The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-29 00:00:00

EVENING SUN.

trinauyeahriteriediton Cap aims Napier and Mounsey, by whom the
1, %ice was, directe.
• rmn Captain Napier tod Captain Sir R. Laurie of thee Ajax i—
s; " H• M. S. Thames, Ponza Harbour, Feb. 27, 1813.
-'ree-Ag
the yourdirections I embarked Licutenan -
ene4Coflin and second battalion of the 10th regimen
bonn....tbe.l6th. inst., and arrived off Ponza o. n the. Mel,. the har-
,at'tUtexwhich is about a quarter of a mile wide, with a mole
teeme end of it, defended by four batteries, mourktiree
"n twenty-four and eighteen-pounders and two nine-inc
IZOrtars„'
cur C°l4nti Coffin and myself agreed that the shortest and
jest road to success was by running both ships into the mo7e,
icto° Sing the place by assault but the weather ws unfit-
, ben
for such an attack until the morning of tae 26th,
witen the ships bore up in close order with a fine breeze.
- " The
their enemy were prepared for our reception, and opened
hat re nearly half-an-hour before our guns could bear : the
eh„,sseri" were, however, passed with little injury, the ships
.11tring on both sides, and the Thames was anchored aerms
.cototnole-head, the Furieuee bringing up a little a tern of her.
„,net Colin and the troops landed the same instant, and
for the height of a strong tower, in'o which the enemy
the sereYeated, and their appearance, with the severe fire fie in
lys, induced the Governor to hoist a flag of truce, and
;lee Jo the inclosed capitulation.
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• • " CHARLES NAPIER."
`'R
'S TREATMENT OF THE YANKEES UP
THE PO TOM .a.C. 1814.
ttilDvnr latitude now lies in America; but a minute ago it was
se,sue Mediterranean' r e
fo a 'sailor's life is subject to straue
ser'm'a,,eses,,,and stranger changes. The landsman who set-way
to et.', a nlenself in his "fine linen and purple," 'little imagines
)14;n t dire mutations of climate alone, the fleshy f sine of
jeze4Who forms a eo.nposite part of the " Service " is sub-
region' To-day his orders, perchance, bear him among the
on the! Hyserborea, and the snow• scenes of the a retie ;
soy e. morrow he eery be scorched by the brassy skies that
Jeedet. the Carribees and Martinico : next day the fi esh-blowing
after short may fan him, and her blue delight him ; but
Porto 'uort .an
he is borne away to the is &ler skies f
eta? gal, or hurriesg next to the untried track, of the New
that ';;;1 t° fight on Transatlantic shores. One would suppes
trotildaving run the course of a.l these, the esseoes st s een
of, ,ronhe no longer bone, but have attained to the intimacy
.
‘-'r the
sine - many expeditions up the bays and rivers of the
enihed States during the last war of 1814, nore equalled in
Thisa"Y of -execution that up the Potomac to Alexandria,
the ~'.errice was intrusted to Captain James A. Gerd in, of
tair ,hm'sei 4G, taking with hi n the Euryalus, 42,. Car-
tetee spier ; Devastation, Etna, and Meteor bomb , Erebus
aftezatisrdisp, arid a small tender or despatch-boat. ; I was
t
'pained by the Fairy brig of 16 guns, Capt. Baker.
Weish pe 17th, at 9h. tom. A. el., the squadron got under
with .'min the anchorago at the entrance of the Potomac, and,
of
,•oet the,aid of pilots, began ascending the intricate channel
es_tfi.e river leading to the capital of the United States. On
at7tite.ine th, white passing tho flats of Maryland point, a squall
end the squadron ; the Seahorse had her mizen-mast sprung,
%stet,: EurYalus, just as she hal clewed up her sails to be in
tutu too receive it, had lier'bowsi nit and the head of her fere-
