sealed, a Volley of Musketry killed the Captain and • His Majestfs Sloop Herald, Ten Men, and Wounded Five others. MY LORD, November 11, 1807. I have the Honour to be, &c IN the Execution of your Orders, when olT (Signed) J. T_ Otranto, with His Majesty's Sloop under my Com­ The,Right Hon. Lord Gardner, &c. &c &c< mand, on the 25th of October I observed an Armed Trabaccolo under that Fortress} and conceiving it Admiralty-Office, January 30, 1808. practicable to cut her out under Cover of Night, dis­ Copy of a Letter from Vice-Admiral the Right Hon. patched the Boats directed by Lieutenant Walter Lord Collingwood, Commander- in Chicsos His Ma­ Foreman, who executed the Orders given him, with jesty's Ships and Vessels in the Mediterranean, lo the the greatest Gallantry, under a heavy Fire, of great Hon. IV. W. Pole, dated on board His. Majejly's Guns and Musketry both from the Vessel and ShipX):ean, at Sea, November 10, 18070 Shore. SIR, She was shortly brought out, and proves tobe-Le INCLOSE, tobe laid before my Lords Com- Cæsar French Privateer, of Four Six-Pounders, be­ 5 miflioners of the Admiralty, a Letter which I longing to Ancona, having on board a Cargo of have this Day received from Captain Rosenhagen, of Rice and Flour on account of the French Govern­ His Majesty's Ship the Volage, giving an Account ment, bound to Corfu. The Crew defended her • .of his having captured, on the 6th Instant, the until the Boats were alongside, when all excepting French Cutter Succes, of Ten Guns and Fifty-nine Four escaped by a Stern Hawser. Men, commanded by the Lieutenant de Vaisseau, The Sloop«.has received some little Injury both fn Bourde-'Villehuet. Hull and Rigging, but am happy to say my Object Lam, Sec. COLLINGWOOD. was obtained, with One Officer wounded in the Boats and Three Seamen in the Ship. I here subjoin a 'His Majesty's Ship Volage, off Galita Istand, List of Wounded, and have the Honour to be, &c. •MY LOAD, the Gth of November 1807. (Signed) G. M. HONY,'.'Commander. I HAVE the Honour to acquaint you, that being* The-Right Honourable Lord Collingwood, on my Way to join your Lordship, I had this Morn­ Vice-Admiral of the Red, !bfc. iSc. ing the good Fortune to fall in with and capture the Mr. James Wood, Carpenter, dangerously. French Cutter Succes, of Ten Guns and Fifty-nine Men, commanded by Lieutenant de Vaisseau, Bourde John Swain, James Carmichael,-Samuel Rutter, (on VjillehUet. She sailed only Three Days ago from . board) slightly. Toulon, and had seen nothing. The Officer says he was 'going to cruize, but several Circumstances in­ Admiralty-Office, January 30, 1808. -line me to think.he v/as charged with Dispatches of Ex trail of a Letter from -Vice-Admiral the Right Hon. Jome Consequence, which, however, he had sufficient Lord Collingwood, Commander in Chief of His Ma­ Time to destroy. The Cutter, I believe, was for­ jefifs Ships and Vessels in the Mediterranean, to the merly in His Majesty's Service under the Name .of Hon. W. W. Pole, dated on board His Majesty's Ship the Sussex. Ocean, at Syracuse, December 9, 1807. I have the Honour to be, &c. N the 29th November, His Majesty's Ship (Signed) P. L. ROSENHAGEN-,Captain. Glatton fell in with a Number of small Vessels 'To.Vice Admiral Lord Collingwood, carrying Troops to .Corfu from Otranto, and took . Iffc. &c &c. the Soldiers, (in Number Three Hundred,) from Nine of them, and destroyed the Vessels ; Two es­ •Admiralty-Office, January 30, 1808. caped and got back to the Port from whence they "Copy of another Letter from Vice-Admiral the Right came. ' Honourable Lord Collingwood, Commander in Chief . of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels in the Mediterra- Admiralty-Office, January 30, 1808. - nean,-to thi Hon. W. W. Pole, dated on board His Copy sfa Letter from Captain Upton, os His Majesty's • 'Majesty's-Shis Ocean, at Syracuse, Dec. 6, X'807. Ship Sibyl/e, -to the Hon. W. W. Pole, dated the SIR, 25th Instant. Lizard bearing N. W. by W. Five AVING sent the Herald to obtain Information Leagues. H from Captain Campbell of the Unite, of the SIR, . State of.the Enemy in the Neighbourhood of Corfu, E pleased to inform their Lordships that Hi:: "Captain Hony, in the Execution of this Service, 1 Majesty's Ship under my Command has cap­ , observed an Armed Trabaccolo at Anchor under tht tured the Grand Argus, French Lugger Privateer, Fortress of-Otranto; and on the Evening of the Michael Daguinet, Captain, of Four *Guns, (but 25th of October he dispatched the Boats under the pierced for Twelve), Forty-one Men, Fifty Tons, Direction of Lieutenant Walter Foreman, to.bring out Three Days from Gran ville, on her first Cruize, her out, which was very gallantly done, notwith- and has made no Captures. ; standing a heavy Fire from the Shore and the Vessel. -I have the Honour to be, &c. She proved to be the Cæsar French Privateer, of C. UPTON, Captain.. .Four Six-Pounders, bound with Supplies to Corfu. I inclose, for their Lordships' Information, a Copy of Captain Hony's Letter, relating the Circum­ St.-James's, January 27, 18080 stance; and by which it appears that Mr. James Wood, Carpenter, wounded in the Boats, and Three HE following Addresses having been transmit*, .Seamen on board the Herald, is the principal Da- T ted to the Right Honourable Lord Hawkes- • mage fnstaioed. I am, Sir, Sec. bury, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for , (Signed) COLLINGWOOD, the Home De,paitmejit, .have been. by his Lordflajp .