Of that bold race, beneath the Pleiads born, 

 To chaunt thy praise a Northern Bard aspires, 

 Nor with more ardour, erst at early dawn, 

 The Theban minstrels smote their votive lyres. 



For oh ! can climes th' excursive genius bound ? 

 No. 'Mid Siberia bursts the heav'n-taught strain; 

 At either pole the Muses' songs resound, 

 And snows descend and whirlwinds rage in vain. 



Four thousand summers have thy pride survey'd 

 Thy Pharaohs moulder in their marble tombs: 

 Oblivion's wing the pyramids shall shade. 

 But thy fair family unfading blooms! 



Still 'mid these ruin'd towers, admir'd, rever'd. 

 Wave high thy foliage, and secure expand. 

 These vast but crumbling piles by men were rear'd, 

 But thou wert form'd by an immortal hand. 



With Nature's charms alone thy charms shall fade, 

 With being's self thy beauteous tribe decline; 

 Oh! living, may thy flow'rs my temples shade. 

 And decorate, when dead, my envied shrine. 



Maurice. 



" The ships of the enemy, all but their two rear ships, are nearly dismasted : and those two, with two frigates, I am sorry to say, made 

 their escape ; nor was it, I assure you, in my power to prevent them. Captain Hood most handsomely endeavoured to do it; but I had no 

 ship in a condition to support the Zealous, and I was obliged to call her in. 



" The support and assistance I have received from Captain Berry cannot be sufficiently expressed ; I was wounded in the head, and 

 obliged to be carried off the deck, but the service suffered no loss by that event. Captain Berry was fully equal to the important service then 

 going on, and to him I must beg leave to refer you for every information relative to this victory. He will present you with the flag of the 

 second in command, that of the commander in chief being burnt in the L'Orient. 



" Herewith I transmit you lists of the killed and wounded, and the lines of battle of ourselves and the French. 



" I have the honour to be, &c. 



" HORATIO NELSON." 



LINE OF BATTLE. 



ENGLISH. 



Guns. 



1. CuLLODEN Captain T. Troubridge 74 



2. Theseus Captain R. W. Miller 74 



3. Alexander Captain Alex. J. Ball 74 



4 Vanguard I ^^^^ Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson. . 7 ^ . 



\ Captain Edward Berry j ' 



5. Minotaur Captain Thomas Louis 74 



6. Le ANDER Captain T. B. Thompson 50 



7. SwiFTsuRE Captain B. Hallowell 74 



8. Audacious Captain Davidge Gould ,74 



Defence Captain John Peyton 74 



Zealous Captain Samuel Hood 74 



Orion Captain Sir James Saumarez 74 



Goliath Captain Thomas Foley 74 



Majestic Captain G. B. Westcott 74 



14. Bellerophon Captain H. D. E. Darby 74 



La Mutine, Brig 



9 

 10 

 11 

 12 

 13 



Officers, Seamen, and Marines, killed and wounded 895. 



1012 



Men. 



• 590 



• 590 

 . 590 



. 5g5 



. 640 

 . 343 



• sgo 

 . 590 



• 590 



. 590 



• 590 



. 590 



• 590 

 , 598 



806s 



FRENCH. 



X ^ Guns. 



1. Le Guerrier Taken 74 



2. Le CoNauERANT , Taken 74 



• '.'.'.. 74 ; 



3. Le Spartiate Taken 



4. L'AauiLON , . Taken 74 



5 Le Souverain Peuple Taken 74 



6. Le Franklin Blanquet, 1st. Contre Amiral . . . .Taken 80 



7. L'Orient Brueys, Admiral and Commander in Chief. . Burnt . 120 



8. Le Tonant Taken 



9. L'Heureux Taken 



10. Le Timoleon Burnt 



1 1. Le Mercure Taken 



12. Le Guill aume Tell . . . Villeneuve, 2d. Contre Amiral Escaped 



13. Le Genereux Escaped 



14. La Diane Frigate Escaped 



15. La Justice . . .Ditto Escaped ' .' . 44 



1 6. L'Artemise . . . Ditto Burnt !'.]'..' 36 



17. La Sebieuse Dismasted and sunk ...'.'.'.' 36 



80 



74 

 74 

 74 

 80 

 74 

 48 



Men. 



, 700 

 700 



, 700 



, 700 

 700 



, 800 

 1010 

 800 

 700 

 700 

 700 

 800 



, 700 

 300 



. 300 

 230 

 250 



1190 



10810 



To this triumph, not long after was added the famous battle at Aboukir, near Alexandria, in which the brave Abercrombie fell, 

 after which the French army in Egypt surrendered to the British. In the Gazette account of this battle. Lord Hutchinson gives us an 

 affecting account of the death of Abercrombie. " Few more severe battles have been fought. We have sustained an irreparable loss in the 

 person of our never-sutficiently to be lamented Commander in Chief, who was mortally wounded in this battle, and died March 28, 1801. I 

 believe he was wounded early, but he concealed his situation from those about him, and continued in the field, giving his orders with that 

 coolness and perspicuity, which had ever marked his character, till long after the action was over, when he fainted through loss of blood. 

 Were it permitted for a soldier to regret any one who has fallen in the service of his country, I might be excused for lamenting him more than 

 any other person ; but it is some consolation to those who tenderly loved him, that as his life was honourable, so was his death glorious. His 

 memory henceforth will be recorded in the annals of his country— will be sacred to every British soldier— and embalmed in the recollection of 

 a grateful posterity." 



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