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La Favorite, of 44 guns, was burnt, hinifelf being killed 
in the engagement; the Corona of 44, and the Bellona 
of 32, were taken; the Flora of 44, after having Itruck 
her colours and ceafed firing, taking advantage of the 
impoflibjlrty of being occupied during the heat of the ac¬ 
tion, fiole away and efcaped, captain Hofte in vain after¬ 
wards claiming her as a lawful prize. The furviving crew 
and troops of La Favorite ware obliged to furrender at Liffa 
after the action. The lofs of the Englifh on this oc- 
cafion amounted, in officers and Teamen, to 50 killed and 
150 wounded. 
The capture of a whole flotilla on the coaft of Cala¬ 
bria, by an Englifh frigate and a floop, deferves recording, 
on account of the mafterly manner-in which it was effected, 
though the trifling refiftaflce encountered on the occafion 
gave but little fcope for the difplay of the habitual cou¬ 
rage of Britifh feamen.—Capt. Napier, of the Thames, in 
a difpatcb, dated July 21ft, relates, that, being informed 
by Capt. Clifford, of the Cephalus, of a convoy of twenty- 
two fail which he had compelled to take flielter in Porto 
del Infrefchi, as they were attempting to proceed round 
Cape Palinuro for Naples, the two fhips made fail for 
that port, where they arrived at five in that evening. They 
direflly fleered in, and anchored ; and, having foon 
filenced a line of gun-boats moored acrofs for the protec¬ 
tion of the merchantmen, they landed a body of marines, 
which gained pofleflion of a tower and 80 men of its gar- 
rifon, though the adjacent hills were lined with muf’que- 
teers. The boats at the fame time took pofleflion of the 
whole convoy; all of which were alongfide, and the fhips 
under weigh, in lefs than two hours, without a man killed, 
and only five wounded. The capture confided of eleven 
French gun-boats, one armed felucca, fourteen merchant- 
vefiels, and four rafts of large fpars for the Neapolitan 
navy. 
At the latter end of Oftober, a brilliant exploit of the 
army and navy combined took place on the coaft of Na¬ 
ples. Two hundred and fifty foldiers of the 62d regiment, 
commanded by major Darley, were difembarked from the 
Thames and Imperieufe frigates, with fifty marines under 
lieutenant Pipon, in the face of 900 of the enemy pofted 
at Palinura, whom they attacked with fixed bayonets, 
and drove from their pofition. They then deftroyed the 
enemy’s batteries and cannon, and three gun-boats; cap¬ 
tured fix more, with twenty merchantmen ; and, after flay¬ 
ing two days on-fiiore, re-embarked and returned with 
their prizes to Melazzo. 
The capture and deflruflion of an entire convoy, in the 
Adriatic, is related by Capt. Gordon of the Aftive, in a 
difpatch, dated off Ragofniza, July 27th. He ftates, that 
upon anchoring there he detached the boats of his fliip, 
with the finall-arm men and marines, under the command 
of Lieut. Henderfon, to attack an enemy’s convoy which 
had run above the ifland on which the town of Ragofniza 
itands, and had taken fhelter in a creek on the main. As 
the entrance was narrowband protected by three gnn-boats, 
the lieutenant landed his armed men to take pofleflion of 
a hill which appeared to command the creek, leaving or¬ 
ders with the boats to pufh for the gun-boats the moment 
a fignal fhould be made from the hill. The attack thus 
concerted was executed with fo much fpirit and precifioit, 
that the enemy was prefently put to flight, leaving a num¬ 
ber of killed and wounded; and the whole convoy was 
feized, of which, eighteen veflels with the gun-boats were 
brought away, and ten were burnt. They were chiefly 
laden with grain for the garrifon of Ragufa, and were 
defended on fhore by 300 armed men, who, however, were 
fo panic-ftruck, that the whole lofs fuftainedby the aflail- 
ants was four men wounded in the boats. 
An enterprife in which both courage and ftratagem 
were fuccefsfully employed was undertaken by his ma- 
jefty’s fhips Diana, Capt. Ferris, and Ssmiramis, Capt. 
