Thalia, continued the chase under all sail, with a fresh breeze from south-west by west. At 4 p.m. the Latona had gained considerably upon the sternmost French frigate ; when, the Barges d'Olonne bearing east half-north distant only two miles, and the wind blowing dead upon the shore with a heavy sea, the pilot refused to take further charge of the ship. The Latona thereupon shortened sail, and hauled her wind to the north-west ; as did, about the same time, the Melampus, and other chasing ships. The two French frigates, thus unavoidably left to themselves, ran through the Pertuis-Breton, and were soon at anchor in the waters at Rochefort.

The brig-corvette was not so fortunate. At 2 p.m., Isle d'Yeu bearing south-east by south distant three leagues, the British 74-gun ship Thunderer, Captain Albermarle Bertie, discovered the Eveillé standing to the south-east, and made all sail in chase. At 4 h. 30 m. p.m. Sir John Warren, with his ships, appeared to leeward. Both the Thunderer and Pomone soon opened their fire upon the Eveillé ; and at 6 p.m., having previously thrown all her guns overboard, the brig struck her colours, and was taken possession of by an officer from the Pomone. The latter, shortly afterwards, accompanied by the Thunderer, Concorde, and prize, anchored in the road of Isle d'Yeu.

As the commanding officer on this occasion, Sir John Borlase Warren possessed the right to do, what he was always fond of doing, pen the official letter to the Admiralty. Whether any one of the captains under him would not have given a more correct account of the occurrences he reports, will appear by a slight analysis of his letter, as it stands in the London Gazette. Sir John says: "The Aquilon, [sic] who was the headmost, being within gun-shot of the enemy, they doubled the Baleine bank, and proceeded up the Pertuis d'Antioche to Rochefort." Now, the Aquillon, [sic] if she was in chase at all, got scarcely any nearer than the Pomone herself. Admitting a mistake in the name, and that Sir John meant the Latona, did he also mistake the Pertuis-Breton for the Pertuis-d'Antioche ? So far from the Latona having "doubled the Baleine bank," she found herself, on shortening sail, much within it, and had to beat out at a considerable risk.

But let us see what Sir John says about the capture of the Eveillé. "I hauled to the wind directly, and discovered two other sail in the north-west, steering in for the land ; the whole squadron chased, and on our nearer approach found them to be a line-of-battle ship and a corvette-brig ; I endeavoured to cut them off from the land, and, after several shots had been fired, the corvette brought to, and proved to be, &c." What is the inference here but that Sir John, in a frigate, endeavoured to cut off from the land a French line-of-battle ship and corvette-brig ? Will it be credited, that neither the Thunderer, nor the captain of her, is named in Sir John Warren's letter? It was