s, and two other officers.
Wounded, Captain de Fragata D. Manoel
Rinz, and an inferior officer; 200 seamen
killed and wounded.

San Nicholas (boarded by one of the enemy's ships that engaged
her.) Killed, the Commander, Brigadier
D. Tomas Geraldino, two second Lieutenants,
one Midshipman. Wounded, three Lieutenants
of Infantry; 120 seamen killed and
wounded.

San Yisidro Killed, one Lieutenant and an inferior officer.
Wounded, the Commander D. Teadoro Argunato;
his second, D. Telepe Tournelle, two
Lieutenants, and two second Lieutenants;
mortally, one first Lieutenant; 104 seamen
killed and wounded.

APPENDIX L.

LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.

"Vanguard, off the Mouth of the Nile,
3rd August 1798.

"MY LORD,

"Almighty God has blessed his Majesty's arms in the late battle
by a great victory over the fleet of the enemy, whom I attacked
at sunset on the 1st of August, off the mouth of the Nile. The
enemy were moored in a strong line of battle for defending the
entrance of the bay of shoals, flanked by numerous gun-boats,
four frigates, and a battery of guns and mortars on an island
in their van; but nothing could withstand the squadron your
lordship did me the honour to place under my command. Their
high state of discipline is well known to you; and with the
judgment of the captains, together with their valour, and that
of the officers and men of every description, it was absolutely
irresistible. Could anything from my pen add to the characters
of the captains, I would write it with pleasure, but that is
impossible.

"I have to regret the loss of Captain Westcott of the Majestic,
who was killed early in the action, but the ship continued to
be so well fought by her first lieutenant, Mr. Cuthbert, that I
have given him an order to command her till your Lordship's
pleasure is known.

"The ships of the enemy, all but their two rear ships, are
nearly dismasted, and those two, with two frigates, I am sorry
to say, made their escape; nor was it, I assure you, in my
power to prevent them. Captain Hood most handsomely endeavoured
t