On the 12th of May, at 1 h. 30 m. P. M., the British 18-pounder 36-gun frigate Tribune, Captain George Reynolds, cruising off the Naze of Norway, observed and chased two brigs under the land. At 2 P. M. the latter, now discovered to be Danish brigs of war, made all sail for the port of Mandal, and at 2 h. 30 m. hove to within the rocks. The Tribune immediately stood in, wore, and gave the two brigs a broadside, and then stood off again under easy sail. Several gun-boats now pulled out from behind the rocks, and presently two other large brigs came out and joined the two first seen. At 3 h. 15 m. P. M. the Danes began working out, as if intending to attack the frigate; who, at 3 h. 20 m., wore and stood in-shore to meet them. At 3 h. 40 m. the Tribune hove to; whereupon the four Danish brigs, two of which mounted 20 guns, a third 18, and the remaining one 16 guns, tacked and stood towards the British frigate, formed in line of battle.

At 4 P. M. the Tribune filled on the starboard tack with light airs; and at 4h. 30 m. wore round and discharged her larboard broadside at the four brigs then on the same tack to windward, distant rather less than half a mile. A smart engagement now ensued. Finding that the brigs were rather forereaching upon her, the Tribune set her courses, and maintained the cannonade with such effect, that at 6 h. 45 m. the Danish commodore, being in a very shattered state, ceased firing. This brig then made the signal to discontinue the action; and, followed by her three consorts, crowded sail to regain the port of Mandal. As quickly as possible afterwards, the Tribune tacked and made sail in chase; but, favoured by the weathergage and the lightness of the wind, the brigs reached their port; out of which, as they approached, issued several gun-boats, to afford them protection.

This was rather a serious contest for the frigate. The Tribune had her fore and main stays and back stays, and maintopgallant yard, shot away, fore and main topmasts and maintopsail yard severely wounded, standing and running rigging and sails much cut, boats all rendered useless, and hull greatly shattered, with several shot between wind and water. Her loss amounted to four seamen, four marines, and one boy killed, and 15 seamen and marines wounded. The Danes at this time owned five or six brigs, two or three of the class and force of the Lougen; and some mounting not quite so many guns; but all, as it appears, carrying either long or medium 18-pounders, and consequently much more formidable vessels than their appearance indicated.

On the 22d of July, in the evening, as the British 18-pounder 36-gun frigate Belvidera, Captain Richard Byron, and 28-gun frigate, Nemesis, Captain William Ferris, were standing close in-shore of Studtland, coast of Norway, Captain Byron sent his master, Mr. James M'Pherson, to sound round a deep bay. Perceiving three vessels at anchor, Mr. M'Pherson rowed up to

reconnoitre them; when, late in the night, they opened a fire upon him, and proved to be three Danish gun-vessels; two of them, the Bolder and Thor, commanded by Lieutenants Dahlreup and Rasmusen, schooner-rigged, and mounting cach two long 24-pounders and six 6-pounder howitzers with a crew of 45 men. The third gun-vessel was of a smaller class, and carried one long 24-pounder with 25 men.

On the morning of the 23d Captain Byron detached upon the service of capturing or destroying these gun-vessels, the launch, barge, and two cutters of the Belvidera, also, the launch, pinnace, and yawl of the Nemesis: the four first boats under the orders of Lieutenants Samuel Nisbett, and William Henry Bruce, and Lieutenant of marines James Campbell; and the three last, of Lieutenants Thomas Hodgskins and Marmaduke Smith. The Danes opened a heavy fire upon the boats as they advanced, and received in return a fire from the carronades in the bows of the launches. In a very short time the two gun-schooners hauled down their colours and were taken possession of without the slightest loss, but the Danes on board of them had four men killed. The remaining gun-boat ran up a creek, and was there abandoned by her crew and burnt by the British.

