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[[underline]] beaten Tars [[/underline]], who [[underline]] had been active in the Fray [[/underline]] - After The Action, it had been insinuated [[deletion]] [[unclear]] [[/deletion]] by [[underline]] The Enemy, [[/underline]] that unfair stuff had been used from our Guns. The Indignant Tars who overheard this imputation, ran & collected various articles of [[underline]] Unfair Stuff, [[/underline]] which had been made use of against Them, & some still sticking in the Splinters & showed Them to His Majesty, declaring at the same time, that [[underline]] they had only been paid in proper coin by Them [[/underline]] -- The [[underline]] Fortitude had bore most of the Stress of this Action, & many & severe were the marks from Shot on the Hull, & Masts of this Ship -- The Ship was not [[underline]] quite clean [[/underline]] from outward & viseable marks of destructive contest, when His Majesty was on board-- His Majesty left The [[underline]] Fortitude [[/underline]] under a discharge of Twenty One Guns, & which Salute was answer'd from Every Ship in the
