ship caught fire, and the flames could not lie extinguished. The galleys managed to approach and take off the treasure which had heeu placed ou board for the payment of the seamet and troops. The king, his suite, and some of the ship's company were also saved. ]But iu consequence of the heating of the guns, which were loaded. the galleys were soon tbliged to pull clear to avoid the slot, and numbers of people perished tolerably.

Arrived off the Isle of Vight on July 18th, l)'Annebaut sent Polain with four galleys to reconnoitre the situatiot of the Etglish fleet which still lay within, aud which lind for the tilue completely surrendered the command of the sea. Fourteen English vessels weighed with , very light land wind, and stood out of harbour as if to cut off the galleys, which fell back upton the advancing body of the French. Thereupon, the rest of the English ships weighed and went slowly out; and an interchange of shot at long range ensued, no particular damage however being done on either side. The English manccuvred to draw the enemy among the shallows on the Spit Sand and under the guns of the alefences of the town; but D'Annebaut was too wary to he thus caught, and, as night came on, retired to St. Helen's Road, where he found that his largest ship, the Mailfosse, was making so much water that he had to send her back to Le Havre to be docked.

1)uring the night D'Annehaut rearranged his o'der of battle, dividing his htrger ships into three squadrons, with himself in comm;ud of thirty vessels in the centre; De ]3outibres with thirty- six vessels on the right, ad t3aron de Curton wiih thirty-six vessels on the left. The galleys under Polain were ordered to approach the English in the morning, and attempt to induce them, by firing at them, to follow the French to sea. ]But it would seem that these orders were not c,'ricd out very early.

On the 19th, King Henry was with Lord Lisle in the Hcnr./ Grace Dic when the fitt novement f the enemy was noticed, and he at once ordered an att,ck and wcut ashore. lit moving out the .II'y Rose, of 500 tons, heing very low iu the water, heeled so much when her hehn was 1}ut hard over, th:tt the sills of her open lower ports, only 15 inches out of the w,t6t' ere she heeled at all, were submerged. She rapidly filled and saxk, carrying dowit with

Gtu;rin, ii. 00, 61. 

(llq,enheim, 'Admin. of l|,y:tl Navy,' ;;, says, retbrring to titis statement, which 

cemes fi'om Ilsleah, "There is the grea imprv],ability that, after at least fifty year'