Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-02-20

covered 70 eonss, of thrses ships Of ::.s1in,
oniy. TWO frigases, ITO s,naiter fries,e, cr
,,me ships. and q coswoy Of about 81 sail ,f
vrsssls, { ordered rsar ;.simiral sar;:a ~
chase them, and eigh, Of the hes, sa,;n,
shin,. which, standing On contrary ts,xs.
might take advantage Of the changes OF inc
wind which was then variable.
At,wo r. M. the Pomons having 20, fu
to windward, was directed by signal to de-.
-s,roy such of'the convoy a. could be come
w with aud in the evening she bum. two
brips. two bombards and ketch. Tie cue.
nv before dafk was OUT Of sight, anil III.
ship. chasing not much advanced, W. ,e
standing to the uor,hwarl, whhe the squad.
ron with me sire ;chsd to the somhward.
The mex. morn;ny neither the French nor
our ehasi. & ships were in sight, %
Th:s morning rear admira! Martin ioin.
ed with his division, a. named in the n.a.g.
in, having again faHeu in with the enemy on
the 24,h, u.Id on the 2sth they chased them
or shore: the Robust Vi g. guns, beariag
the flag Of rear admiral BSuaain, and the
Leon OFF,, Of Frontsgnau, where the day
following themselves set fire to them. Tho
Boreas OF seventy.icur guns and frigass
ran ON shore at the port of Cetts, where
there is li.,le probability Of either Of them
being saved. =
cannon sufficiently express the high "a.
tisfac.ion ( felt at the intrepid psrseye-
rance oil rear admiral Martin, and of the
captains of the ship, who were with him
in the pursuit. Nothing less ardent, o.
less sklful, would have produced results
so fortunate, where the coast near ,i,e
Rhone was exceedingly shoal and dange-
rors; so that some OF the ships were in i've
and six fathoms water, the weather thick,
ard the south east wind blew strong.
X enclose you, sir, rear'admiral Mar.
tin s.letter and beg to congratulate their
lordships on three great ships Of the enc
my being thus destroyed, Without tho
smalles, resistance on ,hsir part, or a shos
being fired by the British ships, excepsa
few by the Tigre at the Boreas, when she
was pushing ashore at Cette of their two
figates, the ,Pomone and Pauline, ons
hauled her wind some time in the night
and fetched in,o Narcotics road.
The other par, of the French squadron
are found to remain in Toulon by the ships
which have since examine tina, port.
have the hon or to be, &c.
(Signed) COLLINGWOOD.
Vak de Pari., off Rssas, Moo. l., lsoa.
STR, XIII. ..-..
When the enemy's convoy was chased
on the esd uIt. their transports separstea
from the ships Of war. and, under the pro-
lection of an armed store ship, two bonn
bar,s and z=beck, made for the bay OF
Rosas. When the slips oil. war were dis
posed of, az related 10 my letter of,yestsi-
day. the convoy became the object sof my
a,t.ntios, and on the a9h The Apollo was
s ut cg Rosas to examine what vessels were
there, and how far they were in a si,uasioa
assailable. ~. a. = 49,,
I'll: ex. dav appointed the.ships asper
marsln,t Tor his service, under the o,acis
of rapta Haloweli, to bring them Gut ii
The wind was favorable or otherwise 70 de-
stroy them. The state Of the wind and sea
would no, permit this operation until lasr
night, when, after daIk, the ships bore up
for the bav, and anchored ABOUT miles
from the castle of Rosas, under the pTotec-
ton of whi.h castle, of Trinity Fort. and
several other newly erected batteries, the
CONVOY, consisting Of II vessels, Ave Of
them armed, as per accompanying list.
were uaoored. -
The boat, being arranged in separate di-
visions, the whole were pat under the orr
d~rs Of lieu, Taiiour, first lieutenant Of the
rigre, md proceeded TO the ATTACK Of the
enemy, who, although he could have no
previous intimasion of such an enterprise
against hi'a, was found yisilanr and com.
pIeteiy on his guard. The ship which, was,
smaller sort Of tiigate, was enclose in
boarding MEETINGS, md a good breeze adj
vanc.d a head of her Tor the look-out; Oh
being hailed, and The alarm gun fred our;
boats stretched out, the crews at the high
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