frigates; he immediately attacked the fhip which carried the poop-light, and directed the Blanche to bear down to engage the other: at 40 minutes paft 10 at night, the Commodore brought his hip to close action, which continued without intermiffion, till half paft one; when La Sabina, of 40 guns, 28 18-pounders on her main deck, and 256 men, commanded by Capt. Don Jacobo Stuart, ftruck to La Minerve. Capt. Prefton in La Blanche filenced the ship he had engaged, but could not effect poffeffion, owing to three more ships heaving in fight. Jan. 29, 1797, Commodore Nelfon failed in La Minerve, from Porto Ferrajo, on his return to join Sir John Jervis; having on board Sir Gilbert Elliot (now Lord Minto), late Viceroy of Corfica, with Lieut. Col. Drinkwater, and others of Sir G. Elliot's fuites After reconnoitring the principal ports of the enemy in the Mediterranean, the Commodore arrived at Gibraltar a few days after the Spanish fleet had paffed through the Straits from Carthagena. Impatient to join Sir John Jervis, the Commodore remained only one day at Gibraltar; and February 11, in proceeding thence to the Weftward, to the place of rendezvous, he was chafed by two Spanish line of battle fhips, and fell in with their whole fleet off the mouth of the Straits: The Commodore fortunately effected his efcape, and joined the Admiral off Cape St. Vineent, Feb. 13, juft in time to communicate intelligence relative to the force and ftate of the Spanish fleet; and to shift his pendant on board his former fhip the Captain, 74 guns, Ralph W. Miller, Efq. Commander. Commodore Nelfon had not removed from La Minerve to the Captain many minutes, when, on the evening of the fame day, the fignal was thrown out for the British fleet to prepare for action; the fhips were alfo directed to keep in clofe order during the night. On the 14th, he behaved in the moft heroic manner in the engagement with the Spanish fleet; the latter confifting of 27 fhips to 15. He received a contution, but did not quit the deck, and contributed much to the victory; in which the San Jofef, of 112 guns, and 3 other three-deckers, were taken. He was in confequence honoured with the Order of Knighthood of the Bath (LXVII. pp. 244, 625.) In April 1797, Sir H. Nelfon hoifted his flag as Rear-Admiral of the Blue, and was detached to bring down the garrifon of Porto Ferrajo. May 27, he shifted his flag from the Captain to the Thefeus, and was appointed to the command of the inner fquadron at the blockade of Cadiz. During this fervice, his perfonal courage, if poffible, was more confpicuous than at any other period of his former fervices. In

the attack on the Spanish gun-boats (July 3, 1797), he was boarded in his barge, with only its ufual complement of ten men, and. the coxfwain, accompanied by Capt. Freemantle. The Commander of the Spanish. gun-boats, Don Miguel Tyrafon, in a barge rowed by twenty-fix pars, having thirty men, including officers, made a moft defperate effort to overpower Sir H. Nelfon and his brave companions. The.. conflict was long and doubtful; they fought hand to hand with their fwords:. his faithful coxfwain, John Sykes, was. wounded in defending the Admiral; and twice faved his life, by parrying feveral blows that were aimed at him, and mortally wounding his adverfaries. Eighteen Spaniards being killed, the Commandant. and all the reft wounded, the Rear-Admiral, with his gallant barge's crew, fucceeded in carrying this fuperior force. (LXVII.[p. 701.) During the night of July 5, Sir H. Nelfon ordered a fecond bomdardment of Cadiz, which produced confiderable effect on the town, and among the shipping. (Ib. 785.) July 15, he was detached, with a small squadron, to make a vigorous attack on the town of Santa Cruz, in the island of Teneriffe. The Rear-Admiral, on his arrival before the town, loft no time in dire&ing a thousand men, including marines, to be prepared for landing from the fhips, under the direction of the brave Capt. Troubridge, of the Culloden, and Capts. Hood, Thom fon, Freemantle, Bowen, Miller, and Waller, who very handfomely volunteered their fervices. The boats of the fquadron were accordingly manned, and the landing was effected in the courfe of a dark night. The party were in full poffeffion of the town of Santa Cruz for feven hours. Finding. it impracticable to ftorm the citadel, they prepared for their retreat, which the Spaniards allowed them to do unmolested, agreeably to the ftipuiations made with Capt. Troubridge. Sir H. Nelfon in this attack loft his right arm by a cannon-fhot; and no less than 246 gallant officers, marines, and feamen, were killed, wounded, and drowned. The life of Sir H. Nelfon was providentially faved by Lieut. Netbit, his fon-in-law, on this difaftrous night; the Admiral received his wound foon after the detachment had landed; and, while they were preffing on with the ufual ardour of British feamen, the fhock caufed him to fall to the ground, where, for fone minutes, he was left to himfelf; till Mr. Netbit, miffing him, had the prefence of mind to return; when, after fome fearch in the dark, be at length fourd his brave father-in-law weltering in his blood. on the ground, with his arm shattered, and himfelf apparently, lifeless. Leut, Nelbit having immediately applied his

