second, and two of the first or lowerdeck guns ; and the greater part of her hammocks were more or less cut. The Vanguard had been struck very heavily by shot on her starboard bow ; and the Swiftsure as she was bearing down to engage, received in her larboard bow, several feet below the water-mark, a shot from the Tonnant, which, in spite of the constant use of the chain-pumps, kept four feet water in the hold from the commencement to the end of the action. The Theseus was also hulled, in more than 70 places ; and the Majestic was nearly in as shattered a state as the Bellerophon.

The loss of the British was, in the aggregate, tolerably severe. We have enumerated the loss on board most of the ships. � We will now, taking the ships in the order in which they advanced to the attack, give a more detailed account. The Goliath had one master's mate (William Davies), one midshipman (Andrew Brown), 12 seamen, and seven marines killed, one lieutenant (William Wilkinson), two midshipmen (Lawrence Graves and James Payne), her schoolmaster, 28 seamen, and nine marines wounded; the Zealous, one seaman killed, and seven wounded; the Orion, one captain's clerk, 11 seamen, and one marine killed, her captain, the boatswain (Peter Sadler), three midshipmen (Philip Richardson, Charles Miell, and ---------- Lanfesty), nine seamen, and two marines wounded ; the Audacious, one seaman killed, one lieutenant (John Jeans), her gunner, 31 seamen, and two marines wounded ; the Theseus, five seamen killed, one lieutenant (Richard Hawkins), 24 seamen, and five marines wounded ; the Vanguard, her captain of marines (William Faddy), two midshipmen (Thomas Seymour and John George Taylor), 20 seamen, and seven marines killed, the rear-admiral, by a contusion in the head, but not reported), two lieutenants (Nathaniel Vassall and John Miller Adye), the admiral's secretary (John Campbell), the boatswain (Mr. Austin), two midshipmen (James Weatherston and George Antrim), 60 seamen, and eight marines wounded ; the Minotaur, one lieutenant (John G, Kirchner), one master's mate (Peter Walters), 18 seamen, and three marines killed, one lieutenant (Thomas Irwin), one lieutenant of marines (John Jewell), her second master (Thomas Forster), one midshipman (Martin Wells), 64 seamen, and six marines wounded; the Defence, three seamen and one marine killed, nine seamen and two marines wounded ; the Bellerophon, three lieutenants (Robert Savage Daniel, Philip William Launder, and George Joliffe), one master's mate (Thomas Ellison), 32 seamen, and 13 marines killed, her captain, master (Edward Kirby), captain of marines (John Hopkins), boatswain (Mr. Chapman), one midshipman (Nicholas Bettson), 126 seamen, and 17 marines wounded ; the Majestic, her captain, one midshipman (Zebedee Ford), boatswain (Andrew Gilmore), 33 seamen, and 14 marines killed, two midshipmen (Charles Seward and Charles Royle), her captain's clerk (Robert Overton), 124 seamen, and 16 marines wounded; the Swiftsure, seven seamen killed, one midshipman

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