eren.,:"ls sprung, and the heads of all three topmasts fairly
boare°„.."F• Such, however, was the slate of discipline on
liers;ifle Such,
that in twelve hours the Euryslus had refitted
Aft-' and was again under weigh, ascendieg the river.
Wasseinr haring, en their sail up the. Potomast, captured Fort
and N gt"! the Americans, recovered a little from their panic,
dot‘ strong measures to cppose the return of ti e squadron
of euo...the Po-ornac. Commodore Rogers, with a chose.i body
Perna,-rnen from the .Guerr:ere at. ishi:eilelphia ; Captains
ritfice` erter, and other distinguished officers a party of
that and men !rem the Constellation at Norfolk ; the men
troop,, beloeged Commodme Barney's fluti regular
shore' riemen artideritts and militia, all Reeked to the
Three
ofd he Po'tomac' to' Punish "the base incendiaries."
by ce fire- Potomac,
and 'five row-boats were directs d in person
spse`muresdre Rogers himself against our ships ; while, in
bees„,`!' the execueon which a prize gun-boat, and a boat
Atee'ging to the Eursalus with a howitzer did, to impede the
frets sails in their progress at their works, they nevertheless,
shot t battery. of eleven guns, with a furnace for heating
tki,e oar sodas our 'vessels most vexatiously. Two of our ves-
tetioT*°unded and became most desperately si•utted, on an-
Itits,t`l their exposure to the fire. This continued, together
i 4 ;I:,llPPlenlentary annoyance from the firing of the Yankees,
the .-'chided-wcitided creek, al the bt h instant, at noon, when
leen'tind coming fair, and every suitable arrangement having
ket-s;,s,et the Seahorse and Euryalus anchosee mithin anus-
the chi °t the batteries, while the whole of the prizes and
lee the which lied grounded, passed between the. frigates
Ire of st.'lmal• At three p.m., having completely silenced the
eat their An ericau battery, the Seahorse and the Lurye us
potti cables, and the whole squadron proceeded to the next
oattt:.4 taken up by the Yankee troops, who had .here tees
°f •ii" mounting from fourteen to eighteen guns, on
.a range
ships s about a inile in extent, and close under which the
tut,.o"iii':'re obligee to pass. It was not intended to make the
the b`l'at ete ning ; but the Erebus grounding within range
saki atteries, the frigates and other vessels were nee.!etsarly
desedtl t" ction. On dais occasion the fire of the Fairy pro•.
*he e :nest derisive effect, as well as that of the Erebus,
e the D • . . filth . Devastation, Etna, and Meteor peppered `away
ate lAN
had "t
shells with great precision. By. 8, r.ee, the alit-,
nt."t enough of it, and their batteries were comp,ete.y
Ent eod °Lii the 6th, at daylight, the British squadron ega n
9th was weigh, and the Yankees, having a belly-fall, saw
uth 1,-4110 further use in opposing their progress. On the
runl et,-e soahorse and the Euryalus sailed out of the Potomac,
teeigWe'r.ie to anchor in safety at the spot whence they had
tilter,;i` twent-three days before. The loss in this daring
144 tti se did not exceed on board all the vesse's seven killed.
theor mew: five wounded, including Captains Napier and Bar-
i (kr
'Mee, ntroits wi.l net allow us to give from the despatch of Sir
„rssorden
e, more than the one extract which follows
Preis, °„,`-aPtain Napier I owe more than I have words to ex-
ramt, Euryalus lost her bowsprit, the head of her fore-
the et,-43ti the heads of all her topmasts, in a tornado which
'fleet emtntered on the 25th, just as her, sails were clewed up,
titer
and were passing the flats of Marland Point ; aud yet,
'reies" hours' work on her refittal, she was again under
44rancing up the river."
Olapitt N. APIER IN LITERATURE.
