Whereupon,-- "JULY 1st [just in the days while Friedrich was first trying Horse Artillery], Rear-Admiral Rodney sails from Portsmouth with a few Frigates, and Six Bomb-ketches [FIREDRAKE, BASILISK, BLAST, and such nomenclatures [List of him, in Beatson, _Naval and Military Memoirs_ (London, 1804), ii.

241; his Despatch excellently brief, ib.ii.

323]]; and in the afternoon of Tuesday, 3d, arrives in the frith or bay of Havre.

Steers himself properly into 'the Channel of Honfleur' before dark; and therefrom, with his Firedrake, Basilisk and Company, begins such a bombardment of Havre and the flat-bottomed manufactories as was quite surprising.

Fifty-two incessant hours of it, before he thought poor Havre had enough.