in four fathoms, and the French were quickly driven from their guns at the battery. The boats of the Unité, commanded by the same officers who had distinguished themselves in themorning, then joined the boats of the Cephalus, under Captain Clifford; and the whole went in and brought out, without the slightest loss, although exposed to a smart fire of musketry from their crews, and from a party of soldiers drawn up on a height above them, three merchant-vessels. The remainder of those at anchor in the road proved to be fishing-vessels.

On the 21st of July, at 5 P. M., the British 12-pounder 32-gun frigate Thames, Captain Charles Napier, joined the Cephalus off Porto del Infreschi, into which port the latter had the day before compelled a French convoy of 26 sail to run for shelter. The Cephalus, followed by the Thames, then stood in and anchored and the two opened a heavy cannonade upon 11 French gun-boats and a felucca, mounting between them six long 18-pounders, two 12-pounder carronades, three brass and two iron 6-pounders, and manned with 280 men; moored across the port, for the protection of 15 merchant vessels, and of 36 spars for the line-of-battle ship and frigate building at Naples.

The fire of the gun-boats, as well as of a round tower, and of a body of musketry on the adjacent hills, was soon silenced; and, while the boats, under Captain Clifford, took possession of the vessels of war and merchantmen, the marines, under Lieutenant David M'Adams, landed, and stormed and carried the round tower, making an officer and 80 men prisoners. Within two hours from their anchoring, the Thames and Cephalus were again under way, with all their prizes in company, and all the spars alongside, except two which could not be got off. Nor did this dashing and important enterprise cost the life of a man; the whole loss sustained amounting to the boatswain (Hood Douglas) and three seamen of the Cephalus wounded.

On the 27th of July the British 38-gun frigate Active, Captain James Alexander Gordon, anchored off the town of Ragosniza on the island of that name in the Adriatic, and despatched her boats, with the small-arm men and marines, under the orders of Lieutenant James Henderson, assisted by Lieutenants George Haye, who, though an invalid, very handsomely volunteered, and Robert Gibson, Lieutenant of marines Peter Mears, master's mate Charles Friend, and midshipmen Henry Lew, Redmond Moriarty, Norwich Duff, William Simpkins, Joseph Camelleri, Nathaniel Barwell, Charles Bentham, George Moore, William Wood, and William Todd Robinson, to attack a convoy of 28 vessels, laden with grain for the garrison of Ragusa, which had run up above the island and taken shelter in a creek on the main.

The creek being very narrow at its entrance, and protected by three gun-boats, as well as by a force of armed men on each

point, reported to amount in the whole to 300, Lieutenant Henderson, accompanied by Lieutenants Haye and Mears and Mr. Friend, and the small-arm men and marines, landed on the right, in order to take possession of a hill that appeared to command the creek; leaving Lieutenant Gibson to push for the gun-boats, the moment a concerted signal should be made from the top of the hill. After dislodging several soldiers, who fired upon them during their ascent, Lieutenant Henderson and his party gained the summit, and found themselves immediately above the gun-boats and convoy. Having made the preconcerted signal, Lieutenant Henderson descended the hill, exposed to the fire of one of the gun-boats and several soldiers; but the attack had been so well planned, and was so nobly executed, that the boats under Lieutenant Gibson boarded the gun-vessels immediately after Lieutenant Henderson's men had fired two volleys into them. Being attacked so warmly, the crews of the gunboats, except three men and several others that were wounded, jumped overboard and got on shore just as the frigate's boats came alongside. The guns in the vessels were immediately turned towards the flying enemy; and the British, without experiencing any further resistance, took possession of the whole convoy. Ten of the latter were burnt by the captors, and the remaining 18 vessels, along with the three gun-boats, were brought safely out; nor was there the usual drawback of a serious loss to lessen the value of the exploit, four men only having been wounded in the British boats.

On the 26th of May, in the morning, the British 18-gun brig-sloop Pilot, Captain John Toup Nicolas, observing four settees on the beach almost immediately under the town of Strongoli, near the entrance of the gulf of Taranto, despatched her boats to bring them off, under the orders of Lieutenants Alexander Campbell and Francis Charles Annesley, Mr. Roger Langland the master, master's mate Henry Pierson Simpson, midshipman John Barnes (the second), and Mr. Scotten the carpenter. The Pilot herself at the same time anchored off the spot, but, on acount of the shoal water, not so close as was desirable.

