The National Register.
London, England, 1811-09-29 00:00:00

THE. NATIONAL REGISTER.

A List of Officers and Men belonging to his Majesty's Ships
• and Vessels undermentioned, killed and wounded in Action
with the Enemy's Flotilla c •Boulognes'on the 21st of Septem-
ber, 1811. -'
NAIAD, CAPTAIN Celtrearr.---.John RUSS, tearnen, killed;
lames ',raper, seamen,'"ditto ' • Lieutenant William 'Morgan,
royal marines, slightly wounded; Mi. James Dover, midship-
man, ditto ;
.Richard Lovet, sailinaker, severely wounded;
William Black, seeinen, ditto • John Wise, quarter-master,
ditto; John Leece, seaman, ditto ; JOlin Tully. lanchnan, ditto ;
Damliei Francis, landman, Sitto • illiam Jones, Captain of the
aftifr-guard, slightly wounded. ; Williallot Hodges, seaman, ditto ;
John Holston. seaman, ditto; James Wall (•2), seamen, ditto;
Daniel Harley, seaman, ditto; EdWard Humphries, seaman,
ditto.
REDPOLIL, CAPTAIN IVEACDONA LD.--NtmC killed or wounded.
CASTILIAN, GAP raiN EcrAimEs.-0-I.ieittenant Co!,b, first
lieutenant, killed ; • John Collett, la:eh:tan, severely wounded.
• RINALDO) CAPTAIN ANDERSON.—Mr. John Stewart, pilot,
Wohnded.
This Gazette also contains an Extract of a Letter from Vice-
' Admiral Edward Pellew, Bart. Commander in'Chief of
Ink Majesty's Ships and Vessels in the Mediterranean, to
John I.Wilson Croker, Esq. dated on board the Caledonia,
itrl Hieres Bay, 17th August, 1811, Which encloses the fol-
lowing:
Ilis Isllajestv's Ship Thames, off Porto Del
lefreschi, July 21,1311.
SlR—Capt. Clifford, of the CephalUs, having the look-out off
Palermo, on the 20th inst. informed me b./ a Sicilian privateer,
of a convoy of 2(1 sail attempting to 'gain that port, w Inch he,
wish his usual activity, preentud them' froei doing, and com-
pelled them to take shAter in Porto del Infrescht, off which
place we arrived at five this evening. Y inxelately: desired
Captain Clifford to lead in and anchor. which. service he per-
formed in a most handsome style, and was closely fullowed by
this 511:p, woo soon Silenced it gun-boats, and an armed fchicca
carrying six 18 pounders, two [2-pounder car ronades, three
brass and two iron six-poutiders, and•2['p men, moored across
for t!e protection of 1. merchant vesselii, ai.d SG spars for the
lirie;of-battle ship and frieate at Naples, t.nd under cover of a
found. t94V, and the adjacent hills lined frith musketeers from
the merchantmen and peasantry. The Marines were then land-
ed under their. Lietiteeaet, M'Adarn, and got possession of the
tower. pet forthing•lli;.: lil'ht infantry manauwes in a very pretty
style, taking an offs; :r end [e.) iris nets, and (h.:iv:nig the rest be-
fore them.; the boats, at the :,Sine thne, unde•r Capt. Clifford,
took posseezion of the convoy, togs ;h-er with all the spars, ex( opt
two, which could net be got ofr, t.‘1,1 of were alongsile,
tied the ships tinder vv•ich in less than hours, without-. the
loss of one/mat., aU 1 nraiv tee b=atSwain and another man badly,
amid titri e• of the brig's :an slightky; v.4,p.tidetl: on entering the-
-1141 her 'sails anti rigging were a good dea! -cut up. -1 he whole
of the ei4,:ts compally behaVell• iii tvce,t stew ly
inantier ; \Vlnch ever reflects the greaest crr.c.4t un my preeiv-
eegsdr,.Capl. Waldegratie, for the excellent di,ictiq:ne on hoard.
Capt. Clifford • fikeiVlse speaks in the highest terii[s. of his Fist
Lieutenant, Richardson,officers, and c-ew.
• • I haVe the henonr to be, &c.
(!iigneo '• -
Rear-Admiral Boyles, e,t6
An account of the Gen-beats and. Convoy of Merchant Vessels
• captured by his iVeij,sty's 1-hip Thames, C: hark s Napier, Esq.'
Captain, and his Ma, sty's Sloop Cephalus, A. 'N. J. Ciifferd,
Commander, on rite Criatt of C.Jabeia, July 21, 101.
Total -captured-1.1 gun-vessels, 1 arined felucca with oil, 14
telut cas, &c. tnerel[ithianerl-25.
Ihirty-six large spars for the line-of-battle ship and friate zrt

RAPIER.

tIL-structiOn; ott itie lett; of June last, in the onlpli ,of
Poli-
Castro, of ten large armed feluccas, on their way trom Pizzo to
Naples, by a detachment landed from the Thames and Cepl'.alus;
under the direction of LieUtenant Whiteway. In the perform-
ance of this service, one midshipman (Mr. Cornwall) and two
men only were wounded.
Vice-Admiral Sawyer, Commander in Chief on flee coast of
North America, has transmitted to John V'il3un Crok„er, Esq.
a letter from Captain Muicaster of the giving an ac-
count of his having caTtured the French brig letter of marque
:'Adele, pierced for 16 guns, only two mounted, with thirty-
five men, boUltd from Charlestown to 'Mantes, with a cargo of
COtt4ll.

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