NAVAL ANECDOTES, DETACHED HINTS, RECOLLECTIONS, &c. NANTES IN GURGITE VASTO! No. I. LORD HOWE, on the 1st of June, observing a little boy standing in a dangerous situation, and feeling for his tender years, yet unaccustomed to endure the shock of such contention as was about to take place, said to him, "You had better go below, you are too young to be of "service here."" My Lord," replied the blushing boy, "what would my father say, if I was not to remain upon "deck during action ?" NAMES of the OFFICERS killed in the Action with the French Fleet, on the 29th and 30th of May, and on Captain John Harvey, of the Brunswick, and Captain Hutt of the Queen, both died on the 30th of June, in consequence of the wounds they received in this action. LIST of FLAG OFFICERS in the FLEET, on the First of June 1794. Right Honourable Richard Earl Howe, Commander in Chief. Alan Gardner, Ditto. Thomas Pasley, Ditto. Sir Roger Curtis, First Captain to the Commander in Chief. BRITISH LINE OF BATTLE given by Lord Howe on sailing from St. Helen's, May 2d, 1794. Ships Names. Guns Cæsar Bellerophon Captains. 80 Capt. Anthony James Pye Molloy. Rear Admiral T. Pasley. 74 Capt. William Hope. 74 Right Hon. Lord Hugh Seymour. 74 Capt. John Willett Paync. Hon.A.K.Legge, Royal Sovereign 100 74 Hon. George Berkeley. 74 Capt. William Parker. 74 Capt. James Gambier. S Rear Admiral B. Caldwell. 90 Capt. George B. Westcott. 74 Capt. James Pigott. 74 Capt. Isaac Schomberg. Invincible 74 Honourable Thomas Pakenham. 80 Capt. T. Mackenzie. Hon. R. Forbes. Queen Charlotte 100 (Admiral Earl Howe Capt. Sir Roger Curtis, Knt. 74 Capt. John Harvey. 74 Capt. Thomas Pringle. 74 Capt. John Thomas Duckworth 98 74 Capt. Truscott. 74 Capt. John Bazely. 100 Admiral Sir Alex. Hood, K. B. 74 Capt. James Montagu. S Rear Admiral G. Montague. 74 Capt. L. W. Halsted. 74 Capt. Richard Rodney Bligh. These ships were detached to convoy the East India fleet on the 4th of May. EXTRACT from the curious Journal kept every day by JEAN BON ST. ANDRE: it forms a striking contrast with the modest recital of the English commander, and strongly marks the character of the French. We have therefore given it in the original. "Le 13 Prairéal (premier Juin) l'armée Angloise parut au vent à nous sur la ligne de front, faisant porter vent arrière sur l'armeé de la République; elle prit ensuite les amures à bâbord, et manœuvra pour nous attaquer; elle étoit formée alors de 28 vaiffeaux de ligne, et l'on apperçut qu'ils en avoient encore quelques-uns au vent, formant un corps de réserve: le capitaine de la frégate la Proserpine nous a assuré en avoir compté 34 en tout, dont 8 à trois ponts. "Nous étions néanmoins prêts à les recevoir. L'attaque commença vers les neuf heures du matin; notre avant-garde fit feu beaucoup trop tôt : elle n'attendit ni les ordres du général, ni de voir l'ennemi à sa portée. "Le combat étoit engagé, et il étoit très vif: on se battoit de part et d'autre avec chaleur, lorsqu'une manœuvre mal-adroite du capitaine Gassin, commandant le vaisseau le Jacobin, causa le plus grand désordre. Ce vaisseau étoit de l'arrière du général; le capitaine, en avançant trop sur nous, laissa un vuide dans la ligne ; il s'apperçut trop tard de sa faute; il mit son grand hunier sur le mât, mais il se trouvoit engagé sous le vent à nous; et la vérité est, qu'il ne savoit plus ce qu'il faisoit. L'Amiral Anglois, qui s'apperçut de son embarras, voulut en profiter; il laissa arriver sur la Montagne, dans l'intention de couper la ligne derrière ce vaisseau; ce qu'il fit en effet. "La faute pouvoit être réparée, et l'on pouvoit aisément faire tourner contre l'Amiral Anglois, sa propre imprudence. Si le Jacobin avoit arrivé vent arrière, il laissoit au vaisseau ennemi, toute la facilité de prolonger la Montagne à stribord, et revenant ensuite au vent, il le pleyoit entre deux feux. L'ordre d'arriver lui fut donné au portevoix par plusieurs personnes : j'allai moi-même sur la galerie, pour le lui transmettre; et ce fut en le lui donnant, que le Citoyen Bazire, capitaine de pavillon du