of all order, religion, property, and every focial compact), as to excite the adoration of Providence; reprefenting himself as merely the inftrument of its interpofition. The fame letter ftates, that the enemy were moored in a strong line of battle, for defending the entrance of the bay; flanked by numerous gun-boats, four frigates, and a battery of guns and mortars on an ifland in their van.' Between thefe pofitions of the enemy the British fleet were obliged to pass to the attack, fhip by fhip, fuftaining the heavy fire of their oppoents. This paffage in the letter explains the reprefentation in his Lordship's arms. (engraved in vol. LXIX. p. 29.) which otherwife hereafter might have been fought for in vain. The palm-tree is of the growth of Egypt, and is the symbol of victory and pre-eminence. We may call thefe properly Egyptian hieroglyphicks. The Chelengk, ór Plume of Triumph, or Aigrette, was taken from one of the Imperial turbans, and was, with the peliffe, conveyed to him by a Turkish frigate, accompanied with a note on the occafion, delivered to Mr. Smith, his Britannic Majefty's Plenipotentiary, which will be found in our vol. LXVIII. p. 982. The Aigrette is about the breadth of a child's hand of fix years old, it forms a kind of feather, or hand of thirteen fingers, denoting the number of fhips taken and deftroyed. The Captains of his Fleet prefented him with a fword of great value, infcribed with the names of his fhips and their commanders; the handle a crocodile. On his return from the coaft of Egypt, on entering the Bay of Naples, his Neapolitan Majefty came out to meet him; went on-board his fhip the Vanguard, and continued aboard till he anchored in the port; and when the Admiral came on fhore, the reception the Neapolitans gave him was expreffive of the utmoft gratitude and applaufe. The French Republican armies having rapidly overrun a great part of Italy, and poifoned the minds of ihe populace with chimerical and fantastic ideas of Liberty and Equality, in order more eafily to effect their plans of pillage and defolation; Naples in a short time partook of the general contagion; and the lives of the King, Queen, and Royal Family, became in fuch imminent danger, that it was with much difficulty and good conduct the Admiral was enabled to get them in fafety on-board his hip. After weathering the moft tremendous ftorm he had ever experienced, he had the fatisfaction of landing the Royal

Fugitives, on Dec. 28, 1798, at Palermo in Sicily; a part of the Neapolitan territory, from its infular fituation, lefs tainted with the phrenzy of the times. Having thus refcued them from the moft extreme peril, he continued with them as their protector till, by a reverfe of affairs, from the fucceffes of the Ruffian and Auftrian armies, he was fortunate enough to re-convey his Majefty to Naples, and resinftate himthere, Jaly 27, 1799. For this his protection and attention, his Neapolitan Majafty created him Duke of Bronte; granted him a domain, faid to be worth 3000l. fterling per annum, and prefented him with a sword faid to be worth 60,000 ducats; about 9500l. English. This fword was given to the King of Naples by Charles III. on his departure for Spain, accompanied with thefe words: With this fword I conquered the kingdom which I now refign to you; it ought, in future, to be poffeffed by the firft defender of the fame, or by him who reftored it to thee, in cafe it fhould ever be loft.' (LXIX. pp. 828, 1078.) The Grand Signior in 1799 farther gave him a ftar fet with diamonds, with a crefcent in the midst; the infignia of an Order.

