318 ANNUAL REG I ST E R, 1810. 



Bornliolm, captured ofFBornholm 

 by captain Acklora, of his majes- 

 ty's ship Ranger. November 10. 



Danish cutter privateer Dan- 

 neskiold, captured oft' Anholt by 

 captain J. B. Perlet, of his ma- 

 jesty's gun-vessel Wrangler. No- 

 vember 14. 



Member returned to serve in 

 Parliament. — Borough of Agmon- 

 desham, Wilham Tyrvvhitt Drake, 

 esq. in the room of Thomas Drake 

 Tyrtvhitt Drake, esq. deceased. 



3. Extraordinary, — From lord 

 Welh'ngton, informing that Mar- 

 shal Massena, after having been 

 a month before the British lines, 

 at Torres Vedras, had suddenly 

 broke up and retreated towards 

 Santarem. The French threw se- 

 veral bridges over the river Zezere; 

 and appeared to have designs on 

 Abrantes, and the southern bank 

 of the Tagus: his lordship had 

 taken measures to render such at- 

 tempts fruitless. His lordship 

 praises lieut.-colonel Fletcher, 

 and the officers of engineers, who 

 had brought the enemy to a stand. 



8. The French privateer Le 

 Roi de Naples, taken by captain 

 Dowine, of his majesty's sloop 

 Royalist, off" Dieppe. December >'j. 



11. Member returned to Par- 

 liament. — Borough of Milborne 

 Port. The honourable general 

 Edward Paget, in the room of 

 lord viscount Lewisham, now 

 earl of Dartmouth, called up to 

 the House of Peers. 



14. Admiralty Office.-—" Intel- 

 ligence has been received, that on 

 the 23rd of August, his majesty's 

 ships Nereide, Sirius, Magicienne, 

 and Iphigenia, stood into the har- 

 bour Sud-Est, in thelsle of France, 

 with a view to attack an enemy's 

 squadron, of two frigates, a cor- 

 vette, and an armed Indiaraan, ly- 

 ing at anchor there. In pushing for 



their stations alongside the enemy, 

 the Sirius, Magicienne, and Ne- 

 reide, unhappily grounded, and it 

 was found impossible to get them 

 off, though the utmost skill and 

 gallantry in endeavouring to save 

 the ships, under circumstances of 

 peculiar disadvantage, was dis- 

 played. 



•' After two days unremitting 

 but unavailing exertion, under the 

 fire of the heavy batteries, captain 

 Pyra abandoned all hope of being 

 able to get off" the Sirius and Ma- 

 gicienne, and they were in conse- 

 quence burnt by their own crews. 



" The situation in which the 

 Nereide grounded, enabled the 

 enemy to turn the whole fire of 

 their ships on her; but even in 

 this unequal contest, captain 

 Willoughby continued to fight her 

 to the last extremity, till every 

 officer and man on board were 

 either killed or wounded. 



♦' All the enemy's ships were 

 driven on shore, but one of the 

 frigates was afterwards got ofiF, and 

 being joined by three others from 

 Port Louis, they blockaded the 

 Iphigenia at her anchorage under 

 the Isle of Pas, on which island (it 

 having been previously garrisoned 

 by us ) the crews of the Sirius and 

 Magicienne were landed." 



This gazette also announces the 

 capture of a French privateer, Le 

 Renard, of six guns and twenty- 

 four men, by the Quebec, com- 

 manded by captain Hawtayne; 

 of the French privateer Le Caro- 

 line, of one gun and forty-two 

 men, by captain Bluett, of the 

 Saracen ; and of the Mamelouck 

 privateer, of sixteen guns and 

 forty-five men, by the Rosario 

 sloop, captain Harvey. 



25. From lord Wellington, De- 

 cember 8, giving an account of a 

 panic-struck retreat of gen. Gar- 



