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London, England, 1809-11-30 00:00:00

VeNRCti cdrErrE rNILTORDIIO!4RY.

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Admirdty-Olice, horea.Nr Is 9, 14016 ti
The Honooratite Ueutettatitf Witham Wslde.4
grave, of the Ville defaris, arrived here this morn.;
ing with dispatches from Vtce.:4o:so,tral
,LOrd
lingo Cosmnander-io-Chief oblisoi,,Majefts7l.
ships anal vilosvla in the hlediterrancon, addressed
to the Hon. William Wellesley Pole, of which the
following are copies:—
Ville de Paris, off St. Sebastian,
October 30, 1509.

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Sta—B3. my letter of the 16th of Sept. Own- Lord-
ships would be informed of the intelligence I bad
received relative to the intended movements of the
French squadron, and of my reasons for changing
my station to St. Sebastian.
While on this station, 011 the night of the 2,2 d
instant, the Pornone joined, and Captain Ifarrie
( who, with indefatigable perseverance, had, with the
Alceste, watched the port of Toulon) informed
ter, that the day before, several of the enemy's
squadron had put to sea, that others were coming
out when he left them, and that there was every
appearance of the whole fleet being on the move
from the harbour. They had a uumerousconvoy
with them, and, as this movement was made with
the first of an easterly wind, there was little doubt

of their Ivisig hound to the westward. I jingle-

finitely made the necessary signals for the squadron
to he prepared for their reception, and placeil the
three frigates and sloop, Patriotic, Hydra, Volou-
taire, and Minstrel, to windward, to give orifice of
the enemy's approach.
Oa the following morning„• the 23d, soon after
eight o'clock, the Volontstre made the signal for
a fleet to the eastwarc. ; while they continued to
come dawn before the wind, po alteration wes
ittudr in the squadron, exrept by advancing two

fast-wiling ship•, the Tire end Bulwark. At ten,
the Pumone made the signal, tit the enemy had
hauled to the wind, and thO, Convoy separating
from the ships of war (wlttrl;44ewow discovered
to consiit of three ships: Of the line only, two fri.
gates, two smaller frigates, or gore-ship% mart
convoy of about twenty' sail of vowels) rartAlea
Rear-Admiral Martin to clikse diem, and
the btst-sailing ships, which, at ending on etustrary
tacks, might take advantage of the changes of the
wind, win( h was then vanable.
At two p. ta. the Poinotte havin got far to
windward, was directed by si;lial to destroy ~tech

of the convoy as could be come op watt ; ■nd in the

evening she burnt two brigs, two bombards, and a
ketch. The enemy before dark was out of sight, '
and the ships chasing net much advanced were
standi!ig to the Nortliwurd ; while the squadron
with me stretched to the Southward. The next
Intuiting neither the French nor our own chasing
ships were in sight.
This morning Rear-Admiral Martin joined with
his thei.iion, as named in the margin°, liming again
fallen in with the enemy on the 24th, off the en-
trance of the Winne, and on the they chased
?limn on short; the Robust,of ti 4 guile, bearing the
lag of Rear-Admiral Doudain, and the Leon, of
74, off Frontegnaii, were the day followin; set
are to by themselves. The Itorke, of 74 guns, and
II frigate, ran on shore at the entrance of the-purt of
Cette, where there is httle probability of either of
them being saved. .•.
I cannot sufficiently egpress the high sstisfaction
I have felt at the intrepid perseverance of Rear.
Admiral Martin, and of the.captains of the ships
who were with him in the pursuit. Nothing less
ardent, or less skilful, would have produred a result
so fortunate, where the coast near the abone is ex-
eeedingly shoal and dangerous, so that some of the
ships were in five and six fathom water. the *tether
thick, and the south-east wind blowing strong.
I inclose to you, Sir. Rear-Admiral Martin's
letter; and beg to congratulate their Lorships on
three great ships of the enemy being thus destroy-
ed, without the smallest resistance on their part,
or a dint being fired by the British ships, except a
few by the Tigre at the Boric, when shoves push-
ing ashore at Cette ; of their two frigates, the Po-
mone and Pauline, one hauled her wind some time
in the night, and fetched into Marseilles road.
The other part of the French squadron are found
to remain in Toulon by the ships which have since
examined that port.
I have the honour to be, ke.
(Signed) CuLLINGWOOD.

Canopus, at Sea, Oct. .27, tang.

. .
/I'r Loan—ln obedience to the signal fur the
Canopus to chase E.N.E. I stood that way the
whole of the night of the 123 d, and the following
day, in company with the Renown, Tigre, Sultan,
Leviathan, and Cumberland ; in the evening, four
sail were seen, to which we immediately gave chase,
arid pursued them till after dark ; alien, from shoal
water, and the wind bring direct on the shore, near
the entrance of the Rhone, it become necessary to
keep to the wind during the night. The following
morning, the gatle, the same ibipa were again seen,
arid chased between Cette and Frantignan, where
they ran an shore ; two of them (an eighty gun
ship, bearing a Bear-Admiral's flag, and a seventy-
four) at the latter place, and one sine of the line

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