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London, England, 1801-11-16 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Nov. r 4.

Admiralt.).-o.ffice, ATo-7_,e7nbet: 14., 1801.

from .
'Copy of a Letter- fro the Right Honourable Lord
Keith, Admiral of the :Blue," &c. to E4;an Ne-
pal:, Esq. dated Foudroyant, Bay of Aboukir,
"September zd, rSor.
SIR;
. .
I have the honour and satisfaction of acquainting
you, for the information of the Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty, that the important ob-
jet of this Expedition is fully accomplished ; a Ca-
pitulation (of which a copy is inclosed) has been
this day signed, providing for the delivery to -the
Allies, to-morrow, of the Enemy's entrenched
Camp on the Eastern side of Alexandria, and the
Fort Triangulaire, and other important posts on
the Western side ; and for that of the Town itself,
the public effeds, and the shipping in the Harbour,
at the expiration of ten days, oh sooner, if the
Enemy's Troops can be sooner emb:irked ; as soon
as I can obtain returns of the ships and effeds, they
shall be transmitted to you. The merchant yes-
sels.are very numerous, and one old Venetian ship
of the line, with the French Frigates Egyptienne,
Justice, and Regeneree, and some Corvettes, arc
known to be in the Port.

Theis Lordships will not fail to have observed
from my former details, the meritorious condo& of
the Officers and Men who have been from time to
time employed on the various duties which the de-
barkation of the
.Army, and a co-operation with
them has required. Though opportunities for bril-•
liant exertion have been few since the Bth of March,
the desire for participating in it has been unremit-.
ted. But the nature of this Expedition has. de-
manded from most of tilt/Officers and Seamen of the
Fleet, and particularly from those of the Troop Ships,
Bomb Vessels,
.and Transports, the endurance of
labour, fatigue,. and privation far beyond .what I
have witnessed before, and which I. verily believe
to have exceeded
~all former example; and it has
been encountered and,surmounted with A degree of
resolution and perseverance Which merits my highest
praise, and gives both Officers and den a just claim
to the prdtection of their Lordships, and the appro-
bation of their Country. The. number of, Officers
to whom I owe this tribute of approbation, does
not admit of my mentioning them by :name, but
most oi• the Captains of the Troop Ships Jiave been
employed in. the stipetintendance of these duties,
and I have had repeated and urgent oars' Of volun-
tary service frOm all. -The Agents for Transports
have, condoeted theniseives With laudable diligence
and aetivity in the serVice of the several' depart--
ments to which they are -attached, and displayed
the greatestexerlion and ability in overcoming the
numerous ;difficulties which they had to con-
tenth • '

The Captains and Commanders. of the -Ships ap_
pointed for guarding the' Port, have executed that
tedious and anxious duty 'with diligence and suc-
cess ; during—my absence from the Squadron the
Blockade has been eonduded much to my satisfac-
tion by Rear-Admiral -Sir R. Bickerton; and jus-
tice requires me to mention, that I was with,
the Squadron Captain Wilson of the TruSty was
unwearied in his attention 'to the diredion of all
the duties in this Bay.
The Capitan Pucka l as uniformly manifested the
most-anxious desire of. -Contributing, by every Means
in his power, to-the promotion of the sLrvice. Hay-
ing.been generallysOn shore with his Troops, the
Ships have been stitiniiired, by hiS .orders,-'to my
dircdion, and the Officers have paid the most re-
spektfulattention to the instructions they have te-
ceivedfrom me. • •

Captain Sir Sidney -Smith; who has sirved with
such distinguished reptitatiOn in this Country, hav-
ing applied -to be the- bearer of the dispatches an..
flouncing the expulsion of '-thelnemy, .1. have corn.
plied with his request ; and I beg to refer their
Lordships' to tha't adive 'and intelligent Officer for
any particular informatidn relative to this or other
parts of the Country, 'oir which liehas bud oppor-
tunities of maki'fig remarks.
I hai;e:the-honotir to be, kt.
(Signed)- KEITH.

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Admiralty-0.45a., No' ender 4, idSi.

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Copy of another Lefler from the Right Hon. Lord
Keith) - -Admiral of the Blae, E.fic. to Evan Ne-
lean, Esq. dated on hoard His Majesty's Ship
-Foudruant, ,Bay of Aboukir, ioTh September
180 i.

