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 enemy, whose fire appears to have been directed principally against her rigging. She had not a man slain, and only a few persons wounded.

In May following, Captain Mansel sailed from the Cape of Good Hope, with three vessels under his convoy, bound to the Red Sea; but was compelled to put back in consequence of a heavy gale, during which two of the vessels parted company, and are supposed to have sunk. On his return he found himself promoted to post rank, by commission bearing date Feb. 14, 1801, and accordingly took a passage to England in the Adamant of 50 guns.

Soon after his arrival Captain Mansel was appointed to the Berschermer 50, the command of which ship he retained till Dec. 1803, when he received a severe wound by the splitting of the main-top-sail clue-line block, one half of which, in its descent towards the deck struck him on his head, and rendered him incapable of serving any longer afloat. In addition to this severe injury, by which Captain Mansel was doomed to a state of inactivity during the late war, he was four times slightly wounded in the service of his country.

Agent.– Isaac Clementson, Esq. 

 officer entered the naval service as a Midshipman on board the Porcupine frigate, commanded by Sir Charles H. Knowles, Bart. Mar. 15, 1780; and on the 22d July following bore a part in an action between that ship and two Spanish men of war, near the coast of Valencia. He was subsequently appointed to the command of a gun-boat, forming part of the flotilla employed in the defence of Gibraltar, under the late Sir Roger Curtis, and greatly distinguished himself during the memorable attack made on that fortress by the combined forces of France and Spain, in September 1782; the following account of which we have extracted from a work now out of print:

“The Spanish monarch expressed so much joy at the reduction of the island of Minorca, (Feb. 5, 1782) that he appointed the Duc de Crillon Captain-General of the Spanish armies; and Don R. Moreno, who 