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18. Spaniate—3 feamen killed ; i officer, 2 petty 
officers, 16 feamen, and i marine, wounded. Total, 23. 
19. Africa—12 feamen, and 6 marines, killed ; 2 offi¬ 
cers, 5 petty ( fficers, 30 leamen, and 7 marines, wound¬ 
ed. d otal, 62. 
20. Bclleille—2 officers, i petty officer, 22 feamen, 
and 8 marines, killed ; 3 officers, 3 petty officers, 63 
feamen, and 19 marines, wounded. Total, 126. 
■ 21. Coloffns—I officer, 31 feamen, and 8 marines, 
killed ; 5 officers, 9 petty officers, 115 feamen, and 31 
ruarines, wounded. Total, 200. 
22. Achille—I petty officer, 6 feamen, and 6 marines, 
killed ; 4 officers, 4 petty officers, 37 feamen, and 14 ma¬ 
rines, wounded. Total, 72. 
22. Polyphemus—2 feamen killed ; 4 feamen wound¬ 
ed. Total, 6, 
24. Swiftfure—7 feamen, and 2 marines, killed ; r 
petty officer, 6 feamen, and i marine, wounded. Total, 17. 
25. Defence—4 I'eatncn, and 3 marines, killed; 23 
feamen, and 6 marines, wounded. Total, 36. . 
2(j. Thunderer-—2 leamen, and 2 marines, killed ; 2 
petty officers, 9 feamen, and i marine, wounded. Total, 16. 
27. Defiance—2 officers, i petty officer, 8 feamen, 
and 6 marines, killed ; i officer, 4 petty officers, 39 fea¬ 
men, and 9 marines, wounded. Total, 70. 
Total—21 officers, 15 petty officers, 309 feamen, and 
104 mai ines, killed ; 41 officers, 57 petty officers, 912 
leamen, and 196 marines, wounded.—Grand Total, 1589. 
'I’liis lipnal deftruftion of the enemy’s marine was 
quickly followed up by other actions, which tended ftill 
more to reduce their navy. On th.e 6th of February 
1806, admiral fir J. T. Duckworth fell in witli a French 
tquadron, off St. Domingo in the Weft Indies, which he 
engaged ; when tlie following was the refult: 
French Line. 
I.’AIexandre, of 84 gans, capitaine Garreau, 300 
killed and wounded.—Taken. 
L’lmperiale, of 120 guns, contre-amiral Le Siegle, 
capitaine Le Pigott ; number killed and wounded not 
known, but certainly many.—On-ffiore, and completely 
wrecked. 
Le Diomede, of 84 guns, capitaine Henry; number 
of killed and wounded not known, but certainly many. 
—On-lhore, and completely wrecked. 
Le Jupitre, of 74 gnus, capitaine Laiguel; 200 killed 
and wounded.—Taken. 
Le Brave, of 74 guns, capitaine Coude, 260 killed 
and wounded.—Taken. 
Frigates—La Felicite and La Comete.—Efcaped. 
Corvette—La Diligence.—Efcaped. 
Briiish Line. 
Superb, 74 guns—6 killed and 36 wounded.—62. 
Northumberland, 84 guns—21 killed and 79 wounded. 
~-ioo. 
Canopus, 74 guns—8 killed and 22 wounded.—30. 
Spencer, 74 guns—iS killed and 50 wounded.—68. 
Donegal, 74 guns—12 killed and 33 wounded.—45. 
Atlas, 74 guns—8 killed and ii wounded.—19. 
Agamemnon, 74 guns—i killed and 13 wounded.—14. 
Acafta, Magicieime, Kingfiflier, and Epervier, fri¬ 
gates ; not engaged. 
Total—74 killed and 264 wounded. In all, 338. 
Signed, J. T. Duckworth. 
If to the above we add tlie St. Rafael of 84 guns, 
and La Firm of 74, taken by fir Robert Calder in the 
montli of July preceding, and which were part of the 
combined fleet, we (hall find that no lefs than thirty- 
seven of the larged: and fined (hips which formed the 
enemy’s navy were either taken or dedroyed in the 
fhort fpace of only eight months : an event unparalleled 
in the liidory of nations! And thus has the maritime 
drength of France and Spain been alniod annihilated, 
and the fovereignty of the (eas aflerted and maintained 
fey the navy of Great Britain, from the early period of 
the reign of king Arthur, quite up to tlie feventh year 
of the nineteenth century, in which the Britiffi flag dill 
rides triumphantly from pole to pole. 
