text:  It must be owned that brave as the French are their admiral made but a bad figure in this business: why the sight of one vessel should have been sufficient to disperse a fleet of six men-of-war and of course ruin an expedition which must thus be left without convoy is not easily to be accounted for; or why when the admiral saw that his pursuer was but a single ship he should not have turned upon him and crushed him it is equally difficult to say