HITORICAL MEMOIR OF NAVAL TRANSACTIONS, DURING THE PRESENT WAR, FROM ITS COMMENCEMENT IN 1793

Summary

HÆC OLIM MEMINISSE JUVABIT

Many are the heroes of the dark rolling Sea!–Thy sails are like the clouds of the morning, and thy ships like the light of Heaven; and thou thyself like a pillar of fire that giveth light in the night!

Ossian.

We have made some slight alteration in the title to this department of our Chronicle, as also in its arrangement, in order to take in a more extensive scope of Naval History, and to be enabled to record every circumstance, however minute, that relates to it. Our first design was to have noticed only the principal actions that had taken place during the War; but on further consideration we have adopted the following plan as more interesting to our readers, especially Professional Men, and also as being more valuable to the future Historian. When we have brought our Memoir to the beginning of the present year, from whence our work commenced, we shall then, if our labours are so long approved, take a retrograde course, and give an account of Naval Transactions, from the beginning of the American War, to the rise of the present. Whatever additions or corrections we receive will meet with immediate notice; and we trust that our Naval Biography, with the Memoirs of Navigation and Commerce, and this Historical Memoir, will in time, as before observed, form an extensive Naval Chronicle.