SIR,

You will be pleased to acquaint their Lordships
that the Capitan Paella and _I have agreed on -the
enclosed distribution of the Vessels of War found
in the Enemy's possession in Alexandria, of which
I trust their Lordships will approve. I have, Bcc.

_
. KEITH.
His Highness the Capitan Pacha and Lord Keith
have agreed' to receive the Enemy's Ships'as un-
der, viz.

CAPITAN PACIT k. LORD KEITH.,
Cause - - 64. L'Egyptienne - . so
Justice - - 46 RegenCre - 32
No. I. ,Venetian 26 No. 2. Venetian 26
The Turkish Corvettes to be given 'to the Capitan
Pacha ; but to be previously valued.

KEITH.

Nov. 14, I,Boi .
Copy of; another Letter from Admiral Lord. Keith,
K. B. to E,-,tan Nepean, Esq. dated Eomfroyant
at Sea,• Sept. 19, 2801.

SIR,
I have the honour and satisfailion of ttansmitting;
to you, for the information of the Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty, a Copy of a Letterre-
ceived by me from Rear-Admiral Sir' ohn Warren.;
*losing one from Captain 1-141sted, of His Majes-
ty's Ship the Phoenix, reporting the capture of one
of the Enemy's Frigates.

I am, &c..

KEITH.

Renown., Mahon, August 13, 1801.'1

MY
,LORD)

I.have inclosed to your Lordship the. copy of a,
Letter I received from Captain Halsted, of His Ma..
jesty's Ship Phcenix) giving me an account of the

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capture of La Cm-ere Frentii Frigate, by Captain
Gower, fn lii..l\ilajestY.'s Ship La Pomone, on, the
3d In:st, with a List of the Killed and Wounded in
the latter Ship.
Captain Gower 'speaks very highly Of the condua
of the Officers and Crcw of La Pon-one •; and I beg
leave to recominend to your consideration Lieute-
nant Lloyd, first of that Ship, as a very deserving
Officer.

I Gave the Honour to be, &c. 'Bcc.
(Signed) , J. B. WARREN.,
Right ,Froriourable Lord Keith, K. B.
&c.

Phawix, r - Elba, 3d Aiigitst, iBo

S:R;

I-beg IC‘aVe to inform you, that at
.half Ost two
P. M.,a Frigate and several small Vessels were
seen to the SoUtihward of the. Piombino Pass.7n;e,
steering for Port Longone. The Squadron under
my my Command went in chace of them immediately,
and I have great pleasurein acquainting you, that at
ten minutes past eight, after several shot being fired
from bow and stern chacers, Captain Gowet of the
Pontone, in a very gallant and officer like manner,
ran alongside the Frigate, and after ten minutes re..
sistance, she surrendered : she is La CarreYe French
Frigate, from Port liercule, with Ammunition for
Longone, mounting twenty.-Six eighteen Pounders,
with two spare Ports do her Main Deck, and twelve
brass eights, with two brass thirty-six pound Car
!amides on her quarter-deck and forecastle, and
356 men. She is a very fine Frigate, six yearS
old, and just completely fitted at Toulon. The
small Vessels with her had Ordnance Stores, &c.
&c. for the same plee, and I am fearful two or
three have got in.

Captain Gower speaks in great praise of Mr.
Lloyd, the first Lieutenant of the Poinonc, and also
of all the rest of his Officers and Ship's Company.
The Phoenix not being -able to get nearer than
randoni shot, did not fire. Captain Ballard in the
Pearl, when it was doubtful at which point the wind
would fix, very judiciously kept between the Enemy
and Port LOngone, should he have attempted to en-
ter it. •

I am sorry to add a list of two killed and four
wounded 'on hoard the Pomone, one of the former
Mr. Thomas Cook,• Boatswain, and one of the lat-
ter Lieutenant Charles Douglas, of the Marinesi,
who has lost a leg. I Bade not yet received the car-
rca account of the loss of the Enemy.
lam, L. W. HALSTED'. ,
P. S. Since writing the above I am sorry to 'add
that Lieutenant Douglas has died of his wounds.
Rear_ Admiral Sir John Borlase

• . Warren,- Bart. ;7!d K. B.
A List qf a;:d Wanda or His tlfaiesty's SLip LA
POIN9lle,1:1 A lien -with, the Trench -ate La Cirrerri if
Elba, Awg:ist 3, ISor.

