to convey the thanks of their respective houses to the flag officers already named as above, and to the captains and other officers of the fleet, for their bravery and gallant conduct, with their approval and acknowledgement of the services of the SEAMEN, MARINES, and SOLDIERS,' serving in the said fleet on the several actions with the enemy as aforesaid. "The Commander .in Chief, with the highest sense of pleasure, communicates in this manner such approval and acknowledgement, as above stated, to the said officers and ships' companies; and desires in consequence, that the several captains of the different ships will signify the same to their respective officers and crews accordingly. "He is moreover to make known at this time, that in a court of common council holden in the chamber of Guildhall in the City of London the 18th instant, in consideration, (as it is expressed) of the very gallant conduct of the seamen, &c.1 who 'This is explained by a previous remark. 2 The necessity of perspicuity in all communications on public sub served on board the fleet in the said actions, and in token of the gratitude of the said court of common council, the Chamberlain of the City is directed to pay into the hands of Mr. Thomas Tayler, the Master of Lloyd's Coffee House, the sum of five hundred pounds for the relief of the wounded warrant officers, petty officers, seamen, &c. and also the widows and children of those who so gloriously fell on the days before mentioned, in the service of their king and country. It is likewise to be noticed, that a very considerable sum of money had been previously subscribed (and is still increasing in amount) by many respectable and generous private gentlemen, making their deposits with Mr. Tayler for the like purposes; consonant to the tenor of which the several captains of the fleet have been desired to transmit to the said Mr. Tayler, the names jects is here manifested; contemplating only the relief of those who were most necessitated, the amanuensis of the committee named them first, an awkwardness which did not, it appears, escape the Admiral. of the killed and wounded seamen, marines, and soldiers' with adequate descriptions of the persons entitled to that relief, with all convenient despatch. Hence is demonstrated the various recognisance with which the British people thus early, in a new and unexampled contest, met their defenders, and encouraged them to those immortal efforts by which they have progressively succeeded in establishing in their age, the glory of the British arms. If it shall be lamented by any that there are names known to all, which do not appear in these proud testimonies of national service, let it be remembered, that though these may not appear prominent, yet there can be few indeed who have not been included in some of the votes of 1 The committee at Lloyd's are closely perspicuous, taking care to distinguish the objects of their solicitude, and here recognizing the military who served on board the ships. It is perhaps worthy of remark at the outset of a work like the present, that this committee of the first commercial men in the world, appear to have arranged as a general rate of subscription, the sum of ten guineas, and moreover that a lady appears among the names on the first day (Mrs. Angerstein) See Advertisement 11th June, 1794. thanks, and thus partaken with their fortunate commanders in the honors in which their names appear pre-eminent. This is rendered particularly clear from the very declaration of the present Commander in Chief in his signal dispatch, who after ADDING the names of Seymour, Pakenham, Berkely, Gambier, Harvey, Payne, Parker, Pringle, Duckworth, and Elphinstone, thus admirably remarks: These selections however, should not be construed to the disadvantage of other commanders who may have been equally deserving of the approbation of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, although I am not enabled to make a particular statement of their merit. His lordship also nobly adds, that from the reports of the several captains of the fleet, which he had received, they would "become acquainted also with the animated intrepidity of the subordinate officers and ships' companies, to which the defeat of the enemy is truly to be ascribed. THE OPERATIONS OF LORD HOOD WITH A LAND FORCE UNDER LIEUT- ENANT David) DUNDAS. While Lord Howe in the British channel had drawn from a grateful country the first tribute of its honourable praise, another veteran little less distinguished by age and services, had been earning the same glorious meed in the Mediterranean sea. The scope and scene of Lord Hood's operations seem to have been greatly confided to his lordship's judgment, guided, no doubt, in a powerful degree by the political judgment of Sir Gilbert Elliot, (since Lord Minto,) and the intelligence of military men of the first character, who in the incipient stages of the war, either purposely, or in the course of their respective services, were dispersed throughout the coast or the islands of Italy. Their merit will be best perceived in the occupation of the French port of Toulon sufficiently long to destroy |