text:  On the 22d of June a French fleet appeared off the port having on board 7000 of the flower of the French troops and nobility who were commanded by the Dukes de Noailles and Beaufort and comprised in their ranks several princes of the sovereign houses of Lorrain and Bouillon the Marshals Colbert and De la Motte-Fenelon the Count of St Pol and many other names of the noblest and bravest in France who had crowded to embark as volunteers in this new and glorious crusade