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FROM L.4ST NIGHT'S G.I2LTI E.

Admire.lty.O.fire, Julie 2. ISO".
Cory of • Int.,. tom Admiral Loud Car,lner to Wimam
M.r,d-n, Esq. dyed an Town, May 30, 1447.
SIR—I desire you will please to lay beinre their
Lordships the inclosed letter, which I received by
this post, from Captain Drummond, of the Dryad
(addressed to me as Commander in Chief on the
Irish station), giving an account of the capture.
by His Majesty's snip Amethy•t, with the Dryad
and Plover sloop in corniiany, of the French
schooner privateer Josephine,

I have the honour .
60, Ste. (;Allt
Dryad, at Sys. %Tay IS, 1607
. . . .

l.Sv LORD—Being in company with as Ma
jesty's slips Amethyst and Plover, Scilly beating
E. N. F.. twenty leagues, I made elie former ships
signal to r zamine a strange sail in the isi. W. which
she captured, and proved to be the J-sephine,
French schooner privateer. mounting' four two-
pounders, and a proportion of small arms, mannetl
with forty-five men, ten of whom were put on board
the Jane, of Greenock, from Lisbon, the only cap-
ture she had made. She sailed from the Isle de
Bas on the ..sth of April.
I am, ADA.% Dk4;M:4OPID.
To the Right Hon. Admiral lAA (;,,rdner.
Commander to Chief, &c. am. at the

Co•e of Cork.
Copy of a Letter from Cat.t.rin &brawl Chetlmm, Commander
.1 Hit Majesty'. armed this Sally, to Wllli'm Afar-den,
datrd in the Farr Water, near Uall!t.C, April g), illo7.
Si.—! have she honour to inclose you, for the
information of the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty, a Copy of a Letter I have trAnsmitted
to Admiral Lord Keith, respelling my proceedings
since quitting Elsineur, which I hope wall meet
their Lordships approbation.
I have the honour to he, &c.
E. Cots rnassi Commander.
His Majeure" armed Opp Sall7i Fair Water.
sear Dowser, April to, ISO/.
Nv Loan—l have the honour to:inform you of my
arrival here with His nije..ti's arased ship Chalet,

Capt. gephene, on the I.2th net. the Falcon sloop
of war having joined us on the same day. His Es.
eellenry General K areut t su.peBing that the ene-
rdy would be supplied with pluviiions by sea, I or-
dered the Charles to erniie between llo.r ITild and
Daft is clay, to inteteept any such vesseli. Having
sugge,ted to his Excellency the alvernor, the utih•
ty of having a sl-ip in the Fair \Voter, a place at
considerable importance. and which had been fre-
quently attacked by the enemy, it met his warmest
approbation, and I Wee' honoured with his thanks
for having anticipated his Wish on this occasion. 1
accordingly brought my ship in the Fair Water, on
the frith, and moored her ins linking position, on
ay. Isthmus, which the enemy woreld be obliged to
pass, in order to make an attack thereon. On the
following day, ending the communication stopped
between Fait Water and 'the city of Dantzic. the
enemy havi.ig posted themselves oath?. I-ft bank of
the River Vist-la, called the Nehrung, I deter ru;net.i
to endeavour to fore* a communication, anal by
great ese.i films on the part of my officers and ship's
company, I got the shop lightened that evening. so
as to enable her to heave through the Sluice, the
mouth of the River Vistula.

At half pest six p. in. on the same day, I com-
menced aatan with the enemy at the Great Hol-
landu, nn the Nehrung, who opposed to us a very
strong force of musketry, supposed to be about
two or three thousand men, in their in:renchments,
and sheltered by the ruins of houses lately burnt,
and three pieces of artAlery, assisted by a small
battery on the right bank of the river, called the
Legan. The aftion continued within pistol-shot
until nine o'clock, when several of our gna•breech-
ings being shot and carried away, and having no
wind to maintain our poaition. I endeavoured to
get the srarbaard broadside to bear upon the enemy
but without effkt, the current setting do•.vn. I
then hauled down the river to resume my position
at the Fair Water. The gallant conduct of my ofA-
errs and seamen was such as ever charaaeriats
British seamen. and though my eff•mts were not
completely successful, from the wind failing us, I
have the sativailinn of saying, that it appear. to
have a good effril in inspiring the inhabitants here,
and at the city, with additional energy and lon-
fider.ce in the cause which we ere engaged in,
and I hays been henoured with a very amdsUme
and Hutt ult.; letter from his Ercellency Gsneral
Kalkretith, Governor' ^f Dantzic, on this occasion,
in which I am happy to have anticipated his views.
lam set: y to add, that my loss has been considera
ble, having nay First-Lieutenant and nearly half
my ship's company wa=ded by the incessant fire
of mt.sketry, mizen-mast shot though, sails and
rigging much cut, and upwards of a tbousand
musket shots in the hull.

Malmo of the tinemr. by every information we
can obtain, is hetween 400 and 500 men, in killed
and woun:!ed, besides one Piece of artillery, cam.
pletely dismounted, which was also observed from
the ramparts.
1 must beg leave to mention the fli.eltl of my
officers, whose conduct gave me much satisfanicr.
Lieutenant Eastman, who was wounded; Limn -
nant Young; Mr. Ellsworth, the Master; Mr. Ll-
phinst..ne, a volunteer, who, on every occasion, has
afrordrd me much assistance ; ('.lptain Saunders ;
Mr. Oldfield. First Lieutenant ; a;ld Mr. Jemmott,
Purser c f His Majesty's sloop FAlcoa, handsomely
vohmteeted their services on this occa.ion.
I have the honour to be, &c.

( Signed) E. Cu ETIII A M.
llif Majesty . armtd .;,sk, SA,
LIST OF THS WOUND! D.

11:4,1'r, but nut clangeruu•—Ei4natenant Eastman; Ur. Eller;
'dolmas Clietnin an, Thomas kna,nson, ILniel (;4141,„

James John.t..ne Hugh Ross, Witham Robson, 4.1. iv..;
Walter, and Charles Gerrard.
Dangerously—William Bell, James Fraser, and James
Ealing
Slightly...W. Pattern; Ralph Gregory, Thomas Wright,

i'ho'rna4 Crih,r, and it,ht Cal Lit 1:.
To the Klett II ~t. Kotth, &c.

MILITARY P ;I\lollo'4'S.
llor•tVee, .14.3 e 2, 1.07.
Ist Welt I •dra Regiment—M.lot Samuel 11,w4°Itnn, f•nsn
the sth Font. to he Lreutenaot•Orlonel, pure' Jos
nth deb.—Major J. Srasw Sun tla, • .at the 5., lit Fr.. rt, I. be
Lieutenat without pwch,..e.
7th rlAttr—Mainr Jnlrrs Cameron, (tom the 4.5.1 Foot,
eituont pureh..e.
STAFF.
Colonel James Taylor, of the I 2th Foot, :" Commatrelant
at the Anne Depot in the Isle of Wrght.
Lie,rtenarst•Co onel John James Marlow. on Halipay, to be
Coatmanda.“ at Kartatlo, %,c..