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When Commodore Fischer, famed for the coolness and perspicuity of his judgment in the hour of trial,* left the Danbrog, the battle raged with the utmost fury. The British finding that our foremost ships were far from slackening fire, now extended their line, and at noon all our ships, as well as the battery, were strenuously engaged in the awful contest. Captain Thura, of the Indfoedsretten, fell at the beginning of the action; and all the sub­ altern officers were either killed or wounded, except a lieutenant, and a marine officer. In this state of confusion, the colours were, by accident, struck j the British, however, made no attempt to board the Indfoedsretten, she being rather dangerously moored athwart our battery. A boat was dispatched from the ship to carry the tidings of her Commander’s death to the Prince Royal, who had from the dawn of day, taken his station upon a battery. Here, * He had lately returned from the Cape of Good Hope, where his ship, the Oldenborg, a 64, was wrecked, in com­ pany with the Sceptre, a British man of war, on the 6th November, 1799.