by John Marshall

“ The condition of the French ship can he judged of only from her appearance after the action had ceased, when several men were seen over her sides, busily employed in stopping shot-holes, and it was evident that all her pumps were at work. ”

“ The bowsprit, all three lower masts, and the main-top-mast, badly woumlod in a number of places; the bobstays, bowsprit-shrouds, jib-stay, ond haliards, all the standing and spring-stays, most of the lower and top-mast rigging, and the fore part of the mizen-top, shot away; the main-top-sail-yard cut through in the slings ”