up athwart us, at the diftance of half mufquet-fhor: by the abilities and meritorious conduct of the Officers, the Ready fpirit and prompt obedience to my orders of the fearen and marines; with a well-directed fire of two broad. fides from the E halion, and a running fight of an hour, exchanging bow and fern chaces, the latter part within half piftol-fhot, I had the pleasure of feeing her haul down Spanish colours to his Majesty's hip under my command. She proves to be the Thetis Spanish frigate, of 36 guns, twelve and fix pounders, and 250 men, commanded by Don Juan de Mendoza, from Vera Cruz, bound to any port in Spain the could fetch, with 1,411,526 dollars, and a quantity of cocoa on board. I have the additional fatisfaction to acquaint your Lordship, that not a fingle man is hurt on board the Ethalion. The other Spanish frigate is called the Brigida, commanded by Don Antonio Pillou, the fame force and lading as the Thetis. The laft time I saw the Naiad, which was juft before the action took place, was nearly within gunfhot of her, and I have no doubt of her being captured. I beg leave to recommend to your Lordships' notice Lieut. Pym, the Senior Officer; the able affiftance I received from him on the quarter-deck, and his indefatigable exertions in fhifting the wounded mafts and yards on board the Thetis, do him the utmost credit. I cannot país over in filence the praife due to Lieutenants Jauney and Quilliam, for their great attention to the guns on the main-deck, nor that of Mr Ducker the Mafter, and Lieut. Peake of the Marines, for their aid on the quarter-deck; the Warrant and Petty Officers, feamen, and marines, alfo merit your Lordships' notice. I have the honour to be, &c. James Young. Ethalion-None killed or wounded. Thetis-One killed and nine wounded. Copy of another Letter from Lord Brid. port to Evan Nepean, Efq. dated Oc tober 22. SIR, Captain Digby, of his Majefty's fhip Alcmene, is just arrived here; he came from Plymouth by land, charged with difpatches from Capt. Pierrepoint, of his Majefty's fhip Naiad, ftating, with other occurrences, the important capture of Ed. Mag. Feb. 1800. the Santa Brigida, Spanish frigate, confort of the Thetis, (as ftated in Captain Young's letter of yefterday's date) copies of which you will herewith receive for their Lordships' information, whom I fincerely congratulate upon this fortunate event, which does fo much credit to Capt. Pierrepoint, and all the Officers, feamen, and marines of the different ships under his command, for the meritorious and perfevering conduct manifested upon this occafion. I have the honour to be, &c. Bridport. Naial, of Cape Finisterre, Oct. 19. My LORD, I have great pleafure in being able to acquaint you, that the fhips named in the margin * (which your Lordship has done me the honour to put under my orders) captured yesterday morning the Spanish frigate Santa Brigida, of 36 guns, and having on board 300 men, commanded by Don Antonio Pillou. This frigate, my Lord, in company with another called the Thetis, left Vera Cruz on the 21ft of Auguft laft, and I had the good' fortune to fall in with them both, on the evening of the 16th inft. in latitude 44 deg. 1 min. N. longitude 12 deg. 35 min. W. at eight P. M. the Naiad then a fingle fhip, and to which I immediately gave chace; before midnight I difcovered them to be veffels belonging to the enemy, and was joined by the Ethalion: when the day broke I was also joined by the Alcmene, when the Triton was dif covered far aftern ftill, owing to the fuperior failing of the latter fhip; after a chace which lafted 32 hours, 1 fet myfelf down as indebted for a moft valuable capture. The two frigates at feven A. M. perceiving themselves not in a ftate to withstand our united force, took different routes, upon which I made the Ethalion's fignals to pafs the flernmoft fhip of the enemy, as fhe at that time took the lead in point of failing, and and for and engage the headmoft veffel, which was obeyed with that alacrity by Capt. Young, that I make no doubt but he has experienced a fimilar fate to her companion; but as the Santa Brigida made a determinate push on the fouthern courfe, a feparation of courfe took place. The latter frigate of the enemy having rounded Cape Finifterre on the morning of the 18th inft. by her faft failing, about five o'clock her Commander U *Naiad, Triton, Alcmene. fhoved Thoved fo very close to the rocks of Monte Lora, that the Triton, who was first in purfuit, (Captain Gore being regardless of everything but clofing with the enemy,) firuck upon the faid rocks, going feven knot at the time. I fear her damage is confiderable: however, the was foon off again, and commenced an animated fire on the enemy, as did Capt. Digby, with an Officer-like prefence of mind, keeping in that direction to cut off the entrance of Port de Vidre. At eight A. M. the three frigates clofed with the enemy amidst the rocks of CommaFurto, at the entrance of Muros, when the colours were hauled down, and we found ourselves all in foul ground to gether. A fortunate breeze sprang up from the thore, and we were enabled to put the hips heads to the fea, and began to shift prifoners, when a Spanish fquadron, confifting of four large fhips, one with a broad pendant, came out of Vigo, with an intention, I fuppofe, of refcuing the prize. This being the