SPARCIATE 74.-Towed by a Frigate, but sunk during the night of the 21st.Killed 2 Captains; 5 Officers. Wounded 3.—Killed 98 seamen; drowned 244; wounded 104. Total Killed and Wounded in the Second Division:-Captains 5: Officers 26 killed; 27 wounded.-Seamen 607 killed; 285 drowned; 740 wounded. THIRD DIVISION, VICE-ADMIRAL CALDER. DEFENCE 74.-Was burnt during the Engagement. There were lost her 2 Captains; 17 Officers; 700 seamen. SWIFTSURE 74.-Entered Gibraltar with loss of fore and main-top mast. but can be repaired.-Killed 2 Officers. Wounded 30.-Kiled 92 szumen : wounded 52. ORCON 74.-Towedin to Gibraltar dismasted, but can be repured-Lilest 10 Officers. Wounded 50.-Killed 78 seamen; wounded 33. ZEALOUS 74.-Towed into Gibraltar by a Frigate, and remains entrer mserviceable.-Killed 3 Captains; 4 Officers. Wounded $-Killest men; wounded 100. CARNATIC 74.-Did not take part in the Engagement, bering fulen ne ward. ABOUKIR 74.-Did not take part in the Engagement, hiring remanet in Gibraltar; she afterwards sailed on a cruise before Cadiz. Total Killed and Wounded in the Third Division:-Captains 3: Officers 25 killed; 12 wounded.-Seamen 1044 killed; 278 wounded. FOURTH DIVISION, REAR-ADMIRAL ..... CONQUEROR 74.-Entered Gibraltar in good condition, and went to cruise off Cadiz.-Killed 2 Officers. Wounded 2.-Killed 19 seamen; wounded 34. REVENGE 74.-Towed into Gibraltar by two Corvettes; condemned as unserviceable, and incapable of repairs.-Killed 5 Officers. Wounded 3.-Killed 83 seamen; wounded 124. ACHILLES 74.—In the same state as the preceding Vessel.-Killed 3 Officers. Wounded 2.-Killed 79 seamen; wounded 52. MINOTAUR 74.-Shipwrecked after the Battle, on the Coast of Conil.-Killed 5 Officers. Wounded 3.-Killed 123 seamen; drowned 142; wounded 91. COLOSSUS 74.-Suffered a similar fate to the last.-Perished 2 Captains; 11 Officers; and between 600 and 700 seamen. MARS 74.-Entered Gibraltar in good condition, and keeps cruising in sight of Cadiz.—Killed 1 Officer. Wounded 2.-Killed 2 seamen; wounded 12 BELLEROPHON 74.-Entered in good condition, although with love of se mizen-mast: sailed again to cruise off Cadiz.-Killed 2 Officers. Wunded Killed 43 seamen ; wounded 59. Total Killed and Wounded in the Fourth Division:-Cantaine 3. Gene 29 killed. Wounded 13.-Seamen 1705 killed; 242 dromed - 152 onura nd soldiers wounded. FIFTH DIVISION, WHICH SAILED FROM PORT IN THE 21ST FOR THE PURPOSE OF REINFORCING THE ÎNGU INTO BATTLE BY REAR-ADMIRAL LEWIS, SIXTH DIVISION, WHICH JOINED THE ENGLISH FLEET ON THE MORNING OF THE 22nd, AND WHICH AFTER MANNING PArt of it, directed its course TO MALTA, Having several Vessels under CONVOY. SOVEREIGN 110.-Did not engage, but ran ashore on the coast of Conil, where she was totally wrecked; no one being saved, and the money she was carrying all lost.-Perished 2 Captains; 12 Officers; 900 Seamen. LIGHTNING 74.-Did not engage, and is now off Cadiz. DUKE OF YORK.-Did not engage, manned several Prizes, but abandoned them in consequence of the storm. Is off Cadiz. Total loss in the Sixth Division:-Captains 2; Officers 12; Seamen 900. SUMMARY OF THE LOSS IN KILLED AND WOUNDED: OFFICERS 5 Among the 'not engaged' must be reckoned the Aboukir, which did not leave Gibraltar till after the Battle. Thirteen Frigates, five Brigs, and two Sloops also formed part of this Fleet." Intelligence of the Battle of Trafalgar was brought to England by the Pickle Schooner; and Vice-Admiral Collingwood's dispatch having reached the Admiralty at one o'clock on the morning of the 6th of November, was immediately printed in a London Gazette Extraordinary. It is only by reading e newspapers, and other periodical publications of the tar, nat an adequate idea can be formed of the sensation wur event produced throughout this Country. The pendone vf the Victory, and its immense National importa, v forgotten in grief for the loss which Engan lat bus anes by the death of NELSON. One common and tent of øns gratitude, admiration, and regret, pervaded every cowon family mourned as for a dear relation; and then a SASSA, no similar instance of a sorroW SO LET simple and emphatic words of Lord CoungwooLi", no no exaggeration in the following szemet — "Such, and so great, were the arattar vi se derived from the actions of the notes se song was what y have enumerated here, only in order to Huow the a of him, for great as they were, and conti. to be even to her very existence, when the tipdage Victory off Trafalgar, with all the tra't of turment gewann with it, reached England, and that it wae kuows purchased with the life of her Hero not an individua, a tự Gru even him before the most desponding of ne fas # Cut We that it was purchased at too dear a rate, Lor was there, but atafa in it who would not have given up the Victory to save moned the Victim'! The Park and Tower guns announced the Victory to tak Metropolis, and Admiral Collingwood's computer having was forwarded to the King, His Majesty received it wood we o'clock in the morning. The Duke of York arrives at Wine sor Castle about eight o'clock, to congrats ate their Vojnos upon the Victory, and to condole with them on the grea and heavy loss by which it was purchased. On hearing Vide p. 233, ante. 7 Annual Register for 1805, vol. xlvi. p. 238 death of Lord Nelson, His Majesty was so deeply afflicted that a profound silence of nearly five minutes ensued, before he could give utterance to his feelings. The Queen, on being informed of the news, called the Princesses around her, and read the dispatches aloud, while the