Général, fut atteint d'un boulet, dont il mourut quelques heures après. Cependant le Jacobin n'arrivoit point, et l'Amiral Anglois, qui nous en vouloit principalement, après avoir lâché sa bordée de stribord sur l'Achille, enfila par la hanche le vaisseau la Montagne, et lui fit un mal affreux. Cent hommes au moins ont ete tués par ces décharges meurtrières, et l'arrière du vaisseau en a beaucoup souffert. Nous avions le feu de l'ennemi, et nous ne pou vions pas le lui rendre, crainte de tirer sur un de nos vaisseaux; cependant nous pûnies enfin arriver, et nous présentâmes le côté à l'Amiral Anglois, qui ne put pas le soutenir long-temps, et qui se retira dem âté de son mât d'artimon et de son grand mât. Dans ce moment nous étions entourés de 5 à 6 vaisseaux; nous faisions feu des deux bords; nous coulâmes un vaisseau ennemi au vent, et tous ceux qui nous approchèrent turent très-maltraités. “Le combat étoit horrible: les armées étoient mêlées et confondues; on se battoit à la portée du pistolet, avec un acharnement dont on n'a jamais vu d'exemple, Les tourbillons de fumée empêchoient de voir autour de soi ce qui se passoit; et nos frégates nous ont rapporté que la Montagne avoit été pendant deux heurs invisible à leurs yeux, et qu'elles ne la rallioient qu'au bruit de sa formidable artillerie.” DIMENSIONS of the FRENCH SHIPS of the LINE taken on the First of June 1794. Ships Names. Le Juste L'impetueux Le Northumberland 74 173, 1454 483 FLAGS worn on the First of June 1794. 84 1937 1596 593 226 2144 1884 1878 211 1801 White at the main, Blue at the main. - White at the fore. By order of the Commander in Chief, the Fleet on the 1st of June carried rcd ensigns. LORD NELSON. At the latter end of last year, this gallant officer received a pension of a thousand pounds per annum, in consequence, as was said, of the loss of his arm, but in fact as a small recompence for a whole life of danger, hardship, enterprize, and service. Previous to the issuing of the grant, a positive custom required, that he should distinctly state his services to his Majesty. The following is the memorial which was delivered in upon the occasion :(COPY.) -- "To the King's most excellent Majesty, the Memorial of Sir Horatio Nelson, K. B. and a Rear-Admiral in your Majesty's Fleet. "That, during the present war, your Memorialist has been in four actions with the fleets of the enemy, viz, on the 13th and 14th of March 1795; on the 15th July 1795; and on the 14th of February 1797; in three actions with frigates; in six engagements against batteries; in ten actions in boats employed in cutYour ting out of harbours; in destroying vessels, and in taking three towns. Memorialist has also served on shore with the army four months, and commanded the batteries at the sieges of Bastia and Calvi. That during the war, he has assisted at the capture of seven sail of the line, six frigates, four corvettes, and eleven privateers of different sizes; and taken and destroyed near fifty sail of merchant vessels; and your Memorialist has actually been engaged against the enemy upwards of ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY TIMES. your Memorialist has lost his right eye and am, and been severely wounded and bruised in his body. All of which services and wounds your Memorialist most humbly submits to your Majesty's most gracious consideration. October 1797. (Signed) In which service NELSON." LATE DUKE OF YORK. When the late Duke of York who served under Lord Howe, as midshipman, first came on board, the different captains of the fleet attended to pay their respects. A sailor, who was standing in the forecastle, with some others, observing attentively what passed, whispered to a messmate"Why the young gentleman a'nt over civil I thinks; d'ye "see how he keeps his hat on before our captains?"-"Why you lubberly fool now," replied the other, "how should "he know manners, seeing as how he never was at sca " before?" P. HEIN, A DUTCH ADMIRAL. P. Hein, a Dutchman, from a cabin-boy rose to the rank of an Admiral. He was killed in an action at the moment |