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 382 THE CANNONADE OF CHAP, batteries which had operated so destructively _J L_ against the Aretliusa, the Albion, and the London. As on board the other ships, so now on board the Sansparei] there sprang np the question whether the works which inflicted tliis havoc were suffer- ing at all from the ship's guns. The captains of the guns declared to Captain Dacres that their fire was taking no eflect against the coast bat- teries ; and the accuracy of their observation was definitively confirmed by Hastings Anderson, the gunnery lieutenant, who went up the niizzeu rigging of the ship and saw that her lire was in vain. Ijut although it soon became plain that the Sanspareil could add nothing to what had been achieved in the first few minutes of the conflict, and that she was powerless against her assailants, Dacres seems to have considered that as the fire his ships was sustaining must be visible to those who were on board the Agamemnon, he ought not to sheer off until his ship should be either disabled or ordered to move out of range by a signal from Lyons ; but, whatever might have been the principle on which he acted, it was not without grievous sacrifice that the ship kept the idace she did during a period of three hours. iit;i losses. She lost 11 men killed — of whoni one was ^Ir jMadden, midsliipman — and 59 wounded, iiiclud- in^r Lieutenant W. 11. Anderson, Lieutenant James Bull, and Mr rarkinson, second master. I For a while, the Eear- Admiral's flag-ship had been enjoying a comparative impunity ; for after