four brass carronades, 36-pounders, on her quarterdeck and forecastle, total 44 guns ; besides swivels along her gangways and in her tops. The Engageante and Résolue were armed according to the establishment of their class, as particularized at No. 7, in the small table at p. 54, except that the Engageante wanted two of her 6s ; making the guns of the latter 38, and those of the Résolue 40. The Babet mounted 20 long 8-pounders on the main deck, and two brass 6 or 4 pounders on the quarterdeck ; making the total guns on the French side 144.

The damages of the Flora we have already detailed. Those of the Arethusa, although not so heavy, were such as to disable her from becoming one of the chasing ships. The Melampus, also, suffered in her masts, sails, and rigging, and received some shot between wind and water. The Concorde, being still more distantly engaged, suffered little or nothing until her engagement with the Engageante ; and the Nymphe, to the great annoyance of her officers and crew, was unable to get up in time to partake of the action. The Flora, out of a complement, if all were on board, of 267 men and boys, had one seaman killed and three wounded; the Arethusa, out of a complement of 277 men and boys, one master's mate (none of the killed or wounded officers are named in Sir John Warren's letter) and two seamen killed, and five seamen wounded ; and the Melampus, out of a complement the same as the Flora's, had her master, three seamen, and one marine killed, one lieutenant of marines, three seamen, and one private marine wounded. The Concorde, out of a complement of 257 men and boys, appears to have sustained no loss until she closed the Engageante, and then had only one man killed and 12 wounded. The Concorde's three lieutenants in the action, and to whose good conduct Sir Richard bears testimony, were Charles Apthorp, Thomas Boys, and Andrew Fitzherbert Evans.

According to the loose statement that appears in the British official account, the Pomone lost between 80 and 100, and the Babet between 30 and 40 men, in killed and wounded ; the latter, out of a crew of 178, and the former of 341. The loss on board the Engageante, from her damaged state (her masts having all fallen overboard a few hours after the action), must have been tolerably severe ; but, singularly enough, no account of it appears in the British official account, and, at this late day, all other sources of information are shut.

Against so decided a disparity as, from the numbers and force on each side, evidently existed in this case, (for if the Nymphe did not, neither did the Résolue in more than a partial degree, participate in the action,) the French could never have succeeded. Great credit is therefore due to Captains Pevrieux and Belhomme ; and the French commodore, although he made sail from his comrades before he had effected much in their behalf, defended his own ship manfully, when at length overtaken by