only hope to present his narration of facts with fidelity, conciseness, and simplicity, while he has endeavoured to exhibit all the glorious and splendid victories of the late wars, that have signalized those illustrious chiefs who have fought, bled, and died, in their country's cause. Thus composed, he trusts the present work will be a faithful record of naval transactions, a cenotaph to the manes of warriors now no more, a tribute of homage to the present survivors, and a stimulus to the emulation of our rising youth, when they are called upon to vindicate the independence of their country, and enroll their names in proud preeminence among the Howes, the DUNCANS, the JERVISES, and the NELSONs, in the temple of immortal Fame.

DIRECTIONS

CONTENTS.

PART I.

Page

A general Record of Maritime and Naval Occurrences during

the late Wars, together with Biographical Sketches of our

principal Naval Commanders, arranged under appropri-

ate Heads, and in alphabetical order, the principal En.

gagements being related under the names by which they

are generally known, with neatly-engraved Plans of the

several Actions....

1

PART II.

A Chronological Account of all the Ships of the Belligerent

Powers, lost, taken, or destroyed, during the Wars, from

their commencement in 1793, to their final conclusion in

1815, arranged in Sections, as follows:

.....

1. French National Ships.

504

11. Dutch National Ships

433

III. Spanish National Ships

439

IV. Danish Ships of War

146

V. Russian Ships of War

449

VI. Turkish Ships of War.....

ib.

VII. American Ships of War ...

450

VIII. British Ships of War .....

IX. Commanding Officers, who lost their lives in the service of

Great Britain during the Wars .....

475

X. General Statement of Ships captured from the different hostile

Powers, and Ships destroyed in Action, during the War. . 534

Statement

451
Page.

Statement of the Distribution of the British Naval Force, at

the Commencement of Hostilities, February 1793....... 335

Statement of the Distribution of the British Naval Force, at
the Conclusion of Hostilities, July 1815...

ib.

PART III.

A Chronological Account of all the Privateers taken or de-

stroyed by the British during the Wars, arranged as

follows:

Treaties and Conventions of the several Powers engaged in the

Wars ...

536

..... 566

Page

VI. Treaty of Friendship and Alliance between his Britannic

Majesty and the Prince Regent of Portugal, signed at Rio

Janeiro, 19th February 1810....

556

VII. Treaty of Peace between his Britannic Majesty and the Em-

peror of Russia, signed at Orebo, 6th (18th) July 1812... 560
VIII. Treaty of Peace between his Britannic Majesty and the King

of Sweden, signed at Orebo, 18th July 1812 ........... ib.
IX. Treaty between his Britannic Majesty and the King of Swe-

den, signed at Stockholm, 3d March 1813............ 561
X. Treaty of Peace between his Britannic Majesty and the King
of Denmark, signed at Kiel, 14th January 1814

564
XI. Definitive Treaty of Peace and Amity between his Britannic

Majesty and the King of France, signed at Paris, 30th May

1814..
XII. Treaty of Friendship and Alliance between his Britannie

Majesty and the King of Spain, signed at Madrid, 5th July
1814

574

XIII. Convention between his Britannic Majesty and the Prince

Sovereign of the Netherlands, signed at London, 13th

August 1814

375

XIV. Convention between his Britannic Majesty and the King of

Sweden, signed at London, 13th August 1811. ......... 577

XV. Treaty of Peace between his Britannic Majesty and the

United States, signed at Ghent, 24th December 1814 .... 577

XVI. New Treaty of the Allied Powers, signed at Vienna, 25th

March 1815

582

XVII. Treaty between his Britannic Majesty and the Emperor of

Russia, respecting the Ionian Islands, signed at Paris, 5th

November 1815

584

ERRATA.