Kr L I r o—"Cliornas Boatswain.
Samuel Herring, Quarter-master-.
WOUNDED—Charles Douglas, Lieut. of Marines, since dad.
John Cox, Able Seaman, since dead. •
John Brown, Ablc Selman.
john Boyd, Able Scanlan.

Admiralty-Of-ice, Nov. 14, iBor.

Copy of another Letter from Admiral Lord Keith,
K. B:Efc. to Evan IVelean, Erg, dated on board
Hrs 111:j,:sty's Ship 4'6:aro:ant,lette, 06rober
8, 1801.
SIR, ,

I have the Honour of transmitting, for their Lord..
ships' information, a Copy of a Letter, with its
Inelosure, received by me from Rear. Admiral Sir
John Borlase Warren, conveying, the satisfadory
intelligence of His Majesty's late Ship Success hav-
ing been recovered from the possession of the Ene.
my, and their own Frigate La Bravoure destroyed
by the affive exertions of Captains Halsted, Cock.
burn, and
.Gower, of His Majesty's Ships the
nix, La Mifterve, and La Ponione. •
I have the Honour to be, &c. &c.
KEITH.
Renown at Sea, Bth Sq.
tember, 1801.

MY LORDS

I have much satisfaaion in communicating to
you Captain Halsted's letter of the 2d instant, in-
forming me of the Capture of His Majesty's late
Ship the Success, and the deStrudion of La Bravoure
Frigate 0146 guns, being the whole of the Enemy's
squadron employed•in the attack of Porto Ferrajo iu
the Island of Elba.

I feel much indebted to Captain Halsted, who
commanded His Majesty's Frigates I had stationed
for the defence Of Elba, and also to Captains Cock.
burn and Gower, for their zeal and good eoncluti,
as well as every Officer and Man in the Squadron,
arid. trust that the merit they have exhibited on .this
Occasion will entitle them to your Lordship's ap-
probation and favour.

I have the Honour, &c.
(Signed) J. BORLASE WARREN.
Right 1101. Lord Keith, ,Effe. cue. tee.
of ratio, near Lea Zorn,
Sept. 2, I So 1. •

SIT:,

I beg leave to acquaint you, that while
.at an.
chor :off Piombino,, for the purpose of prevent.
ing Supplies being sent
.by the Enemy from that
place ;o Port Longone, 'at half past- 'Six A. M.
His Majesty's ship Minerve, which had joined, and
parted from me the day before, was seen in the
N. W. standing towards the Phoenix, firing guns,
and with the signal-flying for an Enemy. I imme-
diately made the Pomone signal to chace that way,
she having joined me two days before, and got the
Phoenix: under sail, upon which•the Minerve bore
up,' and made all sail to the Northward, the Pomone
and k)licenix• following. About. o'clock we
saw two• Frigates to the. Northward, steering to_..
wards Leghnh apparently French; and' between
ten and eleven we 'ObserVed that the nearest to us
had ttin astroUnd on.ilie Shoal" off \Tula, and upon
the approach of the Squadron, and a shot being
hired towards her frorn'the
firing
in passing, she
Struck her Colours without' ng a gun, and was
taken possession by tbz-,l4:oritnp&- % It was adcti_
tional pleasure when I found her to be His. Ma jes.
ty's -late Ship.SueceSs; comrrlahided by'Mons.
'The Ailinerve being the,headitiosr ship,•went on-in
pursuit of. the
senile!) -Which- waSseendeavoutin, to -.-
get tO Iteghorn, 6ut.fortunately the wind shifting
to. -the Northward, enabled the Minerve to get well
up with the Enemy before he could accomplish his
views; and after missing. stays, ;,nd attewpting to

