AftD LOWER EGYPT. 8 J 



ranean *, by means of the conquest of Malta and 

 Gozzi, she has extended her departments as far 



* Witness the complete destruction of the Toulon fleet, by a 

 British squadron under Lord Nelson, off the Mouth of the Nile, 

 the istand2d of August 179S, an event well known in France 

 previous to the publication of M. Sonnini's Travels. Let the 

 following authentic list declare the state of French sovereignty" 

 in the Mediterranean, when this vain-glorious rodomontade was 

 issuing from the press at Paris : 



FRENCH LINE OF BATTLE. 



i. Le Guerrier, 



2. Le Conquerant, 



3. Le Spartiate, 



4. L'Aquilon, 



5. Le Souverain Peuple, 



6. Le Franklin, 



7. L'Orient, 



8. Le Tonnant, 



9. L'Heureux, 



10. Le Timoleon, 



1 1. Le Mercure, 



12. Le Guillaume Tell, 

 12. Le Gcnereux, 



74 guns, 

 74 guns, 



74 guns, 



74 £ uns > 

 74 guns, 



14. La Diane, 



15. La Justice, 



16. L'Artemise, 

 ; 7. La Scrieuse, 



700 men — Taken. 



700 men — Taken. 



700 men — Taken. 



700 men — Taken. 



700 men — Taken. 

 80 guns, Soo men — Taken. 

 120 guns, 10 10 men — Burnt. 

 80 guns, 800 men — Taken. 

 74 guns, 700 men — Taken. 

 74 guns, 700 men— Burnt. 

 74 guns, 700 men— Taken. 

 80 guns, 800 men — Escaped. 

 74 guns, 700 men — Escaped. 



FRIC ATES. 



48 guns, 300 men — Escaped. 



44 guns, 300 men — Escaped. 



36 guns, 250 men — Burnt. 



36 guns, 250 men — Dismasted 



and sunk. 

 London Gar.ettt Extraordinary, Oct. id, 1798. 



" Mistress of the Mediterranean !" Witness the blockade of 

 the remainder of the naval force of France in the ports of the 

 Mediterranean, by a British squadron under Earl St, Vincent, 

 this 12th July 1799. " Let not him who putteth on his har- 

 " fiess, boast as he that taketh it off." (Bible..) — H. H. 



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