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AN

AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT

OF THE

IMPORTANT BATTLE of the NILE,

Fought on the 1ſt and 2d of Auguſt, 1798.

BETWEEN THE

BRITISH FLEET,

COMMANDED BY

Rear Admiral Sir HORATIO NELSON, K. B.

AND

The French Fleet, Commanded by

VICE-ADMIRAL BRUEYS,

In Beguiros Bay, on the Coaſt of EGYPT.

This account was ſent by a young Man who was on
board the Majeſtic of 74 Guns, to his Mother in
Whitehaven with the Particulars of the Cruize, pre-
vious to their falling in with the Enemy.

Stirling, Printed by C. Randall. 1800.