In spite of an opposition from 75 gens d'armes, all dragoons, and 30 regular foot soldiers, sent from Cotrone, and above 40 of the civic militia, Lieutenant Campbell and his party effected a landing; and, after dislodging the enemy from an advantageous position behind a bank and in a tower within half musket-shot of the beach, launched three of the vessels, and destroyed the fourth, because unable from shot-holes to float. The whole of this service was executed with no greater loss than one marine slightly wounded.

On the 6th of September, early in the morning, the Pilot, cruising off the town of Castellan in the same neighbourhood, observed an armed ketch secured to the walls of the castle of

that name. The brig immediately anchored close to the town; and, having by her guns driven away the troops there collected for the protection of the ketch, Captain Nicolas despatched the boats, under the orders of Lieutenant Campbell, to bring out the vessel. This officer and his party gallantly landed under the ruins of the castle, and after some opposition, advanced to the town; whence the few troops remaining there precipitately fled. Finding the ketch bilged, he threw her guns overboard and set her on fire. The seamen then, while the marines took post at the castle, loaded their boats with a quantity of corn and flax, and returned on board the sloop by 4 P. M. without having sustained the slightest loss.

On the 11th of October, in the morning, the British 38-gun frigate Impérieuse, Captain the Honourable Henry Duncan, being off Possitano in the gulf of Salerno, discovered three gunvessels, of one long 18-pounder and 30 men each, moored under the walls of a strong fort. At 11 A. M. the Impérieuse anchored within range of grape, and in a few minutes sank one of the gunboats and silenced the fire of the fort; but a shot from the latter had previously cut away the frigate's foretopsail yard. The fort being walled all round, the ship could not dislodge the soldiers and crews of the gun-vessels, who had sheltered themselves within it; and yet that measure became necessary, before possession could be taken of the two remaining gun-boats. Captain Duncan therefore despatched the boats of the Impérieuse, under the orders of Lieutenant Eaton Travers, first of the frigate, assisted by Lieutenant of marines Philip Pipon. These two gallant officers, at the head of a detachment of seamen and the whole of the marines, forced their way into the battery, under a heavy fire of musketry from more than treble their numbers; all of whom, except about 30 men left behind, with 50 stand of arms, the British compelled to fly in every direction. The guns mounted on the battery, which were 24-pounders, were then thrown over the cliff, the magazines destroyed, and the two gun-vessels brought off: nor was any greater loss sustained, in executing the whole of this dashing exploit, than one marine killed and two wounded. The Impérieuse, however, had had her rigging damaged, and, as already stated, her foretopsail yard shot away, by the commencing fire of the battery.

In a few days afterwards the Impérieuse was joined by the 12-pounder 32-gun frigate Thames, Captain Charles Napier; and on the 19th the two frigates anchored close to the shore near Palinuro on the coast of Calabria. The boats, commanded by Lieutenant Travers, then landed under cover of the fire of the ships, and launched and brought off, without the slightest casualty, 10 armed polacres laden with oil, although the vessels, for their better security, were banked up with sand, and were defended by a large detachment of Neapolitan troops.

On the 21st the Impérieuse and Thames discovered 10 Neapo

litan gun-boats lying in the port of Palinuro, together with a number of merchant vessels, also a quantity of spars hauled up on the beach, intended for the equipment of the Neapolitan navy. From the strength and situation of the harbour, Captain Duncan did not consider that he had a sufficient force to make the attack with a prospect of complete success. He therefore sent the Thames to Sicily, to request Lieutenant-general Maitland to lend him a detachment of soldiers. On the 28th the Thames returned, with 250 of the 62d regiment under Major Darby; but, as this was just at the commencement of a south-west gale, no operation could for the present be carried on.