tea retnained on half-pay until his appointment to The Ga-
:tes4,s at Portsmouth, on which station he was three years, and
at.Laeteieoll,laetition, on account o f his wounds (for the Gallant
f;sq°ll4ossitue), an out-pensioner of Greenwich Hospital to the
tie ‘• per annum. Let it nut, however, be supposed
,30t fa,',4lhat the Gallant Officer is poor, far from it. He fights
4:it,Rzurtad, but for the deep-seated desire in his heart of
itt)''), iu**l tt) y In this view he cannot be extolled
et is
and flaming with
les ...elle, is whole being seems consumed
t7ett devotedness of a lofty, we had almost said, sub-
clk't°.lQPahe-tTistn• It is this great feeling which actuates his
g, and energizes his every action, and which, like a
t' w'thin his soul,for ever a spirit-stirring blast,
,trurßes hi_to plays
achievement.
!ett, otthied,
IT valour and
eid be
though oweve, by his woun s, he sought now a short
h the state of his body demanded quietude and
seanee, his mind, prone to movement, and comfortless but
i,-`,Ptenee engaged itself in enlightening the world with his ex-
-4 itipiauMn matters of naval expenditure and economy. The
i4frard eed the sword of' Mars, and in the United Service
'ittheojho:,_arr:asie.:ferialB3p2ro,ofs of his literary talents, particularly
Vol. 1, wherein are an excellent. series
ternen ervations on the Construction and Qualities of th,e,
,nes, and Castor and on Naval Architecture in general.
ne'e two vessels whose comparative merits much en-
°fairy htotal attention at the time, the one being built by the
ttel,ll!e artier and the other by Captain Symonds. In the course
NI Led wen Commodore Napier shows' that. he. had himself
tltl''ernare tne tl±nry and practice of ehip•building, formhee_
* ter a b. t`-" Your years ago 1 sent to the Admiralty a
leas2le; IP-it is now in the United Service Museum. She
;Pot*, is teeertel..ong, and the same breadth as the Nelson." This
is to point% .oguout valuable for many suggestions thrown out
kper 14 question. In the same year's Journal, Vol. 11.,
etole4he, itntitled, " Remarks on Steam Vessels," and alto at
talent ensarks on the State of the Navy," all from the
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PeNr‘PIER AT PORTSMOUTH. 1832.
e•
we vexing habits of our hero not allowing him any
t11„43 "tot' find him, in December, 1832, propo,in.g him-
bete-ett mayeta),nclielate to represent Portsmouth in Parliament.
tho and for " said of the staunch addresses delivered from the
f
tekht, t ums of antiquity, but for genuine manliness o
e„eted, laconisin of expression, and blunt, hearty,. un-
nf 01`,` unvarnished avowal of his own deeds, there is no
*fee', enee'.rY, from plain Phocion's harangues to bold Cob-
lre;'° not rations, that, being put into parallelism with it,
eeef:Raet, b"! by the juxta:position. It is an eccentric, It% t 4e. e
k superlative piece of honesty ; each paragraph
rotin,'Oifein"ky water from a pure and potent fountain-head:
klalr R 3 a dirt-is as perfect as an unflawed chrysolite, though
Ott, Ileeenisencrusted diamond : it is the speech of a.verir-f
eteltheie es--not Hercules in the effeminate attire o
shinetet:uc 'thuut Herculeß slovenly and tough as when he had
tlopee,M dBtYrnphalides and brained the Nemean lion. We
tee:.own ,e9eurnent so important a portion of the Comr.nn-
tee:e ,rnd, that to omit it would be equal to an artist s
t a feature in his portrait ; and as it furnishes a
efte:Niesh
wand succinct recapitulation of all the events of his
tere-,t.Yttehoeh3osove hitherto recounted, it will serve as a held
ii'Vorts
th'e
f,'t was thus that he spo`.ie to the burgesses i
