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 order, was so much the effect of recent experience, that every heart immediately assented to its justice.

The benefit of this important truth, will not, we trust, be confined to any particular branch of the British navy; the sentiment of the Hero of the Nile must infuse itself into the heart of every British seaman, in whatever quarter of the globe, he may be extending the glory and interest of his country, and will there produce the conviction, that courage alone will not lead him to conquest, without the aid and direction of exact discipline and order. Let those who desire to emulate (as every British seaman must), the glory acquired upon this signal occasion, pursue the same means which principally led to its acquisition. Let them repose the most perfect reliance in the courage, judgment, and skill of their superior officers, and let them aid the designs of these by uniform submissive obedience and willing subordination—so shall the British navy continue to be the admiration of the world, till time shall be no more!

Immediately after the action, some Maltese, Genoese, and Spaniards, who had been serving on board the French fleet, offereredoffered [sic] their services in ours, which were accepted; and they expressed the greatest happiness at thus being freed, as they themselves said, from the tyranny and cruelty of the French.

On the 4th day after the action, Captain Berry, of the Vanguard, sailed in the Leander, of 50 guns, with the Admiral's dispatches to the commander in chief, Earl St. Vincent, off Cadiz, containing intelligence of the Glorious Victory which he had obtained.