pension of £1000 a year each for their wounds. The first lieutenant of every line-of-battle ship in the action, and of the Audacious also, was made a commander ; and several other lieutenants belonging to the different flag-ships, as has since been the general practice, were promoted to the same rank. It need scarcely be stated, that the unanimous vote of thanks to Lord Howe, and to the officers, seamen, marines, and soldiers serving under him in the fleet, passed both houses of the British parliament.

Happening to have it in our power, we here subjoin the names of all the first lieutenants in Lord Howe's fleet ; as also of the second lieutenants, where the command of the ship devolved upon the first, or the first was killed during the engagement. John Whitby, Cæsar ; George Burlton, Bellerophon ; Robert Larkan, Leviathan ; Henry Vaughan, Russel ; Peter M'Kellar, Royal-Sovereign ; John Monkton, first, Alexander Ruddoch, second, Marlborough ; John Larkan, Defence ; William Burgess, Impregnable ; Thomas W. Clayton, second, (first killed), Tremendous ; Adrian Renou, Barfleur ; Henry Blackwood, Invincible ; Edward Rotheram, Culloden ; John Marsh, Gibraltar ; John Cochet, Queen-Charlotte ; William Edward Cracraft, Brunswick ; George Rice, Valiant ; Roger Mears, Orion ; William Bedford, acting captain on the 1st of June, and Richard Dawes, acting first, Queen ; Joseph Eyles, Ramillies ; John Chesshire, Alfred ; Ross Donnelly, Montagu ; John Draper, Royal-George ; Chapman Jacobs, Majestic ; William Ogilvy, Glory ; Joseph Larcom, Thunderer ; and Joseph Bingham, Audacious.

The gallant master of the Queen-Charlotte, whose skill and steadiness in conducting that ship, as well under the stern of the Eole on the 29th of May, as under that of the Montagne on the 1st of June, was the theme of praise of all in the fleet, and of none more than Lord Howe himself, could only, on account of the rules of the service, stand the chance of obtaining that promotion in his profession, which he coveted more than any thing else, by being reduced as a master and appointed a lieutenant. Mr. Bowen (the present Captain James Bowen, one of the commissioners of the navy) was accordingly made a lieutenant ; and the different captains of the fleet, to evince their high opinion of his worth, readily appointed him, at Lord Howe's suggestion, their agent for the prizes : thus affording to Lieutenant Bowen a handsome remuneration for his services, but not a jot more than he had most honourably earned.

As it could not be denied, that several ships of the British fleet had misbehaved themselves, both in the action of the 29th of May and in that of the 1st of June, an indiscriminate praise of the captains would have been an act of extreme injustice towards those who, on both occasions, strove their utmost to fulfil the intentions of their gallant chief. The following therefore

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