French fleet, at anchor off Sandy Hook, i. 40; failure of their plans for the reduction of Rhode Island, 42; equipment of, under Comte de Grasse, 67; loss of men in, 81; take possession of Alexandria and Cairo, 211; position of, in the bay of Aboukir, _ib._; situation of, in the battle of the Nile, 218; escape of, at Brest, 290; proceeds to the Mediterranean, 291; remarks respecting, 301; amount of, at Bayonne, 330; discovered at anchor in Algeziras Bay, 342; loss of men in, at the battle of Algeziras, 365; list of the, commanded by Comte de Grasse on the 9th and 12th April 1782, ii. 381; opposed to the English, 23rd June 1795, 397; list of the, under Admiral Gantheaume in the action off the mouth of the Nile, 412. ---- garrison, summoned by Sir J. Saumarez at Malta, i. 262; ii. 414. ---- government, endeavours of the, to form a naval port in the British Channel, i. 85. Frenchmen, singular custom of, in battle, i. 356 _n._ French privateers, account of the capture and destruction of, ii. 284. ---- ships, comparison between, and the British, i. 81. ---- squadron, attacked in the bay of Brehat, i. 120; gallant action of Sir J. Saumarez with, off Guernsey, 131; force of, 132; list of the, which sailed from Algeziras on the 12th July 1801, 419. Frere, J.H. English ambassador at Lisbon, letter of Sir J. Saumarez to, i. 339. G. Gantheaume, Admiral, list of the French fleet under, in the action off the mouth of the Nile, ii. 412. Gardner, Sir Alan, remarks concerning, i. 293; appointed to command the Channel fleet, ii. 95; applies for Sir John Duckworth to be his second in command, 96. George III, King of England, visits the squadron under Admiral Parker, on its arrival at the Nore, i. 51; inquiries of, respecting Lieutenant Saumarez, 52; expresses his satisfaction to Sir J. Saumarez with the manoeuvres of the squadron under his command, 144; creates Sir James a Baronet of the United Kingdom, 336; commissions General O'Hara, governor at Gibraltar, to invest him with the Order of the Bath, ii. 36; illness of, 223. ---- Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV. appointed Regent, ii. 223. Gibraltar, arrival of Admiral Nelson's squadron at, i. 271; ball given at, _ib._; occurrences at, 401; animating scene upon the arrival of the British squadron at, 411; conduct of the governor and garrison at, ii. 9; joy of the inhabitants of, upon Sir J. Saumarez being created a Knight of the Bath, 36. Goodall, Samuel Cranston, kindness of, to Mr. de Saumarez, i. 21; visits the Mediterranean, _ib._; ordered to return to England, _ib._ Gothenburg, arrival of the Baltic fleet at, ii. 101; of Sir John Moore, _ib._; of Sir J. Saumarez, 274. Graeme, Capt. returns to England in the Leviathan, i. 42; providential escape of, from shipwreck, _ib._; commands the Preston, 46; loses his arm in action with the Dutch, 51.