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Rh including Lieutenant E. Waller, wounded. The loss of the San Antonio is not known, but was no doubt very severe. The Commodore Le Roy was among her wounded. Captain Keats remained with his prize, whilst the rest of the squadron pursued the discomfited enemy.

From this period we find no particular mention of Captain Keats until towards the latter end of the year 1804, when he was despatched by Lord Nelson to Algiers, with a Consul, whom he succeeded in establishing most honourably, and thus put an end to the differences that had for some time subsisted between Great Britain and that Regency. The Superb afterwards accompanied that great commander to the West Indies, in the memorable pursuit of the combined fleets of France and Spain.

On the 9th Nov. 1805, our officer was honored with an appointment to one of the vacant Colonelcies of Royal Marines. About the same time his ship received the flag of Sir John Thomas Duckworth, who after the glorious battle off Cape Trafalgar, had been appointed second in command of the Mediterranean fleet, under Lord Collingwood, by whom he was sent in quest of a squadron which had sailed from France, with a view of succouring the important colony of St. Domingo.

