by John Marshall

“ We accordingly hove to until between 9 and 10 o’clock, when the stranger hoisted English colours and fired a gun at la Clorinde; upon which we bore up and made sail after them. During the preceding night we met an English merchant schooner, and directed her master to keep between us and the enemy in order to point out the position of la Clorinde; for the performance of which service he was handsomely rewarded by the Admiralty. When the Dryad hove in sight, the Eurotas was coming up with la Clorinde hand over hand. ”

“ From July 4, the day of Sir John Phillimore’s arrival at Cape Coast, until the 11th of the same month, daily skirmishes took place between the Ashantees and the British outposts; on the latter day, the enemy made a general attack upon our position, about three quarters of a mile from the shore; the engagement lasted, without intermission, until dark, and terminated with their total defeat; their loss was computed at 2000 men, and their whole force appeared to be disorganized ”

“ At 6-20, Eurotas having lost her main-mast, the enemy’s frigate began to shoot a-head; but when a little on our weather-bow she either fell off for want of after-sail, or put her helm up in order to cross our hawse. Observing this, the jib was immediately run up [9] , and the boarders assembled on the forecastle, where 120 men were collected at the moment that la Clorinde’s broadside bore upon our stem ”

“ After landing Captain Collier and Lord Cathcart’s aide-de-camp, the Bellette returned to the Baltic, where she continued affording protection to the trade until Dec. 1807. At the latter period, Captain Phillimore was ordered to Gottenburgh, for the purpose of collecting the homeward bound merchantmen i and on his way thither he fell in with the only two ships of war then belonging to Denmark, – a two-decker and a frigate; from which he escaped by running his brig into 21⁄2 and 1⁄4 less 3 fathoms water, thereby rendering it impracticable for the enemy to come near him [4] . ”

“ The attempt to reduce Colberg proved fatal to thousands of the enemy. If all the governors had been animated with the fidelity and persevering courage of Blucher, the issue of the war between Frederick and Napoleon might have been very different. It was at this siege that Colonel Schill, whose heroism, loyalty, and patriotism shone forth so conspicuously afterwards in the north of Germany, first attracted the attention and admiration of hit countrymen. ↑ The above ships were proceeding from Christiansand to Copenhagen. ”