Paul I. Emperor of Ruffia, of a caprici ous and unfound mind, ftimulated by the infidious policy of Bonaparte, having been induced to withdraw his alliance from England, and to form a confederacy with Denmark, Sweden, and Pruffia, to oppofe the practice of examining neutral fhips, fuppofed to be conveying naval and other contraband ftores to our enemy (a practice founded on the Law of Nations, for the mutual benefit of all belligerent Powers, and a practice heretofore exercised both ly Ruffia and France refpectively), on its being perfifted in, proceeded to difcard our minifter from his Court, and to feize all the Britifh fhips in his ports, nearly 300 in number; to confifcate their lading, and to imprison their crews: the goods of the British merchants were li'ewife fequeftered in their warehouses. This happened in the clofe of the year 1800, in breach of a folemn treaty; ftipulating, that if unfortunately diffentions fhould take place between the two countries, a fpecified number of months fhould be allowed for the removal of their feveral properties. confequence of thefe provocations, a fleet was fent in the fpring, 1801, to the Baltic, commanded by Admirals Sir Hyde Parker, Lord Nelfon, and Rear-admiral Thomas Graves.

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P. 974, col. 2. Mr. William Byrne, the distinguished landscape-engraver, died at the age of 62. He was educated under an uncle, who engraved heraldry on plate; but having fucceeded in a landscape after Wilfon, fo as to obtain a premium from the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, it was regarded as the precurfor of talent of a fuperior order, and he was fent to Paris, at that time the chief feminary in Europe for the ftudy of engraving, for improvement. In Paris he studied fucceffively under Aliamet and Wille, from the former of whom he imbibed the leading traits of that ftyle of engraving which he afterwards adopted as his own. Under the latter he engraved a large plate of a storm, after Vernet; but the manual dexterity of Wille was alien to his mind, and probably contributed not much to his improvement, though he always spoke of Wille's inftructions with refpect. When he returned to England, the fuccefs of Woollett as a landfcape-engraver had fet the fashion in that department of the art; but Byrne, difdaining to copy what he did not feel, perhaps fcorning the influence of fashion in art, preferved the independence of his ftyle, and continued to ftudy, and to recommend to his pupils, Nature, Vivakes, and the beft examples of the French School. His larger performances are after Zuccarelli and Both; but his principal works (containing, probably, his beft engraving) are the Antiquities of Great Britain, after Hearne; a fet of Views of the Lakes, after Farington; and Smith's Scenery of Italy. His chief excellence confifting in his aërial perfpective, and the general effect of his chiaroofcuro, he was more agreeably and more beneficially employed in finishing than in etching; and hence he generally worked in conjunction with his pupils, who were latterly his own fon and daughters. His manners were unaffuming; his profeffional industry unremitting; and his moral character exemplary. He feldom went from home, but lived in the bofom of a numerous and worthy family.

P. 975, col. 1. John Colwell, of Newnham, co. Gloucester, who abfconded under a commiffion of bankruptcy, and contrived to impose upon his creditors that he was murdered near Minfterworth, has been apprehended in Scotland, and committed to prifon. There were found upon him 5361. fterling, befides a promifforynote of Sir William Forbes and Co. for upwards of 1200).

P. 976, 1. 1. Mr. Marshall was the fon of the late worthy Vicar of Charing in Kent, well known on account of his political fentiments, and alfo as the author of "Edmund and Eleonora," a novel wholly founded on facts and then living characters.

