signal-midshipman of the San Josef, who each lost a leg by one unlucky shot.”
The other casualties on board the ships engaged in the above affair, and the damages they sustained, were but trifling:–
Caledonia. – three men slightly wounded; one shot through her mainmast, and 3 or 4 in her hull; a shroud and some backstays cut, and her launch and barge destroyed. San Josef, bearing the flag of Sir Richard King, – 2 men slightly wounded. Boyne, Captain George Burlton, – 1 man slightly wounded. Pompée, Captain Sir James Athol Wood, – 2 men slightly burnt by accident. Scipion, 1 man killed by accident, and another slightly wounded. Armada, Captain Charles Grant, – escaped wiihout any loss, but her launch damaged by a shot which passed through that boat and lodged in the booms. Mulgrave, Captain Thomas James Maling, – no loss or damage. Pembroke, Captain James Brisbane, – 3 men slightly wounded; part of her wheel carried away by the first French shot that took effect. Of the loss and damage sustained by the enemy we cannot speak with any degree of certainty.
No chance of a general action now remaining, as the strengh of the Toulon fleet continued to be lessened by sending off draughts of men to Napoleon’s armies. Captain Coghlan exchanged into the Alcmene frigate, and soon after captured la Fleche French national schooner, of 12 guns and 99 men, proceeding from Toulon to Corsica with 24 soldiers. On the 11th April, 1814, he assisted at the capture and destruction of an enemy’s convoy which had run ashore under the batteries of Port Maurice, in the Gulf of Genoa, a service already described in our memoir of Sir James Brisbane[1], an extract of whose official letter, acknowledging the assistance he received from his brother captains, will be found at p. 118 of Suppl. Part I.
A day or two after the performance of this service, the Alcmene and her consorts, under Captain Brisbane, met Sir Edward Pellew, and proceeded with the fleet to Genoa, off which place this formidable reinforcement arrived just after the enemy had been driven from the whole of the sea-line without the walls by the Anglo-Sicilian flotilla, and the guns of all the batteries turned upon those within by the seamen
