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ynake them rake them off; and the’fea was 
in an inftant covered with turbands, while 
the air was filled with piteous moans, cal- 
ling to the Englifh for affittance ; it was 
(as at Aboukir) a duty of fome difficulty 
to afford it them, without being victims to 
their impatience, or overwhelmed with 
numbers; they, however, preferved and_ 
faved all, except thofe whom the French 
took prifoners, by wading into the water 
after them. The lofs in killed on our fide 
cannot be afcertained. ‘The French ge- 
neral, in his offer to,exchange prifoners on 
the general account, aflures Sir Sidney he 
had eleven hundred. As to the enemy’s 
lofs, there were no means of eftimating it., 
The capture of the Genereux, a French 
fhip of 74. guns, anda large ftore-fhip un- 
der her convoy, as they were on the point 
of entering Malta, will very much contri- 
bute to the reduétion of that ifland. It is 
confidently ftated that they had on board 
1500 troops, and were deeply laden with 
previfious and military ftores. They were 
captured by the cruifers of Lord Nelfon’s 
fquadron.’ 
The whole of the French convoy had a 
reinforcement of 4000 men, and valuable 
fupplies of various kinds on board. 
- It is with reluétance we are obliged to 
notice the mutiny which furrendered tothe 
enemy the Danae of 20 guns, captain Lord 
Proby ; as well as the following authentic 
particulars of the unfortunate lofs of his 
majefty’s fhip Repulfe, of 64 guns, cap- 
tain Alms. The Repulfe was one of the 
fhips of the channel fleet, but had been 
detached by Sir Alan Gardner to cruize 
off the Penmarks for the purpofe of inter- 
cepling provifion-vefiels going to Breft. 
On Sunday the gthof February there came 
ona fudden and violent gale of wind, and 
the rolling of the fhip occafioned an ac- 
cident to captain Alms, who, while ftand- 
ing near the companion-ladder, was thrown 
down it, by which one of his ribs was 
broken, and he was difabled from doing 
_ any further duty on the fhip’s deck. 
About twelve o’clock on the night of the 
roth, the Repulfe ftruck on a funken rock, 
fuppofed to be main, 25 leagues fouth-eaft 
of Ufhant. The fhip continued ftriking 
on the rock near three-quarters of an hour 
before fhe could be brought to wear, and 
the water rufhed in fo taft that the lower- 
deck-tier was food flooded. By great ex- 
ertions the fhip was kept afloat long 
enough to be enabled to approach the 
coaft near Quimper ; and at half paft ten 
clock captain Alms and the fhip’s com- 
pany quitted her, and made good a land- 
ing on one of the Gennans iflands, about 
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two miles from the continent. The pea~ 
fantry on the ifland gave every afliftance, 
and itis fuppofed the thip’s company have 
been fent prifoners to Quimper. 
_ We have the painful duty to ftate the 
lofs of his majelty’s fhip Queen Charlotte, 
of 110 guns, captain Todd, which was 
burnt off Leghorn on the 17th of March, 
when the commander and nearly 800 cf 
‘the crew perifhed by the explofion. Vices 
admiral Lord Keith, whofe flag was flying 
on board of her, was, at the time, with 
fome of the officers, providentially on 
fhore. ‘Twenty commiffioned and warrant 
officers, two fervants, and 3142 feameny 
were the whole of the perfons who efcaped 
deftruétion, The particulars are detailed 
by Mr. John Braid, carpenter of the Queen 
Charlotte: as he was dreffing himfelf 
about fix o’clock, he heand throughout the 
fhip a general cry of * Fire.” He then 
ftates the particulars until half paft ten 
o’clock, when, finding all efforts to extin- 
guifh the Hames impoffible, he jumped from 
the jib boom, and fwam to an American 
boat approaching the fhip, by which he 
was picked up and put intoa Tartan, then 
in the charge of lieutenant Stewart, wha 
had come off to the affiftance of the fhip. 
On the morning of the accident, Lord 
Keith being, as above ftated, on fhore at 
Legharn, had the mortification of difco- 
vering the Queen Charlotte on fire four or 
five leagues at fea. This fight rendered. 
Lord Keith almoft frantic ; he immedj-~ 
ately gave orders forall the veffels and 
boats to put cff, and every affiftance to be 
given; and in this fervice he was zealoufly 
feconded by the Auftrian General, and all 
ranks in Leghorn. They came toan an- 
chor, as the wind blew ftrongly off the 
the land ; but the flames were fo rapid 
that very little hopes could be entertained 
of faving her. Between eight and nine 
o'clock the mafts.and rigging caught fire, 
and made a moit awful blaze; the crew, 
however, cut the mafts by the board 3 and, 
going over the fhip, they no Jonger threat- 
ened mifchief ; but the fire had taken 
Rrong hold of the body of the veffel, and 
continued to rage. ‘The guns began to che) 
off, and the people in the boats and other 
veffels, who had gone from Leghorn, were 
fo much alarmed for fear of the fhot, that 
they would not approach the fhip. By a 
letter from Gord Keith, which came to the 
hands of minifers the 12th of April, we 
learn that the whole coaft of the cities of 
Martfeilles, Toulen, Nice, and~the Ru- 
reva de- Ponente, are in a {tate of block- 
ade. 
Phe Duke of Norfolk was on Tuefday 
the 