P. 981, col. 2. The late eminent bookfeller of Cambridge, Jofeph Merrill, efq. poffeffed confiderable property, and, dying a bachelor, has left a great number of legacies, among which are the following: to Storey's charity, in the 3 per Cents. 16671.; to Addenbrooke's hofpital, for general 'ufes, 2001. ; to the fame, for erecting iron palisades in front, 300l.; .to the charity-fchools in Cambridge, 2001.; to Hobfon's charity, for general ufes, 400l.; to the fame, for fencing and fecuring the water-course, 300l.; to the public library, the intereft to be laid out annually in buying books, 2001.; to the poor of St. Mary's the Great, in Cambridge, 201. per annum for four years; to the poor of St. Michael's, 101, All the above legacies, except the first, are to be paid in fterling money. The father of Mr. M. was an eminent bookfeller on the Regent-walk above 50 years ago, and was fucceeded in bufinefs by his two fons, of whom the subject of this article furviving his brother removed, on the pulling-down that row of houfes to make way for academical buildings not yet executed, into Trumpington-street, to a houfe oppofite the Senate-house, and nearly adjoining to that at the corner where Mr. Thurlborne, and afterwards his partner Mr. Woodyer, had long figured as contemporaries with the Merrills; while, on the oppofite fide of St. Mary's church, Mr. Matthews carried on his share of the bookfelling bufinefs.

Ibid. The remains of the late Duchefsdowager of Athol were interred in the family-vault at Dunkeld. It is but juftice to her Grace's memory to fay, that she acted a moft liberal part toward her eldeft fon, the present Duke; for her Grace was fole heiress of the Ifle of Man, and alfo to most of the other landed eftates belonging to the family in the county of Perth, all of which the refigned to her fon, the Duke, on his marriage with his firft Duchefs, and retained only to herself the fum of 2000l. a year, paid by Government from the Irish Establishment, as part of the purchase-money agreed for her giving up the Ifle of Man to Government,

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BIRTHS.

Sept. T St. Petersburg, the lady of his 25. Excellency Alexander Crichton, M. D. F. R. S. physician to their Imperial Majefties, the Emperor and dowager Empress of all the Ruffias, and phyfician in chief for the civil department of the Empire, &c. a daughter.

Oct. 2. At Tortworth court, co. Glou cefter, Lady Frances Moreton, a daughter. 29. At Argyle-house, Edinburgh, Lady Charlotte Campbel, a daughter..

30. The lady of Dr W. Elliott, bart. of Stobbs, Scotland, a fun,

31. In

31. In Berkeley-fquare, the wife of A. J. Ram, efg. a daughter.

At Great Linford, Bucks, the lady of the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Cathcart, a daughter.

At Thoresby park, co. Nottingham, the Hon. Mrs. Bentinck, wife of Capt. B. of the Royal Navy, a fon.

At Bath, the wife of St. Andrew St. John, efq. a fon.

New. I. At the Hawthorn-bush-houfe, near Bewdley, co. Warwick, the wife of H. I. Brandifh, efq. a daughter.

2. In Merrion-fquare, Dublin, the lady. of the Right Hon. Sir Lawrence Parfons, bart. a fon.

At Kingfgate, in the Inle of Thanet, the wife of C. B. Cotton, efq. a fon.

3. At Hunton, Kent, the wife of the Rev. Robert Moore, fon of the late Archbifhop of Canterbury, a daughter.

5. At Balchriftie-houfe, in Fifefhire, the wife of Major-general Moncrieff, a fon.

7. At the Countess of Winterton's, in Upper Seymour-ftreet, Lady Elizabeth Richardfon, a fon.

At the parfonage of Great Wickingham, Norfolk, the lady of the Hon. William Fitzroy, a fon.

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8. At Neret's hotel, the wife of Anthony W.White, efq. of Surinam, a fon and heir. At Suffield-houfe, Norfolk, the lady of the Hon. Major Petre, a fon.

