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and eighty perfons on board, feamen, paflergers and 

 boys. The marquis d'Antin alfo carried ten guns 

 on a fide, the five aftermoft of fix pounders, and 

 the five forward of four ; and had aboard about 

 fifty or fifty five perfons. La Delivrance was ftill 

 fmaller than the other two, having only feven four 

 pounders on a fide, and all the perfons on board did 

 not exceed fifty one. 



The enemy who afterwards proved privateers, were 

 confiderably fuperior in force. The largeft of them 

 called the Prince Frederick, commanded by captain 

 James Talbot, carried thirty guns, twenty four of 

 them being twelve pounders, befides crofsbar fhots 

 which fliuck in our mafts and fides, and fix fix pounders 

 on the quarter deck. The name of the fmalleft pri- 

 vateer was the Duke, captain Morecock, had ten 

 guns on a fide, and thefe likewife twelve pounders, 

 befides padereros on both, which did great execution 

 on our rigging. The Prince Frederick to all ap- 

 pearance keeping a continual fire both with the great 

 guns and fmall arms, could not carry lefs than two 

 hundred or two hundred and fifty men, and the 

 complement of the Duke from the like circumftances 

 we concluded to be about one hundred and fifty or 

 two hundred. 



The fight was maintained with great refolution 

 and alacrity on both fides, though under this confi- 

 derable disadvantage to the French, that one broad 

 fide from the enemy did twice the execution of 

 one from their fiiips : and as for mufketry, with 

 which the Englifh were well furnifhed, and kept an 

 incefianc fire, all that the French could ufe, was 

 about twelve or fourteen on board each fliip, it being 

 prefent death for any one to fliew himfelf on the fore- 

 cafl:le, and a mufl<:et was what very few on board 

 knew how to make ufe of. At length, about half an 

 hour after ten the marquis d' Antin, which was in 

 our rear ftruck to the largeft of the enemy, with 



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