Cutters, Rose, King-George, Active and Diligent, and
Lugger, Speculator.

On the same day the Powerful, Agincourt, and Isis joined company; and on the afternoon of the 10th the advanced ships were near enough to count 22 sail of square-rigged vessels, chiefly merchantmen, at anchor in the Texel. Having received from Captain Trollope information of the course which the enemy's fleet was steering, the British admiral stood along shore to the southward. On the 11th, at 7 a.m., the Russel, Adamant, and Beaulieu were descried in the south-west, bearing at their mast-heads the joyful signal of an enemy in sight to leeward ; and at 8 h. 30 m. a.m. the Dutch fleet made its appearance in the quarter pointed out by the signal, consisting of 21 ships and four brigs, named as follows:

Ship-corvettes, Minerva and Waakzaambeid.
Brig-corvettes, Ajax, Atalanta, Daphne, and Galatea.
Two advice-boats.

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