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the America, in company of the Leviathan and Eclair,, 
having, on the preceding day, fallen in with a convoy of 
eighteen fail of the enemy deeply laden, which took Shel¬ 
ter under the town and batteries of Languillia, on the 
coaft of Genoa, it appeared to him and captain Campbell 
practicable to ‘deftroy them by getting pofieffion of the 
batteries. For this purpofe, the marines of the America 
and Leviathan werelanded at day-break on the.ioth ; and, 
whilft a party was detached to carry a battery to the eaft- 
-ward, which rvas effected, the main body, rapidly advanc¬ 
ing through a fevere fire of grape, carried the battery ad¬ 
joining the town of Languillia, confiding of four 24. and 
18 pounders, though protected by a ftrong body of the 
enemy pofted in a wood and in feveral contiguous build¬ 
ings. The fire of the'Eclair having in the mean time driven 
the enemy from tlfe houfes on the beach, th.C boats pro¬ 
ceeded to bring out the yefleis, which were fecured by va¬ 
rious contrivances and, fixteen being towed off, the ma¬ 
rines .were rc-imbarked without molefiation, though a 
ftrong-party was advancing from the town of Allafiio to 
reinforce their friends. The lofs in the fpirited attack on 
the batteries was much lefs than might have been expect¬ 
ed; but the America’s yawl was unfortunately ftruck by 
3. chance-ftiot, and ten marines and a feaman were drown¬ 
ed.^—Another attempt was made, on June 27th, to carry 
off a convoy from the towns of Languillia and Allafiio, 
by the Leviathan, Capt. Campbell, who had alfo under 
his command the Curagoa, Imperieufe, and Eclair. The 
marines landed on this occafion were attacked, as foon as 
formed on the beach, by treble their number; but, ruffl¬ 
ing on with their bayonets, they drove the enemy from 
their batteries, killing many, fpiked the guns, and de- 
flroyed the carriages, and re-embarked with feveral pri- 
foners. The veffels were, however, fo firmly fecured, that 
they could not be brought away ; and they were deftroyed 
by the fire from the fhips. 
The naval fuccefs in the Danilh fea was in fome degree 
balanced by the lofs, on the 18th of Auguft, of his ma- 
jelly’s brig Attack, which, being furrounded by fourteen 
gun-veffels off Forenefs in Jutland, was obliged, after a 
gallant rcfiftance, to yield to a vaft fuperiority of force. 
The brig had a fmaller crew on-board than that of each 
of her antagonifts ; and the commander, Lieut. Simmonds, 
was moft honourably acquitted for the furrender, by a 
court-martial. 
Thefe were the mod memorable occurrences refpeCting 
the Briliffi navy in the European Teas during the year 
1812 ; and, if not highly important, they were fuch as fuf- 
ficiently evinced that the zeal and afti.vity of our coun¬ 
trymen engaged in this fervice had fuffered no diminu¬ 
tion for want of adequate antagonifts. 
In addition to the naval Ioffes by fliipwreck at the clofe 
©f the laft year, that of the Manilla frigate of 36 guns, 
captain Joyce, was reported by admiral Winter, com¬ 
mander of the Dutch Texel-fieet, as occurring near the 
end of January. This fliip having ftruck on the Haak- 
fand in a dreadful gale on the evening of the 28th, made 
fignals of dillrefs ; upon which fome fiftiing-boats were 
fent out to her relief. Thefe were obliged to return with¬ 
out being able to reach her; but, on the next day, the 
weather becoming more moderate, they approached her, 
when the chief pilot rifked his life by venturing upon the 
fhallows and funken rocks; and, the Engiifh having made 
a raft of empty barrels, he was enabled to bring off thirty- 
five of them. During the 30th and 31ft, all the reft of the 
crew were brought fafe to land, whence they were marched 
as prifoners to Amfterdam ; the whole lofs from the wreck 
appearing to have amounted only to fix men. The fftip 
went entirely to pieces. On this occafion, the exertions 
of the Dutch to preferve the lives of the fufferers were 
highly meritorious. 
