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and 5225 perished. As soon as the conquest was completed, Nelson sent orders through the fleet to return thanksgiving, in every ship, for the victory with which Almighty God had blessed his Majesty's arms. Long after this tremendous battle innumerable bodies were seen floating about the ⟨bay⟩, in spite of all the exertions which were made to sink them, as well from fear of pestilence, as from the loathing and horror which the sight occasioned. The shore, for an extant of 4 leagues, was covered with wreck; and the Arabs found employment for many days in burning on the beach the fragments which were cast up, for the sake of the iron. In order to give a more complete idea of the force employed in this memorable engagement, than can be gathered from the narrative of the battle, we introduce the following specification:—

BRITISH LINE OF BATTLE.

Ships.	Guns.	Men.		Commanders.	Kil.	wd.
Culloden[1]	74	590		Captain Troubridge	0	0
Thesus	74	590		R. W. Miller	5	30
Alexander	74	590		A. J. Ball	14	58
Vanguard	74	595	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Sir Horatio Nelson, rear-admiral of the Blue, Captain Edward Berry	30	75
Minotaur	75	640		Thomas Louis	23	64
Leander	50	343		Thomas B. Thomson	0	14
Swiftsure	74	590		B. Hallowell	7	22
Audaucious	74	590		D. Gould	1	35
Defence	74	590		John Peyton	4	11
Zealous	74	590		Samuel Hood	1	7
Orion	75	590		Sir James Saumarez	13	29
Goliah	75	590		Thomas Foley	21	41
Majestic	74	590		Geo. B. Westcott	50	143
Bellerophon	74	590		Hon D'Etree Darby	94	148
La Mutine, brig	14
				Total	218	677

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1. The Culloden struck the ground in leading in, and was prevented by that accident from taking any share in the engagement.