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 appointed Captain Hanly of the La Mutine, to the command of this in ship, Captain Berry having to go home with the news of the victory. When the surgeon came in due time to examine the wound, (for it was in vain to intreat him to let it be examined sooner,) the most anxious silence prevailed; and the joy of the wounded men, and of the whole crew, when they heard that the hurt was superficial, gave Nelson deeper pleasure than the unexpected assurance that his life was in no danger. The surgeon requested, and, as far as he could, ordered him, to remain quiet, but Nelson could not rest. He called for his secretary, Mr Campbell, to write the dispatches. Campbell had himself been wounded, and was so affected, at the blind and suffering state of the admiral, that he was unable to write. The chaplain was sent for, but before he came Nelson, with his characteristic eagerness, took the pen, and contrived to trace a few words, marking his devout sense of the success which had already been obtained He was now left alone, when suddenly a cry was heard on deck that the Orient was on fire. In the confusion he found his way up unassisted and unnoticed and, to the astonshment of every one, appeared on the quarter deck, where he immediately gave orders that boats should be sent to the relief of the enemy. It was soon after 9 that the fire on board the Orient broke out. Brueys, the admiral, who, though he had received three wounds, yet would not leave his post; a fourth cut him almost in two, He desired not to be carried below, but to be left to die upon deck. The flames soon mastered his ship! Her sides had just been painted, and the oil jars, and paint buckets, were lying on the poop. By the prodigious light of the conflagration, the situation of the two fleets could now