On the following morning Caermarthen was ordered to enter the bay with eight vessels and to batter the French works.

Talmash was to follow with about a hundred boats full of soldiers.

It soon appeared that the enterprise was even more perilous than it had on the preceding day appeared to be.

Batteries which had then escaped notice opened on the ships a fire so murderous that several decks were soon cleared.

Great bodies of foot and horse were discernible; and, by their uniforms, they appeared to be regular troops.