opinions of Captain Gore and Digby alfo, every exertion was made to fecure the prifoners and get the hips under my command ready to receive them; but on their per teiving my determination, they bore up and ran into Vigo. Light and variable winds have kept me ftill in fight of the Spanish coaft, which is to-day one continued blaze; and as I was aware of another iquadron of Spanish fhips being in Corunna, have thought it my duty to keep altogether for the protection of the prize, which is of immenfe value, have ing on board one million four hundred thousand dollars, independent of a cargo of equal eftimation. My companion's in chace, Captains Gore and Digby, make the most favourable report of the zeal and perseverance of their respective Officers and crews; and in juftice to the Officers and fhip's company I have the honour to command, I can only fay, that their anxiety to get alongside the enemy's frigates, whilft alone, was equal to what it was afterwards, when my force became fuperior; and on that, as on all former occafions, I profited by the able affiftance of J. H. Marshall, my Firft Lieutenant, to whom I have given charge of the prize. I inclofe a lift of killed and wounded on this occafion, either by fhot or cafualties. I have the honour to be, &c. Brigida. Two feamen killed, eight fea men wounded. [A letter from Capt. Twyfden ftatcs Revolutionaire, under his command; a the capture of a French privateer by the letter from Capt. Barlow ftates the capture of a French privateer by the Phoebe, H. Digby ftates the capture of a French under his command; a letter from Capt. privateer by the Alcmene, under his command; and a letter from Rear-Admiral Duckworth inciofes the following from Capt. Brenton to him:] SIR, Speedy, at Sea, Oct. 4. I have the honour to inform you, that yesterday, whilft running through the Gut of Gibraltar in fight of the British convoy, I obferved a number of small veffels coming out of Algefiras, and concluded they were Spanish gun-boats endeavouring to cut off fome of the merchant fhips; I therefore fleered for them in order to keep them as far as poffible from the body of the fleet, but upon our near approach, perceiving they were Spanish coafters (eight in number,) under the protection of a cutter and fchooner, made all fail in chace, and foon feparated the two iternmost from the body: they ran under the guns of a caftle which opened a fire upon us, and prevented our bringing them off. We continued the purfuit of the others, paffing under the hot from Tariffe Caffle, and at four P. M. came up with four more in a bay to the eastward of Cape Trafalguar; one immediately anchored near a fort, and the other three under a caftle which had one gun mounted as it blew very heavy from the eastward, and being on a lee fhore, we could not go as hear them as I could with, but anchored within four cables length, and bringing our guns to bear upon the caftle (which appeared to be in a very ruinous ftate, and did not return our fire,) and the ve ffels, in a fhort time, compelled the Spaniards to abandon them all, first cutting their cables, by which means they drove on shore. I then fent Lieut. Parker to endeavour to bring them off, and fhortly after Mr Marshall (the Mafter) to affif; or, if that was not practicable, to let them on fire; neither of which could be effected from the heavy furf, breaking entirely over them, and rendering the approach dangerous to the boats. They, however, boarded them, brought away fome of their fire-arms, threw the remainder overboard, leaving them full of water, and complete wrecks, One veffel was laden laden with brandy and paper, one with English manufactures, (cutlery, hardware, &c.) and the third in ballaft. I beg leave to exprefs the high fatisfaction I received from the conduct of Lieut. Parker, in boarding the veffel under the walls of the caftle, while expofed to mufketry from the beach; alfo of Mr Ricketes, the Purfer, who was a volunteer upon that fervice. The attention of Mr Marshall, the Mafter, to the anchoring his Majefty's floop, and the able affift ance I have received from him upon former occafions, renders him worthy of the fulleft confidence. I have the honour to be, &c. J. Brenton. Downing-Street, O&. 29. A Difpatch, of which the following is a copy, has been received from Lieutenant Col. Henry Clinton, by the Right Hon. Lord Grenville, his Majefty's Principal Secretary of State for the Foreign Department? MY LORD, Coire, O. 1799. Gen. Rofenberg profited of the confufion of the enemy, and pursued them beyond Schwitz. In killed and wounded they loft above 500 men and 13 officers, and 1010 men were taken prifoners. The Ruffians had in this affair about 300 men killed and wounded. It was the 4th in the evening before the fick and wounded could be tranfported to Glaris; the road not admitting of the paffage of artillery, the guns were deftroyed; on the 5th, the army march. ed by the valley of Semft to Elm; the difficulty of the roads made it impoffible to remove the wounded. The enemy followed the rear guard, and gained fome trifling advantages over it during the first three or four miles of the march; upon a well-timed attack, however, of the Ruffans, they defifted from any farther attempt. On the 6th, the army paffed the Danix Mountain, which the fnow that had fallen during the last week had rendered