INltiZena,ioeurd se of my canvass (said the Gallant Officer) 1
,41 tse who I sin? I will tell you. I am Captain Charles
*rnt nt
fl•n, tY-five s ago commas-riled the Recruit brig
enur:s -flutes" and who had theehonour of being twenty-
fretneuder the guns of three French nee of battle ships
theePlien British squadron, the nearest of which, with the
tto °rate the Ilawkbrig Ilas from five to six miles astern
etedsieetr!l Part
eatnto them, of the ti'ine I kept flying double-shotted
One Of these ships (the Hautpoult)
letestered by the Pompey and Castor, the ether two
'be ,i"and'eePerior sailing. Sir Alexander Cochrane, my
b'ete'oege ef -rfac.l.li?r, promted me on the spot into her. At
ire teeeeed riinique, the 2Eolus, Cleopatr and Recruit
St
tngorinclotisiee night bt e
Et wdewe na r
d; ,Pigeon e Island
,
, burnt their shipping. At eaylight in the
h.owe,ht allieared to nae that Fort Edward was abandoned ;
Itle,,wnh fiver' was deubted. I offered to ascertain the fact,
Was 'et' lb' e men I landed in open day, scaled the walls, and
httrinnais:, Haiou Jack on the ramparts.' Fortunately I
'll4l. tired '4lll from Fort Bourbon, which stood about
Itnt .tfd Yitris off, and commanded it. On this being
tei'd • a St,' eo, In the Alexander Cochrane, a regiment was
ittei the rught. Fort Edward was taken possession tie °ri et 'Metter
eet • a let, s turned against the enemy. lam in pos-
"ts the er freen Sir A. Cochrane, saying that my con-
-IPreeege r,AlariZeans of saving many lives and shortening the
1:- 't!e.' I had once the misfortune of receiving
tee( ree, tr, mg from a French corvette ; the first shot she
Nit • the Y thigh, and
e enent a plumper carried away my main-
Was Cie Y escaped, but the British flag was not tar-
tie tersed tety return to England, in eammand of the Jason,
11'41'.1'ktier,ZSt 113 11.7 by a Tory' Admirals because I had
h Ras te' With th e could not lead an idley'life, I served a
selesueptii se.o,, es army in Portugal as a volunteer, when
tutu earl. •"nur'd• At the battle of Busaco, I hael the
,pigs' et off this field my gallant friend and relative,
elute hle'r's not th°w ne le nae, wile wee shot through the face.
tii was iert o only field where he shed his bleed :at Co-
let`'"lnds, onf°'' dead, but, thank God ! he escaped with
t.tNa, 'Tiles, in th mY return to England, I was appointed to
des,,tits es the e,Mediterranean ; and if I could bring the
that frorn'e,,lPu'itan coast into this room, they would
vtit nee.elr", I did
r'aPes to the Faro Point there was not no,,tha
se et, ef• h.!°t, 'eave my mark, and brought off
hIN
IttittiN I had tl " "
ri red sell of gun-boats, and mere ant-
tre!tief: into ti:_e honour of running the Thames and
et'''t 11t derende r. small mole of Penn, which was
t sup 'T
and before they could recover
eZtkaee: wen thine' e captured the island without the loss of ea
teg tto 1.41 in .removed to the Euryalus, and had the good
ktNe4 nee, Jsith two French frigates and a schooner. I
5,44114 Passing. night close into Calvi, in the island of
; aneucttose under the stern of one, plumperin.g her
tb4*444'd °I her r'e'nugli we were going eight knots, I tried to
t hawse onsort, who was a little outside, standing
d`d ire ih.e night was dark, the land close, and
tie;ioreolsobrecerilolos.sese3tribgt;ileeur,y. but I drove her ashore on the
e;11: efierwluost brushing wrecked, and her consortd was
Yth e
su 0
rTeh
as
Esuhrey apal uss,ewdo.re rTheoun
ships
*ati Pch ards ascertained to be. armee en flute, mounting 22
eottloer4dertettaZlthe schooner 14. From the Mediterranean I
Wits- hoer America; and if my Gallant Friend Sir James
r no Wouldhave told .youliorr-I did ray duty on