On the 1st of November, in the evening, the time proving favourable, the troops under Major Darby, together with the marines of both frigates under Lieutenant Pipon, and a detachment of seamen under Lieutenant Travers, the whole commanded by Captain Napier, were disembarked from the Thames at the back of the harbour. The British immediately ascended and carried the height in a very gallant style, under a heavy fire from the French, who had assembled in force to oppose them, and who, soon after dark, endeavoured to retake their position; but one well-directed volley obliged the enemy to retire. The Impérieuse, meanwhile, had been endeavouring to occupy the attention of the gun-boats and battery in front; but the light and baffling winds prevented the frigate, during the evening, from getting nearer than long range.

On the 2d, in the morning, finding that nothing could be done on the land side against the battery and a strong tower that protected the vessels on the beach, and within pistol-shot of which the gun-boats were moored, Captain Duncan ordered the Thames to close, and Captain Napier to return to her from the shore. This done, the two frigates bore up at the commencement of the sea-breeze, and, running along the line of gun-boats within half musket-shot, sank two and obliged the remainder almost instantly to surrender. The Impérieuse and Thames then, anchoring close to the fort, silenced it in 15 minutes, and in 15 minutes more compelled the garrison to haul down the colours. The fort was instantly taken possession of by Lieutenant Travers who, on seeing the ships stand in, had most gallantly pushed down the hill with a party of seamen and marines, and was waiting almost under the walls of the fort, ready to take advantage of any superiority the ships might gain over it.

The guns at the fort, 24-pounders, being thrown into the sea, and the gun-boats secured, the crews of both frigates proceeded to launch the vessels and the spars. This could not be accomplished until the afternoon of the 3d; when the troops, who had all this time remained in undisturbed possession of the heights, were re-embarked, and the marines withdrawn from the tower. The tower was then completely blown up, together with two batteries, and also a signal-tower on the hill. The two ships,

accompanied by their prizes, consisting of six gun-boats of one long 18-pounder each, 22 feluccas laden with oil, cotton, &c., and 20 large spars brought off from the beach, put to sea with the land breeze. Four other gun-vessels, one with two long 18-pounders were also destroyed; but this very dashing service was not executed without loss, Lieutenant Kay of the 62d regiment and four men being killed, and Lieutenant Pipon of the marines and 10 men wounded. The commanding officer of the gun-boats was Captain Caraccioli, and the troops and armed peasantry, estimated at 700 men, were commanded by General Pignatelli Cercaro. Although Lieutenant Travers was an older lieutenant than many who were at that time commanders, and although Vice-admiral Sir Edward Pellew, the Mediterranean commander-in-chief, requested the attention of the lords of the admiralty to "the distinguished services" which he had on that and on former occasions performed, Lieutenant Travers, as we observe by the list, was not made a commander until the 15th of June, 1814.

On the 27th of November, at 9 A. M., Fano in the Adriatic bearing south-east distant four leagues, the British 74-gun ship Eagle, Captain Charles Rowley, discovered and immediately chased three vessels in the north-west quarter. These were the French 40-gun frigate Uranie, the armed en flûte frigate Corceyre, and brig-corvette Scemplone, from Triest on the 13th, bound to Corfu. In the course of a short time the brig separated from her two companions; and the Eagle continued in pursuit of the latter down the north-east coast of Italy until about 7 h. 30 m. P. M.; when, having lost her fore topmast by an overpress of sail, and been otherwise crippled by the 74's fire, the Corceyre hauled down her colours.

Owing to the extreme darkness of the night and the necessity, in the disabled state of the prize and the strength and direction of the wind, for the Eagle to stay by the Corceyre to prevent her going on shore near Brindisi, the Uranie effected her escape, as was supposed, into that port. The Corceyre is represented to have been pierced for 40 guns, and to have mounted 26 long 18pounders on the main deck and two 6-pounders on the quarterdeck, with a crew of 170 seamen and 130 soldiers; of whom she had three men killed and six or seven wounded, including her commander, Lieutenant de vaisseau "Longlade." The Corceyre was laden with 300 tons of wheat, and a quantity of military and other stores.

On the 28th of November, at 7 A. M., while the British 38gun frigates Alceste and Active, Captains Murray Maxwell and James Alexander Gordon, 18-pounder 36-gun frigate Unité, Captain Edwin Henry Chamberlayne, and 20-gun ship Acorn, Captain George Miller Bligh, were lying in Port St.-George, island of Lissa, the telegraph on Whitby hill announced three suspicious sail south. Captain Maxwell, the senior officer in the