“It is time, however, to turn our attention to another important part of the _material_, namely, artillery. Under this head we purpose designating, not only to the number of guns and their calibre, but also the mode in which they are served, for in actual warfare this, of course, is a primary consideration. If we take the received history of naval warfare for the basis of our investigation, we cannot fail to remark one notable circumstance in favour of the English, which can only be ascribed to their superiority in the use of this arm. That circumstance is the important and uniform advantage they have had in the fewer number of casualties they have sustained as compared with other nations with whom they may have chanced to have been engaged. To prove that our assertions are not made at random, we subjoin some statistics in support of this position. In April, 1798, then, the English ship _Mars_ took the French _L’Hercule_; the former had ninety killed and wounded, the latter 290. In the preceding February there had been an engagement between the English _Sybil_ and French _La Forte_, in which the killed and wounded of the former numbered twenty-one, and those of the latter 143. In March, 1806, the English ship _London_ took the French _Marengo_; the English with a loss of thirty-two, the latter of 145 men. On the 4th November, 1805, two English ships of the line engaged four French vessels, and the respective losses were, again, 135 and 730. On the 14th February, 1797, in an action between the Fleets of England and Spain, the English lost 300 and the Spaniards 800. On the 11th of October of the same year, in the engagement off Camperdown between the English and Dutch, the respective losses were 825 and 1,160. On the 5th July, 1808, the English frigate _Seahorse_ took the Turkish frigate _Badere Zuffer_, and of the Turks there fell 370 against fifteen English. Finally, in the same year the Russian ship of the line _Wsewolod_ was taken by two English ships of the line, with a loss to the latter of 303, and to the former of only sixty-two.