Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1801-09-21
ATTACK ON BOULOGNE.
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5nJy tely, Us was M eve titn-t7:
On Saturday, Lord Melton f.ile5 from
D-ai, and the fame evening took h. command
oflhe iqaadron d fmaH tnps III war crc;zing
tT D51 951s, urdlr The roa,mind If Capt.
@onervilIe If The EugeniA Ills Lor-thiP
ordered all lhips s Wal to Join, and f,vera did
on Sunday, TIL az lal they amounted 70 Ihuty
tlv3n fail, inc'u ding gun boats, hiiIs &c- His
Lordlhip brought them n! up before , e.opEnc,
and made l5nal for them 90 divide into two
fquadrons; one lqntd'on to beito wiod yard.
On Monday Lord Nefon itocd cole into
Bonlogne with fore Of the bomb vsIels. aud
threw feveral bombs to try how they would
reach the enemy. Finding hey reached the
hore,he made ti.nal Of recall, mi hey anchor
10 ab0ut4 miles irons the lanj.
The Ghore at Doulogae nretcaes nearly Eat
AID Wet. Tow ards he Ea,t p'ns OF land
runs cut forming by. The mouth Of the
harbour /, il the taidtla az thi,, and looks out
10 The Nor,h The enemy's ,eGcs, coulit-
ing OF fix briggs, TWO lchooners, and about .
or so gun boats, wete arranged in lice along
The beach, not half a mile from lhart, one half
Eaa, but he iargel half WcA, II TIE hsrrour's
.-outh, il font Of which was he lHn.t brig.
On the beach wet Of The h3 hour Wa a .,r.nE
battery, which kept up a very heavy Ere. The
battery on The PIE. head. en- VIZ TIE harbour
did not HIe much. bit lri-d theis TO" and
then.
On Monday night, Lori Mellon went ander
cover Of The dark. III four cared zig, long
fsiit boat and rc5onnoter-j Tie enemy, Pou-
ton, and found ii a, hove ic.cri'ei he ta-u
iiiued o. d-rs 70 begin me att+ck At 6relk q. Jay
TEX. morning. AtlcuI a'c.o.k, TucfJIT morn
in2 Ee hlUie,t ttirrcI the bombs, ne II
lumber 10 an o0.iqua line. Gret,hnE rom
the we8 cn1 OF b.; er,my's i c. Thy came
= anchor, a,j ,hrp sung l0r-5s ABOUT five
o'clock, the other Ihip- ": wax being tl.ionsI
under weigh. II another Inc, behind Tie
combs, ready t. tend.t 4li}.nce. i s Las
;lP's own f1g was pa ced il from Of the har
u-ul; havi " our tUo zines, one of bombs
another Oi tnll Ihip y. war, freezing from
Ri light; behird Jhei- line, was the Lfgjsa,
nl CA guns. Ills Lnd,hjp's Injection was TO
attack The emmy vefel, With bombs oAy- AS
tley reach much f.r;h-- th.n IL, AMI would
Prove ef-ttnal whil- the euemy's mo, could TOT
re.ch Us. At fix o'aoek. however, i bang
then high water Lo-d N-.l0n, delir7us Of con
rrincing .he enemy villa. 4 heavy fire ls could
play u1on lh.rl, ana, AZ the tems TINS, 10
.ntuce lhem - Of IF. L=r Hr0ngcd points. u
Icing difficult t7 tilc,vr their Dlt-er-e, The
citEs being of brown LAY, feat our tA l7 ot
ear eery c.o.- ;0 th- .I-re ~ face of he Date
ries vh-fe rhty ira treI one broad hte and,
taking rount, fired The other; .aa1 i4i.ing
aTay loaded for another ilch l...c<
This oluced n1ol rem-.I.as i-- o both
G5e,. am /, va, tAisth2t fri gave II. town Of
u. ia
user fell ], WAS recc1.ri.y given over bur
hsd The def--i eff & ~ convincing Lord nj.
ION rhat he h q guelIej The nature oft1e ensmy's
lr-Dgth, AMI that Ae had jud c;ouily placed The
gun BOATS While the lhPs were Hiing III il
broadfjes A. above mcntisned, AZ leveu I'D the
morning, b. L-rdihi2 was in bis barge, moving
about, making o frvaioni ana minute, VII ch
t4ay b. ulttut in A future attack. lie v.l.ed
the bombs fepsrateiy, a-d rowed 4I1rB The
whole line, amdf a flower Of lhat AMI ihci's
from the enemy, attended by tie K'aE and
Queen cutters and, BIZ The cool and intrepid
conduit dfplayed in Ill IL. a4ions Of this great
man, giving his orders, and amin lting by ex M
ple The French batteries on each id: the
ha.bor could only fire A-ailh our, or nearly
f. while our bombs were lGlt0led t1 much to
th-ir left that the batteries could not De upon
them. add 10 tn, th4t tie BOMBS b-ing pia-
ed to the w:2warJ, oblq1ely from the enemy's
ne OF veaels, every bono thrown has TIC ad
vantage cf raking The whole line as It we're
Tor infAnce, If bomb we { thrown Tor The
fsrtheR French flip, and foll ihorr, II hid great
chance ofhitting one 10 tie line ne lrcr; Or if
Lrown for the nearet, and going beyond her,
had a chance Of hitting another farther off.
'Fhe French ioon dfcoyered The inutility OF their
batteries and found that Lord Nefon had not
been 70 polite As 20 4tt3,k them n III. manner
they expected They therefore fsta number If
men on to throw up works and batteries on the
hill il the eaRern turn ef the Bay, which hanks
the whole line Of coat. This covered the
mouth of The barber lolerablY well but IL
could not reach orr bombs, which we're at the
extremity ofthe wc0ward, ans TIE enemy threw
only few fhels from 81. The cBoo'i,ion and
Object Of our veiTes were q force a. H. French
Ezips TO retreat towards tie mouth otthe bar.
Dor, that, having them in a tluHer, their de-
ru0ion nigh; 6he1ually be made at night.
n this we Paitly luooseded. III. enerny's FIRE
VI continued very levy I'll about one O'Clock,
shea il wholly cealcd f on the bills & batteries,
fesire, no doub,, that Is as utterly incfedual /;