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that long and arduous scrvice up the Potomac ; he would have
told you that in a t:emendous squill the Euryalus lost her bow-
sprit and all her topmasts, and that in twelve boars she was
again ready for work. We brought away a fleet from Alexan-
dria, were attacked going down the river by batteiies, built
close to what was the residence of the Great 'Wa,hington, and
.I was again wounded in that action in the neck. On the peace
taking place I went on half-pay, where I remained ti'l I was ap-
pointed to the Galatea, which ship I commanded for three years
on this station ; and I hope and trust I have done my duty
faithfully, during that period, to my king and country."
Despite, however, of this nervous and energetic addre,s, at
the close of the poll, the nwnbers stood as follow :

Cirter 656
Baring COI
Napier ...............

The truth is the Captain was new in the field, and his
name not sufficiently known or blazoned ; this defeet was re-
medied by the time of his Greenwich attempt, when, within
the minimum of a few, he reckoned as many votes as the most
veteran and illustrious of his competitors.
NAPIER'S CAPTURE OF THE MIGUELITE FLEET.

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forecastle, supported by one or two officers. There I pauied,
till several men rushiroo on board,. We rushed aft with a loud
cheer, and either passed through drove `party doWn upon
the break of the quarter-deck. At thiS, moment I received
a. severe blow from a croW-bar, the owner of which did not •
escape unscathed ; and poor Macdontingli fell at my side by
a musket-ball. Barradas, the ' Captain of the ship, came
across me, wounded in the race, and fighting like a tiger.
He was a brave man. I saved his life. The secnod captain
came next, and made so good-natured a cut at one that I
had not heart to hurt him : he also was spared. Barradas
took up arms again, and was filially killed in the 'cabin."
The Commodore and Captain Chlrles Napier, after driving,
a whole host before them, fell, severely wounded, on the quarter-
deck. The former with difficulty regained his ship; the latter,
being stunned, lay some time, until the noise of friends coning
to his assistance roused him from his rtupor.
The quarter-deck was now gained,'but the slaughter still
continued, notwithstanding the endeavour of the officers to
stay it. The main and lower decks were yet unsubdued ; .and
as the Don Pedro ranged up on the opposite side to board,
both ships fired. In a fow minutes all was quiet ; the lower
deck gave in, and many of the Portuouese seamen rushed on
the quarterdeck for safety, with white canvas on their left
arms, having discovered that was the badge worn by our men
in boarding."
This gallant action was ended by the Commodore's chasing
after the fugitive vessels. lie followed the Martin Freitas,
and the Villa Flor, which was making of, but by ten she was an
his possession.
"Thus finished the action of the sth of Ju1y.1833, leaving in
our possession two ships of the line, mounting eighty-six guns
each; including four forty-eight pounders for throwing shells,
one frigate of fifty-two guns, a fifty-gun ship, and' a corvette
of eighteen guns; two corvettes and two brikrs escaped ; the
two former arrived safe in Lisbon ; one brig joined the follow-
ing day, and the other gut to Madeira. 'rho enemy were
amply found in every spect:s of warlike stores. and mounted
stern-guns in addition to the full complement on their broad-
sides."
The loss of the squadron was about ninety killed andwounded.
The enemy lost between two and three hundred.
" It is not for me," says Napier, " to comment on this action ;
I shall leave that to the world; simply observing, that at no
time was a naval action fought with such a disparity of Noce,
and in no naval action was there ever so severe a less in so
short a time."
After so great and crowning a victory, won by the strength
of own arm, and the ability of his tactics—having destroyed,
or, for a while et least, crushed the, power of that enemy who
resorted to every possible intrigue and machination to under-
mine the stability of the then established throne of his mistress,
the foulness of ingratitude was his •ultimate portion, which
eventually so disgusted. him as to drive horn from their
shores. True, that so long as the sunshine of his recent
success flung splendour around him, and even the
blackest intriguer at Court could not, being human,
refrain from yielding him just praise, seeing that the
wave was still wet with the crimson of traitors, and knowing
that, at such a period, their attempts to l.i is the •Quaen would
he too front ie'and hopeless, they quietly saw him invested with
the title of Viacount Cape St. Vincent, and wiih the Grand
Cross of the Tower and Sword. But no sooner had the won-
der of victory in some degree 3ub4ded, than these lurking-
friends or Don Miguel crept like adders around the thi one, and
poured the venom of their black spleen into the ears of the
Queen, against the man who had been the means of so firmly,
seating her on her long-shaken Orono. The cheek of indig-
nation becomes red with anger, at the remembrance of such
shameless doings. Napier was at last treated with marked in-
justice, and when, at a subsequent period, the young
Queen had her eyes opened, anti she became conscious of the
base affronts which had been put upon him, age requested him
to retain his honours, and ordered all his demands to be granted,
without let or equivocation.
The ingratitude of Portugal, however, had made too deep
an impression on the Admiral's mind to be easily erased, and the
death of Don Pedro severed the last link that bound him to
the service of Portugal, and in the November following Admi-
ral Nap:er returned to England.

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great good humour and patience. His pithy and characteristic
declarations of principle were audible to the friends imme...
dia'ely surrounding him, but even this was too great a privi-
ledgf4 to be enjoyed—for first mine a lump of mad, and then
.a sort of independent firing of stones, till at length a general
volley was given. "Pm d—d if we can stand this !" ex-
claimed the • galant Captain, who turned tail, and- in an in-
stant the: hustings were cleaned, although the rush down the
solitary ladder which led to them was anything but pleasing to
those gentlemen who wera not desirous of having their legs
broken.