dangerous, and feveral mules and baggage horfes were loft on the march. The army is now affembled at this place, and after two days of repofe, it is the Marshal's intention to form a junction with the army of General Kofcakow. I have the honour to be, &c. H. Clinton. Downing-Street, Nov. 2. A Difpatch, of which the following is a copy, has been this day received from Lieutenant Colonel Ramfay, by the Right Hon. Lord Grenvile, his Majefty's Principal Secretary of State for the Foreign Department. Head quarters, Stockach, O. 15. MY LORD, When I fent your Lordship my laft dispatch on the 2d inft. from Glaris, the report from Gen. Rofenberg, whole diyifion compofed the rear guard, had not reached head-quarters. I have now the The Right Hon. Lord Grenville, &c. honour to inform your Lordship that the enemy, having received a confiderable reinforcement from Zug, renewed on the ft inftant their attack near the vil lage of Mutten, where, in confequence of the fatigue the troops had undergone the preceding day, they had been obliged to halt. A firong column of the enemy advanced by the road in the centre of the valley, while two others, skirting the foot of the mountains on each fide, endeavoured to get into the rear of the Ruffians. The divifion of Gen. Rofenberg confifted of eight weak battalions and two regiments of Coffacks. Difco vering the intention of the enemy, he left five battalions as a referve, and with three (the breadth of the valley not admitting of a greater front) fupported by the Coffacks, he attacked the centre of the enemy; their heavy guns for a moment gave them an advantage; but nothing could withstand the feadiness of the Ruffian attack. In the hurry of their retreat, an ammunition waggon was overfer, which choaked the only road by which the cannon could move; three pieces were immediately taken poffeffion of by the Ruffians. The flank columns, feeing their centre pierced, fled. The Ruffian army, under the com mand of General Korfakof, took up a pofition, after its_retreat from Zurich, with its right to Eglizaw and its left to Conftance. The bridges of Dieffenhofen and Stein were occupied by it in front, and a garrifon of two thousand men were placed in a tete de pont at Buefingen, a village between Dieffenhofen and Schaffhaufen, where a pontoon bridge had been placed by the Auftrians. On the 8th, the enemy appeared in force in the neighbourhood of Buelingen. It was evident that he came for the purpose of reconnoitring the position; and though he retired in the evening, there was reas fon to believe that he had not retreated far. An immediate attack on the tete de punt was expected. On the morning of the 9th, General Korlakof refolved to pass the Rhine for the purpose of driving the enemy from their position. He took with him to battalions and 22 fquadrons. The army advanced for about a league without difcovering any traces of the enemy. They at laft, however, found him in confiderable force, and frongly pofted, with his left to the vilege of Schlatten, and his right to a wood which he had alfo occupied. It is impoffible for words to do juftice to the intrep dity with which the Ruffians immediately at tacked them. The whole line fell upon them with their bayonets, and the French flew for protection to the woods, where, under cover of their Chaffeurs, they endeavoured to take a fecond pofition. They were driven from this likewife by the Ruffians, and a third pofition, which they took in the neighbourhood of the village of Tublikon, was likely to have proved ftill more unfortunate to the French. Two of their battalions had already thrown down their arms, and were on the point of furrendering, when a regi ment of French cavalry, followed by a large column of infantry, commanded by Maffena in perfon, came in view and faved them. The object of the expedition was to drive the enemy from the woods in the neighbourhood of the tete de pont, and this object being effected, it became no longer prudent, with fo fmall a corps, to risk an action with a force now be come fo fuperior, or to advance farther unfupported, against the enemy, who, from the neighbourhood of their army, had an opportunity of receiving fill greater reinforcements. After driving the enemy therefore nearly to the river Thur, the army retreated by the road on which they had advanced, and entered their camp about fix o'clock in the evening. While thefe operations were going on in the neighbourhood of Buefingen, the enemy attacked the bridge of Dieffenhofen and the town of Conftance, which confirmed us in the belief that the attack would have taken place on the tete de pont, if the offenfive operations on the fide of the Ruffians had not prevented it. At Dieffenhofen they were repulfed by Gen. Wornoff, who with a very small number of men very gallantly defended himself during the whole of the day, and, after occafioning a very great loss of men to the French, took feveral pršfoners and three pieces of cannon. At Conftance, where the corps of the Prince of Conde were flationed, the enemy were more fuccefsful. The pofition which the Prince was obliged to take up for the defence of the town was vaftly too extenfive for h's fmall number of men, and being unable to guard all the different points fufficiently, the enemy, after directing all his efforts unfuccefsfully against their front, contrived at