wear, got on shore under the Lantegnano j3attery,
to the Southward Of Leghorn, where her masts soon
went by the boarct,'",nd the ship totally loSt, having
struck her Colours ivithoUt making any resistance.
She proves to have beeri,La Bravoure French Fri-
gate, of 46 guns, commanded by Mons. Dbrdelin,
carrying twenty-eight-twelve-pounders on her main
deck, with Two "Hundred 'and Eighty-three Men,
the Captain and-several of his Officers being made
prisoners of the Minerve's Boats. Captain Cock-
burn informs me, that in consequence of the surf
running high, night coming on, and the Enemy on
shore firing upon the Ship and Boats, he was pre-
vented makiing a greater number of the Crew pri-
soners ; and would .have burnt her, had it not been
a certainty that many,. of the Enemy must have pe-
ried in the ilames.
Ciptain Cockburn speaks in the handsomest man-
ner of Mr. Kelly, his First Lieutenant, as well as
of the rest of his Officers and Ship's Company, on
this occasion.
I feel much indebted to Captains Cockburn and
Gower for their zeal and a&ivity, as the taking
and destroying these two Ships completes the de-
nolition of the Squadron of French Frigates (in
less than a month) which had been employed in the
Blockade of Forth Ferrajo.
I beg also to mention, that by the exertions of
Lieutenant Thompson of
.the Phoenix, and the men.
employed under him belonging to the different Ships,
the Success has been got off without receiving any
Material injury.
The
.anxiety shewn by all ranks cn board the
Phoenix to get up with the Enemy, can he better
imagined than I can describe. The above Frigates
left Leghorn Mole in the evening of. the 31st ult.
with orders from General Watram to attack the
Phoenix, intelligence of which I had received about
a week before.
I have the Honour to be &c. &c. Sze.
(Signed) —L. W. HALSTED.
Sir J. B. Warret, Bart. K. B. Rear....idiniral •
of the White, &c. f. c.

Admiralty-Office, Nov. 14, TBOI.

Copy of another Letter from Admiral Lord Keith,
&c. to Evan Nepean,. Esi. dat;) on board
His Majesty's Ship Foadrojant, I'alettc, 05. 8,
iBoi.
SIR,

I have the pleasure of acquainting you, for the
information of their Lordships, that His Majesty's
late Sloop the Bull-Dog, has been recovered from
the Enemy by the gallant exertions of Captain Lord
William Stuart, of His Majesty's Ship Champion ;
I enclose a Copy of a Letter from Captain Rogers, of
the Mercury, conveying the intelligence of that
event to me; and have the Honour to be, &c.

KEITH.

Mereurj, Gall' of Tqrente, Sept. 17, ;So!.

MY LORD,

Having received information that His Majesty's
late Sloop the Bull Dog had sailed from Ancona, on
the zgth of August, with several Trabaccolos for
Egypt cr Tareuto, laden with cannon, powder,
shot, &c. I went immediately in pursuit of them
with the Mercury and Champion ; and, on the
morning of the rith, just entering the Gulf of Ta-
rento, we had the satisfaaion to discover the St.
Dorothea in chace of the above-mentioned vessels,.
but at a very great distance. to windward, and it
was impossible to get near enough to keep sight of
them after dark ; however, we- continued beating
to windward all night, and, at day-light, the Chant-
p'o.n made the signal for seeing them 'to. leeward,
close in with Gallipoli; but she was unable to pre-
vent their anchoring under the guns of the garrison ;
this was, however, 'no check to the gallantry of
Lord William Stuart, who persevered in a very dis-
tinguished manner, notwithstanding .the fire from
the Batteries and the Bull Dog, until he got close
under her stern, and then gave her so warm a re-
turn, that in a few minutes she hauled down her co-
lours, and the cable being cut, was soon without
_reach of the Batteries.'
There were four Trabaccolos and a Tartan with
the Bull'Dog, all of which had warped close to the
walls of the Garrison,.except one Trabaccolo, which
Was well in, and defended by the Batteries ; but
the Mercury was enabled to get so near as to drop
a boat and bring her off without mischief; she is
laden with brass mortars, belt!-pieces, 4:e. and was •
destined for Tarento.

Lord William Stuart reports one man killed on
hoard the Champion, and several shot in the masts
and hull, chie4. from the Batteries.
I have, &c.
THOMAS ROGERS.
Right Hot, ilatin.:rol Lora' Keith, K. E.