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Tas the Tenr.ant,80 ,*:un£j,a::d Hear Adrirs»ls Codrinsrt 01: and Malcolm,the latter of whom carriod his flag or the Royal Oak,a seventy-fcur, There were tlirse other "seventy-fours11 ir: this Mississippi harbor,the 'lor^a, Bedford,Raaiinies,and Asia; the Dictator of sixty-fourtDiomede of fifty, Gordon of fort y "four, and eleven ships whose ^uns were in the thiriiee jheEides tan others of inferior armament. Some of these great men-of-v/ar were then or afterwards famous in the annals of sea fighting.