Richardfon, lying off the mouth of the Gironde. P«r- 
ceiving four fail of veflels, under convoy of a national 
brig of war, on the infide of the flioals at the mouth of 
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that river, Capt. Ferris, difguiflng the Englifh (hips fo well 
that pilots were fent to their alliftance on the fuppofition 
that they were French, brought them to anchor between 
the Corduan lighthoufe and Royan, on the evening of 
Auguft 24, and difpatched armed boats to capture or dc-- 
ffroy the convoy then lying about four miles diflant up 
the river. At day-light he determined to attack the na¬ 
tional brig, and another [rationed for the prote&ion of the 
river, fliil having kept up the deception io well, that the 
port-captain, who commanded one of the brigs, came on¬ 
board the Diana to offer his fervices, and did not difeover 
his mifiake till he wasafeending the quarter-deck. Capt. 
Ferris then laid the outer brig on-board, and fucceeded 
in taking her without lofs on either fide. She proved to 
be the late Englifh gun-brig Teazer, mounting twelve 
eighteen-pound carronades, and two long eighteen- 
pounders, with eighty-five men. In the mean-time the 
Setniramis drove on-fhore, and burnt under the guns 
of the Royan battery, Le Pluvier, of fixteen guns and 
136 men. The captured merchant-vefiels were then 
brought out; and the bufinefs was terminated with com¬ 
plete fuccefs. 
Thefe were the principal naval aftions of the year within 
the European Teas ; the capture of fingle privateers, and 
fmall armed veflels, being almoft the only other fuccefles 
recorded in the Gazette. Of the latter, however, that of 
the famous faft-failing privateer, Le Vice-amiral Martin 
of eighteen guns and 140 men, from Bayonne, by the fri¬ 
gates Fortunee and Saldanha, in October, is worth men¬ 
tioning as an example of a well-conducted chace. Such 
was the privateer’s rate of failing, and dexterity of ma¬ 
nagement, that the Englifh captains were convinced nei¬ 
ther of their fhips could have taken her fingly. 
The Indian fea, off Madagascar, was the icene of a fe- 
vere aftion between an Englifh and French fquadron in 
the month of May. Three French frigates, with troops 
on-board, having appeared off Mauritius on May 7th, and 
borne away on discovering the capture of that ifland, it 
was conjectured, by Capt. Schomberg of the Aftraca, that 
they would pufli for Tamatave. He accordingly failed 
thither, accompanied by the Phoebe and Galatea frigates, 
and the Racehoiffe floop ; and, the enemy being discovered 
on the 20th near Foul Point, Madagascar, the fignal to 
chafe was made from the Aftrtea. Variable winds and 
calms rendered it impoflible for the Englifh fhips to get 
up together to clofe aCtion; and, while the Aftraea was 
lying almoft immovable on the water, the enemy fucceeded 
in rounding the two other frigates, and raking them with 
conflderable effeft. Night came on before any thing de¬ 
ceive was effected, but the Galatea had Suffered fo much 
in her mafts, that (he could not be brought again to ac¬ 
tion. In the morning the Aftraea led towards the enemy, 
followed by the Piicebe and Racehoiffe ; and, bringing the 
commodore’s fliip to dole aCtion, in twenty-five minutes 
flie (truck. Another frigate alfo (truck, but afterwards at¬ 
tempted to efcape; and was chafed without fuccefs. One, 
which had been worfted by the Phoebe on the preceding 
night, alfo got off. The captured Snip proved to be la 
Renommee of 44 guns and 470 men, of whom 200 were 
picked troops. She was reduced to a wreck, with 145 
killed and wounded, among the former of whom was the 
gallant captain. 
After this aCtion, the Englifli fquadron proceeded to 
Tamatave, then repofleffed by the French, and brought 
the fort to furrender, with all the veflels in the harbefur, 
among which was the Nereide of 44 guns, one of the (hips 
in the preceding engagement, and which had been taken 
by the French in the preceding year; (fee p. 237, 8.)— 
It was agreed that the garrifon, and the crew of the 
Nereide, fhould be fent to France without being confidered 
as prifoners of war. 
The domeftic affairs of the city of London were not in 
general highly interefting during the prefent year.—The 
commercial diftreffes, indicated by lifts of bankrupts more 
numerous than were ever before known, induced among 
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