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Rh that anchorage removing into the inner harbour. On the following day Captain Waldegrave and the late Lord Hugh Seymour Conway, were sent to England with Lord Hood’s despatches, giving an account of this important event. Those officers being ordered to proceed by different routes, the former proceeded to Barcelona, and from thence across the Spanish peninsula.

Our officer returned to the Mediterranean, with instructions for Lord Hood’s further proceedings, by the way of Holland, Germany, and Italy, and on his arrival resumed the command of the Courageux, in which ship he terminated his services as a Captain. On the 4th July, 1794, he was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral, a short time previous to which he had been nominated a Colonel of Marines.

His promotion to a flag obliged Rear-Admiral Waldegrave to return to England by land. He subsequently held a command in the Channel Fleet. On the 1st June, 1795, he was made a Vice-Admiral; and in the fall of the same year, he again sailed for the Mediterranean. During the succeeding spring he was sent with five ships of the line to negotiate with the Tunisians. His mission was of a peculiarly arduous and delicate nature; notwithstanding which, however, he executed it to the complete satisfaction of those by whom he had been deputed. On the night previous to his quitting Tunis, the boats of Vice-Admiral Waldegrave’s squadron, under the direction of Captain Sutton, of the Egmont, cut out of the bay several armed vessels.

From this period, excepting the unprecedented length of time which the ships were kept at sea, nothing remarkable occurred until the 14th Feb., 1797, when Sir John Jervis, with fifteen sail of the line, encountered and defeated a Spanish fleet, consisting of twenty-seven ships, seven of which mounted from 112 to 130 guns. The particulars of this memorable event, which completely defeated the projected junction of the navies of France, Holland, and Spain, and thus preserved to Great Britain its proud dominion of the ocean,