Star.
London, England, 1805-12-05 00:00:00

tale pOfrefrion of ; for all their colours were buck.
We were now employed until pall nine at night in
repairing our damages as well as we could, by knot-
ting and fplicing our rigging, fecuring our malls,
ilfbing the yards, and bending new fails. About
eight o'clock we heard of the death of the ever to be
lamented Lord NELSON.

" It is impoffible to defcribe the fenfations of every
one at this melancholy information. Never was there
a man fl univerfally beloved and admired through
all gradations of rank as that truly great man, who
fell in obtaining one of the molt brilliant and slecitive
victories ever obtained ; and at a moment when his
great aloilaies were molt wanted. It was an unfortu-
nate circumtlance—hia running theVidory on board
the enemy; for although it was a certain and expe-
ditious mod.: of taking her and breaking the line, it
colt him and molt of the officers on the Vidory's
quarter deck their lives. It expofed them to the
mufquet and pith,' flint of the enemy's men in their
tops, who rick-A them off. The Vidnry took her I
opponent in about half an hour—then hauled off and
attacked others. The Tenteraire took her opponent
in about the fame fpace of time, but unfortunately
101 l hgr top-mail, &c. The Royal Sovereign took
the St. Ann, a Span:ft' three dccker. But I am ig.
norant of the part fome of the (hips took in the action
—I am confequently unable to give you the names
of all theft that particularly diflinguifhed themfelves.
I (hall, however, notice thole (hips which I bow to
have had a confpicuous (hare in the action. In the
weather line—the Vi/liry, the Temeraire, the Nep
tune. the Conqueror, and the Leviathan. In the lee
divifion—the Royal Sovereign, Belleifle, --, and
Tonnant.

" Several of our !tips, in corefeeptente of its being
unfortunately nearly a calm, were unable to get into
aftion until it was nearly over; among which were
the Prince and Dreadnought, of 98 guns each. This
was the caufe of many of our leading (hips in the lee
divifion being In much cut up. There is no (hip that
was fo much engaged with the enemy as the Neptune
was, that has loft fo few men ; this is to be atti ;hitt-
ed to the judicious pofition in which (he was placed,
by being able to fire repeated broadfith. into the Item
of the Bncentaur„ and the SantiTima Ttinidada, be-1
fore they could get their broadfides to bear on the
Neptune. For although the Neptune was engaged '
within pill()) fiat of leer opponents, the had loft only
one man killed and one woundes!,, when they both
firuck. What few men the did lofe, were loft at the
dole of the action ; her lift, however, is fortunately
very (mall, having only ten men killed, and thirty-
five wounde l ; but her malls, fails yards, and rigging,
were very much damaged.
" About eight o'clock in the evening of the
Admiral Collingwood took the cominatid oldie fleet,
and rent an order round to the different (hips to take
poffeffion of their prizes, and take them in tow. Whe-
ther all the prizes were taken poinaion of, I know
not ; and it is now of little confequence ; for a
gale came on in the evening which made it diffi-
cult for us to retain thofe we had taken polieffion of e
nor did we keep them long. On the morning of
the 23d, the Vtench (hip Indonostehle foundered
antra of the Swittfure, and feveral of our own people 1
with a Lieutenant of the 'fernervire in her. On the
24.:11, the remainder of the enemy's fleet were nb.
ferved to leeward, and the fignal was made to coil ,
off the prizes and purfue them ; bnt night cons. I
ing on, awl with it a heavy gale, we loft
them, and in the morning we obfervcd our prizes
were dated off the harbour of Cadiz. It was
fill blowing hard, and there being every appear-
ance of: another gale, and being on a lee (bore with-
out any fair prorpeet of getting the orizes off, the
fignal was made to take out the prifoncrs and de-
ftroy the prizes. The heavy fea that was running.
and the gale incrcafing, it was found impollible to
take out the ptilhners from all the prizes, and we
were under the neceffity of turning feveral of them
tvlrift with the prifoneis in them— and lime of them
with our own people in poffellion ; and four of them,
unfortunately, have tince got into Cadiz—fume ray
fix—Twelve (hips of the line have, however, been
deftroyed, and four are now in our poff. Eon ; what
has become of the veil is as yet uncertab%:. Nothing
could have been more unfortunate thin a gale
coming on (firefly on (hare after fuels an
n :--it has robbed' us of the fruits of oar vic-
tory. The enemy has recovered four of his (hips—
but in Inch a fate that it is not likely they will be fit
for lea tilde twelve months to come. it was eafy
to
fi;;lsi and defeat the enemy; but we mild not fuccefs-
fully contend againft the elenients. I am happy,
however, to (late, that all our own ffiips are fife,
although fcattered about in all direaiors. Admiral
VilleneuVe was on board the Neptune. We took
four Admirals in the allion. One efcaped afterwards
in the St. Anna ; another has gone in on parole;
two are fill in our poffelflon, and one was killed.
" Define I class my letter, I have juft time to fay,
that there are 22 (hips of the line of the enemy taken
and deltroyed ; four difmafted and much cut up, in
the harbetrr of Cadiz ; and two on (hove, with their
top malls (truck and much damaged. It wilt there-
fore he a long time before any more of their (hips of
the line can be ready, or Et to put to fea again from
Cadiz."

Tlie Hon. Capt. BLACKWOOD, of the Euryalus fri
gate, attended veterday at the Admiralty, and de-
liver,:d to their Lnrch)lips the jack, enlign, and /broad 1
pesidant, 6tc. of the F. ench Chip l'Aigle, of 74 guns,
ore cf the combined fquadron, which blew np
ditriiig the atltion of the:. tit of November,. off Cape
Tratalgar.
Th.: family of Mr. PALMER, cutler, in St. James's-
ltreet, had a joyful oceafion on Sunday lall, to throw
o" the " Nits of woe" which they were wearing in
memory of Mr. PALMER'S fon, who was hated in the
return to have been killed on board the VICTORY in
the late glorious aEtion. A letter arrived from the
fuppofed deceafcd, explaining the miQake, which was,
that another of the fame name had been unfortunate-
ly killed, but that he bad efcaped: with a wound in
the thigh.
Mazes, in Bond-f{rier, is at leaf{ entitled to the
thanks of the Corps of Dramatills, by fupplying them
with fuhjeds. His Juvenile Library has already for-
t, n;thed them, during the two lalt feafons, with Cin-
derella and Blue Beard, and. his Sleeping- Beauty is
likely to prove equally produftive to thank in the
cfcnt.