500 
for a quarter of an hour, and returned 
with a verdici—Gvilty. Mr. Eaton was 
alfo found guilty of felling another libel, 
called the “* Duties of Citizen fhip.” ” A ver- 
dict was alfo obtained againft another 
bhookfeller, af the name of Burk s, for fell- 
ing the fame work. 
W € fha!l now proceed to relate the qwar- 
dike tranfaétions of Gréat Britain which 
have occurred fince our iaff. 
Immediately afcer the unfuccefsful at- 
tack which general Abercromby made on 
the French batteries on the fide of the 
Grand Cul de Sac} in the iffand of Sr. 
Lucia, he prepared to attack the enemy’s 
works on the north fide of Morne ran 3 
On the morning of the z4th of May, 
Part of his forces lodged themfely es sake 
five hundred yards of the fort, and at- 
tacked it with bravery and vigour, Upon 
the evening of that d ay the enemy defired 
a fufsenfion of arms tll the next day at 
noon; in the mean time a capitulation fi for 
the whofe Wand-was agreed upon ; and on 
the 26th of May the garrifon, to the 
amount of two thoufand men, laid down 
their arms, and became prifoners of war. 
All the cannon and military fores, with 
feveral {mall veffels fell into the hands of 
the Englith ; bur this fuccefs was obtained 
_at the lofs of about five hundred in killed 
and wounded : among the former were 
lieut. col. Malcolm and major Huet Wil- 
fon, who died of his wounds foon efter 
the ation. 
Capt. Manly, of his majefty’s fhip the 
Apollo, in company with the Doris, cap- 
tured, on the z2d of June, the French 
corvetté La bee with 463 men on 
board: fhe was  piereed for twenty-two 
Mine pounders. What rendered this fuc- 
cefs the more complete was,. that this vef- 
fel was the jaf ofhe {quadron which fail- 
ed from Bre, under commodore Moul- 
fon, which were ail captured by the Eng- 
hth. 
On the 25th of April, commodore Nel- 
fon, cruifing near Toulo a fell in with 
and took, under the fire of a French bat- 
ery, eiyht fmall veffels laden with corn 
and wine. 
Capt. Nichclas Tomlinfon, of his ma- 
jefty’s Hoop La Suffilante, by his own 
bravery and the intrepidity of his crew, 
took, on the 28th of June, near the 
Britifh Channel, a French privateer and 
‘fix rich merchant fies, which had been 
taken from the Englifh: they had valu- 
able exrgces of wine and cotton. 
On the oth of June, Sir John Jervis, 
commanger in chief of his majefiy’s fhips 
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French cruifer working up to Hieres Bay, 
near Toulon, he ordered capt. Macna- 
mara, of the Southampton, “ to make a 
dafh at her,” through the Grand Pafs, 
which he performed with fpirit and ala- 
crity. He arrived within piftol- fhot of 
the enemy’s fhip before he was difcovered; 
he then cautioned the captain, through a 
trumpet,,not to make a fruitlefs refift- 
ance, when he immediately {napped his 
pifiol ‘at capt. Macnamara, and fired his 
broadfide. At this time being very near 
the heavy “battery of fort Breganfous, capt. 
iiatcs laid him inftantly on bostd . 
and lieut. Lydiard, at the head of the 
boarders, with great intrepidity entered 
the French fhip, and carried her in about 
ten minutes, though he met with a fpirit- 
ed refiftance from the captain (who fell) as 
well as from the crew in general. Stie 
proved to be the Utile corvetee, of 24 guns, 
and 1324 men. 
Commodore air of the Agamem- 
non, on the 30th of June, took feven 
{mall vefiels ia the French, near One- 
glia, laden with military ftores and ord- 
nance for the fiege of Mantua. 
Captain Wintrop, of the Albocore, 
brought into Barbadoes a French corvette 
of 14 guns, on the gth of May. 
On the z3th of UE capt. Hamilton,, 
of the Melpomene, took, off Ufhant, the 
French fhip La Revanche, of 18 guns, 
and 267 men. 
His majefty’s floop Hazard, onthe 17th™ 
of July, brought into Cork harbour a 
French brig privateer of 14% guns, and 
106 Men. 
FRANCE. 
The foldiers of the republic, after hav- 
ing defeated a formidable part of their 
combined foes, and brought them to their 
own terms of amity and alliance, are, ta 
ufe their ownexpreffion, “rufhing forward 
crowned with laurels into the territories 
ef their remaining exemies, holding out 
_ to them in one hand the olive of peace, in 
the other their powerful and avenging 
fword,’” 
We concluded the account of the mili- 
tary tranfaCtions of the French in our laf 
with relating the fuccefsful attacks of ge- 
neral Le Fevre on the Lower Rhine ; foon 
after that, however, he experienced a 
check from the Aufirian forces, which 
we have now to notice. 
On the rsth of June, general Le Fevre 
eccupied a ftrong pofition near the Lahn 
and the Dille. The archduke Charles, 
commander of the Auftrian troops, de- 
Lediterrancan;. havin g obferved a “termined to attack the French m this po- 
fition, 
