onduct, saved the
French corvette from going on shore."

The vessels taken were--a French corvette of ten guns, four swivels, and
eighty-seven men; a French gun-boat of one brass gun, four swivels, and
forty-nine men; a French galley of one brass gun, four swivels, and
thirty men; a like galley, with twenty-nine men; a French brig, in
ballast, burden a hundred tons; a French bark, burden seventy tons,
laden with powder and shells; a French brig, burden a hundred tons,
laden with wine; a galley, burden fifty tons, in ballast; and a tartane,
burden thirty-five tons, laden with wine: those destroyed--a bark, laden
with powder, drove on shore; and a ditto, laden with provisions, burnt.

Though this enterprise called for no particular exertion of great
ability, it was executed with very complete success; and the result was
both advantageous to the captors and their allies, and distressful to
the common enemy.

Admiral Hotham, in his dispatches to government, inclosing the account
of this business which he had received from Captain Nelson, handsomely
remarks that "his officer-like conduct upon this, and indeed upon every
occasion, where his services are called forth, reflects on him the
highest credit."

Admiral Hotham was a very brave and highly respectable commander; and,
being also a worthy man, he did whatever was in his power to serve
Captain Nelson, whose superior ability he would, probably, have himself
readily acknowledged on any occasion. He might not be sufficiently what
Captain Nelson called a man of business, to admire the agreed
co-operation with the Austrian army, though as ready as any man to
encounter the fleet of the enemy at sea: when, therefore, that
co-operation became necessary, Captain Nelson's known habits of
soldiering, immediately directed the admiral's attention to the
Brigadier; who had, accordingly, a not altogether unpleasant command of
the squadron at Vado Bay, consisting of thirteen sail of frigates and
sloops. This little fleet, however, with the exception of the above
expedition, did very little important business, not a single frigate
being allowed to chase out of sight.

It was about this period, that Captain Nelson had the satisfaction of
learning that he had, on the 6th of June preceding, in consequence of
the then promotion of flag-officers, been appointed one of the Colonels
of Marines.

He had, it seems, been in some expectation of this promotion, but little
imagined that it had