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 signal-midshipman of the San Josef, who each lost a leg by one unlucky shot.”

The other casualties on board the ships engaged in the above affair, and the damages they sustained, were but trifling:–

No chance of a general action now remaining, as the strenghstrength [sic] of the Toulon fleet continued to be lessened by sending off draughts of men to Napoleon’s armies. Captain Coghlan exchanged into the Alcmene frigate, and soon after captured la Fleche French national schooner, of 12 guns and 99 men, proceeding from Toulon to Corsica with 24 soldiers. On the 11th April, 1814, he assisted at the capture and destruction of an enemy’s convoy which had run ashore under the batteries of Port Maurice, in the Gulf of Genoa, a service already described in our memoir of Sir James Brisbane, an extract of whose official letter, acknowledging the assistance he received from his brother captains, will be found.

A day or two after the performance of this service, the Alcmene and her consorts, under Captain Brisbane, met Sir Edward Pellew, and proceeded with the fleet to Genoa, off which place this formidable reinforcement arrived just after the enemy had been driven from the whole of the sea-line without the walls by the Anglo-Sicilian flotilla, and the guns of all the batteries turned upon those within by the seamen