Mr. J. Williams (her master), fifteen
seamen, and two marines, killed; Lieutenant Thomas Church, Mr. Snell
(boatswain), Messrs. Massey and Pardoe (midshipmen), seventy-three
seamen, and ten marines, wounded.

In the French and Spanish accounts of this action, which will be given
hereafter, it will be seen that the loss of the enemy has _not_ been
accurately enumerated; but, out of two thousand men that were in the
Real Carlos and Hermenegildo, only three hundred were saved. Commodore
Le Ray, of the San Antonio, was wounded; but his loss in men, which
must have been severe, has not been ascertained.

We shall here give some interesting extracts from private letters from
Sir James, written at the close of the battle:

Caesar, 13th July 1801, 8 A.M.

I shall leave you to judge of the difference of my feelings to
those when I sat down to write the letter of this day week.[39]
To an all-merciful PROVIDENCE is to be ascribed the wonderful
and most awful event of last night, which will ever be
remembered with terror by the nations it concerned, and by me
with infinite gratitude for so peculiar a token of Divine mercy
vouchsafed towards me.

[39] See page 388.

Two days after the action of last Monday, a strong squadron was
sent to Algeziras from Cadiz, to protect the disabled French
ships, and to convoy them to the latter port, with the Hannibal,
which ship they had succeeded in getting off the shoal whereon
she had unfortunately grounded. It may be supposed that no
exertion was wanting on my part to get the squadron in a state
for service; and, beyond all expectation, owing to the great
activity and zeal of every officer and man in the squadron, we
were in a state to put to sea yesterday, on the enemy's getting
under sail from the Bay of Algeziras; the Pompee excepted, which
had not sufficient time to get in new masts.

Late in the evening I observed that the enemy's ships,
consisting of ten sail of the line and four frigates, had
succeeded in clearing the bay; and at eight o'clock I made sail
after them. Captain Keats, who, in the Superb, had been much
mortified at not having shared in the former affair, being near
the Caesar, I directed him to endeavour to bring the rear ships
of the enemy to action; myself following with the Venerable, and
the other two ships, some distance astern.

It was near midnight when the Superb succee