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Merit of Austrian troops, under the cominant.tof
Lieutenant-Colonel Baron iturtitrk. The gar-
, Thum, consisting of one hundred und seventy wept,
was compelled to .urreader.at aiscr..tiOd:afte(oomb
-opposition to the attacks of thetillifalilitlestatiim:
the greatest gallantry was disj,iaylftC kstiotriedatteri.
and in which they had only thr. e' men "orMuldeek..
The conduct of LieutenantsWilles'ard Baniugorat.
of the Spartan, act! LtruLenunt Fikviii; of -thEiesnast
rine% is particularly noticed by L' ittkihist
Lord Collingwooa has also inelosefleu flitter frber
Captain Buller, of the t'olontasre. 41;1144'1M
count of the destruction • of Fort Rums, ohill'he
coast of France, and the capture of live vAiels
which it protectid, by the boats of the above bill 1).
under the command of Lieutenant Sli.tw, of whu.e
gallantry Captain Bullet) speaks in high praise. On
the side of the English there were only twri4roirint. '
• •J; the enemy hit live ktiled end eight wounded.
• Vide.ds-Piiiis, off Tonto*, July 16, tangs
Sea-1I ivio4 ry• hy the E.,p,nr. A letter
fro-n dated the 2il instant,
giving a'detail of tie proceedings of the squadron
unde. Ins orders, in their co-operation with the
B itish and Sicilian army, which informs me of
their having landed on. and taken possession of, the
isl Ands of Ischia and Procida. where thi. enemy
male but little opposition; I have. the honour to
transmit Rear.Adrairal Martin's letter, by which
their Lordships will be fully informed of what oc-
curred on this service.
A numerous flotilla of gun-boats, which acre
collecting from Gaeta, and other parts of the coaA.
were *thicken by the,Cyane. &poi'', and the Bru-
tish cud Sitillati guieheats, when about forty of
them were taken or destroyed. Ti'n Cyane was
afterwards with other dive-ions of vita-
baits, the liatirries ow 'bore, which protected
them. at our of Which Captain Shaine., on the Atli.
landed, sior•ned it and Atistrovai the guns.
An the 37th, the Italian frisate, of forty rum.,
and a corvette, which were making their e*Cellei,
trout Baia to Naples, were attacked by the Crum ;
alrli•eigh assisted by all the batteries as she went
s nevi Isl. was with west difficulty she got
int* the Mott st Naples. It is represented to me
eintlJ exceed the gillmtry which was
distillaytit by Lutitain Suitors in all these several a.
tack'., in which lie was for three (ley% taint oit li
tie interruption by most) engaged in a suoces,io•
of battles. I sun sorry to add, thAlt'lle is grieleon ly
wounded, having lost his left aria, and receisen
mull injury in other parts of thee bride. L.eutr,,
rant tl ill, the seiner Lieutenant, was Ohio megrelv
wounded. on the last der ; aa the Secoutl },mateboat had !wen disalded )surfers, theship sowt.later.)
fssus:lit and mini :tea by eke isasste,r, who ;unpin-
ted h. .t •If cc a brave anti good officer. The reep
port of kilt.: roiled. I tuctoee.
Asthe C'•neh.. ni',r.•!i much in liesliu'l.
Masts, and other real I heti•,• sent orders fer
her to proceed to Eartrind iie t tiro !. .r •
I hare the honour to be, Bte.
ettitteoweoo. I
tt, Hue W. V.' Pole. • e
110 Ceisepats, tll iii li..n S.E cad of
tl»d tsniitneledlie,-,sy nt nem.
Tile Lotto-1 have the tionoliVtii isetiumin. /..
Lordship that 111 slikd from 11 latdo auiblssa 111.4 si.
Jule, in company with His Mairsitv's alhipatiinyij
Wurrifir,CTlMON•ll4l &spear: a1;411,.jr,0,00; clay
I detached the with fone'tr...iripert.,:ypti-
tin •ing two reginteing Otriotry. lertnelllAir Jams
Stuart wished to be lsi.aea on 'qt.• toast of Cats
bra. fn the porposc ni destroying tue
and of iirirlertuking the :acts. of S t its,
should it be foiled prartieabilifl'll apitett,ilrd
with the remainder of tile tiunlieft-,
Ike. amounting sat the whole to Otie'lliel.nlO a end
thirty-torts- sad, it' St. Uremia, awl
close along thicoast of Calebritt, in the hope of i
divertiug• the Atte.llootl of the twiny from Lower
Ca,aiiris. alai of enabling the
by the Genera!, to etfoci theourpme for
which they were sent. For fair modyteglayp it was
uteri calm; and the whole expe.lition nuntiatiod
iu sight of Calab:ta. Out the 15th, the sh4iii, and
transports froth Palermo, amounting to 11104(11 one
hundred sail, accum.inunied by two Seciliau frigate,.
said the Alt-este. yarned us; his Royal Hglioeur
Pi nice Leopokl vois on boartl one of Hi, Sic hall Sir-
jr,ty'd frigates, and LimitenaluaGelieral Beer-
turd, appointed to command the Sicil au transmit
employed on this expedition, in the other. Sir
John Stuart. upon being jointal by this farce, es.
presyr.l it desire that General llourcard stionld
cuntinue. with his division, on the toast of Cala
brio, and actnelly put some men oil *bore to effect
a diversion, and that in tint memo tone we yhoolrl
proceed with the British and Skelton troo:is, which
had veiled with us from fdetasso, to make au at-
tack on the Island's of Ischia aria Procida. On the
e4th.l anchored with the whole of the ships to the
northward of the said islands; end, on the morning
of the 2stti, a landing was effected on the i-laid of
under cover of 1-14 Majesty's ships Wa riur
aid Success, and His Sicilian Majesty's sloop
Ltooe. with several Sicilian moil English wun-
boats, without the loos of a single man, god the
whole taken possession of, except a strong insu-
lated castle, off nip south-east part of the island,
which did not surrender till the Ist instant. after
batteries hid been erected until opened aghast it.
The island of Procida capitialeed on the evening,
of the 45th ; mad that night l recteire,l hiformatiou
that a flotilla of gun-hoots. &c. was coming frogs
(Is At:, along shore; in consequence of.which. the
few :rim •Isoats nein us were detached in that direts‘
and it day-light of the e2tith, the flotilla,
amounting to forty-seven sail, was seen. and a sig-
nal made to Captain Stain'., of the I.7.yane (whoin
1 had b..firre detached to the yonthward of Ischia
prweid I, with the E.peir and genie of the Ski-
I • ..1 gun-boats, to endeavoier to hinder reinforce-
....goy and supplies being thrown into those islands),
to pievrut the gun-boats from entering the Bay of
Naplea.• Captain Staines executed that service
with the same ability and jun.onegt Which he his
sh-wit upon every other occasion and, by turning
the gun-boat's, and preventing' their rousding the
point of Beige. they were binned to tictilin by the
Sicilian and English gun-busts, supported by the 111
Ciliate gni Espoireand eighteen of them (ftorn-boots)
taken and four destroyed. No language which
1 ?.,11 master of. can convey to your Lordship an
adequate idea of the gallantry, yisdriteat. and
good conduct displayed by Caption &mom Froth
the time of our arrival before the Boy Of Naples, he