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 an ample proportion of grape and cannister. Her loss consisted of 17 persons killed, and 118 wounded.

We have already stated that Lord Exmouth was created a Viscount for his brilliant achievement; that Rear-Admiral Milne was made a K.C.B., and that the bearer of the duplicate despatches, Captain James Brisbane, was knighted, in consequence of so brilliant a victory. Captains Ekins, Aylmer, Wise, Maitland, Paterson, and Coode, also, were nominated Companions of the Bath; but Captains Brace, Palmer, and Chetham, having the C.B. already attached to their names, were not honored with any fresh mark of distinction, except that of receiving the thanks of Parliament, in common with their brother officers who were otherwise rewarded. The cause thereof has been stated at p. 261 of our second volume. They had the satisfaction, however, of being informed by Viscount Melville, that the Prince Regent was “fully aware of their meritorious conduct off Algiers,” and that H.R.H. duly appreciated “the skill, valour, and perseverance with which the ships under their command were fought in that long and arduous conflict.”

The Leander subsequently proceeded to her original destination, from whence she returned with Sir David Milne, at the expiration of that officer’s command. The following is an exact copy of a letter which was put into Captain Chetham’s hands, by the Secretary to Neptune, when crossing the tropic, in 1819:

“To Edward Chetham, Esq. C.B. Captain of H.M.S. Leander.

L.S. “We send this greeting to thee from our most potent Kingdom, considering thee as one who has had our must peculiar regard and esteem from thy earliest entrance into our maratime affairs. We have not lost sight of thee during the glorious struggle thou didst aid and assist thy country (our special care) to maintain her liberty during a series of years in the midst of sanguinary warfare; but much more hast thou attracted our further regard when turbulent Europe rested from the alarms that by turns distracted her bosom and all was peace; when thou (our favourite) didst