He steered for Scilly, where he expected to find reinforcements; and Chateau Renaud, content with the credit which he had acquired, and afraid of losing it if he staid, hastened back to Brest, though earnestly intreated by James to come round to Dublin.
Both sides claimed the victory.

The Commons at Westminster absurdly passed a vote of thanks to Herbert.

James, not less absurdly, ordered bonfires to be lighted, and a Te Deum to be sung.

But these marks of joy by no means satisfied Avaux, whose national vanity was too strong even for his characteristic prudence and politeness.

He complained that James was so unjust and ungrateful as to attribute the result of the late action to the reluctance with which the English seamen fought against their rightful King and their old commander, and that his Majesty did not seem to be well pleased by being told that they were flying over the ocean pursued by the triumphant French.