than the
Sardinians opened a fire upon it, and killed the officer and fourteen
of his men, and wounding nearly all the rest. Truguet, enraged at such a
reception, commanded a bombardment on the town, which lasted three days
without any visible effect on its walls; and having suffered great loss
from the red-hot shot of the garrison, he was compelled to haul off, and
come to anchor at the mouth of the Gulf. About the same time an attack
was made with the same ill-success on La Madalena, a small island
belonging to the Sardinians in the Straits of Bonifacio, by a small
republican force from Corsica, among which was Napoleon Buonaparte, It
was months after Truguet's Sardinian adventure, when the English put
to sea for the purpose of encountering the French fleet. On the 14th of
July Lord Howe took the command of the channel-fleet; and though he
kept cruizing till the 10th of December, and several times descried
the French fleet, the services he rendered did not much exceed that of
securing the safe arrival of our West-India convoys. The first encounter
between two frigates of the hostile nations took place in the Channel;
when the Nymph, of thirty-two guns, commanded by Captain Edward Pel-lew,
captured the Cleopatra, of forty guns, commanded by one of the ablest
officers in the French service. In the West Indies the French island
of Tobago, St. Pierre, Miquelon, and Domingo were reduced; but at
Martinique the English met with a repulse. In the East Indies all the
small French factories were seized, and Pondicherry, which had been
restored at the last peace, surrendered to General Brathwaite.

{GEORGE III. 1793-1794}

During the month of July Vice Admiral Lord Hood entered the
Mediterranean with a small fleet, and presented himself before Toulon.
Many old officers of the French navy were in this city, and they entered
into a correspondence with Lord Hood suggesting the separate measures,
of surrendering their fleet to him, and putting him in possession of the
ports and forts. As a proof of their loyalty and sincerity, Hood called
upon them to acknowledge Louis the Seventeenth, and upon that condition
he promised the people of Toulon, together with those of Marseilles
and other towns, all the support in his power. The sections met to
deliberate upon this proposal; and notwithstanding the fierce opposition
of the Jacobins, it was carried. Thus victorious, the majority put to
death the president of the Jacobin club; persecut