laft to advance a corps unperceived through the vineyards, force the left of the pofition and enter the town before the rest of the Prince's corps, who had commenced their retreat, were enabled to reach it. On their arrival at the gates, they found them in the poffeffion of the enemy, and no other retreat left but that which was to be obtained by forcing their way through a town, of which the treets were already occupied. In effecing it they fuftained a confiderable lofs; but the gallantry which was displayed by all the corps, and particularly by the grenadiers of Bourbon, in the execution of this defperate meafure, was, as I am informed, entirely beyond the reach of praife. The lofs of Conftance was accompanied by the lofs of the bridge at that place, and this latter circumftance endangered confiderably the left of the Ruffian pofition. General Korfakof, on receiving the intelligence, thought it advifeable to concentrate his force and retire his men from the tete de pont during the night-a meafure which has now become a matter of regret, the bridge of Conftance having been retaken on the roth. I am forry to inform your Lordship, that our lofs in thefe different attacks amounts to nearly fifteen hundred men, killed, wounded, and miffing; the lofs of the enemy muft have been very confiderable; but I have not had an opportunity of afcertaining it. A confiderable number of prifoners fell into our hands at the attack of Buefinger, but, with the exception of about fifty, they contrived to make their efcape during the retreat. Four pieces of cannon fell into our hands, three of which, already mentioned at the attack of Dieffenhofen, the fourth in the neighbourhood of Schlatten. I have the honour to be, &c. John Ramfay. Admiralty-Office, Nov. 5. [A letter from Lord Bridport ftates the SIR, Nelfon. Civita Vecchia, Oct. 5, 1799. I am to request you will inform their Lordships, that I took poffeffion of Civita Vecchia, Corneto, and Tolfa, on the 29th and 30th ult. with 200 marines and feamen of the Culloden and Minotaur, and have already embarked and fent off near 3000 of the enemy; I now wait for tranfports to get off the remainder, which 1 fuppofe 2000 more. General Bouchard takes poffeffion of Rome at the fame time by the fame Treaty all public property to be reftored; their Lordships may rely on every exertion, on my part to put the capitulation in full force, and truft I shall fuc ceed. SIR, I have the honour to be, &c. Civita Vecchia, Oct. 5, 1799. In obedience to order from Lord Nelfon, I have the honour to fend you, for their Lordships' information, a copy of the Articles of Capitulation I have made with the French General Gurnier, to clear the Roman State. As I knew the French had all the valuables of the Roman State packed up ready for embarking, and the coaft at Civita Vecchia forming a deep bay, with hard W. S. W. gales and heavy feas, which prevented the blockade from being fo close as was neceffary to prevent the enemy from carrying off those truly valuable articles; I therefore thought it beft to grant the Jiberal terms I have, to get them out of this country, where they have committed every excess poffible. I truft what I have done may meet their Lor fhips' approbation. I beg you to reprefent to their Lordfhips, that I received every afliftance from Capt. Louis, who went to Rome aud arranged the evacuation, and taking poffeffion of that place, with General Bouchard, with great ability and exertion, and much to my fatisfaction. I have the honour to be, &c. T. Trowbridge. [Here follow the Articles of Capitulation.] Copy of a Letter from Capt. John Talbot, Commander of his Majefly's Ship Eurydice, to Evan Nepean, Efq. dated the auth, inft. SIR,-I have the honour to acquaint vou, for the information of the Right Hon. the Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty, that I failed from hence at one o'clock A. M. on Sunday the 10th inft. and was forced to return this day from the badness of the weather. At nine the fame morning I failed, Beechy Head N. W. by N. three leagues, a. fchooner was feen from us close to a brig. On feeing the Eurydice the schooner food to the S. W. and the brig hove to and hoifted his Enfign Union downward; I hauled up and fpoke her; fhe told me that he had been attacked by the fchooner, and that one of her men was very badly wounded. I fent a boat with the furgeon on board, and made fail after the privateer. At eleven I faw his Majefty's floop Snake on our lee bow, feeing us, fhe hauled up, and joined in the chace. At three o'clock the privateer finding that the Eurydice was nearly within gun-fhot, and coming up with her very fast, bore up, and attempted to cross the Snake, which he was not able to effect, from the good manage ment of Capt. Lewis; the then lowered her fails and was taken poffeilion of by him. The privateer proved to be L'Hirondelle, mounting 14 three and fourpounders, 50 men, and commanded by Pierre Merie Dugerdin, belonging to Calais, from whence the failed on Saturday morning; had taken nothing this cruize. One of the crew I found to be an Englishman, and have confined him till your Lordships' pleasure is made known to me. I am forry to add, that the Surgeon has been obliged to take off the arm of the man that was wounded in the brig; he is now on board of the Eurydice, and hope, from the skill and great |