f the AGAMEMNON's men were hurt--a thing
which Nelson himself remarked as wonderful: her sails and rigging were
very much cut, and she had many shots in her hull, and some between wind
and water. The CA IRA lost 110 men that day, and was so cut up that she
could not get a top-mast aloft during the night.

At daylight on the following morning, the English ships were taken aback
with a fine breeze at N.W., while the enemy's fleet kept the southerly
wind. The body of their fleet was about five miles distant; the CA IRA
and the CENSEUR, seventy-four, which had her in tow, about three and
a half. All sail was made to cut these ships off; and as the French
attempted to save them, a partial action was brought on. The AGAMEMNON
was again engaged with her yesterday's antagonist; but she had to fight
on both sides the ship at the same time. The CA IRA and the CENSEUR
fought most gallantly: the first lost nearly 300 men, in addition to
her former loss; the last, 350. Both at length struck; and Lieutenant
Andrews, of the AGAMEMNON, brother to the lady to whom Nelson had become
attached in France, and, in Nelson's own words, "as gallant an officer
as ever stepped a quarter-deck," hoisted English colours on board them
both. The rest of the enemy's ships' behaved very ill. As soon as these
vessels had struck, Nelson went to Admiral Hotham and proposed that the
two prizes should be left with the ILLUSTRIOUS and COURAGEUX, which had
been crippled in the action, and with four frigates, and that the rest
of the fleet should pursue the enemy, and follow up the advantage to
the utmost. But his reply was--"We must be contented: we have done very
well."--"Now," said Nelson, "had we taken ten sail, and allowed the
eleventh to escape, when it had been possible to have got at her, I
could never have called it well done. Goodall backed me; I got him to
write to the admiral; but it would not do. We should have had such a day
as, I believe, the annals of England never produced." In this letter the
character of Nelson fully manifests itself. "I wish," said he, "to be
an admiral, and in the command of the English fleet: I should very soon
either do much, or be ruined: my disposition cannot bear tame and slow
measures. Sure I am, had I commanded on the 14th, that either the whole
French fleet would have graced my triumph, or I should have been in a
confounded scrape." What the event would have been, he knew from his
prophetic feelings and his own consc