The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1798-12-10 00:00:00, page 2

Gato. Killed—William Da
vii, mate ; Andrew Brown, mid
shipman §I2 seamen, 7 marine#.
Wounded — Lieut. W. Wilkins
lon, L. Travin, mid(hipmen ;
Stroucham Schol, 1. Payne mid
fhiptnen ; 20 feimen, 9 marine,
Mgeftic. Kilted —Capt. West
cot Z. Ford, midshipmen ; &*
drew Gnmore, boat!wain ; 33 fea
meo, 14 marine#.
I Wounded—2 midihipmen, &p
--uin'a clerk, 124 feameo, 16 mr
t jh/fapto Killed—Lieut. R.
S. Daniel ; Lt. P. W. Lawder,
£t. G. Jolii&, Thoma# Ellifen,
32 fearpen, 13 marine#.
Wounded— Capt. Derby ; Mr.
Edward Kerb,, mate, Capt. Hop
fans, of Marine# ; Mr. Chapman,
boatswain ; il6 teamen, 17 ma
rines.
ol KitaQ food 0/
&'Ftmb,u dity„p, n,dtf
CTtyim f
Lift of Killed and Wounded on
beard of the Englifo Fleet.
Fanguard. Kilted—Capt. Ted
dy, ot marine# ; Mr. Thomas
Leymour & Mr. I. Taylor, mid
lhipmen ; 20 seamen, 7 marine,.
Wounded— Real Adm. NEL
SON, Lieutenant! Veffal and M.
Adige ; Mr. Cambell, secretary;
Mr. Auftio, boatswain ; Meffri.
Weatherfton and Autrim, mid-
Ihipmeo ; 60 feameo, 8 marines
Theseus. Killed— 5 teamen.
w Wounded—l officer, 24 fea
meh, 5 marines.
Alexander. Killed —Lieut. John
Collins, 13 teamen.
Wounded—Capt. Ball and Lt.
Crefwell, ot marine# ; Mr. Law
son, matter ; a midshipmen, 48
seamen, 5 marines. , j
Miftotour, Killed—Lieut. Kir
cher, ot marine# ; Mr. John Wal
ker, mate; 18 seamen, 3 marinei.
Wounded—Lieutenants Irwick
end Jewel, ot marines ; Thorns!
Fixton, 2d master ; 2 midship
men 54 seamen, 6 marines.
Swiftfee. Killed— 7 seamen.
Wounded—-William Smith,
master; 19 seamen, 2 marines.
Audacious. Kiiled—l seaman.
Wounded—Lt. John Jones ;
Mr. Fent, gunner : 31 seamen, a
marine!./
Defence. Killed— 3 seamen, 1
marine.
Wounded-, seamen, 2 ma
rines.
Zealous. Klled—l seaman.
Wounded-9 seamen;
Orion. Killed —Mr. Baird, cap
tain's clerk, IB seamen, i marine.
Wounded—Capt. Sir James
Savmbrez, knight ; Mr. Sadler,
boat!wain ; 3 midshipmen, 18
seamen, 6 marines,,
Culloden. Killed none. Woun
ded none.
Guns, Soo Men taken.
L'Orient, Brut,J, Admiral kS commander in
~ chief, 120 Gone, 1010 Men burnt.
Le< melee, 74 do. 700 de.'burnt.
L'Artonite 36 do. 250 do. de,
Le GniUanmi Tell 86 de. 800 Escaped
Le Genereux 74 do. 700 do. de.
Le Diane 48 do. 300 do. do.
Le Jufice 44 do. 300 do. do.
Le Serieufit 36 do. 250 do. junk.
Lift of the French Fleet defeated by that
of the English, confining of 13 ships
o' 74 guns, and 2 of 50 guns.
Le Carrier \ 74 Guns 603 Men taken
Le Conquerart 74 do. 700 do. do.
Le Spertiate 74 do. 700 do. do.
L' Aqunion 74 '•• 7 00 ^ e do.
Le Setrotrain People 74 dm. 700 doe do.
Lt "Tonant 80 do, 800 do. do.
Lt Hortux 74 do. 700 do. do.
Le Mercuro ,4 /0. 700 do. ,do,
Le Franklin, Blanket, firft centre Admiral 80
Freneb. Guns. Men.
Le Gucrrie 74 700
Le Conquerant 74 700
Le Spartiate 74 700
L'Aquilon 74 700
Souverain Peuplc 74 700
Le Franklin 80 810
L'Orient 120 1010
Le Tonnant 80 800
L'Heureux 74 700
Le Timoleon 74 700
Le Mercure 74 700
Giilaume Tell ,80 800
Le Genereux 74 700
La Diane 48 300
La Justice 44 300
L'Artemife 36 250
La Scrieufe 36 250
a—Q.tmro
1190 10810
From this statement it will be fees
that the Enemy's force exceeded ours
both in guns and men. < The French line
of battle, with the frigates by which it
was flanked, without counting the gun
boats or the artillery on the Island in
their van, amounted to 1190 guns ; our
fquzdron mounted, including the Mutine
(loop, 1026, giving an excess in favour of
the Enemy of 164 guns, besides the guns
of the Culloden, which were not fired.
