyPnimvs. RavtNne. SVITTOURt. Dierrtrcr. TIIICINDZRZIG DITIAt4CI.. Pairace. DR t A I N 0 V OM T . vent. On the zzd in the morning a Rrong fontherly wind blew, with fqually weather, which however did not prevent the activity of the Officers and (cameo of furl (hips as were manageable from getting hold of many of the prizes (thirteen or fourteen) and towing them off to the weßward, where I ordered them to rendezvous round the ROYAL Sovsattov, in tow by the NUMMI ; but on the 23d, the gale increafed, and the fea ran fo high, that many of them broke the tow rope, and drifted far to leeward, before they were got hold of again, and fome of them taking ad_ vantage in the dark and boillerous night, got before the wind, and have perhaps drifted upon the chore and funk ; on the afternoon of that day the remnant of the combined fleet, ten fail of fhips, who had not been much engaged, Rood up to leeward of my flattered and tfraggled charge, as if meaning to at tack them, which obliged me to coiled a force out of the leaß injured (hips, and form to leeward for their defence ; all this retarded the prngrcfs of the hulk's, and the bad weather continuing, deterrnkted me to &limy all the leewardmoß that could be cleared of the men, confidering that keeping pact Pion of the Mips was a matter of little eonfrquence compared with the chance of their falling again into the hands of the enemy; but even this was an ardu ous talk in the high Ira whickwas running. I hope, however, it has been accompliffied to a confiderable extent; I entrufted it to Skilful Officers, who would (pare no pains to execute what was pollible. The Captains of the PRINCt and Neeruto cleared the Trinidad and funk her. Captains Hors, • &vivo'. and MALCOLM, who joined the fleet this moment from Gibraltar, had the charge of deftroying four others. The Redoubtable funk all= of the SwIFT. stnts while in tow. The Santa Anna, I have no doubt, is funk, as her fide was almoft entirely beat in ; and fuch Is the (battered condition of the whole of them, that unlefs the weather moderates I doubt whether I (ball be able to carry a Ship of them into port. I hope their Lordfhips will approve of what I (having only in confideration the deflrudion of the enemy's fleet) have thought a meafure of abfolute neceffity. 1 I have taken Admiral Vit.i.esauve into this flip; Vice Admiral Dos 'Wye is dead. Whenever the temper of the weather will permit, and I can (pare a frigate (for there were only four in the *Rion with thefleet, EURYALVII, Statvs, PHOIIIII, and Milan; the Mscrostase joined the sad, and the El/RYDICI and SCOUT the s3d), I Hull coiled the other Flag Officers, and fend them to England, With their flags, (if they do not all go to the bottom), to be laid at his Majcßy's feet. There were four thoufand troops embarked, under the command of General COMTA II" who was taken with Admiral VILLsw EUVE in the Bucentaure. I am, Sir, &c. (Signed) c. coLurcwoon. LONDON. THURSDAY. NOVEMRER 7. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ON O'CLOCK: Cantols, for money, C9itter NOVelliber sse. Reduccd 3814 1 .1002 4* S. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. --- - • Bank Stock tcot t9r+ India Stock 187,1 3 per Cent. Red. 384H4 India Bond,. par ta. prem. • 3 per Cent. Cord* Imp. Ann. 81 i 3 t 6 4 Per Cent. 7 4 if Exch. Bills,r is. pram per Cent. Navy, 8# 90 I Omnitun s ita i prem. 3 per Cent. 3797 98 Cool for acr- stifit Long Ann. 16} In the preceding columns we have given the Offi cial details of the memorable Vidory obtained by Lord Ne LSO?r on the day of his death. However the enemy may exult for the moment in the loft of fuch a Commander to England, every friend of the Noble Admiral mull glory in his fate, even though he la ments it. N•o part of his life was mare fplendid than his death. And it was precifely what he anticipated for himfclf. After the memorable battle of the Nile, Captain Hassowssa prefented to him a coffin made of the mainmsft of POI ient, which blew up, with an atteftation of the fad—and entreated that the Noble Admiral would order it to be preferved for his own body, when the fate of battle, or the hand of time, might demand the debt of nature. The Noble Ad. miral on the day before he left London, called at the houfe of Mr. Leddifon, in Brewer-ftreet, where the coffin is, and with that familiar good humour which accompanied his addrefs to all his people, cleared him to have the