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upon every other neatsiOn and by tinning 'the gum!
.boats, and
.preventing their rounding the point of.
Baix, they were brought to action by the • Sicilian
and English gun-boats, supported by the Cyane
and Espoir, and eighteen of them (gun-boat)
taken, and four destroyed. No language which I
an master of, can convey to your Lordship an ade-
quate idea o'T the gallantry, judgment, and good
conduct displayed by Captain Staines. From 'the
time of our arrival before the Bay of Naples, he
was frequently engaged with the batteries and gun-
boats near Balm ; captured a polacca from thence,
with troops destined for Procida ; landed himself,
supported by some Sicilian gun-boats, and, destroyed
a battery, with which he had been for some time
engaged, of four forty-two-pounders and a ten
inch mortar; and on the 27th• of June,, Captains
Staines and Mitfoid attacked the enemy's frigate
and corvette, which, with a. number of gun-boats,
were mooring front Baia to the Mole of Naples.
The a&ion lasted from seven till half-pa,t eight
P. M. with the frigate (the corvette out-sailing
her much, soon glade the best of her way to Na-
ples), during the greater part of the time, the Cyane
• was within half piitol-shot of the enemy's frigate,
but from her being so nei,the shore, and supported
by a number of gun-boats and batteries, was not
able to continue the aCtion. It is with sincere con-
cern I have to inform your Lordship, that during the
action Captain Staines, and both the Lieutenants of
the Cyane were wounded ; but the ship was Itinghi, •
the latter part of the action, by Mr. Joseph Mil-
ler, the Master, of whom Captain Staines speaks in
in the highest terms, and begs .to recommend to
your Lordship. The Captain speaks alto %cry highly
.of the conduct of Lieutenant James Hall, first of
the Cyane, and of every Oihcer and man under his
command.

I have the honour to transmit, under another
cover, a list of the killed and wounded on board the
Qyane on the 26th and 27th of June. Captain
Staines has lost his left arm out the socket at his
shoulder, and is wounded also in the side, but is now
in a fair way of recovery. Lieutenant Hall is also
severely wounded in the thigh and arm, but there is
every reason to hope he will do well.
I have the honour to be,- &c.

(Signed)

GEO. MARTIN.

P. S. In addition to the gun-boats captured or
destroyed, eleven smaller armed vessels were taken,
and fourdestroyed the same day.
I will do myself the honour of transmitting to your
Lordship, by the next opportunity, a copy of the
Articles of Capitulation of the Islands of Ischia
and Procida.

(Signed) GEO. MARTIN.
Vice-Adiniral Lord Callingwood, Coin-
minder in Chief, &c.

A List of Officers, Seamen, and Marines, killed and wound-
ed on board his Majesty's Ship Cyane, in action with the
Enemy's Gun-boats and Batteries in the bay of Naples, on
the zoth lune,
Killed. _ _

PeigPaniel Young, Captain of the Maintop. john Evans, boy,
3d c!ass.
Wounded.
David tones, Master's-mate, dangerously. john Phillips,
ordinary seamen, slightly. Alex. laws9n, (Jdinary sea,
man, ditto. - Thomas Wilton, Wildman, ditto. bourn
'Sweeney, ordinary seaman, ditto. lames Nlattho.vs, able
scamar, ditto. l ohn Rutherford, able seaman, ditto.

List of Officers, Seamen, and Marines, killed and wounded
on hoard his Majesty's Snip C3ane, Thomas Staines, Esq.
Captain, is action with an Enemy's Frigate, Corvette,
C lin-boats, and Batteries, iii the Bay of Naples, on the
27,11 June, I&9.
Killed.
Samuel Jones, ordinary seaman. Win. Berry, private of
Marines.

Wounded.
Tht,m'as. Staines, Captain, dangerously. lames Hall, First
Lieuter.ant,ditto. Thomas Brewer, laudman, ditto.. 'riles.
Dewes, able seaman, dit to lames Coghlan, able seaman,
badly. Win. Shenson, ordinary seaman, ditto. Matthew
Booth, private of marines, ditto. Wm. Richings, private
of marines, ditto. lolui Ferrior, Sec,nd Lieutenant, slight-
ly. lam Taylor, Midshipman, ditto. John Br..wri,
Quarte!-Master, ditto. Win. Barnes, Quarter-Masters-
Mate, ditto.' Carlos Pinately, sailinaker, ditto. lathes
Haydon, Armourer's- ?date, ditto. Wm. Kelly, able sea-
man, ditto. Win. Jackson, able seaman, ditto. James
Yearse, ordinary seaman, ditto. • Isaac Arthur, boy, ditto.
John NewtOn, serjeant of marines, ditto. John Rudge,
private of Illatines, ditto.

Ville de Paris, off Toulon,
Itily if, ISo9.

SIR,

I inclose a letter from Captain Griffiths, to be laid
before my Lords`Conitnissioners of the Admiralty,
giving an account of an attack made by the boats of
the Topaze, on nine of the enemy's vessels lying at
anchor in ►he road of Demata, on the coast of Alba-
nia, which were with great gallantry boarded and
brought out, notwithstanding the opposition of a
very superior force; three of them being vessels
regularly armed for war, and in complete preparation
for resistance.

The conduct and 'spirit of Lieutenant Ham-
mond on this occasion, ris deserving of the highest
praise. Mr. Garson, the acting-master, the Lieu-
tenants Mercer and Halsted,- of the Royal Marines,
and the other officers and men, supported him in a
manner worthy of their charafter of British seamen
and marines.

I have the honour to be, &c.
COLLINGWOOD.

Hon. W. W. Pole.

His Majesty's ship Topoz,e, off Paxo,
lune I, x8(,9.

SIR,

- ,
1 esterday observing nine of the enemy's vessels
at anchor in the Road of Demata, behind the reef
of rocks, under the Fortress of St. Maura, and find-
ing the Ship could not with safety approach near
enough to destroy them, I dispatched the boats, un-
der Mr. Charles Hammond, my first Lieutenant,
with the officeis named in the• margin*, to bring
them out.

They were obliged to row along, outside the
reef (and also after, rounding; it), expbsed to the
galling, fir'e of their whole force, and , within half
Musket-shot, a period of great anxiety to me,
but which has, from great good fortune, been attend-
ed with the loss of only one marine killed, one sea-
man slightly wounded. The exiemy suffered much
in their retreat when boarded.

- This attempt, made in open daylight, Speaks so
forcibly for itself, that I have only to inclose a state-•
men? of its result. I should be wanting to every
sense of duty, if I.did not Mention my 'high adtnira-
Lion of the sterling gallantry of every officer and sea-
man employed on this service, and in recommending
Lieut. Hammond, in the strongest milliner, to notice.
I may be permitted to call Co recoile6tion my former