[213] Official letter of the Marquis de Vaudreuil. Guérin: Histoire de la Marine Française, vol. v. p. 513.
[214] See United Service Journal, 1834, Part II. pp. 109 and following.
[215] See letter of Sir Howard Douglas in United Service Journal, 1834, Part II. p. 97; also "Naval Evolutions," by same author. The letters of Sir Samuel Hood have not come under the author's eye.
[216] Rodney's Life, vol. ii. p. 248.
[217] There were only twenty-five in all.
[218] Guérin, vol. v. p. 511.
[219] Rodney's Life, vol. ii. p. 246.
[220] Annual Register, 1783, p. 151.
[221] Annual Register, 1783, p. 157; Life of Admiral Keppel, vol. ii. p. 403.
[222] Naval Chronicle, vol. xxv. p. 404.