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  of the gallantly fought Redoubtable. About the time that this happened, having got her head well to the southward, the Temeraire was enabled to fire a few of her foremost guns, on the larboard side, clear of the Redoubtable’s bows, at the French Neptune; whereupon the latter, who also observed the Leviathan approaching, ceased her annoyance and bore away.

In addition to the damages mentioned in the foregoing extract, the Temeraire had her fore and main-top-sail-yards, her starboard cat-head and bumpkin, and the head of her rudder shot away; the whole of her quarter-galleries, on both sides, were knocked off by the two French ships that had run foul of her; eight feet of the starboard side of her lower-deck, abreast of the main-mast, was stove in; her main-mast was badly wounded, and all her rigging cut to pieces. Of her officers and crew 47 were slain, and 76 wounded; 43 more perished on board her prizes, the Redoubtable and Fougueux, in the gale that succeeded the battle.

After refitting at Gibraltar, the Temeraire returned to England, accompanied by the Royal Sovereign, Tonnant, Colossus, and Leviathan. Her first lieutenant was made commander, December 24, 1805, but not again called into service until August, 1808, when he received an appointment to the Cordelia brig, of 10 guns and 75 men.

In 1809, Captain Kennedy was attached to the Walcheren expedition, and very actively employed in the East Scheldt, under the orders of Sir Richard G. Keats. He subsequently assisted at the capture of two French privateers, and retook several merchantmen, on the Downs station. In 1813, we find him commanding a squadron of sloops and gun-brigs, off Dunkirk; where he continued until the enemy’s frigates in that port were dismantled. His post commission bears date December 4, 1813.

Captain Kennedy married, in 1806, the second daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Adlam, by whom he has had several children. His only surviving brother, Sir Robert Hugh Kennedy, Knt. is a commissary-general to the forces; and was at the head of that department, under the Duke of 