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" ship must be disabled before a Danish seaman t{ can persuade himself to retirefrom action /” I shall not encroach on the judgment of my reader by expatiating on the effects of these words. The morning of Good-Friday dawned, and about eight o’clock a scene took place, which (if I may say it) excited more universal regret than all the mischances of the preced­ ing day. The Zealand, 74, drifted, at the close of the engagement, on the shoal, under the battery. Her flag was not to be seen, but the pendant waved from her mainmast head; whence it is as fair to infer, that the former had been shot away as that it had been struck; the more so, as several of our ships (among which the Proevesteen) fought the whole bat­ tle without any flag. An English gun brig, and three long boats, well manned, laid them­ selves along side the Zealand. The men from the boats went on board, and fastening a cable round the bowsprit of the Zealand, the gun vessel towed her away. In the mean