Mr. Wm. Ginger, of College-ftr. Weftminfter, to Mifs Godfree, of Palace-yard. At Hampstead, Francis Latter, efq. of Little Maddox-ftreet, Hanover-fquare, to Mifs Bushly, of Orchard-ftreet, Portmanfquare, daughter of the late Jofeph B. efq. commiffary-general of St. Domingo.

28. Rev. John Kentifh, jun. Diffenting minifter, of Hackney, now of Birmingham, to Mifs Kettle, of Birmingham.

Rev. J. Cragg, M.A. curate of Pickwell, co. Leicester, to Mifs Molecey, of Weft Deeping, co. Lincoln.

31. John-Robert Gregg Hoppwood, efq. of Hoppwood-hall, co, Lancafter, to Mifs Byng, one of her Majefty's maids of honour, daughter of the Hon. John B, and niece to Viscount Torrington.

Nov. . . . Thomas Sheridan, efq. eldeft fon of R. B. S. efq. M. P. to Mifs Callander, daughter of Sir John C. bart. of Prefton-house-hall, near Edinburgh.

Nov. 1. Abraham Cumberbatch, efq. of

11.. The wife of the Rev. Mr. Strong, retor of brampton-Abbots, co. Hereford, a fon.

12. In George-ftreet, Hanover-fquare, the wife of Lieut.-col. Browne, of the 12th Light Dragoons, a fon.

The wife of Mr. Jofeph Walkden, clerk of St. James's chapel, Hampftead-road, three daughters, all likely to live.

14. The wife of Thomas L. Hodges, efq. of Hempfted, co. Kent, a daughter.

18. The wife of the Rev. Dr. Herbert, of Grantham, co. Lincoln, a fon. In Charlotte-fquare, the lady of Sir Jn. Sinclair, bart. M. P.'a fon. “

10. At High Legh, co. Chester, the wife of George-John Legh, cfq. a daught.

23. The wife of Edwin Bayntun Sandys, efq. of Gloucefter-place, a daughter.

24. At Metherfett, the wife of Robert Matham, jun. efq. a fon and heir.

25. At her houfe in Grofvenor-fquâre, the wife of Col. Heneage, a fon.

Jones, of Hereford-street, Grofvenor-fqua. Robert Cockburn, efq. to Mifs Duff, eld. dau. of the late Alex. D. efq. of Hatton. 2. Thomas Jackson, efq. of Cripplegate, to Mifs Stennett, of Vauxhall.

At Tiverton, 'co. Devon, George-Welch Owen, efq. captain in the Royal Cornwall Militia, to Mifs Wood, daughter of the Rev. Thomas W.

John Stockdale, efq. of Leadenhall-ftr. to Mifs Anne Caftlehow, dau. of Thomas C. efq. of Watermelock, co. Cumberland,

3. At Croydon, Surrey, Mr. Defbrów, to Mifs Anne Barker, daughter of Mr. B. of Gr. Ruffell-ftr. Covent-gard. Bookfeller.

5. Mr. J. Thackray, warden of the Trinity-house, Hull, to Mifs Sarah Dunn, of Binbrook, co. Lincoln.

7. Richard Burchill, efq. of Stratton, to Mits Webb, only furviving daughter of the late John-Richmond W. efq. of Milton, in commiffion of the peace for Hants.

9. At Bridport, Dorfet, Simon Randall, efq. of Hinton St. George, co. Somerset, to Mils Bradford, niece of Jofeph Chaning, efq. of Charmouth.

II. At Bath, Capt. C. Turner, of the 23d Light Dragoons, and aid-du-camp to Gen. Floyd, to Mifs Stevenfon, eldest dau. of the Dean of Kilfenora.

Rev. C: B. Maffingberd, vicar of Upton, to Mifs Smith, of Gainsborough.

12. At Liverpool, Richard Salisbury, efq.