er fleet, fearing that she might be cut off; but, two other
enemy's ships were immediately under weigh to assist her. At noon,
Le Timoleon, which probably was not in a state to put to sea,
steered right for the shore, under her fore-sail; and, as soon as
she struck the ground, her foremast fell. The French division
joined the enemy's ships, which ranged along their line on opposite
tacks, within pistol-shot, and received their broadsides, which it
returned: they, then, each continued their route. The division was
in sight at sun-set. Nothing remarkable passed, during the night of
the 2d. The 3d of August, in the morning, the French colours were
flying in Le Tonnant and Timoleon. The English admiral sent a flag
of truce to the former, to know if she had struck; and, on being
answered in the negative, he directed two ships to go against her.
When they got within gun-shot of her, she struck, it being
impossible to defend her any longer. Le Timoleon was aground, too
near in for any ship to approach her. In the night of the 2d, they
sent the greatest part of their ship's company on shore; and, at
noon the next day, they quitted her, and set her on fire.

"Thus ends the journal of the 1st, 2d, and 3d, days of August;
which will ever be remembered, with the deepest sorrow, by those
Frenchmen who possess good hearts, and by all those true
republicans who have survived this melancholy disaster."

To the above anonymous French account, may be added that of the
celebrated scientific traveller, soldier, and artist, Monsieur Denon;
who was one of the chief Scavans in the Egyptian expedition, and an
anxious spectator of the interesting scene. It is to be remarked that,
though his description of the battle, like that by which it is preceded,
has less want of candour than is commonly found in French narratives of
this nature, neither of them is altogether free from the characteristic
partiality of that boastful nation. Both of them fail to state the true
number of British ships; but, as frequently happens with those who are
not remarkably tenacious of truth, though both make the number greater
than it actually was, they do not agree with each other any more than
with the fact, and thus mutually aid to produce a conviction of their
own want of veracity. Our true force was fifteen sail only.

Denon, in order to gain an accurate view