3.] And besides all this, there are Two strong Fleets, got actually launched, not yet into the deep sea, but ready for it: one in Toulon Harbor, to avenge those Mediterranean insults; and burst out, in concert with an impatient Spanish Fleet (which has lain blockaded here for a year past), on the insolent blockading English: which was in some sort done.

["19th February, 1744," French and Spanish Fleets run out; 22d Feb.

are attacked by Matthews and Lestock; are rather beaten, not beaten nearly enough (Matthews and Lestock blaming one another, Spaniards and French ditto, ditto: Adelung, iv.

32-35); with the endless janglings, correspondings, court-martialings that ensue (Beatson, _Naval and Military Memoirs,_ i.

197 et seqq.; _Gentleman's Magazine,_ and Old Newspapers, for 1744; &c.