To give a more just idea of the com
parative force of the Two Fleets, we here
present it in a close point of view :—
Englilb. Guns. Men.
Culloden 74 590
Thefeui 74 5,0
Alexander 74 590
Vanguard 74 595
Minotaur 74 640
Leander 50 343
Swiftfure 74 590
Audacious 74 590
Defence 74 590
Zalous 74 590
O'ioo 74 590
Goliah , 74 590
Mijeftic 74 590
Bellerophon ,4 590
La Mutine brig 14 100
J THE manifestation of the public joy
in consequence of Admiral Nelson's glo
rious viaory, great and unbounded as it
has been, is inadequate to express the
heartfelt emotions universally occasioned
by that brilliant event.
The attack of our fleet was the most
masterly it is pcffible to conceive. The
French ships were drawn up in a close
line of battle, with Springs upon their ca
bles, thus preferring a chain of batteries
against our ships—They bad moreover
Batteries on shore, and Gunboats to pro
ted their fl inks. Thus formidably post
ed, it seemed difficult to force them ; &
there is not a doubt bur the advantage
from the pofirion would have deterred a
fret of any other nation from hazarding
an attack, but they knew not the enter-
Prifiog spirit of the British Admiral, or
the undaunted courage ot his Officers &
men. Sir Horatio Nelson made the fig
nal for his fleet, as they led in, to get be
tween the French line and the fhore—lt
was in performing this Service that the
Culloden, our Van (hip, grounded-
Mortifying as this circumstance must
have been to the feelings of the gallant
Captain Troubridge, at such a crisis the
absence ofbis (hip was happily of no ma
terial disadvantage to the general refujt
of the aftion, though had ffie had her
share of it; commanded as the is, it is
probable that every one of the French 3
(hips would have been taken or burnt.
Os the duration of the action different
accounts have been received. It ap
pears, however, according to the most
corred statement, that it lasted nineteen
hours. jfe
By the manoeuvre offsetting between
the French ships and the shore, the Brit
ish came upon that file on which the
French were the leaf! prepared for ac
tion, and thus a very material advantage
was in the firft instance gained.
Admiral Nelson's Beet had to pass the
Enemy's gunboats and a battery of guns
and mortars on an inland in the van, as
well as to furl their fails, before they fir
eda (hot.
Further Particulars.
1026
8168
Bristol particularly distinguished itfelf
in the rejoicings on the late viaory,and
illuminated two days. Mons. Niou, the
French Commissioner for prifouers of
War, with two more of his countrymen,
were at the Bu(h tavern, during the
greatest part of the time Mr. Weeks,
the landlord of it, had the Englilb stand
ard hoisted over the tti-coloured flag,
displayed on his houfe.^
The following, we are told, is an accu
rate calculation of the distribution of the
prize-money resulting from Adm. Nel
son's vi&>ry :—Supposing that the nine
French (hips taken,fell for 20,000 k each,
they will produce the grots lum of 270,
cool.—of this, one-eighth goes to the
Flag Officers, viz. one tbird ofthe eighth
to the Commander in Chief, Earl St.
Vincents, and the remaining two-thirds
to Sir Horatio Nelson. The other Flag
officers, no. being present, have no right
to share. Thus of 270,000!. the fuppef
ed gross amount of the value of the priz
es,including head and gun-money, i-Bth
will be 33,7501. of which Earl St. Vin
cent gets 11,2501. and Sir Horatio Nel
son 22,5001. The Captans of the Fleet,
fifteen in number, (hare 2 fobs amongst
them. Which will make each individual
share of this rank 45001."
- . I* 11 ■-,,
COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court of Common Coun
cil was held at Guildhall, for the pur
pose of considering of an address to the
King on the late Naval Vidory ; present,
the Lord! Mayor, eight Aldermen, and a
great number of Commoner,.
His Lordship, on the opening of the
Court, called the attention of the Mem
bers to a letter he had received from the
viaorious Admiral Lord Nelson, aod a
sword, which bis Lord&ip presented to
the Court, and the letter was read, as
# follows;—4 ....... .... ' ... .
RuparJ, Mrabtf& Nile, 4% 8,
"MY LORD, . , .
"Hiriog the honour of being
a Freeman of the City of London,
1 take the liberty of fending to
your Lord (hip the (word of the
Commanding French Admiral,
Whatever differences of opinion may
subsist in this country, as to merit of this
or that Administration, a man must be
competed of strange materials, who does
not reflect with pride on the viaories of
Howe, Jervis, Duncan. and Nelson, by
which alone Twenty Eight fail of the
line were added to our Navy, and four
great hostile fleets rendered incapable of
executing their designs. There is no
parallel to this io the Hiftory of any Na
„tion.
