text:  While these vast floating bodies on either side moved against each other in parallel lines and our countrymen under the happy conduct of his Royal Highness went breaking little by little into the line of the enemies the noise of the cannon from both navies reached our ears about the city; so that all men being alarmed with it and in a dreadful suspense of the event which they knew was then deciding every one went following the sound as his fancy led him; and leaving the town almost empty some took towards the Park some cross the river some down it all seeking the noise in the depth of silence