atteftation engraved on the lid ; as " he thought it highly probable that he fhould want it on his return." It was ever his expreffion in going into a battle—" Conquelt or Weftminfter Abbey"— and it was his peculiar good fortune to • infpire the fame fentiment into every follower. There can be no doubt that a deliberate aim had been taken at his Lordfliip. He had on the infignia of the different orders conferred on him as the reward of his valour, and had been requefted to lay them aide for fear of the confequence, but he would not, he Aid, in the face of a foe put off the trophies of his triumphs over the enemies of his country. He re ceived the mufleet ball below his left (boulder, through the centre of one of his decorations. The heroifin difplayed by him, in the interval be tween his wound and death, was moil awful and exemplary. Carried down to the Surgeon among the other wounded fulFerers, he delved to tale bittazi —but, on the fira view of - the wound it was pro nounced to be . mortal. He received the intelligence with that fortitude which became his charaaer, and to the LA moment_ he exerted all his facoltiei in the execution of his duty. He fent intelligence of his approaching fate to his gallant Second, Admiral COLLINGWOOD. He gave his orders to all around him—he exprelled an eagernifs to know that the arms of his Sovereign had triumphed, and repeatedly in. quired how many of the enemy had (truck. As life was ebbing away, he was gratified by hearing that the number was continually augmenting. Capt. Halm continued with him to the lea ; and, when he was told that above 15 had already Bruck, he returned thanks to Con that his death was crowned with viEtory ; and, after defiring his bleffing to be given to all the perfons whom he mot tenderly loved, and whom, it was bis only detlre to have embraced, he raid, bat the gale! Goo be done—and in a few minutes expired. So ended the life of HORATIO Loan Nu -sow—a life that, from the twelfth year of his age, has been indefatigably devoted to the public folio. The me. intim of his brilliant tarter will be without parallel for iraricty of danger and for fplendour of fucccfs.— When his Matarry ditermined to confer upon him a mark of royal grace, and to make out for him a coat of arms peculiar to his fervices, there was de pofited in the College of Arms, after the battle of Aboukir, an smelled roll from the archives of the Admiralty, of pne hundred and twenty-two infiances of honourable achievetnent. Since4hat epoch he has fought the battle of Copenhagen—he has delivered the Welt Indies—and be has now deftroyed the com bined fleets. The public will fee by the difpatch of Admiral Commie:wow), that the battle of Trafalgar was fought on a new principle. The fasl is, that the fruitful mind of Lord NELSON was for ever equal to the exigency of the occafion : he obferved the dif treffing confeqnences which refulted in the battle of Sir Rona RT CA LD ft, from the eonfution of multiplied 'lgoe's, and before he went to fea, he had formed in his mind the plan of avoiding the neceffity. a I &all " never difirad the attention of my fleet on the day ofaition by a fuperabundance of fignah," was an affertion which he completely verified. On the 4th of OEtober, he fummoned the Admirals and Captains of his fleet into the cabin of the Vacroiv, and.laid before them a new, fimple, and moft complete plan of attack, which (truck every one of them with the force of demonfiration. It cannot be better expreffed than as Admiral CoEcinc WOOD defcribes it—lt otts There is but little to add to the fimple and moll impreffive account of the ninon rendered by Admiral CorAttiowoon. Unfortunately the boillerous gales which followed the battle may deprive us of Tome of the benefits with which it was fraught ; but that is the flighteft confideration in the event. Britifh ho. nour is fatisfied—and a blow is firuck at the com bined naval force of France and Spain by an inf.rior fleet, (on the very day when Mace's army was piling their arms arthe feet of their Conqueror,) which they will not be able fuddenly to recover. HORATIO Lord Vircount Ns Lao'', Duke of Bronte, was born at Burnham-Thorpe, in Norfolk, on the r ssttn o f September, 1758. He had therefore juft completed his 47th year. • Captain Sr ass, of the NAUTILUS, and Lieutenant LAPINOTI sits, of the litcaut fchooner, arrived at the Admiralty together, about half pall one o'clock yeflerday morning. The former did not, as was generally underftood, arrive from the fcene of ac tion: be fell in by accident with the !Notts.a fchooner, and on learning the intelligence, proceeded immedi ately to Lifbon with the information, from whence he was tent with difpatches. by Mr. GAMBIER, the Bri tifh Conful, to England, and landed at Plymouth.