About the fame time the Laurel, captain S. C. Rowley, 
a fine new frigate, was lolt in Quiberon-bay. This fhip, 
with two other frigates, had been ordered to purfue three 
French frigates which had efcaped from the Loire; and, 
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on the morning of January 31, they weighed anchor, and 
made fail through the paffage Taigneufe. It blew hard, 
and the weather became hazy; when the Laurel ftruck 
upon a funken rock, and had a large hole made in her 
bottom. She was backed off, and the men continued 
pumping, till the veffel was reported to be finking, when 
the cable was cut, and the was run afhore on a reef of 
rocks about a mile from the French coaft. In this fix¬ 
ation, a heavy fire being opened upon her from the ene¬ 
my’s batteries, a flag of truce was boifted. The firing was, 
however, continued, till three boats, with about 70 men 
and four officers, were fent on-fliore from the fliip, who 
delivered themfelves up as prifoners. The French are 
then laid, with an inhumanity which appears to have been 
merely gratuitous, to have refufed permiflion for the boats 
to return for the remainder of the crew, who would have 
been their prifoners; and they muftall have penihed, had 
not captain Somerville, againft the remonftrance of his 
pilot, gallantly worked his fliip up among the rocks, 
brought her to anchor, arid taken the men off the wreck, 
after they had been upon it in a very perilous fixation 
for feveral hours. The French fired on the boats till they 
were out of reach. 
The Alban cutter, lieutenant Key, was driven, on the 
18th of December, from her ftation on the coaft of Hol¬ 
land ; and, being forced on-lbore at Aldborough in Suf¬ 
folk, became a complete wreck. Out of a crew of 56 
men, only one feaman was faved. The furgeon, Mr. 
Tboinpfon, clime on-lhore with fome life in him, but died 
immediately after. There were alfo three women and 
two children on-board ; of whom one woman, the fer- 
vant of Mrs. Key, was faved. The cutter had been cruif- 
ing, or was going to cruife, on the coaft of Holland. 
Owing, it is luppofed, to the ignorance of the pilot, file 
had ftruck on a fand-bank, when they were obliged to 
throw the guns overboard, and cut away their mart; after 
which they drifted at the mercy of molt tremendous wea¬ 
ther for three days, when they were driven, on .Friday 
morning, at eight o’clock, on the beach in front of the 
town of Aldborough. The furf was fo high, that no boat 
could be put off; but, the beach being lteep, the veffel 
was thrown up very high, and the tide retreating, the peo¬ 
ple of the town were foon able to reach the veffel. Though 
all the crew feemed to be fafe at eight, by nine there were 
only three remaining alive—a young man, a woman (fer- 
vant to the captain’s wife), and the furgeon. The crew 
confided of 56, Mrs. Key, wife of lieutenant Key, who 
commanded the veffel, and two children. -The great lofs 
of lives feems to have been occafioned by the Hate of in¬ 
toxication of the men, fome of whom were found drowned 
in the veffel. As the cutter did not go to pieces, it is 
difficult otherwife to account for fuch a melancholy ca- 
taftrophe. 
On the 20th of February, 1812,JEbenezer Aldred, (or 
All-dread,) a diffenting miniiter, from the High Peak in 
Derbyfliire, appeared in a boat upon the Thames, dreffed 
in a white linen robe, with his long hair flowing over his 
flioulders, and announced that the ieven vials, mentioned 
in the book of Revelation, were to be poured out upon 
the city of London.—This prophecy, however, does not 
feem to be fulfilled, as the domeftic affairs we have to re¬ 
late are not of a very calamitous nature, at leaft not more 
fo than ufual. The vials of wrath appear to have been 
rather poured out upon France, or at leaft upon French¬ 
men, as our hiftory of the campaign in Ruilia has fully 
fliown.’ v 
Our print-fellers’ windows generally attraft the curiofity 
of the moving populace, but chiefly on account of the 
curious caricatures which they exhibit; a department of 
the art of drawing, in which no nation can pretend in any 
degree to a competition with the London artift. No foreign 
nation ever attained the curiohs knack of turning the moft 
ferious objects into ridicule; and, whenever they attempt it, 
their productions are in general lo overcharged— caricate —- 
that they excite difguft inltead of laughter. Among the 
