The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-10-11
ELEVENTH OF OCTOBER.


This is the anniversary of the great naval
battle of Camperdown, foug in 1897, between
the British Admiral Duncan, snd the Dutch
Admiral De Inter.
The Dutch fleet, amounting to fifteen sail of
the line, and eleven frigates, had been lying all
the summer in the Texel, with a body of
French troops, for the invasion oil Ireland, but
had been watched so closely by Duncan, with
sixteen sail of the line, and three frigates, that
they could not get 10 sea without risking a
battle, crowded as they were by soldiers. At
| last, in the beginning of October, q violent
storm obliged Duncan to leave the coast of
Holland, and put into Yarmouth Roads, and
DE Winter took advantage of it, to slip his an
chors, and put out to sea, having first dsem-
bnrked the troops. He had orders to proceed,
at once, to Bre.t, and there unite himself to the
Brest Squadron, which was likewise destined
to act against Ireland.
Admiral Duncan was appraised, by the sig
malls of his cruisers, of the movement of the
Dutch Squadron, almost as soon as it took
place. He Immediately set sail across the
German Ocean, and SO rapid was the passage,
that he got near the Dutch before they were
out of sight of land. Having stationed his
fleet in such a manner, that the Dutch could
not get into the TexeI without passing through
il, he determined to practi ce the system of tao
tics which Rodney had introduced, and which
afterwards made Nelson the most famous Of
nautical heroes He bore down upon the
Dutch, who were drawn up between Camper
down and Egmont, nine miles from the coast,
in two lines one destined to get between the
enemy and the shore, the other to break
through the centre of his line. This system
was adopted TO prevent the Dutch ships from
getting into the shadows, and thus escaping
the English, which could not follow, on &C.
count OF their heavy draught of water. These
arrangements were carried into effect, to the
very letter. Admiral Onslow. in the Monarch,
of 100 guns, broke the line, pouring, as he
of Dutch ship, and his lsrboard broadsd. in
to the ship Of the Vice-Admiral. Duncan, him.
self, soon followed with the second line. He
pierced the centre. and laid himself alongside
of lie Winters flagship. The action now be-
came general. each English ship engaging its
adversary, in the dangerous position of ships
lying exposed to instantaneous wreck upon
lee-shore.
The Dutch Admiral saw the design of his
adversary, and made the signal for close ordor
but the smoke was SO thick that it could not bs
seen. The superiority of the English soon be-
IN flor hat nE,
duration, Duncan totally dismasted the Dutch
Admiral. who thereupon struck his colors.-
He was, at the time of the surrender, the ONLY
man on the deck of his ship, who had not re.
ceived wound. Admiral Onslow soon afier
forced the Dutch Vice-Admiral to strike. and
by four o'clock. eight ships of the line, two of
fifty guns. and two frgates, were in posses
sion of the English. Twelve sail of the line
struck, but the prisoners on two of them rose
and recaptured them. Two escaped, during
the bad weather which ensued, and which pre-
vented the English Admiral from putting a
prize crew on board. Duncan carried eight
ships OF the line, and two fifty skies, sufely ill.,
10 Yarmouth Roads.
| "'' oa''ie was fought in sight of the shore,
""''" was 'hronged with spectators. 1t had
| commenced miles from the shore. D,r;no
us continuance, the combstan drif,ed to x;,h
i've miles OF it, and when it ended, were in 9
sa" va'' wafer. 1t was one of the hardes,
,ossn' actions that occurred during those wars.
m o's "e war with the United States. The
we're long the rivals of the Engli.b a.
80: go aAa the latter never, until this d,v oh
49, any very great advantage over them :.
aiaF hight. The ma.,s and ,;va;.. - 10
meets were very little injured. Bo,h n. sen
n..a :. tho hull their object being vietory, and
not safety or safety only with victory. r..
loss IN men was nearly equal the En,I;sh
lost lO40 men, the Dutch ll60.
Inc steamship Hermana sailed from New
York Saturday with tfS nm - .n..: -