530 



ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



not. have. been displayed than by 

 both officers and men of so young a 

 ship's company, many being under 

 20 years of age, and only three 

 marines who had joined tiiat corps 

 more than t»vo weeks before they 

 embarked. 1 have no ]ie.=itation in 

 saying, that liad >iot (he above un- 

 lucky accident occurred, she must 

 have struck to us, as the next morn- 

 ing her foremast and bowsprit were 

 the otTly masts standing, much cut 

 in the hull, and I counted 11 shot in 

 the wreck of her mainmast : that 

 our 12-poundcrs could not do that 

 justice too from its size, nor the 

 thickness of her sides, that was so 

 ivell intL-nded. 



I am, &c. Rob. Lawrie. 



To Capt. Talbot, of the Lcander. 



Return af Killed and Wounded on 

 board the Cleopatra. 

 Total. — 20 killed, 2 since dead 

 of v.onnds, 18 dangerously wound- 

 ed, and 18 slightly wounded. 



Dispatch from Lieutcutmf -general 

 Sir IVilUum Mi/er.t^ Barf, com- 

 manding His JMajesti/^s Troops in 

 the JVindxard and Leeicard 

 Islands, to Rarl Cumdcn, K. G. 

 on the Repulse of tiie French in 

 the Hest-hidies, 



Barbadocs, March 9. 

 My lord, 

 1 have the honour to inclose to 

 your lordship a coj)y of a dispatch 

 from brigadier-general Prevost, 

 dated Dominica, 1st March. The 

 details contained therein are so 

 highly reputable to the brigadier- 

 general, and the small portion of 

 troops employed against so nume- 

 Tous an enemy, that I have great 

 .satisfaction ia recommending that 



their gallant exertions may be laid 

 before his majesty : the zeal and ta- 

 lent manifested by the brigadier- 

 general upon this occasion, it is my 

 duty to present for his royal consi- 

 deration ; and at the same time I 

 beg t^ be permitted to express the 

 high sense I entertain of the distin- 

 gni.Mied bravery of his majesty's 

 troops, and themilitiaof the colonj-, 

 employed upon that service. The 

 Timorous resistance which the ene- 

 my have experienced, and the loss 

 which they have sustained in this 

 attack, must fevince to them, that, 

 however inferior our numbers w ere- 

 on this occasion, British troops are 

 not to be hostilely approached with 

 impunity : and, had not the town of 

 Roseau been accidentally destroyed 

 by fire, we should have little to re- 

 gret, and much to exult in. Your 

 lordship will perceive by the re- 

 turns, that our loss in men, com- 

 pared to that of the enemy, is but 

 trifling ; but I have sincerely to la- 

 ment that of major Nunn, of the 1st 

 West-India regiment, whose wound 

 is reported to be of a dangerous 

 kind ; he is an excellent man, and » 

 meritorious officer. 



W. Myers. 



I am, &c. 



Ilead-quartersj Prince RuperPs, 

 Dominica, March 1. 

 Sir, 

 About an hour before the dawn 

 of day, on the 22d ult. an alarm 

 was fired at Scotshead, and soon 

 after a cluster of ships was disco- 

 vered off Roseau. As our light in- 

 creased, I made out five large ships, 

 three frigates, two brigs, and small 

 craft, under British colours, a ship 

 of three decks carrying a flag at the 

 mizen. The frigates ranged too 

 close to Fort Young; I ordered 



them to be fired on. 

 ter, 19 large barges. 



and, soon af- 

 full of troops, 

 appeared 



