fellows (for not more than one of them, it appears, could write) meant that their ship had 1500 men on board before she disembarked the troops. That the Imp�rial was rather under than over manned, may be inferred from the fact, that all the other ships were so. Let us say that her crew amounted to 1200 men ; and that is allowing her 100 more than the establishment of a French 120-gun ship. *

The loss sustained by the British ships was officially reported as follows :

Superb, three seamen and three marines killed, one lieutenant (Charles Patriarch) and the master (William Pickering) badly, and four midshipmen (Charles Wallington, Thomas Jackson, Joseph Bullen, and James Willcox), 41 seamen, and nine marines slightly wounded: Northumberland, one midshipman (David Ridgeway), 18 seamen and one marine, and the admiral's cook killed, one lieutenant (George Francis Seymour), three midshipmen (William Millard, Charles William Selwyn, and Jeremiah Lawrence), one secretary's clerk, one boatswain's mate, the French pilot, 27 seamen, and 12 marines badly, and three midshipmen (Henry Stokes, Charles Comer, and Philip Peacock), one secretary's clerk, one quartermaster, two boatswain's mates, 20 seamen, and six marines slightly wounded ; Canopus, eight officers (names not reported), seamen, and marines killed, 15 badly, and seven slightly wounded ; Spencer, her boatswain (Martin Oates) 14 seamen, and three marines killed, and her captain, one lieutenant (James Harris, both slightly), one lieutenant of marines (James Cuthbertson, badly), one midshipman (William Neame, slightly), 40 seamen and six marines wounded ; Donegal, one midshipman (Charles H. Kynaston), seven seamen, and four marines killed, the master (John Airey), three midshipmen (William Rudall, Henry 0gilvie, and Edward Acton), and 12 seamen and marines badly, and 17 slightly wounded ; Atlas, seven seamen and one marine killed, the master (William Mowbray), boatswain (Stephen Spargo), and nine seamen wounded ; Agamemnon, one seaman killed, and one boatswain's mate, four seamen, and eight marines wounded ; making the aggregate loss 74 killed, and 264 wounded, and the total numerical loss of each ship as follows :