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(4)` Alexandria, and arrived there four days after we left it. We then ſailed from Syracuſe on the 24th of July, and on our paſſage, the Culloden captured a brig laden with wine,——ſhe was a tranſport belonging to and on her paſſage to the French fleet,ſhe confirmed the intelligence that we received in Syracuſe. On the 1ſt of Auguſt, at 4 o'clock, P.M. the Zealous being the look out ſhip for that day, made the ſignal for an enemy's fleet lying at an anchor, off the mouth of the river Nile, above Alexandria, the enemy's fleet conſiſted of 1 three decker of one hundred and thirty guns, called the L'Orient: 5 Eighty-fours: 7 Seventy-fours: 4 Frigates: 1 Brig-cutter: and ſeveral Gun Boats: our Admiral made the ſignal to clear the ſhips for action, we hauled our wind about 5 o'clock, in order to get well to the wind ward of the enemy's fleet, we then bore down upon them at ſix o'clock: our Admiral hoiſted the Bloody Flag at his maintopgallantmaſt head, and made a ſignal for the ſhips to form a line in the beſt manner they could, and engage the enemy as they came up: the head-maſt ſhip was the Goliah, which began to engage the enemy, at half an hour after 6 in the evening, and our ſhip began to engage