The opportunity, if it were one, did not recur.

De Guichen, returning to Martinique, anchored there on the 27th; and the same day Parker at Sta.

Lucia was joined by the new English commander-in-chief, Rodney.
This since celebrated, but then only distinguished, admiral was sixty-two years old at the time of assuming a command where he was to win an undying fame.

Of distinguished courage and professional skill, but with extravagant if not irregular habits, money embarrassments had detained him in exile in France at the time the war began.

A boast of his ability to deal with the French fleet, if circumstances enabled him to go back to England, led a French nobleman who heard it to assume his debts, moved by feelings in which chivalry and national pique probably bore equal shares.