whole Royal group are Isaid to have shed tears. The Royal Family then went to Chapel, to return thanks to Almighty God for the success of His Majesty's arms. The impression made upon Mr. Pitt, then Prime Minister, by the event, is thus described by Lord Malmesbury :— "On the receipt of the news of the memorable Battle of Trafalgar (some day in November, 1805), I happened to dine with Pitt, and it was naturally the engrossing subject of our conversation. I shall never forget the eloquent manner in which he described his conflicting feelings when roused in the night to read Collingwood's dispatches. Pitt observed, that he had been called up at various hours in his eventful life by the arrival of news of various hues, but that whether good or bad, he could always lay his head on his pillow and sink into sound sleep again. On this occasion, however, the great event announced brought with it so much to weep over, as well as to rejoice at, that he could not calm his thoughts, but at length got up, though it was three in the morning "." 8 To this anecdote must be added Lord Malmesbury's eloquent remarks on Lord Nelson's character and death : "On the 7th of November the news of the great Naval Victory off Cape Trafalgar, and of the death of Nelson, arrived. A few days after, Pitt made quite a triumphal entry on Lord Mayor's Day into the City, and was in high spirits at dinner. The first impression was not joy, for Nelson fell !-the Hero, who was regretted with all the tenderness of gratitude, and all the more selfish feeling that the bulwark of England was gone, and that this circumstance would be equivalent to Buonaparte for the loss of his Fleet. He added to genius, valour, and energy, the singular power of electrifying all within his atmosphere, and making them only minor constellations to this most luminous planet. The confidence he inspired in his followers, and the terror of his name to our enemies, are what make his loss an irreparable one. Others may be great in many points : nay, admit that another, like himself, might appear again amongst the disciples he has formed, there would yet be wanting all he had done, and all the circumstances of the times in which he did these wondrous deeds. Every victory was greater than the last. Every additional difficulty seemed only to bring out some new proof of the combination and powers of his mind as well as the invincible force of his arms; and had he survived this last victory, the next and the next would have still surpassed each other. All this is sorrow for ourselves, but still more deeply do I regret that he cannot see 8 Diary, vol. iv. p. 311. the effect his death has produced. Not one individual who felt joy at this victory, so well-timed and so complete, but first had an instinctive feeling of sorrow, not selfish sorrow (for it came before the reflection of the consequences of his loss to us), but the sorrow of affection and gratitude for what he had done for us; and the first regret was, that he who did the deed should be deprived of the enjoyment which he above all other men, from his character, would have derived from its effects. "Could he have lived but long enough to have known, that no victory-not even his victories, could weigh in the hearts of Englishmen against his most precious life, it would have been some consolation. I never saw so little public joy. The illumination seemed dim, and, as it were, half clouded by the desire of expressing the mixture of contending feelings; every common person in the streets speaking first of their sorrow for him and then of the victory. Collingwood's letter (which is admirable) proves that it was his art to make all under him love him, and own his superiority without a ray of jealousy. He never was a party man himself, and there never was a party in his fleets. All were governed by one mind, and this made them invincible. He was a true patriot, which is nearly as rare a character as to be the hero he was. He had the arm and spirit of chivalry, and he was the most loyal subject-living and dying for his Country, without reference to those who held the helm under that Sovereign, to whom, next to her, he considered himself bound. This completes a character which cannot, I fear, appear again in our time * On the 7th of November, the day after the news of the Victory arrived, the following Proclamation was signed by the King: "GEORGE R. "We, taking into our most serious consideration the indispensable duty which we owe to Almighty God for the recent and signal interposition of his good Providence, in addition to the manifold and inestimable benefits which these Kingdoms have from time to time received at his hands, manifested by the blessing bestowed on our arms in the late signal and important Victory obtained by our Fleet under the command of the late Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, over the Combined Fleets of France and Spain, have thought fit, by the advice of Our Privy Council, to issue this our Royal Proclamation, hereby appointing and commanding that a General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for these his mercies be observed throughout those parts of our United Kingdom called England and Ireland, on Thursday the fifth day of December next. "Dated at the Queen's Palace, the 7th day of November, 1805." On the same day, Colonel Taylor, by His Majesty's command, conveyed to Vice-Admiral Collingwood his approbation of his conduct and of that of the Fleet: 9 • Diary and Correspondence of the Earl of Malmesbury, vol. iv. p. 311. |