Star.
London, England, 1805-11-07 00:00:00

THE. ORDER 111 WHICH THS SHIES OT Tltt DEITIBiI
SQUADRON ATTACKED THE COMBINED FLEETS, ON
THE LIST 01P OCTOBER, !POS.
•AN.
VICTORY.
TEMLRAIRR,
NRITUNZ.
CONO,IICROR.
LIVIATHAN.
AJAX.
ORION.
AOAMERIT4OI4,
MINOTAUR.
STARTIATO.
BRITANNIA.
AFRICA.
iURTALVS.
Exams.
Pstoaar.
NAIAD.
PICKLE fehooner.
ENTRZIRRNANTE cutter.
(Signed) c. cottittotoon.
GENERAL ORDER.
EURTALUS, Oetober 21, 1805.
The ever to be lamented death of Lord Vifcount
NELSON, Duke of Bronte, the Commander in Chief,
who fell in the action of the till, in the arms of
victory, covered with glory, whole memory will be
ever dear to the &kith Navy, and the thitifh Nation,
whore zeal for the honour of his King, and for the
interea of his Country, will be ever held up aia thin-
ing example for a Mita Seaman, leaves to me a
duty to return my thanks to the Right Hon. Rear.
Admiral, the Captains, Officers, Seamen, and de.
tachments of Royal Marines (crying on board his
Blajefly's fluadron now under my command, for
their condo& on that day ; but, where can I fad
language to exprefs my fentiments of the vahmr and I
/kill whic:i were difplayed by the Officers, the Sea-
men, and Marines in the battle with the enemy,
where every individual appeared an Hero, on whom
the glory of his country depended! the attack was
irref►itible, and the iffue of it adds to the Page of
Naval Annals a brillinet inflance of what Britons
can do, when theii King and their Country need
'their f•rvice.
To the R,ight Honourable Rear Admiral the Earl
of NORTH Ilse, to the Clptaiiis, Officers, and feanten,
and to the Officers, Non c immiflioned Officers, and
privates of the Royal Marines, I beg to give my
Ancere and hearty thanks for their highly meritori-
ous condua, both in the aaion, their zeal
and aaivity in bringing the captu4Sips oat from
the perilous fi'uation in which they were, after their
furrender, among the flinals of Trafalgar; in boil-
terous weather.
And I &fire that the repealve Captains wilt be
'leafed to communicate tei the Officers, feamen, and
Royal Marines this public tellimony of dir high ap-
probation of their condua, and my thanks for it.
(Signed) C. cor.t.inowncls.
To the Right Honoarable Rear Admiral the Earl of Northedt.,
and the refpedttve Captains and Commanders
GENERAL ORDER.
The Ataticury Gon, whole arm is Rrength, hav-
ing of his great mercy been pleated to crown the
exertion of his Majefly's fleet with fuccefs, in giving
them a complete villory over their enemies, on the
tie of this month ; and that all praife and thankl
giving may be offered up to the Throne of Grace for
the great benefits to our country and to mankind :
I have thought proper, that a day fhould be ap-
pointed, of general humiliation before Gon, and
thankfgiving for this his merciful goodnefs, implor-
ing f rgivenefs of fins, a continuation of his divine
mercy, and his conflant aid to us, in the defence of
our conntry's liberties and laws, without which the
rumeg efforts of men are nought, and dire& there-
fore that be appointed for this holy purpnfe.
Given on board the Euarm.us, off Cape Trafalgar, aid
Oetober, 1805.
(Signed) c. col.t.sacwoon.
To the refpeetive Captains and Commanders.
N. 13. The fleet having been difperfed by a gale of
wind, no day has yet been able to be appointed for
the above purpofe.
EC/RTALUS. off Cadiz, °etcher lc 1105.
Sir—ln my letter of the 22d I detailed to you, for
the info•matiiln of my Lords Commiffioners of the
Admiral .y, the proceedings of his Majefty's•fqua-.
slron on the day of the action, and that preceding it,
fume which I have had a continued ferias of misfor-
tunes, but'they are of a kind that human prudence
could nor poffibly provide again% or my &ill pre•

REAR.

