Jemmappes.* This ship also made sail ahead, and then ran to leeward ; but the Queen kept close upon her starboard quarter, and annoyed her much. The Jemmappes, having had her colours twice shot away, rehoisted them at the mizen topgallantmast head; but at 10 h. 45 m. a.m. her mizenmast went by the board.

At 11 a.m. the Queen's mainmast went over the lee side ; springing, in its fall, the mizenmast, and carrying away the forepart of the poop, and part of the quarterdeck bulwark. In another quarter of an hour the mainmast of the Jemmappes fell, as did immediately afterwards, her foremast. At this time the Queen had fallen round off, and the crew of the Jemmappes, having been driven from their quarters with great slaughter, came upon deck, and waved submission with their hats ; but the Queen was in too disabled a state to take possession. Her mizen topmast had been shot away since the fall of her mainmast ; her foremast and bowsprit had been shot through in several places ; and her mizenmast, from its wounds, was expected every instant to fall ; her rigging had also been cut to pieces, and all her sails rendered useless.

After about an hour's exertions in repairing some of her principal damages, the Queen managed to get her head towards her own fleet, and was steering along to leeward of it, when, at about 30 m. p.m., she discovered, through the smoke to leeward, 12 sail of French ships standing towards her. The leading ship, the Montagne, passed without firing, and so did her second astern ; but the third ship opened her fire, as did also every one of the remaining eight, the last of which was the Terrible, with only her foremast standing. The latter was towed into the line by three frigates ; two of which cast off and hauled to windward, to engage the Queen. The Queen, however, soon convinced them that her guns were not so disabled as her masts ; and the two frigates put up their helms and ran to leeward without returning a shot.

The appearance of the Queen-Charlotte and the newly-formed line astern of her had caused the Montagne and her line to keep more away than M. Villaret had at first intended ; the Queen, therefore, suffered but little from the distant cannonade to which she was exposed. On coming abreast of the Queen's late antagonist, the Jemmappes, the French admiral detached a frigate to tow the latter off, as well as two other dismasted two-deckers lying at no great distance from her. The damages which the Queen had previously sustained have already appeared : her loss amounted to 14 seamen and marines or soldiers killed, her

* In the first edition, this ship, by mistake, was named the Scipion ; but we have now the most positive proof, that the Scipion was the sternmost ship in the French line : other circumstances, also, have since made it clear, that the Jemmappes, a fine new 74 of the largest class, was the Queen's opponent.