r,
three rank and file, wounded.

Calabrese Regiment--One officer, twenty-one rank and file, killed;
four officers, sixty-four rank and file, wounded.

Total--Five officers, thirty-two rank and file, killed; five
officers, seventy-nine rank and file, wounded.

Foudroyant, Naples Bay, 13th July 1799.

The Castle of St. Elmo, at the time of it's surrender, had no want of
ammunition or provisions: of the former, besides abundance of shot,
shells, grenades, cartridges, &c. they had twenty-five thousand pounds
of powder; and, of the latter, with eighteen oxen, upwards of three
hundred barrels of salt beef and pork, nearly three thousand quintals of
wheat, a hundred and fifty-eight of biscuit, two thousand one hundred
and sixty-seven of flour, and numerous other articles of food in
proportion, they had fifty thousand pints of wine, and six thousand of
brandy.

Lord Nelson, immediately on receiving these dispatches from Captain
Troubridge, wrote the following official letter to Lord Keith.

"Foudroyant, Naples Bay,
13th July 1799.

"MY LORD,

"I have the pleasure to inform you of the surrender of Fort St.
Elmo, on the terms of the inclosed capitulation, after open
batteries of eight days; during which time, one heavy battery was
advanced within a hundred and eighty yards of the ditch. The very
great strength of St. Elmo, and it's more formidable position,
will mark with what fortitude, perseverance, and ability, the
combined forces must have acted. Captain Troubridge was the officer
selected for the command of all the forces landed from the
squadron. Captain Ball assisted him for seven days, till his
services were wanted at Malta, when his place was ably supplied by
Captain Hallowell, an officer of the most distinguished merit, and
to whom Captain Troubridge expresses the highest obligation.
Captain Hood, with a garrison for the castle of Nuovo, and to keep
good order in the capital--an arduous task, at that time--was also
landed from the squadron; and I have the pleasure to tell you, that
no capital is more quiet than Naples. I transmit you Captain
Troubridge's letter to me, with a return of killed and wounded.

"I have now to state to your lordship, that although the ability
and resources of my brave friend Troubridge are well known to all
the world; yet he had diffi