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when L 4 Sabina, of 40 guns, 211 eighteen -reindeers
on her main deck, and 286 men. commanded by
Captain Don limbo Stuart, struck to Le Minrrre.
Captain Preston in La Ilamehe silenced the ship he
had engaget, but could art effeft possessioi., owing
to three mare shias heaving in sight.
On the 1,9-h of January, 1797, Commninre Nel-
son sailed in / e M nere, from Porto Ferrajn,
nn
is return to join Sir John Jervis; have,a • o ',AAA 1
Sir Albert Elhat (now Lord Minter), late Viceroy
of Corsica, with Limiter% int Colonel Drink*, titer,
and others of Sir G. Ellint's suite ; aft r recon-
noitring the prine'pil ports of the enemy in the
Mediterranean. the Commodore arrived at GlSral-Ar
a few days alter the Spanish fleet had passed
through the Straits from Catthreeena.
Itnpuieat to join Sir .10'..1 Jervis, the Commo-
dore remained eel,/ one day et Gibraltar ; and, ors
the de...wealth of February. in araceeeLng thence to
the Westward, to the 'see of rendezvoits, he was
chased hy Pw9 Spanish 'in- of battle ships, And
in with their whole flie, riff the month of the Straits.
The COMM,: !it! , :,11:1101 effeAnd hi; estapt.,,
and j.iined e &elevreval Weeper Sc Vincent, on
the theft ...nth of February ; just in time to commu-
nicate intelligence relative to the force and state
of the Spanish fleet ; and to shift his pendant en
board his fmarcer ship the Crpt.ritt, 7; gun., Ralph
W. Miller, Eq. Commander.
Commodore Nelson had not removed from La Mi..
weer. to the Ceu'stnsmail minutes, when, on the
Owning of the same day, the signal was thrown out
for the British Seat to prepare for anion ; the ships
were also dire:led to keep in close order during the
night.
In the month of April, 1797, Sir Horatio Nelson
hoisted his flag, as Rear-Admiral of the Blee, and
was detached to bring down the garrison of Porto
Ferr..jo. On the twenty-seventh of May, he shifted
his Sig from the Cepeein, to the Thereto. sad was
appointed to the command of the inner squadron at
the blockade of Cadiz. During this service, his
personal courage, if possible, was more conspicuous
than at any other period of his former services. In
the attack on the Spanish gun-boats (July efit third.
1797), he was boarded in his barge, with only its
usual complement of ten men, am' the coxswaia,
accompanied by Captain Freemanile.
The Commander of the Spanish gun-boats, Tien
Miguel Tyras.m. in a barge rowed by twestrtir
n,,rv, having Airty men, leading o.fcers made a most
desperate effort to overpower Sir Horatio Nelson,
and his heave companions. The coniflid was long,
and doubtful; they Might hand to hand with their
swerds faithful coxswain, John Sykes, was
w inede .1 in def listing the A ; and twice
saved his life, by parrying several blows that were
aimed at him, and mortally wounding his adver.a-
ries. Eighteen if the Spaniards being killed, the
Cornmataint aria all the rest wounded, the Reit-
Admiral, with hiegallaut barge's qtewssocceeded in
carrying th's superior rorce.
During the night of the fifth of July, Sir Ho-
ratio Nelson ordered a second bombardment pf
Cadiz, which prbducerf considerable effect on the
town. and among the shipping.
On the ft:teen:ls of July, he was detached with a
small squadron, to make a vigorous artieck on t! -e
torso Santa Cruz, in tl"e island of TellesifTi'.
nn his arrieil before the town.
-lost no time in direlting a thousand men, including
marines, to be prepared for landing from the ship.,
under the direftion of the hrave.Captain Troubridge,
:eir his Majesty's ship Culloden, and Captains
- Hood, Thomson, Fieemantle, Bowen, Miller, and
Waller, who very handsomely volunteered their
services. The boats of the eistadron were
accordingliy manned, and the landing was ef-
teCted in the course of a dark night. The party
were in full possession of the town of Santa Crux,
for about seven hours. Finding it impraltieable to
storm the citadel, they prepared fcr their retreat.
which the Spaniards allowed them to do unmolested,
agreeable to the stipnlations made with Capthin
Troubridge. Sir !Immix) Nelson in this attack lost
his right arm by a cannon shot; and no less than
two hundred and forty six gallant officers, marines,
and seamen. were killed, wounded, and drowned.
The life of Sir Horatio Nelson was providentially
saved by Lieut. Nisbet, his son-in-law, on this Ms-
astsous nigh.; the Admiral received his wound soon
sifter the detachment had landed, and, while they
were pressing on wilt the usual ardour of British
seamen, the shock caused him to fall to the grenin„
where, for some minute , he was left to himself ;
til Mr. Nisbet missing him, had the presence I
naiad to return ; wh.n, after some search in the dark,
he at length found h s brave father•in-law weltering
in his blood on t c gr turd, with his arm stiatiei
and himself apparen Iv laeless. Lieutenant Nish-'t
having immediately applied his neck-hanakerchict,
as a tourniquet, to the Adtn ril's arm, carried hem
on his hack to the heach ; err. with the easist.lece
of sow, s, h' conveyed him into one of the
boats, slid Nlt off to the nester, under a trentenilottii,
though ill-direOed fire, from the enemy's battery. •
On the nineteenth of Decerfiteer, 17a7. the kis
that was intended for Sir Horatio Nelson's Kg,
not tieing ready, the Veingaird was ftr this purp se
commissioned. On the tirst of April, 1798, b
sailed with a convoy irons Spithead; huts at dm
back of the Isle of Wish:, the wind veining to the
%westward, he was forced to return to Sr. .
On the ninth he again sailed, with a t onvoy to Lis-
bon ; and, on the e9th of Apnl, joined Earl at.
Vincent, off Cadiz.
On the 50th of April, the day following, Sir H
ratio N:lson was detached from h".arl St. Vincent,
with the Verreami, Orton, and Alexertelre. of ;4
guts each, the klntrald Lid Terpsidatrt frigates, and
La Ba.:nr Crtoeetree sloop of war ; and was Attu.
wards joked by the brave Captain Troubridge, _
the Cot/odes, with ten sail of the line.
The subsequent anions of this great man's We.
are traced in such indelible charahers on :he hearts
of Britons, that they need little from his biographei,
but the grateful tribute of admiration and =wet,