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 20 others were more or less injured; among the latter was Lieutenant Henry Nathaniel Rowe, of the Valiant 74.

Sept. 2, the mortar batteries which had been erected by the army, together with the bomb-vessels, began the bombardment of Copenhagen, with such effect, that in a short time the town was set on fire; and by the aid of the artillery, it was kept in flames till the evening of the 5th, when General Peymann sent out a flag of truce desiring an armistice, to afford time to treat for a capitulation. The result of this negociation has been stated in our memoir of Lord Gambier. Captain Cocks was advanced to post rank on the 13th of the following month.

Agent.– ___ M‘Inerheny, Esq. 

 officer is a son of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Henry Mangin, 12th dragoons, and a grand nephew of the late Brigadier-General John Caillaud, of Aston-House, co. Oxford, in whom, on the demise of his father, he found a protector, through whose parental kindness his future welfare was greatly promoted.

Mr. R. C. Mangin was born in Dublin, Nov. 1, 1780; and entered the naval service in 1794, under the patronage of Sir John Borlase Warren, Bart, with whom he served the greater part of his time as a midshipman, on board the Pomone, Canada, Temeraire, and Renown, from which latter ship he was removed into la Minerve frigate, commanded by Captain (now Sir George) Cockburn, on the Mediterranean station.

La Pomone, of 44 guns, bore Sir John B. Warren’s broad pendant, during the Quiberon expedition, in 1795 ; and subsequently cruised with very considerable success on the Channel station, as will be seen by the following correct statement of the captures, &c. effected by her, and other ships 