On the 29th of August, at 3 P. M., the island of Alderney bearing south-south-west three or four leagues, the British hired armed cutter Queen-Charlotte, of 76 tons, eight 4-pounders, and 27 men and boys, commanded by Mr. Joseph Thomas, a master in the royal navy, while proceeding towards the blockading squadron off Cherbourg, observed a large cutter, with an English white ensign and pendant, approaching from under the land in the south-east. At 3 h. 30 m. P. M. the stranger, whose true character had been suspected and caused suitable preparations to be made on board the Queen-Charlotte, came lose to the latter, luffed up, and, when in the act of changing her colours to French, received a well-directed broadside. The French cutter immediately sheered off, as if not expecting such a salute, but soon returned to the combat. A close action was now maintained, nearly the whole time within pistol shot, until 5 P. M., when the French vessel ceased firing and hauled to the northeast; leaving the Queen-Charlotte in no condition to follow, she having had her boatswain killed and 14 men wounded, including one mortally and several badly.

The French cutter was the late British revenue-cutter Swan, lengthened so as to measure 200 tons, and mounting 16 long 6-pounders, with a crew, as afterwards found on board of her, of 120 men. To have beaten off an antagonist so greatly superior in force, was a truly meritorious act on the part of Mr. Thomas and his brave associates. The Queen-Charlotte, with more than half her crew in a wounded state, and with her rigging and sails very much cut, was obliged to put into St.-Aubin's bay. Among the badly wounded was a passenger, Mr. P. A.M ulgrave, employed

in arranging the telegraphic communication between the island of Jersey and the British squadron off Cherbourg. This gentleman, while in the act of firing his musket at the enemy, received a musket-ball through his hat, which carried away the outer angle of the socket of his left eye, and, passing through the centre of the upper eyelid, slightly grazed his nose. He, notwithstanding, refused to quit the deck, and continued to supply ammunition to those near him until the affair terminated.

On the 5th of September, in the morning, while the British 38-gun frigate Surveillante, Captain George Ralph Collier, and gun-brig Constant, Lieutenant John Stokes, were standing out of the Morbihan for the purpose of reconnoitring the Loire, a division of a French convoy was observed to take advantage of the frigate's departure and run from the Morbihan to the southward. The convoy was immediately chased, and a part of it driven back. One brig sought protection close under the rocks, and between the batteries, of St.-Guildas and St. Jacques. Captain Collier immediately dispatched the boats of the Surveillante, under the orders of Lieutenant the Honourable James Arbuthnot, assisted by master's mate John Illingworth, and midshipmen John Kingdom, Digby Marsh, Edwyn Francis Stanhope, William Crowder, John Watt, and Herbert Ashton, to attempt the capture or destruction of the brig.

Notwithstanding the protection afforded to the French brig by the batteries, and by the additional fire of a party of soldiers placed within the caverns and supported by field-pieces, Lieutenant Arbuthnot and Mr. Illingworth in the gig, assisted by the other boats, succeeded in carrying the vessel. The crew of the gig then cut her cables and hawsers, and the prize was brought out without the slightest loss on the part of the British. But Captain Collier handsomely acknowledges that this fortunate termination of the enterprise was mainly attributable to the "zeal and determination of Lieutenant Stokes, of the Constant, who, with admirable skill and judgment, pushed his brig in between the rocks and shoals of St.-Guildas, and by a welldirected fire kept the enemy close within their holes and caves among the rocks." In performing this service, the Constant became necessarily exposed to showers of grape, but a few of those shot through her sails and bulwark comprised the extent of the injury she received.

On the 6th, late in the night, the Surveillante detached two boats, under the orders of master's mate John Illingworth, assisted by midshipmen John Kingdom and Hector Rose, to destroy a new battery of one long 24-pounder, and a guardhouse having a small watchtower attached to it, protecting the north side of, and the entrance into, the river Crache, in which lay at anchor several coasters. Although the day had dawned before the British reached the spot, they first decoyed the guard from the battery, and then drove them from the beach. Mr.

Illingworth and his little party then pushed for, and made themselves master of, the battery and guard-house. After they had spiked the gun, a quantity of powder, carried on shore for the purpose, was so well disposed of, that in a few minutes the whole building was level with the ground and in flames. Having thus effectually executed the service upon which he had been detached, Mr. Illingworth returned to the frigate without the slightest casualty.

