The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-11-07 00:00:00

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Such a battle could not be fought without sus
talning a great lois of men. I hare not only to !A-
mem, in common with the Br;!is!! Navy, and t
British Nation, in the fail of the Commander ii,
Chief, the loss of a Hero, whose name will be im-
mortal, and his memory ever dear to his country ;
bgt my he tit is rent with the msst poignant grie•
for the death of a friend, to wh .en, by many yeat's
intimacy, :tad a perleft kuowlesige of the virtues of
his mind, which i spired ideas supervirsto the com.
mon race of men, I was by the strongest ties
of afFeelion ; a grief to which even the glorious
occasion in which he fells does not bring the conso-
lation which perhaps it ought ; his Lordship receiv-
ed a musket ball in his left breast, about the middle
of the :OM% and sent an Olitcor to me immedi-
ately, with his last fardweil; and soon after expiied.

I have al) to Lou •nt the lots of those e xcelle

Officers. Captains Ditff of the Mars. and Cooke of
the Belleroph ; 1 have yet heard of none others.
I fear the numbers that have fallen will be tound
very great, when the returns come to me ; but it
having bl.,wn a gale of wind ever since the adlion,
!have not yet had it in my power to eolith any
ipperts from the ships.

The Royal Sovereign having lost her masts, ex-
cept the tottering foremast, I called the Euryaius
to me, while the action continued, which ship lyi ig
within hail, made my signals ; a service Cap:ain
Blackwood performed with great attention. After
the aStion, I shifted my flag to her, that I might
inure easily communicate my orders to, and coiled
the ships, and towed Lb"! Royal Sovereign out to
seaward. The whole fleet were now in a very
perilous situation, many dismasted; all shattered, in
thirteen fathom water, off the shoals of Tra-
falgar ; and when I made the signal to prepare
to anchor, few of the ships had an anchor to let
go, their cables being shot; but the same good
Providence which aided us through such a day, pre.
served us in the mght, by the wind shifting a few
points, and drilling the snips off the land, except
four of the captured dism tired ships, which are now
at anchor off Trafalgar, and I hope will ride safe un-
:il those gales are over.

Haviog thus detailed the proceedings of the Fleet
on this oczasion, I be to cortgratnlgte their I.prd-
ship, on a via., y, which, I hope, W;il:tid a r.iy to
the glory of His Majesty's Crown, and b.: atteadrd
with public benefit to our Country. I am, &c.
(Signed) C. CoLsiiitswooo.
tv,tFlin Mar.de.l,

The 00-der in whirl fir Shot of the eprit..h Sguatlron
ottecAed the Co•ndmed Keels on the 21st of Onro-
her, 1805 :
VAN.
Vintery.
Temeraire.
Neptune
Conqueror.
Leviathan.
Ajax.
o ion.
Agamemnon.
M rotator.
Spartiate.
!Stamm's.
Africa.
Furyalos.
Ph m. 0..
Pickle Icho,r•er.
F.:sire:no/Lne Cutter.
(s.gned)

PEAR.
Royal Sovereign.
Marv.
Rol lei4e.
Tonoant.
Bellerophon.
CAUSSUI.
Achille.
P..ly phein us.
eve:ige.
Serfteuie.
Deknce.
Thunderer.
Defiance.
Prince.
Dreadnought.

C. SOLLINGWOO D.

GENERAL IL/AUER.
Eurydlus, Om 22, •tisoo.
The ever-to-be-lamented deatltsif Lord Viscsiunt
Ne'son, Duke of Biome. the Cornmander-in•Chief,
who fell in the adtion of the 81st, in the arms of
Vidory, covered with glory, whose memory will be
ever dear to the British Navy, and the British
Nation, whose zeal for the honour of his King, and
for the interests of his country, will lie ever held up
as a shining example for a British seaman, leaves to
inz a duty to return my thanks to the Ri;;ht Hen.
Rear-Admiral, the Captains, Officers, Seamen, and
detachments of Royal Marines, serving on board
His Majesty's StilAdrOng now unizr my command,
for their conilud on that day ; but where can I find
language to express my sentiments of the valour
and skill which were displayd by the Officers, the
anJ Marines, in the battle with the enemy,
where every individual appeared an hero, on whom
-he glory of his country depended; the attack
was irresistible, and the issue of it adds to the page
of our naval annals, a brilliant instance of what Bri-
tons can do, when their King and their Country
need their service.
To the Right lion. hear-Admiral the Earl sf

so strongl► marks the spirit of British ssT
men, when engaging the eileniies of their country
that I cann't resist the plessnre I hare in making ;'
known to their Lordships; the 71wzr.riee vrai beard-
ed by accident, or design, by a French s ip, on on.
side, and A Spani tr 1 nn ;he other; the cont :cc IN 45
•1gr.1011% but, in the en.l, the combined Ensign
were torn from the p and the British hoisted in
their paces.