without getting foul, the Queen-Charlotte kept away, and, pouring a broadside into the lee beam of the Eole, as was evidently the sixth ship's name, repeated it while luffing close round her stern : a man�uvre which we have here endeavoured to illustrate.

The Bellerophon and Leviathan, the Queen-Charlotte's two seconds, quickly tacked after their gallant chief. The Bellerophon succeeded in passing ahead of the Terrible; who, from the leeward position of the Tyrannicide and Indomptable, was in reality the rearmost ship in the French line, and who, on account of the loss of her fore topmast, had herself dropped somewhat astern ; thus leaving two ships between her, the Bellerophon, and the space through which the Queen-Charlotte had passed. Having, previously to tacking, had her wheel shot away, the Leviathan could only fetch to windward of the two disabled French ships already named,

As soon as possible after she had gone through the French line, the Queen-Charlotte put about on the larboard tack, and, hoisting the signal for a general chase, left the two disabled ships, Tyrannicide and Indomptable, to be brought to by her friends astern, and pursued the Terrible, then, using her utmost efforts to regain her station, with her fore topmast gone as already mentioned ; and who, (the French van having by this