"I have great fatisfaaion in acquaint
ing your Lordship, that the Hon. Capt.
Capel is this moment arrived with dis
patches from Rear Admiral Sir Horatio
Nelson, giving an account of his having
attacked the French Squadron under
Ad. Brueys near Rosetta, and of bis h„-
ing had the good fortune to obtain a
complete viaory over the enemy, with
out the loss of any one of his Majesty's
ships. I most sincerely congratulate
your Lordship on this important occasion,
and have the honor to be, with great re
gard, my Lord, your Lordfhip'# most 0-
bedient humble Servant,
^ SPENCER."
" The Right Hot. the Lea M,®r."
LONDON, OCT. 5.
Tofhow the zeal for Illumination, in
honour ot our late fpiendid vidor^, a
chaise left might paired through the town,
ih which were three ladies, with large
cockadeim their head dresses. The in
side of the chaise was lighted up, a poftil
lion wag on each horse # with flambeaux
in their hands, besides two out-riders, al
so carrying flambeaux."
There appears to have been a greater dis
proportion on our part in the number of
men, as our ships only carried 8,168, &
those of the Enemy 10,810, making a
difference against as of 2,642 men. -
^ The fpe&icle of the late naval engage
ment, which vast numbers of the Egyp
tians enjoyed from the shore, must have
(truck them with aftoniihmeot, and the
result of it muff have railed their ideas of
the English valour. Such 1 fight, awful
and terrific to every beholder, must have
appeared fomethtog supernatural to these
ignorant people ; and when they found
the English so completely victorious, they
would naturally conceive a kind of super
ftitious reverence for men who wielded
such dreadful thunder upon the most
untra&able ot all the. elements.
Admiralty-Office, Oa. 2.
" mt lord,
OCT. 12.
The fubferiprions at Lloyd's
for the benefit of the widows and
orphan# of the brave men who fell
in the late glorioui adioo, already
amount to upwards of 12,000!.
Subscriptions have also been open
ed in most of the principal towns
in England, for the fame patriotic
and benevolent objeft.
FRENCH ACCOUNT.
“ O# board Le Guillaume <&
66 Malta, August&
" The English attacked at io
the anchorage of &quitres, on the
ift of August about fix in the ev
ening; and of thirteen (hips and
four frigates, which composed our
force, eleven fhipt and two frigates
have remained on the fceoe of ac
tion, But had it not been for the
blowing up of the L'Orient. our
bravery compensating our defeire
g to umbra and ta&ici, would
have been (efficient to fink the
English along with ourfelvet, io
one common overthrow. The
Enemy have only fix (hips remain
ing in a Serviceable condition. I
assure you that never has thete
been a more dreadful combat, vh
were within lek than pistol foot of
each other.
" Our fleet confined of 13 (hip,
which were moored in a line, al
the distance of two-thirds of a ca
ble from each other, io the Roadi
OCT. It—ls.
It appear!, by private letter!
from Conftaotinople, as well ano
ther places in the Levant, that Bu
onaparte is obliged to intrench
himfelf in all the pofti he occupies
in Egypt ; that when his foldier#
leave the camp they were affuked
and mafcred ; that in different
places of the Tu'kilh Empire, the
mob has been with great difficulty
prevented from assailing the
French ; and that, previous to
measures of precaution being tak,
en, three or four Frenchmen were
affaffioated at Constantinople.
HORATIO NELSON."
The Right Hou. the
Lord Major of London.
The Court, previous to it# break
ing up, voted 5001. to the fubferip'
tion at Lloyd's, for the widows &
of those who fall in the Battle of
the Nile,
ti^— __
It is said that the packet inter
cepted by Lord Nclfou'i -fleer,
with dispatches from Buonaparte's
army and the French fleet,< to
France, amongst others contained
a letter from Adm. Broeys to the
Minister of Marine at Paris, in
which he describes the pofirion he
had taken with hit fleet, and the
difpuG ioni he had made, In the
cenclefion of hit letter he fays,
" that he confiders hit (ituauon so
impregnable that,-if the whole na
vy of England were to come to
the attack, they could make no
impteffian on hia line."
in consequence of the Culloden
getting aground, it fell to the lot
of Captain Foley, io the Goliath,
of 74 gum, to lead Lord Nelfon'#
fleet into action in the glorious bar
tie of the Nile.
(Mons. BUrquet) who forvived
after the battle of the rft cff the
Nile ; and request that the city of
London will honour me b, the
acceptance of it, as a remembraoce
that Britannia flill rues the wares :
which that she miy forever do, it
the fervent prayer of your Lord
fhip's most obedient fervent.