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under the protection of batteries, 
where,though the vessel was strand- 
ed, the stores and guns were saved, 
and the captain and erew got on 
shore. ; 
After the separation of Jerome 
from the admiral, which took place 
in the gulph of Florida, the rest 
of the squadron encountered a tre- 
mendous gale of wind,* in which 
they suffered most severcly. ‘The 
admiral’s ship,the Foudroyant, of 84 
guns, reached the Havannah under 
jury masts, after an action with 
the Anson frigate of 40 guns, which 
drove her for protection under the 
batteries of the Moro Castle.+ 
The Impeteux, after having lost 
her masts, bowsprit, and rudder in 
the storm, and being otherwise da- 
maged, was standing in for the 
Chesapeak under jury masts, when 
she was descried by three of the 
vessels of sir Richard Strachan’s 
squadron, and having taken ground 
as she attempted to escape, was 
there burned by the boats of the 
Melampus, and her crew made pri- 
soners.t ‘Two other seventy-fours, 
which got into the Chesapeak, after 
having been greatly damaged in 
the storm, were eventually destroy- 
ed by the English on the American 
coast, while the Cassant, which was 
supposed to have foundered at sea, 
arrived at Brest in the middle of Oc- 
tober. : 
The French admiral Linois, who 
had so long wandered about the In- 
dian seas, unmolested and unat- 
tacked,and carried on with success a 
predatory and most destructive war 
against our commerce in the east, 
was this year intercepted, in his re- 
turn to France with his plunder, by 
# Aug. 18th, + Sept. 15. 
{ Sept. 14. 
q August 25rd, 
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931. 
sir John Borlase Warren,§ and 
brought to England, with the Maren- 
goof 80 guns, and the Belle Poule. 
of 40 guns, being the only two ships 
under his command, 
Five large frigates and two cor- 
vettes, with troops on board for the 
West indies, having escaped from 
Rochefort, were next day|| met at 
sea by a British squadron under 
commodore sir Samuel Hood, and 
after a running fight of several 
hours, four of the five frigates were 
compelled to strike. ‘The loss of 
‘the English in this action amounted 
to 9 killed and 32 wounded ;' but 
their gullant commander received a 
severe wound in the right arm, 
which rendered the amputation of 
the limb necessary. 
It would be in vain to recapitu- 
late all the individual instances of 
courage, enterprise and skill exerted 
by the British navy in the various 
actions ‘in which it was engaged 
during the present year. ‘The 
capture of the Pomona frigate on 
the coast of Cuba, { though defended 
by a strong castle and a formidable 
line of gun boats, all of which were 
destroyed by the two English fri- 
gates, the Arethusa and Anson, en- 
gaged in this enterprise ; the action 
between the French frigate the 
Salamander of 44 guns, supported 
by batteries and troops provided 
with musketry and field pieces on 
shore, and the Englishship the Cons- 
tance,of 24 guns, assisted by a sloop 
of war and a gun brig, in which 
both vessels were stranded and lost, 
though not till after the Freuchman 
had been compelled to strike his 
colours, and been taken possession 
of by the English ; and the boldness 
§ March 13th, — || Sept. 25th: 
and 