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vent.
On the zzd in the morning a Rrong fontherly wind
blew, with fqually weather, which however did not
prevent the activity of the Officers and (cameo of
furl (hips as were manageable from getting hold of
many of the prizes (thirteen or fourteen) and towing
them off to the weßward, where I ordered them to
rendezvous round the ROYAL Sovsattov, in tow by
the NUMMI ; but on the 23d, the gale increafed,
and the fea ran fo high, that many of them broke
the tow rope, and drifted far to leeward, before they
were got hold of again, and fome of them taking ad_
vantage in the dark and boillerous night, got before
the wind, and have perhaps drifted upon the chore
and funk ; on the afternoon of that day the remnant
of the combined fleet, ten fail of fhips, who had not
been much engaged, Rood up to leeward of my
flattered and tfraggled charge, as if meaning to at-
tack them, which obliged me to coiled a force out
of the leaß injured (hips, and form to leeward for
their defence ; all this retarded the prngrcfs of the

hulk's, and the bad weather continuing, deterrnkted
me to &limy all the leewardmoß that could be
cleared of the men, confidering that keeping pact
Pion of the Mips was a matter of little eonfrquence
compared with the chance of their falling again into
the hands of the enemy; but even this was an ardu-
ous talk in the high Ira whickwas running. I hope,
however, it has been accompliffied to a confiderable
extent; I entrufted it to Skilful Officers, who would
(pare no pains to execute what was pollible. The
Captains of the PRINCt and Neeruto cleared the
Trinidad and funk her. Captains Hors, • &vivo'.
and MALCOLM, who joined the fleet this moment
from Gibraltar, had the charge of deftroying four
others. The Redoubtable funk all= of the SwIFT.
stnts while in tow. The Santa Anna, I have no
doubt, is funk, as her fide was almoft entirely beat
in ; and fuch Is the (battered condition of the whole
of them, that unlefs the weather moderates I doubt
whether I (ball be able to carry a Ship of them into
port. I hope their Lordfhips will approve of what I
(having only in confideration the deflrudion of the
enemy's fleet) have thought a meafure of abfolute
neceffity.

1 I have taken Admiral Vit.i.esauve into this flip;
Vice Admiral Dos 'Wye is dead. Whenever the
temper of the weather will permit, and I can (pare
a frigate (for there were only four in the *Rion with
thefleet, EURYALVII, Statvs, PHOIIIII, and Milan;
the Mscrostase joined the sad, and the El/RYDICI
and SCOUT the s3d), I Hull coiled the other Flag
Officers, and fend them to England, With their flags,
(if they do not all go to the bottom), to be laid at
his Majcßy's feet.

There were four thoufand troops embarked, under
the command of General COMTA II" who was taken
with Admiral VILLsw EUVE in the Bucentaure.
I am, Sir, &c.
(Signed)

c. coLurcwoon.

LONDON.

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In the preceding columns we have given the Offi-
cial details of the memorable Vidory obtained by
Lord Ne LSO?r on the day of his death. However the
enemy may exult for the moment in the loft of fuch
a Commander to England, every friend of the Noble
Admiral mull glory in his fate, even though he la-
ments it. N•o part of his life was mare fplendid than
his death. And it was precifely what he anticipated
for himfclf. After the memorable battle of the Nile,
Captain Hassowssa prefented to him a coffin made
of the mainmsft of POI ient, which blew up, with an
atteftation of the fad—and entreated that the Noble
Admiral would order it to be preferved for his own
body, when the fate of battle, or the hand of time,
might demand the debt of nature. The Noble Ad.
miral on the day before he left London, called at the
houfe of Mr. Leddifon, in Brewer-ftreet, where the
coffin is, and with that familiar good humour which
accompanied his addrefs to all his people, cleared
him to have the atteftation engraved on the lid ; as
" he thought it highly probable that he fhould want
it on his return." It was ever his expreffion in going
into a battle—" Conquelt or Weftminfter Abbey"—
and it was his peculiar good fortune to • infpire the
fame fentiment into every follower.
There can be no doubt that a deliberate aim had
been taken at his Lordfliip. He had on the infignia of
the different orders conferred on him as the reward of
his valour, and had been requefted to lay them aide
for fear of the confequence, but he would not, he
Aid, in the face of a foe put off the trophies of his
triumphs over the enemies of his country. He re-
ceived the mufleet ball below his left (boulder, through
the centre of one of his decorations.

