[163] Mr. Balfour to Dundas, 20th July 1793.
[164] The official despatch reached the Government on 13th September, but the fact was known to Pitt on the 7th. Dropmore Papers, i. 422.
[165] Hood to Dundas, 25th August 1793.
[166] Brenton’s Naval History, i. 101.
[167] Mulgrave to Dundas, 1st September 1793.
[168] 3rd, 19th, 27th, 28th, 42nd, 54th, 57th, 59th.
[169] Dundas to Murray, 11th, 14th September; to Hood, 14th September; to Bruce, 18th September 1793; Pitt to Grenville, Dropmore Papers, ii. 43 (the conjectural date of September attached to this last is wrong, and should be changed to October).
[170] Narrative of an Officer, i. 92.
[171] 19th, 57th, three companies of the 42nd.
[172] Poisson, ii. 525–526.