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 this hawser; two long 6-pounders followed, and a battery was soon thrown up by the marine artillery-men, in the centre of which the money and some despatches for Sir Edward Codrington were safely deposited. A few light sails for tents, and a small quantity of provisions, were also hauled on shore before the tide began again to flow; but it was not until noon that Captain Hope and his first lieutenant, Charles Hotham, left the ship, over which the waves were again breaking with great fury. On mustering the crew, only one man was missing, and he, it appears, had been washed overboard with the barge, under which his body was afterwards found on the rocks. On this melancholy occasion, a merchant brig from Liverpool, bound to Gibraltar, lost seven out of sixteen persons on board, including among the former Captain M‘Ede, of H.M. 12th regiment, an officer’s wife, and three children. Of the crews and passengers of two other vessels which drifted on shore near the Terror, not a single person was saved.

Immediately on landing, Captain Hope despatched his second lieutenant, Charles Henry Baker, and Sir William Dickson, a supernumerary officer of the same rank, to Lisbon, for the purpose of informing Lord Amelius Beauclerk, then commanding in the Tagus, of the unfortunate situation of the Terror. the lives of the master and crew of a merchant brig were subsequently saved through his exertions, and the intrepid conduct of Lieutenant Hotham, assisted by two men who were excellent swimmers.

In the course of a few days. Captain Hope and his companions were gratified with the sight of a frigate and a brig, which had been sent from Lisbon to their assistance. A considerable time, however, elapsed before they could even land a supply of provisions; and so bad was the then appearance of the weather, that they were obliged to return to the Tagus, taking with them the specie, and leaving the Terror to her own resources.

During their continuance in the neighbourhood of Villa-novade-mille-fuentes, near which town the Terror had run ashore, a survey was held by the officers of the frigate and brig, who were of opinion that she could not be saved, and therefore