G1 
Names. 
Le Gensreaux —_ = 
Le Heurcux 
Le Duquesne 
Le Timoleon (late 
Bourdeaux } 
Le Ca-tra (taken} 
Ee Censeur {taken 
L*Alcide © 
Le Souverain 
La Vestal 
La Minerve 
La Thamise 
L’Alceste 
Scout 
Le Hazard 
—_ 
Commerce de 
RSOe ee 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1405. 
: Gn, board 
Complement at the time 
Guns. of men, * of action, 
74 Fegan 1cD0 
74 730 1000 
74 730 1000 
74 Wie eho: Ioco 
80 950 1300 
74 G30 TOOO 
74 930 tooo 
7+ 930 1000 
aps 250 250 
40 300 3200 
40 300 300 
32 250 250 
18 120 #20 
20 120 TZ0* 
Wo. Hornams 
London Gazette, Fune 27. 
The following dispatch was this 
morning received from admiral 
Jord Bridport, K. B. 
Royal George at Seay Fune 24,1795 
Sir, 
'T is with sincere satisfaGtion I 
acquaint you, for the informa- 
tion of the lords commissioners of 
the admiralty, that his’ majesty’s’ 
squadron under my command at. 
tacked the enemy’s fleet, consisting 
oftwelve ships of the line, attend- 
ed with eleven frigates, and some 
smaller cruizers,on the 23d instant, 
close in with port L’Orient. The 
ships which struck are, the Alex- 
ander, Le Formidable, and Le Ti. 
gre, which were with difficulty re- 
tained. If the enemy had not been 
protected and sheltered by the land, 
I have every reason to believe that 
a much greater number, if not all 
the line of battle ships, would have 
been taken or destroyed. — ~ 
In detailing the particulars of 
this service I am to state, that on 
the dawn of day, on the 2ed in- 
stant, the Nymph and Astrza, be- 
ing the look-out frigates a-head, 
made the signal for the enemy’s 
fleet. L soon perceived that there 
was no intention to meet me in 
battle; consequently I made the 
signal for four of the best sailing 
ships, the Sans Pareil, Orion, Rus- 
sel, and Colossus, and soon after- 
ward for the whole fleet, to chase,. 
which continued all that day, and 
during the night, with very little 
wind. 
Early in the morning on the 29d 
instant, the head'most ships, the Ir= 
* A most curious circumstance in this affair is, that out of the fifteen shipg of the 
lime of which the French fleet consisted, six were actually ships said by lord Hood to 
be burnt on the 18th December, 1793, viz. Le Tonnant, Le Conqueraht, Le Mer- 
cure, Le Heureux, Le Timoleon (then Commerce de Bourdeaux) and Le Ca-Ira 
(then La Couronne), and a seventh, L’Alcide, he reported to-be unfit for service. 
If our readers will take the trouble to refer to the Gazette extraordinary of the 17th 
January 1794, in the Appendix to the Chronicle of our, Annual Register for 1794, 
they will find this to be the case, ne 
resistible, 
