Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies.
Thomas Troubridge, of his Britannic Majesty's ship
Culloden, and Commander of the British and Portuguese troops at
the attack of St. Elmo.
Chevalier Belle, Captain-Lieutenant, commanding the troops
of his Imperial Russian Majesty at the attack of St. Elmo.
Jh. Mejau, commanding Fort St. Elmo.
_Return of Killed and Wounded at the Siege of the Castle of St.
Elmo._
Marine forces landed from the squadron--John Hickman, private, of
the Vanguard, killed; Daniel Elliott, Christopher Calonie, privates
of ditto, wounded. Serjeant Morgan, of the Foudroyant, Thomas
Jones, and Benjamin Cole, privates of ditto, wounded.
Royal Artillery--Lieutenant Millbank killed.
T. Strickland, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Marine Forces.
Swiss Regiment--Two officers, seven privates, killed; nine privates
wounded.
Albanese Volunteers--Four privates wounded.
Russians--One officer, three rank and file, killed; one officer,
three rank and file, wounded.
Calabrese Regiment--One officer, twenty-one rank and file, killed;
four officers, sixty-four rank and file, wounded.
Total--Five officers, thirty-two rank and file, killed; five
officers, seventy-nine rank and file, wounded.
Foudroyant, Naples Bay, 13th July 1799.
The Castle of St. Elmo, at the time of it's surrender, had no want of
ammunition or provisions: of the former, besides abundance of shot,
shells, grenades, cartridges, &c. they had twenty-five thousand pounds
of powder; and, of the latter, with eighteen oxen, upwards of three
hundred barrels of salt beef and pork, nearly three thousand quintals of
wheat, a hundred and fifty-eight of biscuit, two thousand one hundred
and sixty-seven of flour, and numerous other articles of food in
proportion, they had fifty thousand pints of wine, and six thousand of
brandy.
Lord Nelson, immediately on receiving these dispatches from Captain
Troubridge, wrote the following official letter to Lord Keith.
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