But it is not on the feas alone, at this important era,, 
that the Britifli arms have been didinguiffied. In Ja¬ 
nuary 1806, the Cape of Good Hope, with all the ex- 
tenflve fettlements of the Dutch in Southern Africa, 
furrendered to major-general fir David Baird, and com¬ 
modore (ir Home Popham, after an aftion on the heights 
before Cape-town, fought on the 8th of January, ii> 
which the enemy loll upwards of feven Inindred men in 
killed and wounded ; while that of tlie Englidi amount¬ 
ed only to about two hundred. See the article Good 
Hope, in this volume. 
About the fame period difpatches were tranfmittei 
to this country from fir George B;irlow, Bart, in India,, 
with the pleafing information of the total defeat of 
Jefwunt Rao Flolkar; and of a treaty of peace having 
in confequence been concluded, hlglily to th.e advantage 
of the Britifli Ead-Iiidia Company. See the article 
HlNDOdST.^N. 
Soon after the conqued of-the Cape of Good Hope 
had been effedted, and the garri.'bn of Cape-town made 
fecure, fir Home Popham with the fquadron under his 
command, and niajor-general Beresford with all tlie 
troops tliat could be fpared by fir David Baird, fet fail 
for the river La Plata in South America, on an expedf- 
tion againd the Spaiiidi fettlement of Buenos Ayres, 
They touched at St. Helena, and “failed thence (fays 
general Beresford in his official difpatcli) on the 2d of 
May, (1806;) and, after a mod unexpedted long paf- 
fage, made Cape St. Mary on the 8th of June. His 
niajedy’s fhip Narciffus had been difpatched from the 
fleet on the 27th of May, .and fir H. Popham thought 
it right to proceed in lier for the purpofe of making 
liinifelf acquainted with the navigation of the river, 
tliat no delay might occur in proceeding immediately 
on the arrival of the troops to fuch a place as oiir in¬ 
formation ffiould fil'd induce us to attack. Sir H. P6p- 
ham and I confiilted whether it would be better fird to 
attack tlie town of St. Philip of Monte Video, or Bue¬ 
nos Ayres, the capital of the provinces ; and after much 
reafoning, we determined to proceed againd Buenos 
Ayres. As foon as the wind would permit, June 25th, 
fir H. Popham took the fhipping as near as it was poITT- 
ble for them to go, and at a convenient didance for dif- 
enibarking, which was efFefted in the courfe of tlie af¬ 
ternoon and night, and without any oppofition ; the 
enemy remaining at the village of Redu6f ion, on a height 
about two miles from us in (Tont: the whole interme¬ 
diate fpace, as well as to the right and left, being a per- 
fed; flat ; but my guide informed me, that thougli in 
winter it was impaflable, it was then very practicable-, 
and eafy for guns to pals. 
“It was eleven o’clock in the morning of tlie 26th, 
before I could move off my ground, and the enemy 
could, from his polition, have counted every man 1 liad, 
the number 1500. He was drawn up along the brow of 
a hill, on which was the village of RediRtion, which 
covered his right flank, and his force confided princi¬ 
pally of cavalry, (I have been fince informed two thou- 
land,) with eight field-pieces. The nature of the 
ground was fuch, that I was under the neceility of going 
direClly to his front ; and, to make my line as much as 
I could equal to his, I formed all tiie troops into one 
line, except the St, Helena infantry of one Inindred and 
fifty men, which I formed one hundred and twenty 
yards in tlie rear, with two field-pieces, with orders to 
make face to the right or left, as either of our flanks 
flionld be threatened -by his cavalry. I had two fix- 
pounders on eacii flank, and two liavvitzers in the centre 
of the fird line. In this order, I advanced againd the 
enemy, and .after we had got within range of liis guns, 
a tongu of fwamp croffed our front, and obliged me 
to halt whild the guns took a (mail circuit to crofs, and 
■which 
