234
Ibid., August 13.
235
Napoleon to Villeneuve, August 13.
236
Napoleon to Decrès, August 14.
237
Twenty-nine only of the line.
238
Chevalier, Marine Française sous l'Empire, p. 180.
239
Collingwood's Correspondence, August 21, 1805.
240
Thiers, Cons. et Emp., livre xxii. pp. 125, 128.
241
Thiers, Cons. et Emp., livre xxviii. p. 233.
242
Napoleon to St. Cyr, Sept. 2, 1805.
243
Napoleon to Decrès, Sept. 15.
244
Ibid., Sept. 4.
245
Nels. Disp., vol. vii. p. 80.
246
Fyffe's History of Modern Europe, vol. i. p. 281.
247
To the King of Wurtemburg, April 2, 1811; Corr., vol. xxii. p. 19.
248
Life of Sir Wm. Parker, vol. i. p. 39. Ross's Life of Lord de Saumarez, vol. ii. p. 214. Naval Chronicle, Plymouth Report, Dec. 10, 1800.
249
Message of Directory to Council of Five Hundred, Jan., 1799; Moniteur, An 7, p. 482.
250
McArthur, Financial and Political Facts of the Eighteenth Century, London, 1801, p. 308. Norman (Corsairs of France, London, 1887, App.) gives the number of French privateers taken in the same period as 556.
251
Sir J. Barrow, then a Secretary to the Admiralty, mentions in a letter to J. W. Croker, July 18, 1810, that two colliers had been captured in sight of Ramsgate, close under the North Foreland; and on July 27 an ordnance hoy taken close under Galloper Light, in the face of the whole squadron in the Downs, not one of which moved. (Croker's Diary, vol. i. p. 33)
252
Naval Chronicle, vol. xxiv. p. 327. For further curious particulars concerning French privateering in the narrow seas, see Nav. Chron., vol. xxii. p. 279; vol. xxiv. pp. 327, 448, 460-462, 490; vol. xxv. pp. 32-34, 44, 203, 293; vol. xxvii. pp. 102, 237.
253
See, for example, the account of the privateer captain, Jean Blackeman Nav. Chron., vol. xii. p. 454.
254
Naval Chronicle, vol. ii. p. 535; vol. iii. p. 151.
255
In 1806, on the Jamaica station alone, were captured by the British forty-eight public or private armed vessels, two of which were frigates, the rest small. (Nav. Chron., vol. xvii. pp. 255, 337.)
256
American State Papers, vol. ii. pp. 670, 771.
257
James (Naval Hist., ed. 1878, vol. iii. p. 249) says that though denominated 1,200-ton ships, the registered tonnage of most exceeds 1,300, and in some cases amounts to 1,500 tons.
258
Nav. Chronicle, vol. vi. p. 251.