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five in the morning after not one of them were to be seen-- This is what made me conjecture that he had no intention of seek another Battle, but rather to pursue the object of the Expedition, but the misfortune was that one of his ships had lost her Fore mast, which rendered her unable to keep company, and was on the point of being carried off by the Enemy-- This obliged the General to bear up with his Fleet, to follow and protect the disabled Ship, who was under the necessity to lean away before the Wind, and engaged us in a Second Action, which proved the hottest and the most Vigorous that has happened for abenting past -- Having bore up the whole might we found ourselves brought down -- to fight [[note]] 12 April [[/note]] with the English, who at 5 in the morning were ready to receive us-- at 6 the General made the signal to prepare for Action, at 12 past 7 he gave orders for the Fleet to pay attention-- at the same hour he made the signal [[underline]] [[foreign: French]] de Rasiment [[/foreign]] [[/underline]] to form the order of Battle reserved on the Larboard Sack, at 40 past 7 the signal for the whole to lean up together on the leaning preeified SSW at 8 a Lucise Cammonade Commenced-- at 6 past 8 the Signal to close the Line-- at 8 past 8 the signal to haul to the Wind together; which was not well executed, by the reason of the advantage of salvation given up to the Enemy-- They when forged on contrary Tacks, the General had reason to hope for much success-- the fire being as Brilliant from one as from the [[catchword]] other [[/catchword]]
