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FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE

ADMIRALTY, DEC. 27, 1844.

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have re-
ceived from Commodore Jones, the senior officer of her
Majesty's squadron on the west coast of Africa, a letter,
inclosing one from Commander Scott, of the Hyacinth,
of which the following is a copy
Her Majesty's ship Hyacinth, Aug. 13, 1844.
"Sir,—l have the honour to request that you will be
pleased to bring under the favourable notice of the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the following
account of the gallant and dashing behaviour of the
officer belonging to the ship named in the margin,*
which will, I hope, obtain for him that promotion he is,
in every respect, most worthy of, Or' the 12th of
August, in or about lat. 15 south, longitude 11 deg.
30m. east, when eff Fish Bay, I sent Mr, Tottenham, in
a four-oared gig with one spare hand, to communicate
with the Portuguese Governor.
The weather became thick, and he missed his port,
but, knowing that this ship was working along the coast,
anchored for the night, and pulled to the southward.
On the morning of the 13th he discovered a brig at
anchor, without colours, and saw her slip and make sail,
on whieli he save chase, being to windward, and the
breeze light., he wa.s enabled to approach her weather
beam, and fired a musket ahead to induce her to heave
to, and show her colours ; this and a second was di3re-
garded, but a port was open and a gun run ont and
brought to boar on the boat, which caused the officer to
pull into her wake, when part of the crew of the brig
commenced firing musketry, while the others gat the gun
on the poop, and pointed it at the boat. Mr. Tottenham
now commenced firing, as fast as the spare hand could
load for him, being just able to keep way with the
brig ; having hit four of the men on board, they
left the gun, and after firing 11:114a4e0 for twenty minutes,
finding they were unable to weather the land or teek,
without being boarded by the boat, they ran the brig
on shore, and abandoned her, to the number of eighteen,
inelnding three wounded men, bearing another mortally
wounded (sine.) dead), on board.
In the course a fiat afternoon, the brig was dis-
covered on shore from the fp4Sitead of this ship,
which stood in, and anchored, and hove her off,
when she proved to be of two hundred tons, with-
out papers, a Brazilian ensign in this aabirl, fully
equipped for conveying about one thousand slaves, tap
g-eis of four pounds calibre loaded, a barrel of powder,
and a quainiti ,(.4f langridge shot, a number of muskets,
swords, and bayonets et, Almost every bullet
expended in the gig was traced ' to the gun
csit.iage, or its immediate vicinity on the pi' 3o15; ado
trust that 40 rooluess, decision, and gallantry displayed
by Mr. Tottenham,, Nn 04; occasion, may obtain for him
the rank of lie.ittenant, for yhr.t. nassed in 1841.
I have the honour, &c.
(Signed) F. SCOTT, Commander.
To Captain Jones, Commander-in,Chief of her '
Majesty's Ships and Vessels, West Coast of Africa.
And the Commodore has also informed them of the
tapt,ure of her Majesty's sloop Ferret, on the 28th Sep-
teinber heir, oi a fiphooner, with.out colours or papers, but
supposed to be- the Brazilian
,hopr.er Aventura, with
four hundred slaves on board ; the defitriiction it the
Brazilian slave-brigantine Piedatle,conipletely 'equipped
for the slave trade, by her Majesty's sloop Albatrosa ;
and of the eaTturp 'of the slave'-brigantine
Andaz, completely equipped nor the aims trade, en
Ranteuth.s last, by 4r 4ajestYs`stealp-iloop
- nqnture of the Spanish siaYe s'elY)(>l,l'
-L,r last, by her Majesty's

the 25t,,
Prometheus; of toe
Concepcion, on the 23d Septeni.—

* Mr. John Francis Tottenham, mate.