the career of glory you and your gallant squadron have run in
the course of those periods. The hardy enterprise of the 6th
merited complete success; but all who know the baffling winds
in the Bay of Gibraltar can readily account for the event of
it. The astonishing efforts made to refit the crippled ships in
Gibraltar Mole surpasses everything of the kind within my
experience; and the final success in making so great an
impression on the very superior force of the enemy crowns the
whole. I have great satisfaction in reporting to you that I
have received the most gracious and full approbation of his
Majesty this morning of your whole conduct, and that of every
officer and man under your command, and I hear nothing but
praise and admiration from every quarter.

We wait impatiently the arrival of Vice-admiral Pole from the
Baltic to detach a powerful reinforcement to you, and we are
not without hopes that four ships of the line are on their
passage from Cork to join you before Cadiz, or at Gibraltar.

Having, from the moment of your departure, felt the most
perfect confidence that everything would be performed for the
honour and success of his Majesty's arms within the reach of
human power, I have only to add my anxious wish that another
opportunity will present itself, ere long, for a further
display of that talent and intrepidity from which the country
has, upon so many occasions, received important benefits.

I have the honour to be,
With the most perfect regard and esteem,
Very sincerely yours,
ST. VINCENT.

To Sir James Saumarez.

Admiralty, 10th August 1801.

DEAR SIR,

I congratulate you from my heart and soul, and assure you that
I rejoice most sincerely in the glorious events you have
achieved. I but feebly express what I feel on this occasion. It
has been your good fortune, sir, to bear so large a part in
accomplishing the most glorious actions of this eventful war,
that you can scarcely have had an opportunity of witnessing
their immediate effect on the public mind; but, be assured, in
no instance has there been more lively admiration expressed of
the intrepidity and indefatigable zeal of our navy, than has
been shown by all ranks, of your most gallant enterprises, even
before the account of