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none of the gun-brigs haTC suffered 

 in their masts, &c. nor has Ae 

 Cruizcr received any material inju- 

 ry, except her sails, and standing 

 rigging, which are much cut. One 

 of the praams ■was observed by the 

 bouts to be high and dry on the 

 beach at ten o'clock this morning, 

 to the westward of the CouDict, 

 but she got olf, I apprehend, at 

 high water, and proceeded to the 

 westward. 



J. Hancock. 



List of killed ami icounded. 



Cruizer, 1 lieutenant, 2 Sea- 

 men, and 1 marine (badly) wound- 

 ed. — Blazer, none killed or wound- 

 ed. — Conflict, one seaman killed, 5 

 seamen wounded. — Griffin, 2 sea- 

 men woundetl. — Tigress, no report. 

 — Admiral Mitchell, none killed or 

 wounded.— Escort, none killed or 

 wounded. — Total, 1 seaman killed; 

 1 lieutenant, 9 seamen, and 1 ma- 

 rine, wounded. Name of officer 

 wounded — Lieut. Abraham Gar- 

 land, of the Crnizcr. 



iVext follows in the Gazette which 

 contains the above dispatches, a let- 

 ter from lieutenant Orfnsby, stating 

 the loss of the Conflict, and which 

 he thus concludes : — Our loss in the 

 evening was one man badly wound- 

 ed, one slightly ; in the night one 

 killed, and three wounded. The 

 officers and crew in general behaved 

 as brave men. 



C C- Ormsby. 

 J. Hancock; Esq. Cruizer. 



Account of the Captui'e of Ijc Con- 

 tre-yidmiral M/igon French Pri- 

 vatecr, conanarided by the noted 

 Captain ULadcviun, in a Letter 

 from Captain Hancock^ of his 

 Majc!>tif''s Sloop Cruizcr, to Lord 



Keith, &■€. dated at Sea, off" Yar- 

 mouth, 10 A. M. October 17. 



My Lord, 

 I have the honour to acquaint 

 your lordship, that being last night 

 at nine P. M. with his majesty's 

 sloop under m)^ command, and the 

 gun-brigs Bold and Ann, and Flo- 

 rence cutter, close in with Ostend, 

 in five fathoms Avater, which station I 

 had taken from the moment the wind 

 came to the eastward, to follow with 

 every possible efficacy and energy 

 your lordship's instru6tions in the 

 important duty entrusted to me, of 

 watching the enemy's movements at 

 that port and Flushing, mc observed 

 a strange sail standing in shore, 

 which, on discovering us, wore and 

 made all sail, steering at first with 

 the wind abaft the beam : we imme- 

 diately made all sail in chace, whicly 

 continued during the whole night, in 

 which the stranger displayed much 

 skill and ability in all his ma- 

 noeuvres, and tried us on every 

 point of sailing, with various suc- 

 C'.'ss ; he sometimes gaining on us, 

 and we in our turn nearing him, till 

 five A. M. in which time (eight 

 hours) we had run 97 miles, by the 

 log : during the latter jiart of the 

 cliace the Avind freshened consider- 

 ably ; but this gave us not the ad- 

 vantage I expected, as he preserved 

 his distance till a quarter before five 

 A. M. when both his top-masts went 

 away ; he then attempted a mas- 

 terly- manteuvre to esca])e, which the 

 haze, the darkness of the morning, 

 and the lee tide, gave him a fair 

 prospect of succeeding in, by clear- 

 ing up his remaining sails, and com- 

 ing instantly to an anchor, although 

 in twenty-five fathoms water, in 

 hop;'s wc should pass him unper- 

 cejved, or get to leeward. Although 



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