On the night of the 27th of September, the boats of the 120gun ship Caledonia, Captain Sir Harry Neale, 74-gun ship Valiant, Captain Robert Dudley Oliver, and 38-gun frigate Armide, Captain Richard Dalling Dun, lying at anchor in Basque roads, were detached under the orders of Lieutenant Arthur Philip Hamilton, first of the Caledonia, to take or destroy three brigs lying under the protection of a strong battery at Pointe du Ché; and, as the enemy had been known to have strengthened his position with four field-pieces and a party of artillery stationed on a low point of the beach situated under the battery, as well as by a strong detachment of cavalry and infantry in the adjoining village of Angoulin, a body of 130 marines commanded by Captains Thomas Sherman and Archibald M'Lachlan, Lieutenants John Coulter and John Couche, and Lieutenant Robert John Little, of the marine artillery, were added to the division of seamen from the three ships.

At about 2 h. 30 m. A. M. on the 28th, the marines were landed under Pointe du Ché; but, notwithstanding the near approach of the boats before they were discovered, the alarm was given by the brigs, and an ineffectual fire was immediately opened from the enemy's guns. Lieutenant Little pushed forward with the bayonet to the assault, supported by Captain M'Lachlan's division, and by a detachment under Lieutenants Coulter and Couche, and quickly carried the battery and spiked the guns. At the same time Captain Shearman, with his division of marines, took post on the main road by the sea side, with his front to the village, and one of the launches with an 18-pounder carronade on his right. In a few minutes a considerable body of men advanced from the village, but were checked in their approach by a warm fire from the marines and the launch. At this period the enemy had succeeded, under cover of the darkness, in bringing a field-piece to flank the line; but which the British picket immediately charged with the bayonet and took, putting the men stationed at it to flight. In the mean time the seamen had effected the capture of two of the brigs, and the destruction of the third.

The marines were then re-embarked without the loss of a man killed and only one private wounded, except Lieutenant Little at his first gallant charge. This officer, while struggling with a French soldier to get his musket from him, received the contents into his hand; which was so much shattered in conse

quence, as to render amputation necessary. The French had 14 men killed in defending the battery upon Pointe du Ché: what loss the party from the village sustained by the fire of Captain Shearman's division and the carronade in the launch could not be ascertained.

On the 7th of September the British 98-gun ship Dreadnaught, Captain Valentine Collard, bearing the flag of Rearadmiral Thomas Sotheby, while cruising off the coast of France, was informed by the 4-gun schooner Snapper, Lieutenant William Jenkins, that a ship was among the rocks on the west side of Ushant. The Dreadnaught made sail to the eastward, and about 6 P. M. on the 8th, on rounding the island, discovered the ship at anchor in a small creek, surrounded by rocks. Rear-admiral Sotheby determined to attempt cutting her out with his boats at daybreak on the following morning. To prevent suspicion the Dreadnaught stood on until dark: she then bore up for the spot; and at 5 A. M. on the 9th, seven boats, well manned and armed, pushed off from her, under the orders of Lieutenant Thomas Pettman.

No sooner had the boats approached within gun-shot of the shore, than they were received by a heavy and destructive fire of musketry from a number of troops concealed among the rocks, and from two 4-pounder field-pieces on the beach. In the face of all this, the British pulled towards the ship, lying within halfpistol shot of the beach; and, exhilarated by the sight of the French troops, that had been stationed on board to defend her, hurrying over the side in the greatest confusion, boarded and carried her. Now came the most serious part of the enterprise. A body of French soldiers, supposed to be 600 in number, stationed on a precipice nearly over their heads, opened on the British in the ship and in the boats a tremendous fire; a fire to which no return could be made, except occasionally by the 18pounder carronade in the launch. The consequence was that, in recapturing this Spanish merchant ship, the Maria-Antonia, from the French privateer who had taken her, and now lay an apparently unconcerned spectator in another creek at about a mile distance, the British sustained the serious loss of one master's mate (Henry B. Middleton), one midshipman (William Robinson), two seamen, and two marines killed, two lieutenants (Henry Elton and Stewart Blacker), two midshipmen (George Burt and Henry Dennis), 18 seamen, and nine marines wounded, and five seamen and one marine missing; total, six killed, 31 wounded, and six missing, or prisoners. Two of the boats had also drifted on shore during the action, and were taken possession of by the enemy.

On the 14th of October, at noon, the British 10-gun brig-sloop Briseis (eight 18-pounder carronades and two sixes, with 75 men and boys), acting-commander Lieutenant George Bentham, cruising about 80 miles west by south of Horn reef, in the North