the Audacious, and the El Corfo Brig to take Charge of this Prize. At Half paft One P M. the Frigates and Corvette tacked to the Weftward, but the Line of Battle Ship not being able to tack without coming to Action with the Alexander, bore up. The Succefs being to Leeward, Captain Peard, with great Judgment and Gallantry, lay acrofs his Hawfe, and raked him with feveral Broadfides: in paffing the French Ship's Broadfide, feveral Shot ftruck the Succefs, by which One Man was killed, and the Matter and Eight Men wounded. At Half past Four, the Foudroyant and Northumberland coming up, the former fired Two Shot, when the French Ship fired her Broadfide and struck her Colours. She proved to be the Genereux, of Seventy-four Guns, bearing the Flag of RearAdmiral Perrée, Commander in Chief of the French Naval Force in the Mediterranean, having a Number of Troops on board from Toulon, bound for the Relief of Malta. I attribute our Succefs this Day to be principally owing to the extreme good Management of Lieutenant William Harrington, who commands the Alexander in the Abfence of Captain Ball; and I am much pleafed with the gallant Behaviour of Captain Peard, of the Succefs, as alfo with the Alacrity and good Conduct of Captain Martin and Sir Edward Berry. I have fent Lieutenant Andrew Thompfon, First Lieutenant of the Foudroyant, to take Charge of the Genereux, whom I beg Leave to recommend to your Lordship for Promotion; aad have fent her under Care of the Northumberland and Alexander to Syracufe, to wait your Lordship's Orders. I have the Honor to be, My Lord, &c. &c. &c. BULLETIN FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY OF APRIL 28th, 1800. No. IK Downing-Street, April 28, 1800. DISPATCH, of which the following is an A Extract, has been received from the Right Honorable Lord Minto, His Majelty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minilter Plenipotentiary at Vienna, by the Right Honorable Lord Grenville, His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Foreign Depart ment. I MY LORD, Vienna, April 17, 1800. HAVE the Satisfaction to acquaint your Lordship that the Campaign has opened in Italy by an important Succefs on the Side of the Auftrians. On the 6th Inftant General Melas attacked the feveral Pofts occupied by the French to the Northward and Weftward of Savona and Vado, and drove them from the Pofitions of Torre la de Buona, Monte Notte, and feveral others: Some of thefe Pofts were strongly entrenched, and one of them: defended by Three Thoufand Men; but they were carried by the Courage and Conduct of the Auftrain Troops, who appear to have acquired much Honor on this Day. The The Enemy retired with Precipitation on Vado and Savona, leaving their Cannon and about Three Hundred Prifoners, among whom is a Chef de Brigade and feveral Officers of Diftinction. In the Night between the 6th and 7th the Troops evacuated Vado, having deftroyed the Stores and spiked the Cannon, and retired by Sea, towards Nice. Their Number is fuppofed to have been between Seven and Eight Hundred. The Auftrians took Poffeffion of the Fort of Vado in the Morning, and found Seventeen Pieces of heavy General Melas immediately invefted Artillery. Savona. BULLETIN FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE or MAY 3, 1800. No. III. Admiralty-Office, May 3, 1800. Extra of a Letter from John Thomas Duckworth, Efq; Rear-Admiral of the White, to Evan Nepean Efq; dated on board His Majesty's Ship Leviathan, at Gibraltar, the 11th Ultimo. O N the 5th Inftant, in the Afternoon, I discovered Twelve Sail from the Mat Head, but at the Close of the Day could afcertain no more than that Three or Four were Men of War; I therefore attempted to anticipate their Manoeuvres, that I might fall in with them the next Morning, and at Three o'clock we crossed on one, which the Emerald boarded; from her 1 learnt that he had failed the 3d Inftant, with Thirteen Sail under Convoy of Three Frigates.At Daybreak we could only fee a Brig, which was fo nigh and the Weather inclined to be calm, that I fent the Boats of the Leviathan and Emerald under my Second Lieutenant, Gregory, to capture her, and after a fmart kirmish of Forty Minutes they fucceede; the mounted Fourteen Guns, with Forty fix Men, and bound to Lima: by this Time we faw Three Sail, Eaft, Weft, and South, confequence, the Swiftfure being much to Lee ward, ward, I made her Signal to chace South, the Emerald Eaft, and ftood Weftward in the Leviathan, with a very light Air, when, at Noon, the Emerald made the Signal for Six Sail in the North Eaft; this induced me to ftand directly to the Eastward, and at the Clofe of Day we faw Nine Sail from the Maft Head; it was then nearly Calm, and continued fo till Eleven o'Clock P. M. when a fresh Breeze fprang up from the South Weft, and 1 fteered North in hopes of croffing them: at Midnight we obferved Three Sail, and as we approached them faft, at Two O'Clock I plainly faw Two of them were Frigates, ftanding to the N. N. W. and clofe together, I therefore kept on a Parallel with them, and proportioned my Sail to theirs, that I might commence the Attack juft before Daybreak; because I feared the Veffels under their Convoy (which I judged must be near) would, on our commencing a Fire, feparate, and we might lose them all; at this Time the Emerald being near, I hailed and acquainted Captain Waller with my Intentions -At Dawn of Day I bore down upon the Two Frigates, which evidently had taken us for Part of their Convoy, and upon hailing one of them, fhe directly endeavoured to make all poffible Sail, as did the other close upon her Bow, on which I directed a Volley of Mufketry to be fired, concluding they would ftrike; but this not having the defired Effect, I gave a Yaw, and discharged all the Guns before the Gangway at her Yards and Mafts, but it was not fuccefsful in bringing any of them down; at this Time Captain Waller very ju licioufly fhot up to the Leeward one, and in a few Minutes we fo difabled their Sails and Rigging, that on my being in a Pofition to have fired a Broadfide into them both, they ftruck their Colours: during this the Spaniards kept up a fraggling Fire, and I fhould not do Juftice to their Captains were I to omit faying, that from the Moment of their difco vering |