APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. 



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5 drummers, idir rank and file, 

 wounded ; — 7 rank and file mis- 

 sing. C. Stewart, 



Maj.-Gen. and Adj.-Gen. 



From the London Gazette, March 28. 



[Transmitted by Sir E. Pellew.] 

 His Majesty's Ship Alceste, 

 off" Lissa, Dec. 11, 1811. 

 His Majesty's ships under my 

 orders having been driven from 

 their anchorage before Lugina, by 

 strong gales, had taken shelter in 

 Lissa; when the telegraph on 

 Whitby Hill signalized three sus- 

 picious sail South; Alceste, Active, 

 and Unit6, were warped out of 

 Port St. George, the moment a 

 strong E.N.E. wind would per- 

 mit ; and on the evening of the 

 28t!i ult. off the south end of Lissa, 

 I met with Lieutenant M'Dougall, 

 of his Majesty's ship Unite, who, 

 with a judgment and zeal which 

 does him infinite credit, had put 

 iack, when on his voyage to 

 Malta in a neutral, to acquaint 

 vae he had seen three French Fri- 

 gates, 40 miles to the southward. 

 Every sail was carried on in chace, 

 and at nine in the morning of the 

 29th the enemy were seen off the 

 island of Augusta : he formed in 

 line upon the larboard tack, and 

 stood towards us for a short time ; 

 but finding his Majesty's ships 

 bearing upon him under all sail in 

 close line abreast, he bore up to the 

 N. W. and set steering sails. At 

 eleven the rear ship separated, and 

 stood to the N. E. ; I immediately 

 detached the Unite after her, 

 {and Captain Chamberlayne's re- 

 port to me of the result 1 have the 

 honour to inclose). At twenty 

 minutes after one p. m. the Alceste 



commenced action with the other 

 two, by engaging the rear in pass- 

 ing to get at the Commodore, 

 but an unlucky shot soon after- 

 wards bringing down our maintop- 

 mast, we unavoidably dropped a 

 little astern : cheers of <Vive I'Em- 

 pereur' resounded from both ships, 

 they thought the day their own, not 

 aware of what a second I had in 

 my gallant friend Captain Gordon, 

 who pushed the active up under 

 every sail, and brought the stern- 

 most to action, within pistol-shot ; 

 the headmost then shortened sail, 

 tacked, and stood for the Alceste, 

 (which, though disabled in her 

 masts, I trust he experienced was 

 by no means so at her guns), and 

 after a warm conflict of two hours 

 and twenty minutes, it ended by 

 the French Commodore making 

 sail to the Westward, which, from 

 my crippled state, I was unable to 

 prevent, and the other surrendering 

 after being totally dismasted and 

 five feet water in the hold; she 

 proved to be the Pomone, of 44? 

 guns, and three hundred and twen- 

 ty-two men, commanded by Cap- 

 tain Rosamel, who fought his ship 

 with a skill and bravery, that have 

 obtained for him the respect and 

 esteem of his opponents: the other 

 was the Pauline, of similar force, 

 commanded by Monsieur Mon- 

 ford Capitaine de Vaisseau, with a 

 broad pendant ; they were from 

 Corfu, going to join the squadron 

 at Trieste. The Alceste had twen- 

 ty killed and wounded. Active 

 thirty-two, and Pomone fifty ; and 

 it is with poignant regret I inform 

 you, that Captain Gordon has lost 

 a leg : but, thank God, he is doing , 

 well ; his merits as an officer I 

 need not dwell upon, they are 

 knowa to his country; and he 



lives 



