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APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 



tOKDOS GAZETTE EXTRAORDI- 

 NARY, FRIDAY, JAN. 1/, l79i. 



Whitehall, Jan. 15, 



CAPTAIN HILL, aid-de-ramp 

 to major-general Dundas, ar- 

 rived, on the 13th instant, at the 

 office of the right hon. Henry Dun- 

 das, his majesty's principal secretary 

 of state for ihe home department, 

 with dispatches from vice-admiral 

 lord Hood and the major-general, 

 of which the following are copies 

 and extracts. 



Vktory, Toulon Road, Dec. 1 3, 1 793. 



8IR, 



Nothing very material has hap- 

 pened here since the 30th of la«t 

 month, when I had the honour of 

 writing toyou,ei:cept that the ene- 

 my has made approaches nearer to 

 us by some new erected batteries ; 

 one against the Malbousquet, ano- 

 ther against Le Brun, and a third 

 against the Hauteurde Grasse. The 

 shells from two of them did us some 

 mischief on the 9th and 10th, since 

 which they have been perfectly si- 

 lent. 



Theenemyisreported to be 50,000, 

 but 1 cannotcredit iheirbeing much 

 beyond half that number. By vari- 

 ous deserters that have come in, 

 whichm this respect perfectly agree, 

 we are soon to be attacked on all 

 liidcs ai once. From the numerous 



and important posts we have to oc- 

 cupy, the troops are at very hard 

 duty, and without relief some way 

 or other, we shall so^n have more 

 men in the hospital, than are fit for 

 service. 



I have the honour to be, &c. 

 HOOD. 

 Right hon. Henry Dundas, 

 &c. &c. &c. 



iiR, Toulon, Dec. 12, 1793. 



Since the afl'air of the SOth ult. 

 no considerable event has taken 

 place. By the repeated accounts of 

 deserters, the enemy are very much 

 increased in numbers ; none state 

 them lower than SO or 40,000 men. 



They have tired of late litdc from 

 the battery we were in possession ofj 

 Four of its guns arc; certainly dis- 

 abled. They have increased the 

 iiumberoftheirmortars, which have 

 much annoyed our two posts of cape 

 Brun and Fort Mulgrave, on the 

 heights of Balaguier. We have lost 

 some men at each, from the eftect 

 of shells, which, in sucli temporary 

 exposed situations, cannot be suffi- 

 ciently guarded from. — Againiteach 

 of these posts they have opened a 

 new battery of cannon and mortars, 

 but at the other points they have 

 worked little. We continue 

 strengthening ourposition, tliough 

 we cannot expect to give it any 

 much more substantial form, 



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