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in confequence of the Information given me by the American Mafter, went in Pursuit of the Enemy. On the 12th I fell in with a French Privateer mounting Twenty-four Guns, which I chafed dur ing Two Days. When we got nearly within GunShot of her, I had the Mortification to fee her Guns thrown overboard, by which Means fhe started from us, and gained fo confiderably, that finding it impoffible to come up with her, and feeing another fufpicious Ship to Windward, being then in Latitude 46 Deg. 12 Min. Longitude 18 Deg. 23 Min. I altered my Courfe and gave Chafe, and at Four P. M. being within Gun-Shot, fhe hauled up her Courfes, hoifted French Colours, and fired a Shot. An Action immediately commenced between us, which lafted an Hour and Fifty Minutes, when the ftruck, and proved to be Le Neptune National Armed Ship, manned with Fifty-two Seamen, and Two Hundred and Seventy Troops on board, from the Ifle of France bound to Bourdeaux, pierced for Twenty Guns, mounting Ten, all of which the fought on the fame Side; during the Action fhe attempted several Times to board us; the Soldiers in her kept up a very heavy Fire of Mufquetry, and a Privateer, with French Colours flying, was in Sight to Leeward the whole Time. The Enemy had between Twenty and Thirty Men killed and wounded; and fortunately only wounded Six on board of us. I beg to recommend to your Notice my First Lieutenant, Mr. J. Fairweather, whose able Affittance and good Conduct on this and all other Occafions merit my warmest Encomi ums. I have alfo great Reafon to be fatisfied avith Mr. Dathan, my Second Lieutenant, and Mr. Lancaster, the Matter, and likewife Mr. Edward Davis, the Purfer, who volunteered his Services, and commanded the Marines on the Quarter-Deck, their proper Officers being dangerously ill. hort, all my Officers and Ship's Company behaved

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The Hazard is not materially injured, having only a few shot in her Hull and Rigging.

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Whitehall, September 1, 1798.

DISPATCH, of which the following is &
Copy, has been received here this Day from

Dublin.

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Dublin Cafle, August 29, 1798. IN the Abfence of my Lord Lieutenant, I beg Leave to acquaint you, for the Information of His Grace the Duke of Portland, that early on the 27th Inftant the French attacked Lieutenant-General Lake in a Pofition he had taken at Castlebar, before his Forces were collected, and compelled him to retire. The Lieutenant-General reports that his Lofs of M:n is not confiderable, but that he was obliged to leave behind him Six Pieces of Cannon. It appears by a Letter I have received this Day from my Lord Lieutenant, that the French have advanced upon Tuam. His Excellency was affembling Forces at Athlone.

I have the Honor to be, &c. &c.

William Wickham, Efq.
Sc. Sc. &c.

CASTLEREAGH.

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BULLETIN

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE oF SEPTEMBER 8th, 1798.

BY

Admiralty-Office, September 8, 1798.

Y Letters received at this Office from the Honorable Captain De Courcy, of His Majesty's Ship Magnanime, dated the 21st and 25th Ultimo, addreffed to Evan Nepean, Efq. it appears that on the 16th of that Month he had fallen in with and captured La Colombe French Privateer, of Twelve Guns and Sixty-four Men, quite a new Veffel, Coppered, Copper-faftened, and a very fast Sailer; had been only Four Days from Bayonne, bound to the West Indies. That on the 24th following, at Two P. M. Two Ships of War were obferved steering to the S. E. under a Crowd of Sail, which proved to be His Majefty's Ship Naiad, Captain Pierrepont, in Chafe of a French Frigate.

At Five P. M. the Two British Ships neared the Enemy, who, after a well directed Fire for the Space of One Hour from her Stern-Chafe Guns, at the Naiad, ftruck, and was immediately taken Poffeffion of. She proves to be La Decade, commanded by Le Citoyen Villeneau, manned with

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Three Hundred and Thirty-fix Men, and pierced for Forty-four Guns, Ten of which however had been landed at Cayenne, from whence she had juft returned. Captain Pierrepont makes the ftrongest acknowledgments of the Ardor by which his Officers and Men were animated during an anxious Chase of Thirty-two Hours, in conftant Expectation of Battle, and moft particularly of the Services which he experienced from his First Lieutenant Mr. Marshal.

Both His Majesty's Ships with the Prizes, have arrived at Plymouth.

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BULLETIN

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY 07 SEPTEMBER 12th, 1798.

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Whitehall, September 12, 1798.

DISPATCH, of which the following is a Copy, has been received this Morning from His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, by His Grace the Duke of Portland, one of His Majefty's Principal Secretaries of State.

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St. John's Town, County of LongMY LORD, ford, Sept. 8, 1798. HAVE the Satisfaction to inform your Grace, that the French Troops which landed in this Country have furrendered at Difcretion, after fuftaining for fome Time an Attack from the Column under General Lake. The Rebels who had joined them were difperfed, and a great Proportion of them killed or taken. I cannot at prefent afcertain the Numbers either of the French or Rebels, but I believe that both were inconsiderable.

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