The National Register.
London, England, 1813-09-26 00:00:00

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d.o• is /1ad:4044i : the oitinly Of his position ts, I believe,
I. • t 14. 4rinl 1.41 been, a station of couipiderabie anxiety.
,•e• a re; fif r•;tm;taltirf amain! tile meanie') in the hi-mei:-
big b trrir4, twin the 28tis to the :41st of Aug. 1813. I have, &v.
(tiezned) GEORC•I.: R COLLIER, Captain
(The tett= mentions one seaman killed and tine wounded.)

TUESDA Y'S LONDON GA Z LTTE.
WIIITEHA4.I., SEPT. 'lt
Hi- Royal 1-Ll.oess the Pritite Re ge t has been pleased, in the
name !:,eba:fol his Ainje,•y. to appoint Ai PAinee,
One of ins Nve,iyi, Seijeanis at Law, to be 'hi,. Commissionct
to* the 11 lief of luso: Debtqr;, pursuant to an Art uassed in
the la,' :se•sim of Poiliiinient, " Au Act fur the Rciitl
of Debtors Ingiand.".

'lbis Gaze! e contains a Proclamation, by his Royallmess the
pi Met' Itvggilt.: CO' the farther Proroization of Parliament, from the
1"t t4tiu All 0:. Novvo)Of r, THEN TO BE HELD AND SlTjur the dis•
patch of a ieers urgent 11/14 iMportart niers.

This thriette ise emit ains a letter from the lamented Capt.
Majest) s sloop Vinecio, dated May 14, 1804, giving
the ,I,irtirat'ry..4' the tietion im which the Vinetjo was unfortu-
-ely compe end -to B:lvry:o'er to a very superior force of the enemy.
Capt.an W states, that while watching the movements of 'a
large scup corvette of the enemy .in Quiberon Bay, on the Bth of
May, the ship was becalmed at the month of the Morbihan river,
anti by the rane sLe wa:4 warped into a lair channel, he found him-
self pursued by a large division of the enemy's flotilla whirl' had been
perceived rowin Out Of the Morbian soon after she anchored. "By
' luth-past eight o'clock in the morning, the enemy had advanced
within extreme range, and opened their tire : they continued rapidly
gaining upon the snip, wind about half past nine, when they were so
War that I was compt•lled to sweep her broadside to, and engage
turoer the ereatest disadvantages the Vinetjo could possibly be ex-
pa-e1 to ; a pert; et• chilli), a strong flood title then made against her,
tie people Wigui d by hard labour at the oar, and divided during
th 4 C'l,lll, lie! WC/11 th' latißlarit runs and starboard sweeps. This
tretegnal contest was maintained with great animation and with fres
(Limn, dorms, by my v;ak but gallant ship's company, for nearly two
pours, within ai.ape and distance; the ship's hull, her masts,
-yards, mut riggiol:, had at length received great damage ; three guns
were disabled ; the tire was slack* ned, nctwithstanding every effort
to revive it, to one gun in about five minates, by the booms falling
• 'upon the main deck, and the flOwer of my men befog killed or
.nbontled„ In this painful situation, without a chance of escape, or
hope or saecor, closely pressed in a dead calm, by seventeen gmrves-
' sels, advancing to board with numerous troops ; with a crew reduced
to fitly efficient officers and seamen, including 17 boys, I might still
perhaps have opposed a momentary, though vain resistance to such
twit saperior force, butt felt it a duty I owed to my country to sur-
render in ti tie to preserve the lives of my brave men for some bet-
ter occasion."—After describing the praiseworthy conduct of his
officers and shia's t olipany, Captain WriOit Concludes as follows :
.4 Pinned out by my public services, as a peenliar object of the re-
sentment ofan ungenerous and migratefureneniy, I Must b-g leave
to recommend to your humanity the the. trouble of laying the claims
of tho,e untbrinnate men before the national coninvitte,"—[The
above letter was brought to England by Lieut. Wallis, First Lieutt.-
rant of the Vineeio, Who within these few weeks effected his escape
from French prison. Captain Wright died in the prison of the
!rumple at Paris, where he is understood to hare been secretly mur-
dered by order of Bonaparte.]

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