— laientenantLaramorteas made the port of Falmouth, and, by a fingular coincidence, met Captain Svc's at the gates of the Admiralty. This aftive Officer was yefterday promoted to the rank of Commander. The following is a letter from the fleet LaTTIR FROM AN °WWI Ot TEI tORTALI7II, OCT. 26,1805. " Sir—l tamely know whether, after fo great a lots as the nation has fuftained in Lord NEL sox, and every we of us a friend, added to the inevitable &amebas of nineteen line prizes, f ought to congratulate you, but time the enemy, minas Is many thips, and we, truft not one, even in that there is matter to rejoice. Such a vidory , and under eireumftances fo difadvantageous to the at tack, never was achieved,—Admiral Villeneuve, who I. now at my elbow, can rawly yet credit it ; and his defpair and grief exceeds any thing I ever law. To reM Inch an attack, and fecooded as Lord Nelfon was—was vain. I did not leave the Vi dory till the (hot were eying thick over her; and the left fignal Lord Nelfon made, was loch as cannot and never will be forgot—it washy tele graph—P. That England expeded every man would do his duty." I have time for no osore—the veffel is going, but I &ail boon fee you, se I am to tarry home the captured Admirals." HAMBURGH MAILS. Two Hansborgh Mails have arrived. and have brought loose very important details. They confirm the fail already Rated in this paper that - HIS PRUSSIAN MAJESTY HAS TAKEN POSSESSION OF HANOVER IN THE NAME OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY. The advanced guard of the Ruffian troops entered Boitzenburgh on the Elbe, on the zyth ult. the Fru!. flans entered the Eleaorate of Hanover the next day. The French, as might have been expeded, threw themfelves into the fortrefs of Hameln, to the amount it is (aid, of five or fix thonfand men, where it is fuppofed they will be blockaded. They have pro vifioned the place for twelve months. The intelligence from Berlin is of the moll impor tant nature. The political fyttem of the Pruffian Cabinet has undergone a complete change in the conrfe of the laft nr.nth. Inftead of placing her im menfe armies upon the war eftablinsment, merely to refill the paffage of a foreign force through her ter ritories, and maintain her neutrality, Pruffia has conceded full liberty of tranfit to the Ruffian forces, and is marching her armies to Franconia, to the banks of the Rhine, and to the borders of the Ba tavian Republic. Three armies, amounting in the whole to tso,ooo men, are aeually on their march for the different points we bare mentioned. A fourth army, of immenfe force, is stumbling in Brandeis burgh, to fupport the three firft. Tweoty four thou fend Saxons, and twenty thoufand Heffians, are to be united to the armies on their march to Franconia and Weftphalia. The army in Lower Saxelty is to be commanded by the Doke of Baumswica ; and we think there is tome probability that the Ruffian and the &Fedi& troop, who are already is Hasoveroad , he gritifh and Hanoverian, who Ihirtly stake there may all ultimately come under the command if that, exce:lent General and coniummate Poltticiaß. The van guard of the Second Ruffian Army, amounting to to,ooo men, had arrived about the middle of Taft month in Bohemia, and formed a junaian, we have do doubt, with the troops on the Inn, in a few days after. Independent of the ins rnenfe armies which were pouring down through Pruffian Poll3nd and Gallicia, from the RuffiAn ter ritories, a confiderable reinforcement to'the troops already landed in Pomerania, were expeaed to ar rive from Revel at Wolgall in the fame province.