He was, however, killed shortly after.
The destruction of the French squadron in the roads of Aboukir occurred during the absence of the General-in-Chief.

This event happened on the 1st of August.

The details are generally known; but there is one circumstance to which I cannot refrain from alluding, and which excited deep interest at the time.

This was the heroic courage of the son of Casablanca, the captain of the 'Orient'.

Casablanca was among the wounded, and when the vessel was blown up his son, a lad of ten years of age, preferred perishing with him rather than saving himself, when one of the seamen had secured him the means of escape.