to be. The forts on the south west end of Quiberon were silenced and destroyed; several vessels were cut out and captured; but this is nearly the sum total of the result of this expedition.
As so little could be effected at Quiberon, Sir Edward Pellew and General Maitland resolved to make an attack on Belleisle. If this had been done, as soon as the plan was matured, it probably would have succeeded; but some delay took place from unforeseen circumstances; the enemy were alarmed and prepared; and on the morning of the 19th June, General Maitland received information that seven thousand troops were assembled on the island. Nothing now could be attempted against Belleisle; the small island of Houat was, indeed, taken possession of for a short tune; but this also was abandoned, and the Major-General proceeded for the Mediterranean, where, it was thought, his force might be more beneficially employed.
After the close of this expedition, Sir Edward Pellew was employed with his squadron, in the blockade of Port Louis, on which station one of his Lieutenants, the present Captain Coghlan, performed a most gallant exploit in capturing le Cérbere, French brig of war, the particulars of which will be given in our memoir of that gentleman.
In the ensuing autumn, our officer, still in the Impetueux, was again attached to the squadron of his old commander, Sir J. B. Warren, in an expedition against Ferrol[1], and was sub-
- ↑ The force employed in the expedition against Ferrol, consisted of seven sail of the line, five frigates, and a sloop, together with a large body of troops, under the command of Sir James Pulteney.
The armament arrived off the Bay of Playa de Dominos, on the 25th Aug.; and the General having desired that the troops might be disembarked, Sir John Warren directed Sir Edward Pellew to superintend that service, which was ably performed on the same night, in the above-mentioned Bay, after a fort of eight 24 pounders had been silenced by the fire of the Impetueux, Brilliant, Cynthia, and St. Vincent gun boat; the whole army were landed without the lois of a man, together with sixteen field pieces, attended by seamen from the men of war, to carry scaling ladders, and to get the guns to the heights above Ferrol. Immediately the troops quitted the boats, they ascended a ridge of hills adjoining to the Bay. Just as they had gained the summit, the rifle corps commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Stewart, fell in with a part of the enemy, which they drove back.
