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Admiralty-Office, Sept. 9, 1809.

Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwi)lod, has transmitted
to the Honourable Wm. Wellesley Pole, another
•
letter from Captain Raitt of his Majesty's. sloop tae
Scout, giving an account of a gallant attack filmic on
the 15th July, by a party ot seamen and matinc,„
under the direaion of Lietn'enant 13attersby, 00 a
strong battery, which comm Anded tile P rt ut
between Marseilles and the ithone., The Vdvt
carried withoot any lust on our side, and ;di the
guns spiked ; five of the enemy were killed, and se-
ven matte prisoners.

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liniralty-Office, Sept. g, isog.
Lord Collingwood has transmitted
to 1-.l7,:i•lurable Win. Wellesley Me, a Letter
Captain Brenton of his Majesty's sliip the
Spartait, -givi,•g an account of the reduction of the
Citat!el and Batteries on toe Island of LUssin, on the
Coast of Croatia, on the 10th Of May last, by that
shio, acting in concert with a detachment of Aus-
trian ,troops, under the :command of Lieutenant-
Colonel Baron Ocharnick. Toe Garrison, consist-
ing of one hundred and seventy men, was compelled'
to surrender at discretion, after some opposition to
the attaci.s of the allies, in which the greatest gal-.
'awry was diplikyed by the lattiar, and in which they
had only three men wounded. The conduCt of
Lieutenants Willesand Bautugardt of the Spartan,
and Lieutenant Figen of the Marines, is particularly
not icecl ni Captain Brenton.
Lord."Cotlingwthrd has also inclosed a letter from
Captain Bullen, of the Volontaire, giving an ac-
oo.-int of the destruction of Fort Ri‘iux, on the coast
of France, iincl the capture of five I,7ssels which it
prot,cied, by the boats of the above ship, under the
command of Lieutenant Shaw, of whose gallantry
Captain Butlen speaks in high praise. On the side
of the English there were only two wounded, the
enemy had bye killed and eight wounded.

SIR,

Ville-de.Paris, off Toulon,
I uly i 6, itioy.

Having received by the Espoir, a letter iron Rear,
Admiral Martin,, dated the 21 irist. giving a detail
of the proceedings of the squadron under his orders,
in their co-operation with the British and Sicilian
army, which intorms me of their having landed on
and take❑ .possession of the ',lands of bchia and Pro-
cida, where the enemy made but little opposition; I
have the honour to transmit Rear-Admiral Martin's
letter, by which their Lordships v be fully inform-
ed of 'what occurred on this service. _

A numerous flotilla of gun-boats which were col-
lecting from Gaeta; and other parts of the coast,
were attacked by the Cyane, Espoir, and the Bri-
tish and Sicilian gun-boats, when about forty of them
were taken or destroyed. The Cyane was after-
wards engaged with other divisions of gun-boats; and
the batteries on shore which protected them, at one
of which Captain Staines, on the with, landed;
stormed it, and destroyed the guns.
011 the 27111 the Italian- frigate of forty guns,
and a corvette which were mAting their escape from
Baia to Naples, were attacked by the Cyane, and
alth&tglt assisted by all the batteries as she went
along. shore, it was with great 'difficulty she got into
the Mule at Naples. It is:represented to me that
nothing could ' exceed the gallantry which was dis-
played by Capt. Staines in these several attacks,
in which he was tor, three. days (and with little in-
terruption by night) engaged in a succession of bat,'
Iles. lam sorry to add that he is grievously wound-
ed, having lost his left arms and. received much in-
jury in other parts of the body. Lieutenant Hall,
the senior Lieutenant, is also severely wounded, of
the last day ; as the Second Liectenant had been
disabled before, the ship was,latterly fought and con-
cluded by the Master, who acquitted himself as a
brave and good offiettr. The report of killed and
wounded I inclose.

As the Cyane,has suffered very much in her hull,
masts, and other re.:pec...ls, I have sent orders tor her
to in ceed to England to he refitted.
1 have the honour to he, &c.
(Signet!) COLLINGWOOD.

iV. i'ute.

The Canopus. at Anchor, S.E. end of the
1.0 RD, 1 July 2, IL9. •

I h:ive the honour to actin you: Lordship
that I sailed from McLazo on the 11th of June, In
company witil his Majesty's ships Spartiate, War-
rior, Cyane, and Espoir ; ,and the same day I de-
tached the Philonnel .t ith tour transports containing
two regiments of infantry, which Sir John Smart
wished to be landed on the coast of Calabria, fur
the purpose of destroying the enemy's. batteries,
and of undertaking the siege of Scylla, should it,be
iound pradicable. I proceeded With the remainder
of the transports, Ece. amounting in the
whole to one hundred and thirty-three sail, into the
.
Gulf of St. Euletnin, and close along the coast of
Calabria, in the hope of diverting the attention
• of the enemy from Lower Calabria, and of en-
abling the two regiments detached by the Ge-
neral, to effect the purpose for which they were
sent. F,,r lour or fit e days it was nearly calm ; and
the whole Expedition continued in &gilt of Ca-

labria. On the 15th,- the ships and transports trona
Palermo, amounting to nearly one hundred sail, ac-
companied by two Sicilian frigates and the Alceste,
joined us; his Royal Highness -Prince Le. puld was
on board one of his Sicilian Majesty's frigates, and
Lieut.-Gen. Buurcard; appointed to command the
Sicilian troops einployA on this expedition, ,in the
other.' Sir John Stuart,
,upon being joined by this
force, expressed a desire that Gen. tiourcard should
continue with his divi'son, on the coast of Calabria,
and actually put some men onshore to effect a diver-
sions-and that the mean tune we should proceed with
the British and Sicilian troops which had sailed with us
from Milazzo, to make an attack on the Islands of •
Ischia and Procida. On the 24th, I anchored with
the whole of the ships to the. Northward at the said
islands;, and on the morning of the 25111, a landing
was edeaed on- the island of Ischia, under cover of
his Majesty's ships Warrior and success, and his
Sichan Majesty's sloop Leone, with several Sicilian
and' English gun-boats, without the loss of a single
man, and the whole taken possession of, except a
strong insulated Castle ott' the South-East part of the
Aland, which did -not surrender till the ist instant,
after batteries had hteti.ereeted and opened against
it. The island of Procida capitulated on the even-
. _ ing of the 25th : and that night I received informa-
tion that a flotilla of gun-boats, &c. was coming
frotri Gaeta along shore ; in consequence of which
the .few gun-boats near us were detached in that
direttion, .and at daylight of the 26th, the flotilla,
amounting to forty-seven sail, was seen, and a sig-
nal made to'Captain Staines, of the Cyane (whom
I had before detached to the southward of Ischia
an 4 Procida, with the Espoir and some of the Sici-
lian gun-boats to endeavour to hinder reinforce-
me9ts and
.supplies being thrown into, those Islands,
to prevent the gull-boats from entering the Bay of
Naples. Captain Staines executed that service with
tlie same ability and judgment, which he has shewn