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 Thomas Stones, Purser, absent on duty at Bourbon.

Lieutenant Davies, Mad. Eng. absent on board Sirius.

_______ Aldwinkle, Mad. Art. Killed.

_______ Morlett, 33d Regt. . ..

_______ Needhall, 69th do. severely wounded.

Vice-Admiral Bertie, when reporting the destruction of the Sirius and Magicienne, and the surrender to the enemy of the Iphigenia and Nereide, says “the latter after a GLORIOUS resistance, almost unparalleled even in the brilliant annals of the British navy.” In another part of the same letter he acquaints the Admiralty that, “having found it practicahle to equip the Venus,” a French frigate captured by Captain Rowley, on the 18th Sept. 1810, he had not hesitated “to commission her for the time being, under the name of the Nereide, in commemoration of the gallant defence of his Majesty’s late ship bearing that name.”

Captain Willoughby being now a prisoner, a council was held by General De Caen, to determine whether or not he should be punished for having intrigued with the leading people of the island, and distributed proclamations, having a tendency to subvert the allegiance of the inhabitants in general. It was decided, notwithstanding his previous liability, that, as he had been taken in honorable fight, he should be treated as a prisoner of war. On this occasion, the French governor is reported to have said, “Let the foutre live; he has lost his eye and his ship, after defending her most gallantly.”