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 an expedition was immediately projected and agreed upon between Commodore Columbine and Major Maxwell, governor of that island, for the purpose of attacking Senegal, then a French settlement, garrisoned by four hundred regular soldiers, militia, and volunteers; and protected by seven vessels mounting thirty-five guns of different calibre. On the 4th July, she sailed, accompanied by the Derwent sloop. Commander Frederick Parker; Tigress gun-brig. Lieutenant Richard Bones; seven gun-vessels mounting altogether eighteen carronades, three field-pieces, and one howitzer; nineteen armed boats, with necessary appurtenances for all; and the Agincourt transport, having on board a military detachment, l(i6 strong. On the 7th, this armament anchored off the bar at the mouth of the Senegal river, which is not only dangerous, occasioned by the heavy surf, but very difficult to pass, in consequence of the shoal water, and the deepest part frequently changing position. In attempting to cross it, on the following morning, two vessels containing ammunition and provisions were lost, and the commander of the Derwent, with one of his midshipmen, and six sailors perished. The Virginia, an American-built schooner, commanded by Lieutenant Woodriff, and in which vessel Commodore Columbine chose to go over the bar, struck repeatedly, and would have broached to, but for the judgment and cool presence of mind of the lieutenant, who instantly took the helm, lowered the peaks, jibed the sails, and, with the aid of successive seas bearing her along, at length succeeded in entering the river, followed by the rest of the flotilla. The military detachment and sixty marines were then landed on the left bank, where Major Maxwell took up a position, with a view to wait till provisions could be passed from the frigate and brigs outside. On the 9th this position was attacked, but the enemy were speedily repulsed, and driven within their lines at Babagué, twelve miles up the river, and in front of which their armed vessels were lying protected by a boom. On the 10th, Lieutenant Woodriff having been sent up in a four-oared whale boat, to reconnoitre and sound, was in the act of taking a plan of the enemy’s position, when a breeze suddenly sprang up, and a