On the second day, the gallant Captain, who was not going
to allow his Conserveive opponent to carry the battle his own
way, brought from the Medea steam-frigate a party of seventy
or eighty seamen, under the boatswain, who soon procured for
the gallant Captain a fair field and no favour. One of these
.Tack tars seated himself on the "top of the pent-house which
covered the hustings, waving one of the colours which Captain
N. had tak.n from Don Miguel's fleet off Cape St. Vincent.
Three sturdy bargemen of the
opposite party climbed up the
supporters for the purpwe of dislodging this ventures )me
Napierite. The first that came within Jack's rea-h went down
to the ground much sooner than he came up; the next shared
the same fate ' • and the third retreating left Jack in undisputed
possession of his clevated position. This little adventure, as
may be suppo e 3, excited much fun, and was considered as an
omen of the Gallant Officer's success.

Capta'n Napier is a stout man, with an intelligent face, the
head pokes rather forward, and with dark hair, now becoming
grey. On the occasion of his election, he appeared in an old
blue frock-coat with brass navy buttons; duck trowsers, nut
rivalling the snow in whiteness; shoes patched, but very
easy ; and white-cotton socks, carefully if not comfortably
darnod. On his left brecst dangled a profusion cf orders
blazing in ;heir brilliancy, yet serving only to render more
striking the tout ensenbleof seediness, which this true "Briti,l
Tar" presented to the admiring crowd of the " beauty and fa-
t.hion" of Greenwich and Deptford. The whole was crowned
by a round hat of most manageable brim, of whose colour the
only adequate description Must'be given in the language of the
Latin poet,— •,
6, Qui c&or-albdt,erat nunc est contraries albo."

And there stood the man, pelted by the bargemen at Green-
wich in a paltry election squibbl,, on whose cool head, ready
hanit,.and unflinching heart had depended the destinies of a
nation—one who 114 gaiii;d More victories and made more.
captures with I..ss, loss of -He than any man had ever done be-
fore—a man quick to flan, prompt. to execute —whose. very
rasl:,ness was a carefulness of consequences, and who, when he
struck a b'ow, always weighed how much depended upon that
blow being at once decisive. Luekilyf or him he was not re-
turned for GreenWich, the numbers voted being thus :.--.

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Att«•ood •.• 1,361 ,
Barnard 1;192
Napier ..... . ...... 1,153 •
So that the dirty denizens of that shore-going vicinity can
boast no hero for their Reform representative. The defeat;
nevertheless, in this case, was very nearly allied to victory.. •

NAPIER AT BEYROUT AND ORNSCHOJOUEN.
In 1839 he was appointed to the Powerful, and when she
came to Port:nu:nth for her crew, the following characteristic
and somewhat prophetic b:11 was issued :
" Wanted active seamen for the Powerful.
" Captain NAPIER.