— Ten thoufand Swedes were alfo expeaed to advance through Mecklenburgh into Hanover, permiCGon having been requited of the Governments of both he dutchies to that effe&. AUSTRIAN VICTORY IN ITALY. It gives- us great pleafure to be able to announce, that the intelligence communicated e x cluii v ely itt the STAR of Monday, of the Archduke CHAR Las having obtained a viaory over the French in Italy, receives fume confirmation from the Hamhu►gh papers. The Archduke is Rated to have attacked the French at Ve• rona, taken poireffion of the place, and made 4000 of the enemy prifunerq. FRENCH - AND DUTCH JOURNALS. The former have come to hand np to the 3 tft nit. the latter to the 4tlt inftant.. From there and the Mails, we have given in the preceding columns as ample extraas as our limits would permit. A letter from Berlin, dated the azd of Oauber, Rates, that on the 18th of the fame month, an efcort of boo French Infantry, and Soo cavalry, was at• tacked by 6000 Außrian cavalry between Nordlingels and Dinkelibibi, and were beat by the fuperior force, with the lofs of so pieces of artillery, and a hundred ammunition waggons. The Stutgard Gazette of Oanber 17, Rates, that an enterprize undertaken by the French under Gene. ral NET en the t tth cf OCtober, in the afternoon, on the left bank of the Danube, between Ulm and Alpeck, had not fucceeded, and that en the t 3th the Auftrians had carried off a confiderable quantity of baggage belonging to the French army. We shall give farther extraas to-morrow., , THE EXPEDITION. The general report has been, that the foree that has failed from the Downs is bound to Hanover.— We may now however fate, as the Ratement cannot now be detrimental to the objea of the Expedition, that we have reafon to believe it is defined again& Boulogne. It is known to Government that the whole force in that place does not exceed 4000 men. The tranfports, it is believed, will land their troops as near the town as they can, and no doubt is en. tertained that they will carry the place. Sir Sreise SMITH is at the fame time to keep the batteries em• ployed, and to attempt deflroying part of the fkip. ping. In the event of fuccefs, the whole mull be annihilated. The attack, we believe, was intended to be made as laft night. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCZ. • Coax, Nov. I.—His Majefty's fhip EGYPTTIIIIM has captured a veffe! laden with Naval. Stores, shrill has arrived in Baltimore harbour; the was one of a fleet of twenty fail, all laden with naval flares from Billie% for Rochefort, under convoy of a corvette s which efeaped, but ahnoll the whole of the convoy were defiroyed. DUBLIN, Nov. 2.—The Weft India fleet, confilt. ling of 47 fail, under convoy of his Majelly's (hips FISGARD, Topaz!, and WoLvse in e, failed from Cork harbour on Monday evening. Lieutenant General Sir Eras Coors and fuite went on board the Frs. GARD, and Major General BALFOUR and fuite, on board the Robert, of Liverpool. The ARG US fluop of war failed from Co: it h:abour for the Dowus, on Tuefday left. TORBAY, , Nov. s.—This afternoon arrived his Majefly's cutter Nielson, Captain M.ri it, with .dif. patches and letters from Admiral C)aswat whom, with his fleet, he left all well off Breit, on Sunday WI. She failed again immediately after de. livering the difpatches at the Poft Office, which were forwarded by this evening's mail. PLYMOUTH, Nov. g.—La( night arrived here the NAUTILUS, of 18 guns, Captain Svitss, with. dif patches from Admiral Coudanwoon, oti Cadiz, with which Captain Sears fet off exprefs tor 1. , ,cd0n about twelve o'clock lad night ; they contain an account of the deal-la:lion of the combined fleets of France and Spain, by that prodigy of valour, Lord NILSON, the particulars of which will be known before this reaches you. Came in the American Chip Jolla, of New York, Captain Bares, (late Fox), from New York, for. flilboa, laden with fugar and coffee ; the was detained by the Lord Nelfon privateer, of Gum fey, afterwards recaptured by a Spann privateer, and fince taken again by the EGYPTIPIIII F. of 44 guns : came in alfo the INDIYAITIGAHLI, of 4 gnus, from a cruize. DOM, Nov. 6.—Sailed left night the hogs Hoff nuog and Five Gehrotders, for Embden, with prize goods. Arrived this morning, the Dk IPEIULTE gun brig, from the Downs. Sailed this morning the fol lowing veffels in ballad, having hAd their cargoes taken out to abide the decifinn of the Admiralty Court : the brig Hoppett, Capt. EL LSTROM, of and for Gothenberg ; brig Liberia's, Capi.Tacsa wsraom, of and for Stockholm, and Galleas Anna Sophi a , Capt. Ways, of and or Stralfund.—Remain in the Roads, the Firm and De.4>erite gun. brigs, and Flirt and Atalanta cutters.--Wind S.W. thick weather. Scaaaotouc Nov. s.—Arrived in our Road the Leith armed !now w.th two mile and a F ore i gn bfieffenc , er from Twinkle% is fire clAys paliage, Wind CV. & W. 1