The heroifin difplayed by him, in the interval be-
tween his wound and death, was moil awful and
exemplary. Carried down to the Surgeon among
the other wounded fulFerers, he delved to tale bittazi
—but, on the fira view of -the wound it was pro-
nounced to be. mortal. He received the intelligence
with that fortitude which became his charaaer, and
to the LA moment_ he exerted all his facoltiei in the
execution of his duty. He fent intelligence of his
approaching fate to his gallant Second, Admiral
COLLINGWOOD. He gave his orders to all around
him—he exprelled an eagernifs to know that the arms
of his Sovereign had triumphed, and repeatedly in.
quired how many of the enemy had (truck. As life
was ebbing away, he was gratified by hearing that the
number was continually augmenting. Capt. Halm
continued with him to the lea ; and, when he was told
that above 15 had already Bruck, he returned thanks
to Con that his death was crowned with viEtory ; and,
after defiring his bleffing to be given to all the perfons
whom he mot tenderly loved, and whom, it was bis
only detlre to have embraced, he raid, bat the gale!
Goo be done—and in a few minutes expired.
So ended the life of HORATIO Loan Nu -sow—a
life that, from the twelfth year of his age, has been
indefatigably devoted to the public folio. The me.

intim of his brilliant tarter will be without parallel
for iraricty of danger and for fplendour of fucccfs.—
When his Matarry ditermined to confer upon him
a mark of royal grace, and to make out for him a
coat of arms peculiar to his fervices, there was de-
pofited in the College of Arms, after the battle of
Aboukir, an smelled roll from the archives of the
Admiralty, of pne hundred and twenty-two infiances
of honourable achievetnent. Since4hat epoch he has
fought the battle of Copenhagen—he has delivered
the Welt Indies—and be has now deftroyed the com-
bined fleets.

The public will fee by the difpatch of Admiral
Commie:wow), that the battle of Trafalgar was
fought on a new principle. The fasl is, that the
fruitful mind of Lord NELSON was for ever equal to
the exigency of the occafion : he obferved the dif-
treffing confeqnences which refulted in the battle of
Sir Rona RT CA LD ft, from the eonfution of multiplied
'lgoe's, and before he went to fea, he had formed in
his mind the plan of avoiding the neceffity. a I &all
" never difirad the attention of my fleet on the day
ofaition by a fuperabundance of fignah," was an
affertion which he completely verified. On the 4th
of OEtober, he fummoned the Admirals and Captains
of his fleet into the cabin of the Vacroiv, and.laid
before them a new, fimple, and moft complete plan
of attack, which (truck every one of them with the
force of demonfiration. It cannot be better expreffed
than as Admiral CoEcinc WOOD defcribes it—lt otts

There is but little to add to the fimple and moll
impreffive account of the ninon rendered by Admiral
CorAttiowoon. Unfortunately the boillerous gales
which followed the battle may deprive us of Tome of
the benefits with which it was fraught ; but that is
the flighteft confideration in the event. Britifh ho.
nour is fatisfied—and a blow is firuck at the com-
bined naval force of France and Spain by an inf.rior
fleet, (on the very day when Mace's army was piling
their arms arthe feet of their Conqueror,) which
they will not be able fuddenly to recover.
HORATIO Lord Vircount Ns Lao'', Duke of Bronte,
was born at Burnham-Thorpe, in Norfolk, on the
r
ssttn of September, 1758. He had therefore juft
completed his 47th year. •
Captain Sr ass, of the NAUTILUS, and Lieutenant
LAPINOTI sits, of the litcaut fchooner, arrived at
the Admiralty together, about half pall one o'clock
yeflerday morning. The former did not, as was
generally underftood, arrive from the fcene of ac-
tion: be fell in by accident with the !Notts.a fchooner,
and on learning the intelligence, proceeded immedi-
ately to Lifbon with the information, from whence he
was tent with difpatches. by Mr. GAMBIER, the Bri-
tifh Conful, to England, and landed at Plymouth.—
laientenantLaramorteas made the port of Falmouth,
and, by a fingular coincidence, met Captain Svc's
at the gates of the Admiralty. This aftive Officer was
yefterday promoted to the rank of Commander.
The following is a letter from the fleet
LaTTIR FROM AN °WWI Ot TEI tORTALI7II, OCT. 26,1805.
" Sir—l tamely know whether, after fo great a lots as the
nation has fuftained in Lord NEL sox, and every we of us a friend,
added to the inevitable &amebas of nineteen line prizes, f ought
to congratulate you, but time the enemy, minas Is many thips, and
we, truft not one, even in that there is matter to rejoice. Such
a vidory, and under eireumftances fo difadvantageous to the at-
tack, never was achieved,—Admiral Villeneuve, who I. now at my
elbow, can rawly yet credit it ; and his defpair and grief exceeds
any thing I ever law. To reM Inch an attack, and fecooded as
Lord Nelfon was—was vain. I did not leave the Vi dory till the
(hot were eying thick over her; and the left fignal Lord Nelfon
made, was loch as cannot and never will be forgot—it washy tele-
graph—P. That England expeded every man would do his duty."
I have time for no osore—the veffel is going, but I &ail boon fee
you, se I am to tarry home the captured Admirals."

HAMBURGH MAILS.

