opposite kind ; they shouted "Vive la république !" and sang "Ca-ira" and the " Marsellaise Hymn," all the while the flames were raging. To their disappointment, however, the proper precautions had been taken, and the Impétueux, after burning to the water's edge, drifted clear of the ships in ordinary, and of all other danger, and grounded upon the mud on the west side of the harbour.

On the 21st of October, at daybreak, the British 38-gun frigates Arethusa., Captain Sir Edward Pellew, Artois, Captain Edmund Nagle, and Diamond, Captain Sir William Sidney Smith, and the 18-pounder 32-gun frigate Galatea, Captain Richard Goodwin Keats, while cruising in company, at a distance of from eight to ten leagues west of Ushant, discovered a frigate under French national colours. Chase was immediately given, and the squadron, being to windward, succeeded in cutting her off from the land. The superior sailing of the Artois enabled that ship, singly, to bring to action the French 40-gun frigate Révolutionnaire, mounting the usual 44 guns of her class, Captain Henri-Alexandre Thèvenard. The latter defended herself with great spirit for 40 minutes ; when, the Diamond having taken a position under her stern, and fired two shots as an earnest of what was presently to follow, and the two remaining British frigates being near at hand, the French crew refused any longer to defend their ship, which was already in a very crippled state from the fire of the Artois ; whose force was also 44 guns, including 12 long 9-pounders and four 32-pounder carronades upon the quarterdeck and forecastle. The colours of the Révolutlonnaire were accordingly struck.

Out of a crew, supposing her complement to have been on board, of 281 men and boys, the Artois had one lieutenant of marines (Mr. Craigy) and two seamen killed, and five seamen wounded. The Révolutionnaire, out of a crew, as certified by her officers, of 351, lost eight seamen killed, and her commander (slightly) and four seamen wounded.

Here, considering the slight inferiority of force on the part of the British frigate as meeting a fair set-off in the officially-reported fact, that the French frigate had been launched but a few weeks, and out of port (Havre-de-Grace) but eight days, would have been a well matched pair of combatants, had the Artois been alone ; and the officers and crew of the latter no doubt regretted that their friends were near enough to interfere with, or even to be spectators of the engagement. M. Thévenard cannot be, accused of giving away his ship: he