" The Powerful is a fine slfp;and in the event of a war will
be able to take her own part."
It was the flag of this fine-built vessel that was now destined
to flout the skies of Syria, and to wave triumphantly on the
top of Acre's formidable bastions. It would require glowing
colours and no feeble painter to describe in adequate and im-
passioned terms the grand things which were effected by
Napier in these Eastern regions. The naval crown which
already graced his brow was bright and sparkling, but the
gems which he added to it. by his exploits in these parts were
yet more brilliant by many degrees. There is a species of
chivalry, almost amounting to romance, in the various inci-
dents that are toll of him in these Oriental combats. It stirs
up the heart like a trumpet to read7of the camp at Djournie,
where Napier is des:ribed as working in his shirt sleeves, up
at six in the morning, encouraging, urging, compelling all
to labour at the fortifications, and himself setting the exam-
ple—of the storming of Sidon, of Jaffa, of Tsour, and of
Caiffa. It was at deeds like these in the olden time, that oar
streets' blazed with illumination..., and a rapture like fire ran
through the British population : it was at actions like these
that the shoe-buckles cf our forefathers cracked asunder
through their uncontrellable joy at the triumphaney of 3ri-
tannic arms, and which invested the name of England with.
so appalling a majesty as kept the nations in awe, and bowed
them into homage.
The first affair which redounded to the fame of the Com-
modore in these parts was the march upon Beyrout. This
place, the ancient Barytus, pleasantly situated as Any
town in Syria, stood on the verge of a beautiful plain,
varied with small hills, and extentiing to the foot of
Mount Libanus. The surrounding country was covered
with kiosks, and enriched with groves of vines, olives, palms,
and orange trees. Its population was estimated at ten thousand
souls, of whom the Turks formed. one-third. It was this
place that formed the grand entrepot of the commerce of the
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tons and andl es
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exchangedthegr
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from it in exports. This redoubtable city, wh,ch during the
Holy Wars was the scene of the fabled victory of St. George and
the Dragon, was again, like its symbolic serpent, destined to
fall a second time uncle: the overpowering might of another Knight
of Christendom. Napier, on the 9th Oct., having directed the
Emir Bechir to join him on the heights of Ornschojouen,
arrived at the tenth on their summits, when they found to
their surprise that between '2,000 and 3,000 men had planted
themselves in a position that appeared unassailable. 'lke at-
tack began by short skirmishes. Heavy firings succeeded. The
hi'l was crowded by our battalions, who, on coming into con-
tact with the enemy on its top, soon gave the affair a precipitate
term:nation, and caused the Egyptians to ground their arms.
A second attack was made on the remaining troops, and in less
than half an hour it became a total rout, the enemy leaving all
their Lav,age, ammunition, and provisions. Night put an end
to the pursuit. Ibraham Pacha, who commanded, escaped with
a few men, and the rest dispersed, leaving between six and seven
hundred pr:sonrrs. March was now made for Beyrout. The
late defeat had struck its garrison and inhabitants with terror.
It evacuated to the British troops, and this stcut citadel became
our prize. The effect of these successes led to the entire dis-
organization and submission of Soliman Pacha's army, to
the amount of nearly 3,000 men, and the whole of his artillery
and sores. Napier larnied -at Djournie on the 10th of Sep-
tember, having made. about 5,000 prisoners, and increased his
'numbers by about 5,000 deserters eho had come over.

Immrdiately after receiving the intelligence of the capture
of Beyrout, Lord Minto, the first Lod of the Admiralty, paid
to the lady of the gallant hero the greatest compliment ever
yet received by the wife of a naval officer. This lady, the
widow of Lieutenant Edward Elers, R.N., the captain mirried
early in life. Lord Minto, o -1 the above occasion, p,,sted down
to her residence at liorndean, to announce to her that as a
testimony of their Lordships' apiwobation of her husband's
conduct, they had appointed her son, Captain Charles Napier,
to a ship; es well as to convey to her an expression of the
obligation of the Gorernment and the gratitude of his sovereign.

Napier. No maritime tuehievement was ever more splendid
than this, which demonstrated to the staggering faith of the
politicians of Europe that nothing can withstand British genius
and valour. _ _ _

How important is the possession of this fortified citadel,
Daniel Clarke, the traveller, has forcibly related. The pos-
session of Acre, the key-stone of the East, extends the influ-
ence of its Governor even to Jerusalem. It enables its pos-
sessor to shut up the country, and keep its inhabitants in sub-
jection. All the rice, which is the staple food of the people,
enters by this avenue. The Lord of Acre may, if it so please
him, cause a famine to be felt even over all Syria. Djezzar
Pacha used to insist that the key of a public granary is the
mightiest engine of military operation, and thus it was that
he, an old man pent up in a small tower by the sea-side, pos-
-sessed so extraordinary an empire. Hence, too, we find Acre
to have been the last place from which the Christians were ex-
pelled from the Holy Land; and hence its tranquil possession,
notwithstanding the insignificant figure it makes in the ruap of
the great Asiatic Continent, is of more importance than the
greatest armies, under .the most victorious loader ever sent for
the invasion of the country.
Commodore Napier on this memorable occasion headed one
of the two divisions, and would not cease his fire till every gun
of the enemy was silent. The order of the engagement was
thus _ .

