these were wanting, and though efforts were made to prepare three more, by the time they were ready the wind had shifted and they could not be used. The French lost the _Varsovie_, of 84 guns, the _Aquilon_ and _Tonnerre_, of 74 guns, and the _Calcutta_, of 50 guns. The _Imperieuse_ during the action had three seamen killed, and Mr Gilbert, an assistant-surgeon, Mr Marsden, purser, seven seamen, and two marines wounded, while the _Revenge_ had three men killed and Lieutenant Garland and fourteen men wounded, she also receiving considerable damage in her hull from the batteries on Ile d'Aix. The French loss was much more considerable; the _Varsovie_ especially, having 100 killed and wounded, while the captain of the _Aquilon_ was killed in a boat of the _Imperieuse_, when seated by the side of Lord Cochrane, by a shot from the burning _Tonnerre_. The burning _Varsovie_ and _Aquilon_, being supposed by the French to be fire-ships, created a further panic among them. The captain and crew of the _Tourville_, believing that the fire-vessel was bearing down upon them, deserted their ship, and hastened in their boats on shore. A gallant French quartermaster, however, of the name of Bourgeois, managed to get on board again before the boat shoved off, resolved to stand by his ship to the last. To secure his safety should the fire-ships grapple the _Tourville_, he at once began constructing a raft. He had just completed it when an English boat approached, the crew of which were ignorant that the ship was abandoned. Bourgeois hailed her twice, but receiving no reply, fired a musket which he found at the gangway. This was returned, but the intrepid fellow, hastening to the captain's cabin, where he found twenty loaded muskets, discharged them in quick succession, when, greatly to his satisfaction, the boat pulled away. After he had been on board an hour, he discovered three of his shipmates insensible from drink on the lower-deck. A short time after this three of the _Tourville's_ boats, with a young midshipman, who now took the command, returned on board the _Ocean_, and he and the brave quartermaster prepared to defend their ship to the last. Fortunately for them, the English, not aware of what had happened, did not attack her, or she would undoubtedly have been added to the list of the French ships destroyed on the occasion Lord Cochrane still remained with the gun brigs, and the _Pallas_, Captain Seymour, her commander, having gallantly decided on rendering him assistance. At 8 a.m. on the 13th of April he despatched the brigs and mortar-vessel to attack the ships still aground. The _Etna_ unfortunately split her mortar, and the other vessels could do the enemy but little harm. A strong wind and tide prevented the _Imperieuse_ and _Pallas_ from taking a part in the attack. At noon five other small vessels were sent in by Lord Gambier, who wrote to Lord Cochrane giving him leave to attack the _Ocean_, but