Two Hansborgh Mails have arrived. and have
brought loose very important details. They confirm
the fail already Rated in this paper that -

HIS PRUSSIAN MAJESTY HAS TAKEN POSSESSION OF

HANOVER IN THE NAME OF HIS BRITANNIC
MAJESTY.

The advanced guard of the Ruffian troops entered
Boitzenburgh on the Elbe, on the zyth ult. the Fru!.
flans entered the Eleaorate of Hanover the next day.
The French, as might have been expeded, threw
themfelves into the fortrefs of Hameln, to the amount-
it is (aid, of five or fix thonfand men, where it is
fuppofed they will be blockaded. They have pro-
vifioned the place for twelve months.

The intelligence from Berlin is of the moll impor-
tant nature. The political fyttem of the Pruffian
Cabinet has undergone a complete change in the
conrfe of the laft nr.nth. Inftead of placing her im-
menfe armies upon the war eftablinsment, merely to
refill the paffage of a foreign force through her ter-
ritories, and maintain her neutrality, Pruffia has
conceded full liberty of tranfit to the Ruffian forces,
and is marching her armies to Franconia, to the
banks of the Rhine, and to the borders of the Ba-
tavian Republic. Three armies, amounting in the
whole to tso,ooo men, are aeually on their march
for the different points we bare mentioned. A fourth
army, of immenfe force, is stumbling in Brandeis-
burgh, to fupport the three firft. Tweoty four thou-
fend Saxons, and twenty thoufand Heffians, are to
be united to the armies on their march to Franconia
and Weftphalia. The army in Lower Saxelty is to be
commanded by the Doke of Baumswica ; and we
think there is tome probability that the Ruffian and
the &Fedi& troop, who are already is Hasoveroad ,

he gritifh and Hanoverian, who Ihirtly stake there
may all ultimately come under the command if that,
exce:lent General and coniummate Poltticiaß.
The van guard of the Second Ruffian Army,
amounting to to,ooo men, had arrived about the
middle of Taft month in Bohemia, and formed a
junaian, we have do doubt, with the troops on the
Inn, in a few days after. Independent of the ins-
rnenfe armies which were pouring down through
Pruffian Poll3nd and Gallicia, from the RuffiAn ter-
ritories, a confiderable reinforcement to'the troops
already landed in Pomerania, were expeaed to ar-
rive from Revel at Wolgall in the fame province.—
Ten thoufand Swedes were alfo expeaed to advance
through Mecklenburgh into Hanover, permiCGon
having been requited of the Governments of both
he dutchies to that effe&.
AUSTRIAN VICTORY IN ITALY.

It gives- us great pleafure to be able to announce,
that the intelligence communicated e x cluii v ely itt the
STAR of Monday, of the Archduke CHAR Las having
obtained a viaory over the French in Italy, receives
fume confirmation from the Hamhu►gh papers. The
Archduke is Rated to have attacked the French at Ve•
rona, taken poireffion of the place, and made 4000 of
the enemy prifunerq.
FRENCH-AND DUTCH JOURNALS.
The former have come to hand np to the 3 tft nit.
the latter to the 4tlt inftant.. From there and the
Mails, we have given in the preceding columns as
ample extraas as our limits would permit.
A letter from Berlin, dated the azd of Oauber,
Rates, that on the 18th of the fame month, an efcort
of boo French Infantry, and Soo cavalry, was at•
tacked by 6000 Außrian cavalry between Nordlingels
and Dinkelibibi, and were beat by the fuperior force,
with the lofs of so pieces of artillery, and a hundred
ammunition waggons.
The Stutgard Gazette of Oanber 17, Rates, that
an enterprize undertaken by the French under Gene.
ral NET en the t tth cf OCtober, in the afternoon,
on the left bank of the Danube, between Ulm and
Alpeck, had not fucceeded, and that en the t 3th the
Auftrians had carried off a confiderable quantity
of baggage belonging to the French army.
We shall give farther extraas to-morrow.,

, THE EXPEDITION.
The general report has been, that the foree that
has failed from the Downs is bound to Hanover.—
We may now however fate, as the Ratement cannot
now be detrimental to the objea of the Expedition,
that we have reafon to believe it is defined again&
Boulogne. It is known to Government that the whole
force in that place does not exceed 4000 men. The
tranfports, it is believed, will land their troops as
near the town as they can, and no doubt is en.
tertained that they will carry the place. Sir Sreise
SMITH is at the fame time to keep the batteries em•
ployed, and to attempt deflroying part of the fkip.
ping. In the event of fuccefs, the whole mull be
annihilated. The attack, we believe, was intended
to be made as laft night.