APPENDIX 
aman, supplied the place of those 
commissioned. The absence of 
lieut. Mappleton is to be regretted ; 
he would have gloried in the expe- 
dition with the boats. ‘Phe assist- 
ance, rendered by Mr. Drammon ud, 
of the royal marines, was such as" 
might have been expected. Sub- 
joined is a list of the wounded, to- 
gether with the vessels captured and 
destroyed since the 20th ultimo, 
: Coch nane. 
Adm. Thornborough. 
Killed —None. Wounded—tThree. 
Vessels taken or destroyed —Le 
Dessaix, chasse maree, takeu; L'Iste 
Daix, ditto, taken; La 
brig, taken ; a large. brig, 
a chasse maree, wrecked. 
National ships—La_ Tapageuse, 
of 14 guns and 95 men, taken; La 
Malicieuse, of 18 guns, wrecked ; 
Imperial ship, of 24 guns, wrecked : 
Imperial ship, of 22 guiis, wrecked. 
Pomone 
burnt ; 
Dispatch from Lord 
dated Pallas, St. Martiw s-Roud, 
Isle Ree, May 10, giving an dc. 
count of his Capture of some Signal 
Posts on the Coust of Brunce. 
SiR, 
The French trade having been 
kept in port of late, ina great mea- 
sure by their knowledge of the exact 
Situation of his majesty’s cruizers, 
constantly announced at the signal. 
posts, it appeared to me to be some 
object, as there was nothing better 
in view, to endeavour to stop this 
practice. 
Accordingly, the two 
posts at La Pointe de Ja Roche 
were demolished ; next that of Ca- 
liola; thentwo in L’Ance de Re- 
pos, one of which lieut. Haswell 
and Mr, Hillier, the gunner, took 
in a neat style from upwards of 100 
to the CHRONIC 
Cochrane,! 
557 
militia. The. marimes and boats’ 
crews behaved exceedingly well ; all 
he flags have been brought olf, and 
the houses built by government 
burnt to the ground.—Y esterday 
too, the zeal of lieut. Norton, of 
the risk cutter, and lieut. G regory, 
of the Contest gun-brig, induced 
them to volunteer to: flank the bat. 
tery on Point dE quillon, while we 
Shouid attack it by land in the rear, 
but it was carried at once : avd one 
of 50 men, who’ were: stationed’ to 
three 36 pounders, was made priso- 
ner, the rest esc aped: The Watter y 
iS laid ia ruins, guns spiked, car- 
riages burnt, barrack and magazive 
blown up, and all the shells thrown 
inlo-the, sea, ‘The signal-post of 
L’Equillon, together with the 
house, shared the fate of the gun- 
carriages ; the convoy got into a ri- 
ver beyond .our  reach.—Lieut. 
Mappleton, Mr. Sutherland, the 
master, and Mr. Uillier, were with 
me, Who, as they do on all occas 
sions, so they did at this time. what- 
ever was in their power for his ma- 
jesty’s service. —The petty oflicers, 
seamen, and marines, failed not to 
justify the opinion that there was 
before reason toform; yet it would 
be inexcusable were not the names 
of the quarter-masters Barden and 
Casey particularly meutioned, as 
men highly deserving any favour 
that can be shewn in the line to 
which they aspire. I am &e. 
CocHRANE, 
Seamen slightly wounded, Wm. 
Barden, quarter-master ; Wm. Co- 
burn, seaman. Mitiac slightly 
wounded, Robert Boulden. 
This letter i is followed My another 
from lord Cochrane, dated off 
the isle of Olcron, May 14, and 
giving an account of a very gallant 
E: 
action with a French frigate and 
three 
