[Footnote 47: Wraxall's _Memoirs_, iii. p. 107. Lord Cranstoun told Sir N.W. Wraxall that _he_ 'was sent after the _Ville de Paris_ struck to take possession of her, as well as to receive De Grasse's sword.' In the memoir of Captain Knight of the _Barfleur_ (_Naval Chronicle_, xi. pp. 428-429) it is stated that 'Captain Knight received and presented to his Admiral the sword of Count de Grasse and those of all the surviving officers of the _Ville de Paris_, who, with the exception of the Count (he, by desire of Sir Samuel Hood, remaining in his own ship), lodged that night in the captain's cabin of the _Barfleur_.' Our illustration depicts a third version of the incident.] [Footnote 48: Hennequin, _Biographie Maritime_, vol. i. art. 'Marigny.'] [Footnote 49: They were:--the Chevalier du Pavillon, De Vaudreuil's flag-captain; De la Clochetterie; De la Vicomte; Comte Bernard de Marigny; De Saint Cesaire; and D'Escars of the _Glorieux_.] [Footnote 50: Half a million sterling was the French monetary loss in one of the biggest sea battles ever fought. Japan lost upwards of a million and a quarter by the sinking of one battleship alone, the _Hatsuse_; and Russia, a million and eight thousand pounds by the sinking of the _Petropavlovsk_.] [Footnote 51: Blane's _Dissertations on Medical Science_, vol. i., as before.] [Footnote 52: It is certainly curious that a man of the world such as Rodney was should not have known French. Most people have heard the story--the truth of which is well established--of Rodney's detention in Paris, at the outset of the war, owing to his debts, and how the Duc de Biron advanced him the money which enabled Rodney to leave for England.] [Footnote 53: It is rather difficult to reconcile these two statements by De Grasse, one to Dr. Blane and the other to Rodney.] [Footnote 54: According to the _London Magazine_ for August 1782, King George, at an audience granted to De Grasse shortly after the French admiral's arrival in England, returned him the sword that De Grasse had surrendered to Rodney. 'This _etiquette_,' the _London Magazine_ proceeds, 'enabled the Count to appear at Court.' He spent the week he was in London, we are told, 'in paying visits to the great officers of State and some of the principal nobility of the kingdom, by whom he was entertained in a sumptuous and hospitable style. He likewise took a view of the Bank and other public edifices, and of Vauxhall and other places of amusement.... Every mark of respect was shown to him, even by the common people, in testimony of his valour.'] [Footnote 55: Practically everybody: four or five officers were called before the court at the close of the proceedings, and formally reprimanded for not having done all they might. De Vaudreuil came off with flying colours, and all documents containing reflections on him were ordered to be suppressed. The warmest commendation was bestowed on the captains who rallied with De Vaudreuil to the support of De Grasse.]