On the 30th a general order was issued by command of the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, thanking the fleet for
their zeal and exertions ; and on the same day a council of war.
was held, at which an immediate attack of Acre was decided
on : the same evening the supernumerary marines were em-
barked, and on the following day about 3,000 Turkish troops,
each ship taking a portion according to her site, General Sir C.
F. Smith accompanying them. In the afternoon
. the steamers
Gorgon, Vesuvius, Stromboli, and Phoenix started for their
destination.
Shortly before sunset the whole anchored off the town, the
forces then assembled consisted of the following vessels:
Princess Charlotte (Flag), Powerful (broad Pendant),
Thunderer, Bellerophon, Revenge, Edinburgh, and Benbow of
the line, Castor, Pique, Carysfort. and Talbot frigates, Ha..
zard corvette, Wasp brig, and the steam frigates Gorgon,
Vesuvius, Stromboli, and Phoenix ; the Austrian frigates,
Ci'uerriere, and Medea, and a corvette, and the Turkish Ad-
miral and cutter tender. At fifty minutes past one, on No-
vember 1, the Phenix opened her fire • the Powerful, closely
followed by the Princess Charlotte, Thunderer, Bellerophon,
and Pique, stood to the northward (it would be as well to state,
here, that the town presents two faces to the sea—one to the west
and the other to the south), and then bore up and anchored off
the north-west angle of the town, in the order named before.
The Castor, the Carysfort, Talbot, Benbow, Edinburgh,
Turkiah Admiral, Hazard, Wasp, and Austrians stood in for the
south face. The Revenge was 4rdered to keep under weigh
as a reserve. At a quarter past two o'clock, the batteries to
the south opened en the Castor, as she most gallantly, and to
the admiration of the whole fleet, took up her station within
about 700 yards of the batteries, where she and her consorts
opened their fire, as bad also by this time the northern division.
The steamers were placed between the two divisions under
weigh, and thus the. a
action became general. It would be im-
possible to attempt description of the scene at this moment ;
but had those who have heretofore doubted the bravery and
constancy of the Egyptians, then witnessed the animated fire
kept up by the batteries, they would no longer be sceptical as
to their courage and endurance. About three o'clock the Re-
venge was ordered in by Commodore Napier to support the Pow-
erful's division, and took up an, admirable position ahead of that
ship. At twenty minutes past four, the action being at its height,
a terrific explosion took place in the town, which for. a time
wholly concealed it and.the southern division from view. t?,
appearance was truly awful, and "I can compare it to nothing,"-
says an eye-witness, " but as if a huge yew-tree bad suddenly
been conjured up from the devoted town ; it hull. tredmiarg minutes a mighty pall over those hundreds it had u
wind,
eternity ; and then slowly, owing to the lightness of the
drifted to the southward." •
It proved to be the exp'osion of the principal.
.rivinmagn wholeazine of
the place, one-third of which it destroyed; and I
regiment having been quartered in a khan.traisrdiately ad-
joining, it is supposed from 1,500 to 1,7090 .ocks, perished
and
in
the ruins, besides a number a camels, horses,idn
bu
donkeys. After this fearful event, the fire from
onefrom tshteill.sokuotih,terint
batteries nearly ceased ; but the western
up with animation, and was answered broadside
Shortly
rbroadside
with redoubled vigour and tremendous effect. before
five the Admiral made the signiltsoodtisheeonstrionnuefotrhesoeronegatigmee-
ment ; but f..om the smoke it could
by the Powerful's division, which continued until half-past five
to fire at the few remaining
got was fired either from the town or
tins
which still maintained the
actin,?, after which not a
i
fleet. Shortly after a boat ipushedfromleatrhinegCttpottaoinwnof!
and
Port, to say that the Egyptians were
that if a party was landed at the water-gate it would be found
open. This was of emirs° immediately done, sad
r3OO Os. e 'srs
nk s.
and a party
of Austrian Marines took unopposed
At daylight the remainder. of the Turkishconsi-
derable number of Marines troops and a
were landed, and quietly marched
into the place.
Thus fell the far-famed fortress of Acre, after a bombard-
anent of only three hours' duration. Any attempt to describe
tawful scene of destructien
.that presented itself would be
impossible, says an eye-witness. From 1,600 to 1,700 are
supposed to have perished by the explosion of the magazine,
and about 300 were- killed in the batteries; 6,000 prisoners
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